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Vigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood.
The purpose of this study is to examine the association between poverty and child mental disorders
The Parents, Young People and Alcohol campaign achieved high awareness and positively influenced parental outcomes
Liquor store availability in early adolescence may be a risk factor for alcohol intake in early and middle, but not late, adolescence
Self-reported experiences of adolescents in population-based samples when completing health-related surveys on topics with varying potential for evoking distres
We review the available empirical evidence on the cognitive, physical, and surgical implications of puberty suppression in gender-incongruent children and adolescents
Further research is required to identify the optimal age, content and length of mindfulness programs for adolescents in universal prevention settings.
To explore how those with a physical illness in childhood are managing in relationships across childhood to young adulthood.
To determine age-specific and age-standardised incidence trends of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) or rheumatic heart disease (RHD) among Indigenous Western Australians aged less than 35 years of age.
This study explored the lived experience of university students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and identified factors that help or hinder their capacity for self-compassion in higher education. Fourteen university students with ADHD aged 18–25 participated in individual semi-structured interviews exploring experiences of self-compassion in academic contexts.