COVID-19 Pandemic Research Study

Have you seen the new Netflix show Old Enough? I chatted to @KidspotSocial about whether it's safe for a 2.5 year old to go to the shops by themselves! kidspot.com.au/lifestyle/ente…

Monitoring this cohort over time will be important to determine if these lifestyle behaviour patterns are enduring or naturally improve with the easing of restrictions and whether these changes have enduring effects on either parent or child mental and physical health./4

Parents were also found to have significantly poorer sleep quality, despite increased weekly physical activity, and this was also associated with poorer mental health./3

New COVID-19 research: We looked at child and parent physical activity, sleep, and screen use and their association to mental health in 2,000 Australian families in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic./1 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

After nearly two years in and out of lockdown it's understanding if your child is being clingy... some of the advice from @LizWestrupp to combat this includes acknowledging your child's feelings and modelling calm confidence. For more tips read the article below.

So excited to see our new paper online! This drew on 14 time points to look at trajectories of parent and child mental health in 2,000 families over 14 months of the pandemic 2020-2021), comparing locked down Victoria to the rest of Australia. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2YZMFFT…

Buying picture books as Christmas presents? These stories with diverse characters can help kids develop empathy theconversation.com/buying-picture… via @ConversationEDU

Our findings highlight the importance of considering chronic disease co-morbidity as a risk factor in addressing mental health outcomes of parents during pandemic-like events, since parents with chronic conditions are more vulnerable to experiencing worse mental distress.

A higher proportion of parents with chronic diseases belonged to profiles experiencing low (34.7% vs. 30.4%), moderate (18.7% vs. 14.1%), and high (5.5% vs. 3.7%) compared to very low (41.2% vs. 51.8%) distress levels than other parents.

Our new research: We investigated profiles of parent mental health over 12 months of the pandemic, and found worse outcomes for parents with chronic health problems. /n Kinga Bik-Multanowska @AntMikocka @ReallyFerny @LizWestrupp sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Research shows that children's social and emotional development is influenced by maternal bonding factors which occurred pre and post birth. This highlights the importance of ensuring expecting and new mum's are adequately supported in their journey through motherhood.

So proud to see that @Deakin has been named as the top research institution for Psychology in Australia via @australian Congratulations to everyone in the School of Psychology @DeakinHealth @deakinresearch theaustralian.com.au/special-report…

Early educators are burnt out. How can can they be supported?

Follow our work at the Deakin Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development!

Coming up "Climbing out of COVID" on Wed 10 Nov webinar - speakers from UK & Aust, inc. @AnneHollonds @LizWestrupp @nikkifairchild2 eventbrite.com.au/e/climbing-out… @Eventbrite

This study demonstrates the importance of protecting today's youth from mental health problems, to safeguard their journey into parenthood, and their offspring's crucial early developmental years.