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Early predictors of adult drinking: a birth cohort studyRosa Alati
Longitudinal Study Unit, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 162:1098-107. 2005..Results show that exposure to maternal drinking in adolescence is a strong risk factor for the development of alcohol problems in early adulthood...
Is there a fetal origin of depression? Evidence from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomesRosa Alati
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 165:575-82. 2007..Further research is needed to better understand the mechanisms underlying the association...
The developmental origin of adolescent alcohol use: findings from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomesRosa Alati
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 98:136-43. 2008..It is unclear whether fetal alcohol exposure contributes to alcohol use in adolescence. In this study, we examine the association between maternal alcohol use in pregnancy and adolescents' drinking patterns at age 14...
Intrauterine exposure to alcohol and tobacco use and childhood IQ: findings from a parental-offspring comparison within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and ChildrenRosa Alati
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, 4006 Australia
Pediatr Res 64:659-66. 2008..Our findings suggest that the relationship between maternal moderate alcohol and tobacco use in early pregnancy and childhood IQ may not be explained by intrauterine mechanisms...
Is IQ in childhood associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts? Findings from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomesRosa Alati
University of Queensland, School of Population Health, Herston, Australia
Suicide Life Threat Behav 39:282-93. 2009..Specific aspects of intelligence may be associated with suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts...
In utero and postnatal maternal smoking and asthma in adolescenceRosa Alati
Schools of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Epidemiology 17:138-44. 2006..Asthma in early childhood has been associated with maternal smoking during pregnancy and parental smoking soon after birth. However, less is known about these exposures and the development of asthma symptoms in adolescence...
Early weaning and alcohol disorders in offspring: biological effect, mediating factors or residual confounding?Rosa Alati
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Addiction 104:1324-32. 2009..This study explores associations between early weaning and alcohol use disorders in youth and mechanisms by which these associations may operate...
Fetal growth and behaviour problems in early adolescence: findings from the Mater University Study of PregnancyRosa Alati
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 38:1390-400. 2009..Aim To examine the nature of the association between birth weight and a range of behavioural symptoms, including anxiety/depression and social problems, in adolescence...
Do maternal parenting practices predict problematic patterns of adolescent alcohol consumption?Rosa Alati
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Addiction 105:872-80. 2010..This study examines whether a mother's style of parenting at child age 5 years predicts problematic patterns of drinking in adolescence, after controlling for relevant individual, maternal and social risk factors...
Is there really a 'J-shaped' curve in the association between alcohol consumption and symptoms of depression and anxiety? Findings from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomesRosa Alati
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Public Health Building Medical School, Australia
Addiction 100:643-51. 2005..To determine the nature of the association between alcohol consumption and symptoms of anxiety and depression in women...
Gender differences in the relationships between alcohol, tobacco and mental health in patients attending an emergency departmentRosa Alati
Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Centre QADREC, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston QLD 4006, Australia
Alcohol Alcohol 39:463-9. 2004..This paper examines the nature of the association between usual alcohol consumption, tobacco use and symptoms of anxiety and depression in Emergency Department patients in Queensland, Australia...
Pathways to ecstasy use in young adults: anxiety, depression or behavioural deviance?Rosa Alati
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 92:108-15. 2008..To investigate pathways to ecstasy use disorders from pre-birth to early adulthood with particular attention to the relationship between early depressive and anxiety symptoms and later ecstasy use disorders...
In utero alcohol exposure and prediction of alcohol disorders in early adulthood: a birth cohort studyRosa Alati
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Medical School, Public Health Building, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1009-16. 2006..Little is known about the contribution of fetal alcohol exposure to the development of alcohol disorders in early adulthood...
Associations of maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and excess pregnancy weight gains with adverse pregnancy outcomes and length of hospital stayAbdullah A Mamun
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11:62. 2011....
Substance misuse, anxiety and depression and urgency of presentation to a public emergency department in AustraliaStuart A Kinner
Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Centre, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Emerg Med Australas 17:363-70. 2005..To establish the prevalence and comorbidity of substance-related problems and anxiety and depression, among ED presentations, and to compare the prevalence of these conditions among more and less urgent presentations...
