Children whose fathers adjusted well to parenthood and felt confident about their new role may be less likely to have behavioural problems in the run-up to their teens, indicates the 1,500th research paper from Children of the 90s.
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New research into incontinence from Children of the 90s and published today in BMJ Open shows that children who wet themselves both during the day and at night are more likely to have bladder and bowel problems in adolescence if left untreated.
Men who started smoking regularly before the age of 11 had sons who, on average, had 5-10kg more body fat than their peers by the time they were in their teens, according to new research from Children of the 90s.
Children who suffer from frequent nightmares or bouts of night terrors may be at an increased risk of psychotic experiences in adolescence, according to new research on Children of the 90s data from the University of Warwick.
Professor John Henderson spoke to BBC Points West on Monday 6 March about the effects of air pollution on lung health.
Improve clinicians’ understanding of the online world, review web-based support services for vulnerable people and safeguard the public against pro-suicide content. Those are some of the recommendations being put to the internet industry, health providers and suicide-prevention services after researchers mapped how people with suicidal feelings use the internet.
More than a third (36%) of teenagers whose mothers suffered from postnatal depression experienced sleep problems at the age of 18, compared to only one in five (22%) teenagers whose mothers didn’t suffer from postnatal depression.
In a study of 5,320 middle-aged women in Children of the 90s, 3% were found to have had an eating disorder in the previous 12 months and more than one in seven (15.3%) reported having had an eating disorder at some point in their life. Less than a third of the affected women said they had sought help or received treatment.
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) has been awarded almost £8 million in core funding from the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust for the period April 2014 to March 2019. ALSPAC also receives financial support from the University of Bristol.
