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Mothers’ understanding of infant feeding guidelines and their associated practices: A qualitative analysis

The findings indicated that in spite of continued promotion of the AIFG over the past ten years achieving the around six months guideline is challenging

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Adversity and resilience amongst resettling Western Australian paediatric refugees

Refugee children have complex backgrounds with exposure to multiple traumatic events.

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Alcohol consumption in a general antenatal population and child neurodevelopment at 2 years

This study examines the association between PAE in the general antenatal population and child neurodevelopment at 2 years, accounting for relevant factors.

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Association between male genital anomalies and adult male reproductive disorders: a population-based data linkage study spanning more than 40 years

Undescended testes is associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer and male infertility, and decreased paternity

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Supports healthcare professionals to understand how to make a diagnosis of FASD and to provide support for those diagnosed with FASD

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Did you ever drink more? A detailed description of pregnant women's drinking patterns

We have identified characteristics of pregnant women who either abstain, drink until pregnancy awareness or drink throughout pregnancy.

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FASD Hub Australia

Carol Bower C MBBS MSc PhD FAFPHM DLSHTM FPHA Senior Principal Research Fellow, Alcohol and Pregnancy & FASD Research; Director, FASD Research

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Talking, Hearing, Understanding, Knowing: A qualitative exploration of the experiences of justice-involved youth undergoing assessment for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in a juvenile detention centre

Carol Melissa Bower O'Donnell C M MBBS MSc PhD FAFPHM DLSHTM FPHA BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD Senior Principal Research Fellow, Alcohol

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Using participatory design to create impactful health promotion messages regarding alcohol use in pregnancy

Investigators: Tess Fletcher The overarching aim of this proposed research is to explore the limitations of existing alcohol and pregnancy messages

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The orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice characteristics of adolescents in youth detention: a comparison of groups with and without prenatal alcohol exposure

Language disorder is highly prevalent in youth justice; however, orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice anomalies have been largely overlooked. There has been some documentation of these among individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), and adolescents with PAE are over-represented in youth justice.