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PhD Candidate: Bree Wagner PhD Title: The Alert Program® Study: development and evaluation of an intervention to improve the self-regulation and executive functioning skills of Australian Aboriginal primary school children with a focus on fetal ...
PhD Candidate: Tess Fletcher PhD Title: Determinants of alcohol use intentions in pregnancy: Implications for health promotion Status: Complete Start Date: 7/5/2018 End Date: 6/5/2022 Summary The overarching aim of this study is to provide insight ...
Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) experience complex cognitive and behavioural difficulties that have significant and long-lasting impacts on social, family, and school functioning. While educational contexts represent a key ...
This project aimed to translate previous research into educational resources for justice professionals. The project built upon work which identified what justice professionals knew about FASD, how this impacted on their work, what information they ...
Aboriginal leaders in Fitzroy Valley (Kimberley, Western Australia) identified prevention, diagnosis and management of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) as a community priority and invited researchers from The University of Sydney to initiate ...
The aim of this project was to: assess justice professionals' awareness and knowledge of FASD assess the perceived impact of FASD on their practice identify justice professionals' information needs Project lead: Telethon Kids Institute Project dates ...
This study aimed to find out what FASD information and resources were available to parents and carers, were these useful, and what were the parents’ and carers’ specific needs with respect to information and resources to support them raising a child ...
Awareness and knowledge about the risks of prenatal alcohol exposure can assist women to make informed choices about their alcohol use during pregnancy. Alcohol use in pregnancy is a sensitive issue. Formative research is necessary to develop and ...
This project evaluated the current diagnostic capacity for FASD in child development services in Western Australia. Researchers measured referral patterns to child development services and current clinical practice, knowledge and attitudes of all ...
This qualitative study of 61 Aboriginal women from Perth, the Goldfields and Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia, showed that although some participants had not heard of Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, they attributed some adverse birth outcomes ...