Prepping your Preppie for the start of their school life
With a new school year set to start, Professor Christine Ure, Head of School in the Faculty of Arts and Education, has some timely words of advice for parents of prep children.
Professor Ure explained...
Free online healthy lifestyle program – PEACH – has been launched
The online version of the Queensland Government-funded PEACH (Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health) program will be offered as an alternative format to face-to-face sessions and will feature 10 interactive sessions, a parent...
Pedestrian safety promoted through animation
Victoria Police and RMIT animation students have collaborated on a campaign to promote pedestrian safety in Melbourne’s east, creating three short films targeted at the young and the elderly.
RMIT lecturers Aaron McLoughlin and Simon...
Infertility treatments do not appear to contribute to developmental delays in children
Children conceived via infertility treatments are no more likely to have a developmental delay than children conceived without such treatments, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the New...
The value of sponsoring a child
RMIT is working in collaboration with World Vision International to evaluate the impacts of their child sponsorship programs.
The research team led by Associate Professor Simon Feeny and Cara Donahue in the School of Economics,...
Light exposure and kids’ weight
A world-first study revealing light exposure plays a role in the weight of preschool children has been published by international research journal PLOS ONE.
PhD student Cassandra Pattinson and colleagues Simon Smith, Alicia Allan, Sally...
Early childhood depression alters brain development
The brains of children who suffer clinical depression as preschoolers develop abnormally, compared with the brains of preschoolers unaffected by the disorder, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St....
Acupuncture effective for chronic pain in children
It is upsetting to see anyone in pain, but it’s especially heartbreaking to watch a child endure chronic pain.
In addition to the suffering itself, chronic pain can cause traumatic effects on a child’s quality...
Childhood family breakups harder on girls’ health
A childhood family breakup can have long-term negative consequences for the children. Recent University of Illinois research looks at overall health, depression, and smoking as a health-related behaviour and finds that, for girls, all...
How to survive a long, hot summer
Keep an eye on children’s water intake, carry a water bottle wherever you go and avoid travel in the hottest part of the day – that’s the advice of QUT health statistician Associate Professor...