Does maternal smoking during pregnancy predict the smoking patterns of young adult offspring? A birth cohort studyAbdullah Al Mamun
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia
Tob Control 15:452-7. 2006..To examine the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and the development of smoking behaviour patterns among young adult offspring...
The ability of YSR DSM-oriented depression scales to predict DSM-IV depression in young adults: a longitudinal studyKaeleen Dingle
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Affect Disord 121:45-51. 2010..This paper aims to evaluate the performance of the youth self report (YSR) empirical and DSM-oriented internalising scales in predicting later depressive disorders in young adults...
Association of maternal smoking and alcohol consumption with young adults' cannabis use: a prospective studyMohammad Reza Hayatbakhsh
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 166:592-8. 2007..Prevention programs that address maternal and adolescent tobacco use and adolescent externalizing behavior should be considered as strategies to reduce cannabis use by young adults...
Changes in mental health status amongst children of migrants to Australia: a longitudinal studyRosa Alati
School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Sociol Health Illn 25:866-88. 2003..Children of migrant parents have fewer symptoms of some behaviour problems in the years after their arrival in Australia, but these rates increase to the Australian level over time...
Predicting depressive and anxiety disorders with the YASR internalising scales (empirical and DSM-oriented)Kaeleen Dingle
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Level 4, Public Health Building, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 46:1313-24. 2011..To date no study has examined the concurrent utility of the young adult (YASR) internalising scales, either the empirical or newly developed DSM-oriented depressive or anxiety scales...
Does childhood sexual abuse have an effect on young adults' nicotine disorder (dependence or withdrawal)? Evidence from a birth cohort studyAbdullah Al Mamun
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia
Addiction 102:647-54. 2007..To examine whether there is evidence of an independent association between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and nicotine disorder in youth and to explore the mechanisms underlying this association in a prospective cohort study...
Early childhood predictors of early substance use and substance use disorders: prospective studyMohammad R Hayatbakhsh
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia m hay
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:720-31. 2008..The purpose of the present study was to examine the longitudinal association between early childhood factors and early initiation of use of substances and substance use disorders in a large prospective study...
Pregnancy loss and psychiatric disorders in young women: an Australian birth cohort studyKaeleen Dingle
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 193:455-60. 2008..Recent evidence has linked induced abortion with later adverse psychiatric outcomes in young women...
Adolescent problem behaviours predicting DSM-IV diagnoses of multiple substance use disorder. Findings of a prospective birth cohort studyMohammad Reza Hayatbakhsh
QADREC, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston QLD 4006, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 43:356-63. 2008..This study examined prospective associations of adolescent psychopathology and problem behaviours with SUD in early adulthood, and whether these associations are confounded by other factors...
Asthma and internalizing behavior problems in adolescence: a longitudinal studyRosa Alati
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Queensland 4101, Australia
Psychosom Med 67:462-70. 2005..The causal direction of this association is, however, unclear. This article examines the nature of the relationship between behavior and asthma problems in childhood and adolescence...
School performance and alcohol use problems in early adulthood: a longitudinal studyMohammad Reza Hayatbakhsh
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia
Alcohol 45:701-9. 2011..Exploration of the pathway linking school performance and alcohol problems in young people may help identify opportunities for preventive interventions...
Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and femalesKim Steven Betts
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Psychiatr Res 46:933-9. 2012....
Association between cannabis use and psychosis-related outcomes using sibling pair analysis in a cohort of young adultsJohn McGrath
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:440-7. 2010..The use of sibling pair analysis reduces the influence of unmeasured residual confounding...
Changes in maternal marital status are associated with young adults' cannabis use: evidence from a 21-year follow-up of a birth cohortMohammad R Hayatbakhsh
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 35:673-9. 2006..Because the upwards trend in use of cannabis has been coincident with an increase in marital breakdown, this study examines the relationship between marital status, marital changes, and the onset of cannabis use...
Common symptoms during pregnancy to predict depression and health status 14 years post partumMohsina Khatun
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 104:214-7. 2009..To examine the prospective association between symptoms commonly experienced during pregnancy and the mental and general health status of women 14 years post partum...
Longitudinal analysis of maternal risk factors for childhood sexual abuse: early attitudes and behaviours, socioeconomic status, and mental healthAndrew Martin
School of Population Health and Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 45:629-37. 2011....
