Being bullied in childhood has a greater negative impact on teenagers’ mental health than being maltreated, according to new research from Children of the 90s (ALSPAC) published today in The Lancet Psychiatry journal.
ALSPAC is run as a resource for the research community. This unique resource is open for researchers to conduct a wide range of bespoke data collection activities – anything from whole cohort questionnaire collections, recall-by-genotype substudies, small scale qualitative interview studies and clinic-based biomedical measurements.
Worries about the negative effects of playing video games often appear in the news, and there are concerns that children playing such games may develop aggressive or violent tendencies later on. However, the research behind these claims is often conflicting, and the actual effects of playing video games are not well understood.
In what is believed to be the biggest study of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) – also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) – in children to date, researchers at the University of Bristol, have found that almost 2 per cent of 16-year-olds have CFS lasting more than six months and nearly 3 per cent have CFS lasting more than three months (the UK definition). Those with CFS missed, on average, more than half a day of school every week.
Debbie Lawlor, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, has been awarded a CBE for her services to social and community medicine research in the Queen's Birthday Honours, which recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the UK.
The more teenagers see alcohol being drunk in films, the more likely they are to try it themselves and the more likely they are to develop drinking problems, according to new research from Children of the 90s at the University of Bristol.
Research by Dr Sarah Lewis from Children of the 90s will feature in ITV’s Exposure: When Pregnant Women Drink tonight [Tuesday 3 March]. Her research shows that drinking even small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can affect the future child’s IQ.
Research findings using data from the University of Bristol’s Children of the 90s study should reassure parents that their fussy toddlers can grow up with a healthy height and weight.
One in five adolescents at risk of tobacco dependency, harmful alcohol consumption and illicit drug use.
Increased weight in young adults is likely to cause higher blood pressure and a thickening of the heart muscle, according to findings by the University of Bristol published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation today [Monday 30 July].
