Cohort Profile: The New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS)—Wave 2 (child age 13 years)

Green, Melissa; Harris, Felicity; Laurens, Kristin R.; Kariuki, Maina; Tzoumakis, Stacy; Dean, Kimberlie; Islam, Fakhrul; Rossen, Larissa; Whitten, Tyson; Smith, Megan L.; Holbrook, Allyson; Bore, Miles; Brinkman, Sally; Chilvers, Marilyn; Sprague, Titia; Stevens, Robert; Carr, Vaughan J.

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“…Other risk and/or protective factors might also be usefully examined, both cross‐sectionally and longitudinally. As this research is embedded within the context of a longitudinal record linkage study, the NSW‐CDS (Carr et al ., ; Green et al ., ), which incorporates intergenerational data from health, education, child protection, and justice records, future research incorporating extant linked data may provide important information regarding potential mechanisms contributing to the emergence, maintenance, and resolution of PLEs during development.…”

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“…This study used self‐reported responses from children aged 11–12 years to a subset of items administered within the online 2015 Middle Childhood Survey (MCS) of mental health and well‐being (Laurens et al ., ), conducted with the New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW‐CDS) population cohort (Carr et al ., ; Green et al ., ). Children were recruited via a two‐stage process.…”

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Population profiles of child‐reported psychotic‐like experiences and their differential association with other psychopathologies

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British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives. Childhood psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) increase risk for concurrent and future psychiatric disorders but are common in the population. Strategies are needed to identify vulnerable individuals who may benefit from monitoring or targeted intervention. This study aimed to delineate profiles of childhood PLEs that might be differentially associated with other psychopathologies, and multiple psychopathology.Design. Cross-sectional, online self-report survey.Methods. Participants were 27,000 Australian children from a population cohort (13,416 girls; mean age 11.91 years) who completed an online self-report questionnaire assessing PLEs (hallucinations and delusions) and Emotional, Peer Relationship, Conduct, and Hyperactivity-Inattention psychopathology. Latent class analysis differentiated classes of children showing different patterns of PLE responses, and multinomial logistic regression determined the association between the PLE classes and the various psychopathologies, adjusted for demographic covariates and the other psychopathologies.Results. Five latent profiles of PLE responses were characterized as follows: None (27.4% of children), Minor (29.7%), Moderate (11.8%), Hallucinatory (21.0%), and Strong (10.2%). These classes showed distinct associations with other psychopathologies (odds ratios between 1.27 and 4.58), and dose-response relationships indicated increasing likelihood of multiple psychopathology for the Hallucinatory and Strong classes (odds ratio = 21.87 for ≥3 psychopathologies in the Strong class).Children aged 11-12 years who report psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) can be classified into five different PLE profiles based on self-reported questionnaire responses, which may reflect different pathological processes. These PLE profiles show different patterns and magnitudes of increased risk for other types of psychopathology, and multiple psychopathology, suggesting that they present different treatment needs. Cross-sectional investigation of the associations between PLE profiles and other psychopathologies limits any conclusions as to the causal direction of these relationships. Multi-informant reports of psychopathology were unavailable.

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Population profiles of child‐reported psychotic‐like experiences and their differential association with other psychopathologies

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Tzoumakis

Dean

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British J Clinic Psychol

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“…Data were drawn from the New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS; http://nswcds.com.au), an Australian state-wide longitudinal population-based record linkage project [30][31]. The…”

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“…Children were approximately 5 and 11 years of age at the time of the AEDC and MCS assessments, respectively. Demographic profiles indicate that the population cohort of the NSW-CDS, and specifically the AEDC and MCS sub cohorts, are comparable to the NSW population [31,34].…”

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“…The NSW-CDS began with a cohort of 87,037 children (99.7% of NSW school-starters) who started their first year of full-time schooling in 2009, and linked data available on the children and their parents from multiple government agencies (i.e., health, education, justice, family and community services) with the 2009 AEDC (wave 1). A second record linkage (wave 2) was completed in 2016, and includes data from the investigator-led MCS: survey data were obtained for 31.4 % (n = 27,792) of all NSW year six students, and captured 26.6% (n= 23,194) of the original 2009 AEDC cohort [31]. Children were approximately 5 and 11 years of age at the time of the AEDC and MCS assessments, respectively.…”