Does maternal smoking during pregnancy have a direct effect on future offspring obesity? Evidence from a prospective birth cohort studyAbdullah Al Mamun
Longitudinal Studies Unit, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Am J Epidemiol 164:317-25. 2006..They provide yet another incentive for pregnant women to be persuaded not to smoke and for young women to be encouraged to never take up smoking...
The association between birth weight and anxiety disorders in young adultsKim Steven Betts
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 25:1060-7. 2011..The association remained when subsequent analysis restricted the sample to those exposed to trauma. This is the first study in which birth weight has been found to be associated with post-traumatic stress disorders in adults...
Do paternal arrest and imprisonment lead to child behaviour problems and substance use? A longitudinal analysisStuart A Kinner
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1148-56. 2007..This study investigates the impact of paternal arrest and imprisonment on child behaviour and substance use, as a function of child gender, and in the context of known social and familial risk factors...
Cannabis and anxiety and depression in young adults: a large prospective studyMohammad R Hayatbakhsh
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, QADREC, Public Health Building, Hernston Road, Hernston, QLD 4006, Brisbane, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:408-17. 2007..To examine whether age of first use or frequency of use of cannabis is associated with anxiety and depression (AD) in young adults, independent of known potential confounders, including the use of other illicit drugs...
The association between lower birth weight and comorbid generalised anxiety and major depressive disorderKim Steven Betts
Care of Rosa Alati, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, 4th Floor, Public Health Building, Herston Rd, Herston QLD 4006, Australia
J Affect Disord 146:231-7. 2013..We tested for an association between lower birth weight and major depression, generalised anxiety and comorbid generalised anxiety and major depression...
Maternal anxiety and attention problems in children at 5 and 14 yearsAlexandra M Clavarino
University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia 4072
J Atten Disord 13:658-67. 2010..This study examines the association between maternal anxiety from pregnancy to 5 years and child attention problems at 5 and 14 years...
Do parents' marital circumstances predict young adults' DSM-IV cannabis use disorders? A prospective studyMohammad R Hayatbakhsh
Addiction 101:1778-86. 2006..To determine whether parental marital status and marital quality in adolescence are associated with cannabis use disorders in young adults...
Attrition in a longitudinal study with hard-to-reach participants was reduced by ongoing contactMichael C David
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia Electronic address
J Clin Epidemiol 66:575-81. 2013..Identifying determinants of attrition is essential in determining attrition prevention strategies. The objective of this study was to investigate a number of these determinants, with an emphasis on contactability...
Exploring the female specific risk to partial and full PTSD following physical assaultKim Steven Betts
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
J Trauma Stress 26:86-93. 2013..9%), attributable risk analysis suggested that due to the strong risk of PTSD in females exposed to physical assault, physical assault is possibly a contributor to the overall female increased prevalence of PTSD...
'It was a nice day...a beautiful day': an analysis of relapse into substance misuse among Indigenous drinkersRosa Alati
School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 22:135-41. 2003..Relapse prevention should be part of a range of public health strategies for tackling substance misuse problems with Indigenous drinkers, and should be included at the minimal intervention level...
Monte Carlo simulation of the cost-effectiveness of sample size maintenance programs revealed the need to consider substitution samplingMichael C David
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland 4006, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 65:1200-11. 2012..To assess the cost-effectiveness of sample size maintenance programs in a prospective cohort...
Prediction of adolescent smoking from family and social risk factors at 5 years, and maternal smoking in pregnancy and at 5 and 14 yearsFrances V O'Callaghan
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane and The University of Queensland, Australia
Addiction 101:282-90. 2006..The influence of mothers who smoke in pregnancy or continue to smoke at 14 years was also examined...
Maternal attitudes in pregnancy predict drinking initiation in adolescenceDelyse M Hutchinson
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:324-34. 2008..The aim of the present study was to examine whether maternal attitudes to pregnancy and infant caregiving predict drinking initiation in adolescence...
Epidemiologic evidence for the fetal overnutrition hypothesis: findings from the mater-university study of pregnancy and its outcomesDebbie A Lawlor
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Am J Epidemiol 165:418-24. 2007..0001). In sensitivity analyses taking account of different plausible levels of nonpaternity (up to 15%), the greater maternal effect remained. These findings provide some support for the fetal overnutrition hypothesis...
