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Geoff Cattach has headed the Children's Leukaemia & Cancer Research Foundation and raised $24 million to fund The Kids' research into childhood cancers
ORIGINS is fortunate to have a small passionate and dedicated group of longstanding volunteers.
The Kids Research Institute Australia welcomes and appreciates all enquiries regarding volunteering opportunities.
Understanding children and families' hospital experiences to reduce stress and support wellbeing
University students face obstacles while pursuing their goals, and these challenges risk undermining their mental health. Goal flexibility has been identified as beneficial for promoting well-being and protecting mental health; however, the relationship between goal flexibility and mental health challenges remains underexplored.
There is a lack of digital gatekeeper resources developed for parents to assist them in recognising and responding to mental health problems in their children and adolescents. We aimed to address this by exploring parents' mental health information needs, and to iteratively develop and design a resource incorporating their feedback.
Find out more about the activities and highlights of ORIGINS.
This sub-project aims to understand why some people develop long-term health problems after COVID-19 and to identify biological markers that can help doctors predict who is most at risk and how to treat them.
This sub-project will be using ORIGINS data to explore the risk and protective factors of obesity from birth to early childhood.
In partnership with Playgroup WA, this sub-project is investigating the impact of playgroups on mental health and socio-emotional outcomes in parents and children within ORIGINS.