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Since the 2016 release of the Australian Guide to the Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), considerable progress has been made in the identification and diagnosis of the disorder. As part of a larger process to review and update the Guide, this study aims to identify review priorities from a broad range of stakeholders involved in the assessment and diagnosis of FASD. Sixty-two stakeholders, including healthcare practitioners, researchers, other specialists, individuals with cultural expertise, lived experience and consumer representatives completed an online survey asking them to describe up to five priorities for the review of the Australian Guide to the Diagnosis of FASD.
- Date:
- May 2022
- Journal name:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Authors:
- Nicole Hayes, Lisa K. Akison, Sarah Goldsbury, Nicole Hewlett, Elizabeth J. Elliott, Amy Finlay-Jones, Dianne C. Shanley ,Kerryn Bagley, Andi Crawford, Haydn Till, Alison Crichton ,Rowena Friend ,Karen M. Moritz ,Raewyn Mutch, Sophie Harrington ,Andrew Webster, Natasha Reid
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), including cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, are characterised by impaired development of the early central nervous system, impacting cognitive and/or physical function. Early detection of NDD enables infants to be fast-tracked to early intervention services, optimising outcomes. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants may experience early life factors increasing their risk of neurodevelopmental vulnerability, which persist into later childhood, further compounding the health inequities experienced by First Nations peoples in Australia. The LEAP-CP prospective cohort study will investigate the efficacy of early screening programmes, implemented in Queensland, Australia to earlier identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants who are 'at risk' of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes (NDO) or NDD.
- Date:
- January 2022
- Journal name:
- BMJ Open
- Authors:
- Carly R Luke, Katherine Benfer, Leeann Mick-Ramsamy, Robert S Ware, Natasha Reid, Arend F Bos, Margot Bosanquet, Roslyn N Boyd.
Binge-level prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) causes developmental abnormalities, which may be mediated in part by epigenetic mechanisms. Despite this, few studies have characterised the association of binge PAE with DNA methylation in offspring. We investigated the association between binge PAE and genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in a sex-specific manner in neonatal buccal and placental samples. Published in 2021
- Date:
- December 2021
- Journal name:
- Epigenomics
- Authors:
- Yuk Jing Loke, Evelyne Muggli, Richard Saffery, Joanne Ryan, Sharon Lewis, Elizabeth J Elliott, Jane Halliday, Jeffrey M Craig
The objective of this study published in 2021 was to systematically review and conduct meta-analysis on studies that report the type and prevalence of functional and structural ear abnormalities among children with prenatal alcohol exposure and/or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
- Date:
- November 2021
- Journal name:
- Journal of Pediatrics
- Authors:
- Cheung MMY, Tsang TW, Watkins R, Birman C, Popova S, Elliott EJ
The affectional bond experienced by a mother toward her developing fetus/infant has been theorized to be a critical factor in determining infant developmental outcomes; yet there remains a paucity of research in this area, and a lack of high-quality longitudinal studies. This study aimed to examine the extent to which mother-to-infant bonding predicted infant development in a multi-wave longitudinal pregnancy cohort study (N = 1,347).
- Date:
- September 2021
- Journal name:
- J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
- Authors:
- Genevieve Le Bas, George Youssef, Janqui A Masdonald, Samantha Teague, Richard Mattick, Ingrid Honan, Jennifer E McIntosh, Sarah Khor , Larissa Rossen, Elizabeth J Elliott, Steve Allsop, Lucinda Burns, Craig A Olsson, Delyse Hutchinson
Aboriginal leaders invited us to examine the frequency and reasons for emergency department presentations by children in remote Western Australia, where Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is common. Published in 2021
- Date:
- February 2021
- Journal name:
- Asian Pacific Journal of Public Health Global Paediatric Health
- Authors:
- Dossetor PJ, Fitzpatrick EFM, Glass K, Douglas K, Watkins R, Oscar J, Carter M, Harley D, Jeffery HE, Elliott EJ, Martiniuk ALC.
The Asking Questions about Alcohol in Pregnancy (AQUA) study, established in 2011, is a pre-birth cohort of 1570 mother and child pairs designed to assess the effects of low to moderate prenatal alcohol exposure and sporadic binge drinking on long-term child development. The current follow-up of the children, now aged 6 to 8 years, aims to strengthen our understanding of the relationship between these levels of prenatal alcohol exposure and neuropsychological functioning, facial dysmorphology, and brain structure & function. Published 2021
- Date:
- January 2022
- Journal name:
- BMJ Open Pediatrics
- Authors:
- Muggli E, Halliday J, Elliott E, Penington A, Thompson DK, Spittle A, Forster DA, Lewis S, Hearps S, Anderson PJ.
The aims of this systematic review published in 2022 are to identify FASD screening tools and examine their performance characteristics.
- Date:
- January 2022
- Journal name:
- Research in Developmental Disabilities
- Authors:
- Yi Hyey Lim, Rochelle E Watkins, Heather Jones, Natalie R Kippin, Amy Finlay-Jones
Language disorder is highly prevalent in youth justice; however, orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice anomalies have been largely overlooked. The aims of this exploratory study published in 2022 were to (1) identify the prevalence of orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice anomalies among adolescents in youth detention and (2) examine how these compare between adolescents with and without PAE.
- Date:
- January 2022
- Journal name:
- Speech Language and Hearing
- Authors:
- Natalie R. Kippin, Suze Leitão, Rochelle Watkins, Raewyn Mutch & Amy Finlay-Jones
This Medical Journal of Australia Supplement published in 2021 was sponsored by the University of Sydney and the Guidelines for the Treatment of Alcohol Problems. It provides an overview of recommendations from the new Australian guidelines for the treatment of alcohol problems.
- Date:
- October 2021
- Journal name:
- Medical Journal of Australia
- Authors:
- Haber PS, Rioden BC, Winter DT et al