Mothers’ and Young People’s Study
Publications: ‘As the children grow up’ - 4 to 18 years
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Cohort Profile
Maternal health study: Study design update for a prospective cohort of first-time mothers an their firstborn children from birth to age ten (2021)
Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 35(5), 612-625
“I didn’t know it was possible to feel that tired”: exploring the complex bidirectional associations between maternal depressive symptoms and fatigue in a prospective pregnancy cohort study (2015)
Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 19(1), 25-34
Infant sleep and child mental health: a longitudinal investigation (2020)
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105(7), 655-660
Mechanisms underlying exposure to partner violence and children’s emotional-behavioural difficulties (2019)
Journal of Family Psychology, 33(6), 730-741
Patterns of intimate partner violence exposure across the first 10years of life and children’s emotional-behavioural outcomes at 10 years (2024)
Child Abuse & Neglect, 153, 106814
Age 4 Follow-up
Experiences of physical and emotional IPV during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison of pre pandemic and pandemic data in a longitudinal study of Australian mothers (2024)
BMJ Open, 14(4), e081382
Age 10 Follow-up
Physical, sexual and social health factors associated with the trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms from pregnancy to 4 years postpartum (2017)
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 52(7), 815-828
The case for early intervention to reduce the impact of intimate partner abuse on child outcomes: Results of an Australian Cohort of first time mothers (2014)
Birth, 41(4), 374-383
Maternal depression from early pregnancy to 4 years postpartum in a prospective pregnancy cohort study (2015)
BJOG, 122(3), 312-321
Preventing mental health problems in mothers with a history of childhood abuse through reducing their risk of intimate partner violence: A causal mediation analysis in an Australian pregnancy cohort (2025)
Child Abuse & Neglect, 170, 107703
Intimate partner violence during infancy and cognitive outcomes in middle childhood: Results from an Australian community-based mother and child cohort study (2022)
Child Development, 93(4), e396-e411
Intimate partner violence, maternal depression, and pathways to children’s language ability at 10 years (2021)
Journal of Family Psychology, 35(1), 112-122
Pre-pandemic adversity and maternal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of pandemic stress and family relationships (2024)
Journal of Affective Disorders, 346, 102-109
Promoting resilience and wellbeing in children exposed to intimate partner violence: A qualitative study with mothers (2019)
Child Abuse and Neglect;2019:95:104039
Resumption of sex after a second birth: An Australian prospective cohort (2019)
Birth, 46(1), 173-181
Psychotropic medication use and intimate partner violence at 4 years postpartum: Results from an Australian pregnancy cohort study (2019)
Journal of Affective Disorders, 251, 71-77
Intergenerational impacts of family violence - mothers and children in a large prospective pregnancy cohort study (2019)
EClinicalMedicine, 15, 51-61
Emotional-behavioral resilience among children of first-time mothers with and without depression across the early childhood period (2018)
International Journal of Behavioural Development, 42(2), 214-224
Vulnerability to intimate partner violence and poor mental health in the first 4-year postpartum among mothers reporting childhood abuse: an Australian pregnancy cohort study (2016)
Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 19(6), 1091-1100
Maternal depression from pregnancy to 4 years postpartum and emotional / behavioural difficulties in children: results from a prospective pregnancy cohort study (2019)
Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 19(1), 141-151
Frequency, severity and risk factors for urinary and faecel incontinence at 4 years postpartum: a prospective cohort (2015)
BJOG, 123(7), 1203-1211
The emotional-behavioural functioning of children exposed to maternal depressive symptoms across pregnancy and early childhood: a prospective Australian pregnancy cohort study (2015)
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 24(10), 1233-1244
Differentiating maternal fatigue and depressive symptoms at six months and four years post party: Considerations for assessment, diagnosis and intervention (2015)
Midwifery, 31(2), 316-322
The role of maternal depressive symptoms and maternal engagement as mechanisms between intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood (2025)
International Journal of Behavioural Development, 50(5), 669-681
Intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood: An Australian mother and child cohort study (2024)
Child Development, 95, 817-830
Visualising patterns in women’s experiences of intimate partner violence in the first 10 years of motherhood (2023)
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(3-4), 3055-3087
Patterns of health service utilisation of mothers experiencing mental health problems and intimate partner violence: Ten-year follow-up of an Australian prospective mother and child cohort (2022)
PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0269626
Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort (2021)
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 106(11), 11066-1074
Physical and mental health of women exposed to intimate partner violence in the 10 years after having their first child: an Australian prospective cohort study of first time mothers (2021)
BMJ Open, 10(12), e040891
Intimate partner violence and maternal mental health ten years after first birth (2020)
Journal of Affective Disorders, 262, 247-257
Children’s language abilities at age 10 and exposure to intimate partner violence in early childhood: Results of an Australian prospective pregnancy cohort study (2021)
Child Abuse & Neglect, 111, 104794