Publications/Reports

2019

 Armstrong GP, Maitland C, Lester L, Trost SG, Trapp G, Boruff B, Al Marzooqi MK, Christian HE. (2019)Associations between the home yard and preschoolers' outdoor play and physical activity. Public Health Res Pract. 29(1). pii: 2911907. doi: 10.17061/phrp2911907.

Goncalves WSF, Byrne R, Viana MT, Trost SG. (2019) Parental influences on screen time and weight status among preschool children from Brazil: a cross-sectional study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 16(1):27.

Hardy L, MacNiven R, Esgin T,  Mihrshahi S (2019) Cross sectional changes in weight status and weight related behaviors among Australian children and Australian Indigenous children between 2010 and 2015.  PLoS ONE 14(7): e0211249

Haszard, J., Russell, C., Byrne, R., Taylor, R., & Campbell, K. (2019) Early maternal feeding practices: associations with overweight later in childhood. Appetite.

Johnson BJ, Hendrie GA, Zarnowiecki D, Huynh EK, Golley RK (2019), ‘Examining constructs of parental reflective motivation towards reducing unhealthy food provision to young children’, Nutrients, 11(1507)

Love P, Laws R, Hesketh K, Campbell K (2019) Lessons on early childhood obesity prevention interventions from the Victorian Infant Program. Public Health Res Pract. 29(1) e2911904

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (2019.  Rising rural body mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults.  Nature.  569:260-264

Rehayem, A., Taki, S., Brown, N, and Denney-Wilson, E. Infant feeding Beliefs and Practices of Arabic Mothers in Australia. Women and Birth [Accepted]

Taki, S., Russell, C.G., Lymer, S., Laws, R., Campbell, K., Appleton, J., Ong, K.L. and Denney-Wilson, E, 2019. A mixed methods study to explore the effects of program design elements and participant characteristics on parents’ engagement with an mHealth program to promote healthy infant feeding: The Growing healthy program. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 10, p.397.

Wen LM, Rissel C, Xu H, Taki S, Smith W, Bedford K, Hayes A, Xu H, Phongsavan P. Shaw M, Moreton R., Baur LA. (2019)Linking two randomised controlled trials for Healthy Beginnings©: optimising early obesity prevention programs for children under 3 years. Accepted for publication in BMC Public Health.  19:739

2018

Baur L, Garnett SP (2018). Early childhood - a critical period for obesity prevention. Nature Reviews Endocrinology  DOI: 10.1038/s41574-018-0131-0

Bell LK, Golley RK, Mauch CE, Mathew SM, Magarey AM (2018) Validation testing of a short food-group-based questionnaire to assess dietary risk in pre-schoolers aged 3-5 years.  Nutrition & Dietetics. DOI: 10.1111/1747-0080.12412

Bellew W, Bauman A, Kite J, Foley B, Reece L, Thomas M, Mihrshahi S, King L. Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed? Public Health Research and Practice. Accepted for publication 10 December 2018.

Borg B, Mihrshahi S, Griffin M, Sok D, Chhoun C, Laillou A, Berger J, Wieringa FT (2018). Randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a locally-produced ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) in preventing growth faltering and improving micronutrient status for children under two years in Cambodia: a study protocol. Nutr J. Mar 16;17(1):39.

Brown, V., et al. (2018). "Utility values for childhood obesity interventions: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the evidence for use in economic evaluation." Obesity Reviews.  DOI: 10.1111/obr.12672.

Byrne R, Bell L, Taylor RW, et al (2018). Brief tools to measure obesity‐related behaviours in children under 5 years of age: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews. 1–16. DOI:10.1111/obr.12801

Ekambareshwar M, Mihrshahi S, Wen LM, Taki S, Bennett G, Baur LA, Rissel C. (2018) Facilitators and challenges in recruiting pregnant women to an infant obesity prevention programme delivered via telephone calls or text messages. Trials. DOI: 10.1186/s13063-018-2871-5

Garden FL, Toelle BG, Mihrshahi S, Webb KL, Almqvist C, Tovey ER, Brew BK, Ayer JG, Skilton MR, Jones G, Ferreira MAR, Cowie CT, Weber-Chrysochoou C, Britton WJ, Celermajer DS, Leeder SR, Peat JK, Marks GB (2018). Cohort profile: The Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS). Int J Epidemiol. 47:(6)1736-1736k.

Hardy LL, Baur LA, Wen LM, Garnett SP, Mihrshahi S. (2018) Descriptive epidemiology of changes in weight and weight-related behaviours of Australian children aged 5 years: two population-based cross-sectional studies in 2010 and 2015. BMJ Open.

Hardy LL, Jin K, Mihrshahi S, Ding D. (2018) Trends in overweight, obesity, and waist-to-height ratio among Australian children from linguistically diverse backgrounds, 1997 to 2015. Int J Obes (Lond).

Hardy LL, Foley B, Partridge SR, Kite J, Bauman A, Chau J, Mihrshahi S. (2018) Frequent lunch purchases from NSW school canteens: a potential marker for children's eating habits? Aust N Z J Public Health.  Aug;42(4):410-411.

Hardy LL, Bell J, Bauman A, Mihrshahi S (2018). Association between adolescents' consumption of total and different types of sugar-sweetened beverages with oral health impacts and weight status. Aust N Z J Public Health.  Feb;42(1):22-26

Haszard, J., Russell, C., Byrne, R., Taylor, R., & Campbell, K. (2019) Early maternal feeding practices: associations with overweight later in childhood. Appetite

Hayes AJ, Brown V, Tan GJ, Chevalier A, D'Souza M, Rissel C, Baur LA, Wen LM, Moodie ML ( 2018) Patterns and costs of healthcare utilisation in Australian children: the first 5 years. J Paed & Child Health

Johnson B, Zarnowiecki D, Hendrie GA. Mauch CE, Golley RK. (2018)  How to reduce parental provision of unhealthy foods to 3‐ to 8‐year‐old children in the home environment? A systematic review utilizing the Behaviour Change Wheel framework. Obesity Reviews.