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The influence of parental offending on the continuity and discontinuity of children’s internalizing and externalizing difficulties from early to middle childhood

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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose. Although parental criminal offending is a recognized risk factor for conduct problems among offspring, its impact on the continuity and discontinuity of children's behavioural and emotional difficulties during early development is less well known. We used data from a large, population-based record linkage project to examine the relationship between parental offending and the continuity and discontinuity of children's conduct, attentional, and emotional difficulties from early to middle childhood, while also considering the role of timing of the parental offending exposure. Method. Data for 19,208 children and their parents were drawn from the New South Wales Child Development Study. Multinomial regression analyses tested associations between mother's and father's history and timing of any and violent offending, and patterns of continuity or discontinuity in offspring emotional, conduct, and attentional difficulties between ages 5 and 11 years. Results. Maternal and paternal offending each conferred a significantly increased risk of all patterns of developmental difficulties, including those limited to age 5 only (remitting problems), to age 11 only (incident problems), and to difficulties present at both ages 5 and 11 years (persisting problems). Greatest odds were observed for persisting conduct problems. Paternal offending that continued through early and middle childhood had the greatest association with child difficulties, while the timing of maternal offending had a less prominent effect on child developmental difficulties. Conclusion. Parental offending is a strong risk factor for early and pervasive behavioural and emotional problems in offspring, and may be a key indicator of high risk for later antisocial behaviour.

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Incidence of Early Police Contact Among Children With Emerging Mental Health Problems in Australia

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IMPORTANCE In adulthood and adolescence, mental health vulnerability is known to be associated with risk of criminal justice system contact as both a perpetrator and survivor of crime, but whether this association is apparent early in child development is unknown. Prevention of poor outcomes, including repeated contact with the criminal justice system, relies on the identification of vulnerability early in life and at the start of such contact.OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether children with emotional or behavioral problems and general developmental vulnerabilities are at an increased risk of subsequent contact with police as a person of interest, a survivor of crime, or a witness. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTSThis cohort study used routinely collected data from the New South Wales Child Development Study in Australia. The cohort was composed of children who entered full-time schooling in New South Wales in 2009, had complete data for the emotional maturity domain of the Australian Early Development Census, and had no police contact before January 1, 2009. The children in the cohort were followed up until the age of 13 years. Data were analyzed from October 17, 2019, to May 13, 2020. EXPOSURES Emotional or behavioral problems and developmental risk profiles derived from the teacher-rated Australian Early Development Census. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Incidence rates of police contact (as a person of interest, survivor of crime, or witness) were derived from the New South Wales Police Force Computerised Operational Policing System. RESULTS A total of 79 801 children (40 584 boys [50.9%]; 2009 mean [SD] age, 5.2 [0.37] years)were included. Children with teacher-identified emotional or behavioral problems at school entry had an incidence rate of police contact (for any reason) that was twice that of children without such problems (unadjusted hazard ratio [HR], 2.14; 95% CI, 1.94-2.37). Contact with police as a survivor of crime was most commonly recorded (7350 [9.2%]), but the strength of the association was greatest between emotional or behavioral problems and police contact as a person of interest (unadjusted HR, 4.75; 95% CI,). Incidence of police contact as a person of interest was high for children with a pervasive developmental risk profile (unadjusted HR, 13.80; 95% CI,. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCEThis study found an association of emerging emotional or behavioral problems and developmental vulnerabilities with increased risk of police contact for any reason among young children, suggesting that this well-known association in adults and adolescents can be identified at an earlier developmental stage. These findings support primary and secondary (continued)

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Cohort Profile: The New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS)—Wave 2 (child age 13 years)

Cited by 48 publications

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Population profiles of child‐reported psychotic‐like experiences and their differential association with other psychopathologies

Population profiles of child‐reported psychotic‐like experiences and their differential association with other psychopathologies

The influence of parental offending on the continuity and discontinuity of children’s internalizing and externalizing difficulties from early to middle childhood

Incidence of Early Police Contact Among Children With Emerging Mental Health Problems in Australia

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