Mothers’ and Young People’s Study
Publications
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As the Children Grow Up - 4 to 17 years
Cohort Profile
Age 4 Follow-up
Age 10 Follow-up
Maternal health study: a prospective cohort study of nulliparous women recruited in early pregnancy (2006)
“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
Patterns of intimate partner violence exposure across the first 10years of life and children’s emotional-behavioural outcomes at 10years (2024)
Child Abuse & Neglect, 153, 106814
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
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
COVID-19 Pandemic Sub-study
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
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
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
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
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
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