Kunaratnam K, Halaki M, Wen LM, Baur, LA, Flood VM. (2018) Mother-child dietary behaviours and their observed associations with socio-demographic factors: findings from the Healthy Beginnings Trial.  British Journal of Nutrition 119:464-471

Love, P.; Laws, R.; Litterbach, E.; Campbell, K.J. Factors Influencing Parental Engagement in an Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Implemented at Scale: The Infant Program. Nutrients 2018, 10, 509. 

Lung T, Jan S, Tan EJ, Killedar A, Hayes A.(2018) Impact of overweight, obesity and severe obesity on life  expectancy of Australian adults. Int J Obes

Mauch CE, Wycherley TP, Laws RA, Johnson BJ, Bell LK, Golley R. (2018) Mobile apps to support healthy family food provision: a systematic assessment of popular, commercially available apps. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 6(12):e11867. DOI:10.2196/11867

Mihrshahi S, Gow ML, Baur LA. (2018) Contemporary approaches to the prevention and management of paediatric obesity: an Australian focus.  MJA 209(6):267-274 Podcast

Mihrshahi S, Baur LA.  (2018) What exposures in early life are risk factors for childhood obesity? J Paediatr Child Health. 

Mihrshahi, S., Gow, M. L. & Baur, L. A. Contemporary approaches to the prevention and management of paediatric obesity: an Australian focus. Med. J. Aust. 209, 267–274 (2018).  

Mihrshahi S, Myton R, Partridge SR, Esdaile E, Hardy LL, Gale J. Sustained low consumption of fruit and vegetables in Australian children: Findings from the Australian National Health Surveys. Health Promot J Austr. 2018 Sep 2.

Mihrshahi S, Baur LA. (2018) What exposures in early life are risk factors for childhood obesity? J Paediatr Child Health.  Aug 31. doi: 10.1111/jpc.14195.

Tan EJ, Brown V, Petrou S, D'Souza M, Moodie ML, Wen LM, Baur LA, Rissel C, Hayes AJ. (2018) Is there an association between early weight status and utility-based health-related quality of life in young children? Qual Life Res. 

Tonkin E, Kennedy D, Golley R, Byrne R, Rohit A, Kearns T, Hanieh S, Biggs BA, Brimblecombe J. (2018)  The Relative Validity of the Menzies Remote Short-Item Dietary Assessment Tool (MRSDAT) in Aboriginal Australian Children Aged 6–36 Months. Nutrients 

Vivekanandarajah S, Wen LM, Baur L (2018) Demographic predictors of family functioning and its change over the first 5 years postpartum:  Findings from the Healthy Beginnings Trial - Family & Community Health, 2018 41(1): 2-9

doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000175 article

Zarnowiecki D,  Christian MS, Dollman J, Parletta N , Evans CEL and Cade JE. (2018) Comparison of school day eating behaviours of 8–11 year old children from Adelaide, South Australia, and London, England. AIMS Public Health

2017

“Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), published 10 October 2017 in The Lancet. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(17)32129-3 Article Visualisation 

Brown V, Moodie M, Baur L, Wen LM, Hayes  A. (2017) The high cost of obesity in Australian pre-schoolers.  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 41:323-324. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12628

Golley RK, Bell LK, Hendrie GA, Rangan AM, Spence A, McNaughton SA, Carpenter L, Allman-Farinelli M, de Silva A, Gill T, Collins CE, Truby H, Flood VM, Burrows T.  Validity of short food questionnaire items to measure intake in children and adolescents: a systematic review J Hum Nutr Diet. 2017 Feb;30(1):36-50

Hardy LL, Mihrshahi S, Bellew W, Bauman A, Ding D.(2017) Children's adherence to health behavior recommendations associated with reducing risk of non-communicable disease. Prev Med Rep.  Oct 10;8:279-285.

Campbell KJ, Abbott G, Zheng M, McNaughton SA.  Early life protein intake:  Food sources, correlates and tracking across the first 5 years of life. .J Acad Nutr Diet.. 2017 May 16. 117(8):1188-1197.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2017.03.016.

Taylor BJ, Gray AR, Galland BC, Heath ALM, Lawrence J, Sayers RM, Cameron S, Hanna M, Dale K, Coppell KJ, Taylor RW.  Targeting sleep, food, and activity in infants for obesity prevention:  An RCT. Pediatrics 2017; 139(3) e20162037

Wen LM, Rissel C, Baur LA, Hayes A, Xu H, Whelan A, Hua M, Shaw M, Phongsavan P. A 3-arm randomised controlled trial of communicating Healthy Beginnings advice by telephone (CHAT) to mothers with infants to prevent childhood obesity. BMC Public Health 2017; 17:79. Available at: URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/17/79

2016

Hayes A, Chevalier A, D'Souza M, Baur L, Wen LM, Simpson J. Early childhood obesity: Association with healthcare expenditure in Australia. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Aug; 24(8):1752-8. Epub 2016 Jul 6.

Laws R, Hesketh KD, Ball K, Cooper C, Vrljic K, Campbell KJ. Translating an early childhood obesity prevention program for local community implementation: a case study of the Melbourne InFANT Program. BMC Public Health. 2016 Aug. 8:16:748.