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The aim of this PhD is to explore the dietary management of GDM in New Zealand through three projects.

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This project will investigate relationships between a mother’s emotional state and attitude towards her infant, and the development of relational trajectories, including language of her infant over the first two years of life.

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The aims of this project are to (i) describe the range of sleep patterns in contemporary New Zealand children at age 2 years and how these vary with child and family characteristics; and (ii) determine whether sleep patterns in the first two years of life are independently associated with behaviour and development at school entry age.

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There is very little existing literature of factors associated with children’s primary care engagement during the preschool years, and findings will have direct relevance for targeting healthcare resources towards our more vulnerable families.

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The study will examine the nutrition and physical activity environments within the mesosystem of home and Early Childhood Education settings for a subsample of 1188 Growing Up in New Zealand children (those for which we have collected additional data from their main childcare provider in the Kai Time in ECE online survey).

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The study findings will address partner conflict antenatally and associations with partner conflict and violence across time.

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This study is divided into 3 parts: (1) determining parent-child learning interactions: associations with parent-child relationships and interactions across the preschool years....

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This study provides a summary report of the GUiNZ cohort at 4.5 years of age. This report will highlight key descriptive statistics from each of the six research domains.

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The study is investigating whether children who have more routines around eating and sleep are also more self-regulated and have better quality parent-child interaction

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The thesis will investigate whether environmental modification of genome function acts as a mediator of asthma risk and severity between population subgroups.

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The main study objective is to measure the role of familial and whanau prosocial and cultural expectations in maternal and paternal altruistic actions related to child health and to develop a household production function of child health which delineates and values altruistic actions influencing child health.

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This study will investigate the structure of temperament at age 4 and temperament development over time

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The study findings will add to the literature on live vaccine effects on infant and childhood respiratory infections +/- atopic conditions.

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Our aim is to find out whether this variant is present within the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort and if so whether it is associated with measures of growth and obesity.This will be of interest as it will explore the role of a genetic variant in early childhood growth in a cohort with a large proportion of Pacific children.

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The objective of the study is to understand why Pacific women have such significantly higher rates of antenatal depression compared to European women and to develop a risk profile for antenatal depression in Pacific women.

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The aim of the study is to describe maternal alcohol consumption in a recent NZ birth cohort, to identify the characteristics of mothers who drink and the factors associated with alcohol consumption in this group.

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The study is investigating how the types of child care change between 9 months and 2 years, as children approach the age for accessing New Zealand’s ’20 hours free’ childcare at age 3, parents’ reasons for utilising (or not utilising) childcare at age 2 will be examined, and how longitudinal researchers can work alongside policy makers to enhance policy translation.

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This project proposes to analyse the relationship between residential moves and family outcomes, using Growing Up in NZ data up to the 45 month data collection wave. The main outcome of interest is children’s connection to and use of services such as primary healthcare, childcare, vaccinations, and Well-Child checks.

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The aim of this proposal is to examine child vulnerability in the first 1000 days of life, focusing on the Growing Up in New Zealand children that live within the geographical region of South Auckland as defined by The Southern Initiative (Auckland Council).

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This research will aim to develop a set of measures of the interparental relationship and use these to describe the quality of this relationship and to identify other factors in the family's background and circumstances that are associated with poor outcomes in this relationship, including the presence of conflict and violence.

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The study objective is to get a better understanding of who uses childcare at 9 months and why, and to better understand the relationship between parents' participation in the labor force and use of childcare in New Zealand

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