138 episodes
The ResearchWorks Podcast Dr Dayna Pool and Dr Ashleigh Thornton
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- Health & Fitness
The Research Works podcast is designed for health professionals in the area of child health, where we discuss emerging, modern, evidence based research - the behind the scenes stories, interviews with world renowned authors and researchers, material that never made the papers and a breakdown on how you can implement this into your clinical practice.
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Episode 140 (Professor Alicia Spittle)
COCHRANE REVIEW: EARLY DEVELOPMENTAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES PROVIDED POST HOSPITAL DISCHARGE TO PREVENT MOTOR AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PRETERM INFANTS.Jane Orton, Lex W Doyle, Tanya Tripathi, Roslyn Boyd, Peter J Anderson, Alicia SpittleEarly developmental intervention programmes for preterm infants probably improve cognitive and motor outcomes during infancy (low‐certainty evidence) while, at preschool age, intervention is shown to improve cognitive outcomes (high‐certainty evidence).&nb...
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Episode 139 (Matthew Haddon)
Kindy Moves: the feasibility of an intensive interdisciplinary programme on goal and motor outcomes for preschool-aged children with neurodisabilities requiring daily equipment and physical assistanceMatthew Haddon, Loren West, Catherine Elliott, Corrin Walmsley, Jane Valentine, Natasha Bear, Dayna Pool, Healthy Strides Research Advisory CouncilAbstractObjectives: To determine the feasibility of an intensive interdisciplinary programme in improving goal and motor outcomes for preschool-aged c...
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Episode 138 (Caitlin Gray - PhD Candidate)
Down syndrome or Rett syndrome in the family: Parental reflections on sibling experienceCaitlin Gray, Helen Leonard, Kingsley Wong, Sally Reed, Kate Schmidt, Rachel Skoss, Jianghong Li, Alison Salt, Jenny Bourke, Emma J. GlassonAbstractBackground: Siblings of children with intellectual disability have unique family experiences, varying by type of disability. Methods: Parents of children with Down syndrome (156) or with Rett syndrome (149) completed questionnaires relating to sibling advantage...
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Episode 137 (Professor Susan Stott)
MYTHS AND FACTS ON HIPS IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSYReflections on this episode:Professor Susan Stott is a Professor of paediatric orthopaedic surgery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and paediatric orthopedic surgeon at Starship Children’s Hospital in New Zealand. Professor Stott was the second President of the AusACPDM and was the only New Zealand investigator on the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence: Australasian Cerebral Palsy Clinical Trials Network hosted at Univers...
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Episode 136 (Dr Sian Williams)
Prioritized strategies to improve diagnosis and early management of cerebral palsy for both Māori and non-Māori familiesSian A Williams, Ivana Nakarada-Kordic, Anna H Mackey, Stephen Reay, N Susan StottAbstractAim: To identify prioritized strategies to support improvements in early health service delivery around the diagnosis and management of cerebral palsy (CP) for both Māori and non-Māori individuals.Method: Using a participatory approach, health care professionals and the parents of child...
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Episode 135 (Professor Susan Nittrouer)
Early otitis media puts children at risk for later auditory and language deficitsAbstractBackground: Otitis media is a common disorder of early childhood suspected of hindering auditory and language development, but evidence regarding these effects has been contradictory. To examine potential sources of these contradictory past results and explore in more detail the effects of early otitis media on auditory and language development, three specific hypotheses were tested: (1) Variability in ch...