Dione Healey's research while affiliated with University of Otago and other places

... 9 In an intervention in 28 early childhood education centres (ECEs) in Auckland New Zealand, ENGAGE was demonstrated to lower levels of hyperactivity, aggression and inattention across a cohort of 940 preschool children relative to a wait-list control period. 10 Self-regulation can also be fostered by enhancing children's oral language development. 11 The way adults talk with children during everyday activities (book-reading, mealtimes, play) advances children's early language and cognitive development, 12 which in turn enhances their self-regulation. ...

... Neuerdings gibt es hier allerdings Zweifel: In einer aktuellen randomisierten Studie mit 10-jährigen Kindern wurden die Effekte von Naturerfahrungen einerseits und Medikamenten andererseits auf ADHS verglichen [44]. Während die Medikation die Leistung verbesserte, gab es bei den Naturerfahrungen keinen Effekt. ...

... Objective 24-hour monitoring of movement behaviour, including sleep, physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB), holds out the prospect of capturing detailed behaviour in daily life, 2 even in preschoolers. 3 4 Progressive global initiatives have already responded appropriately and are implementing 24-hour monitoring of movement behaviour in preschool children in urban and rural settings in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries in Africa, America and Asia-the SUNRISE International Study of Movement Behaviours in the Early Years, 5 Brazil-the Pelotas birth cohort study, 6 7 Singapore -the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) study 8 and New Zealand-the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) study, 9 with the aim of detecting adherence to 24-hour movement behaviour guidelines or the consequences in terms of motor development and adiposity. ...

... ENGAGE leads to improvements in parent-rated behaviour problems equivalent to a gold-standard parent-management programme (Triple P), with treatment gains maintained 12 months later. 9 In an intervention in 28 early childhood education centres (ECEs) in Auckland New Zealand, ENGAGE was demonstrated to lower levels of hyperactivity, aggression and inattention across a cohort of 940 preschool children relative to a wait-list control period. 10 Self-regulation can also be fostered by enhancing children's oral language development. ...

... In this study, in order to explore the association between lifestyle and psychosocial health from aspects other than quantity, we focused on physical activity and sleep in accordance with the WHO 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years from among many lifestyle components. Diet is often cited as an important factor for the healthy growth of children [32][33][34][35] , in addition to physical activity and sleep. A report 36 on the adherence to the Vegetable and Fruit Intake Guidelines issued by the Australian Department of Health and the National Committee for Health and Medical Researchers stated that diet is significantly associated with low overall SDQ difficulty scores. ...

... Previous studies have shown that parents' emotion and self-regulation are related to self-efficacy (Bandura et al., 2003). If individuals with low self-esteem can achieve post-traumatic growth and reassess trauma or stress events, they will be able to achieve higher control over emotions, thoughts and behavioral intentions, enhance their confidence in healthy parenting, and finally obtain a higher level of parenting self-efficacy (Healey et al., 2018). Therefore, compared with parents with high self-esteem, parents with low self-esteem rely more on their own post-traumatic growth to enhance their sense of parenting self-efficacy. ...

... Parents of pre-school children at increased risk of T1D perceived their children as vulnerable to illness and altered their parenting behavior accordingly [60]. However, by age 12 there were no differences between low and high risk groups in parenting styles [62]. Parents of 12-year-olds were also more likely to underestimate their child's risk, compared to when their children were infants, which could affect parenting behavior. ...

... The difference between an individual with a psychosis and an innovative individual, when faced with low latent inhibition, is based on the cognitive variables (Carson et al., 2003). Among the population with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), it has been proven that the inefficiency of the latent inhibition mechanism promotes innovation (Pritchard et al., 2006;González, 2017). Mendelsohn and Griswold (1966) defend the idea that creative individuals are more likely to use irrelevant stimuli, incidentally or randomly present. ...

... Ahn et al. (2004) stated that 5.3% of typically developing kindergarten children have sensory processing difficulties, and they will be challenged in later achievement. Woodward et al. (2017) found that sensory functioning can statistically predicted kindergarten children's school readiness and later math and reading achievement. As a crucial learning environment, problems in sensory processing skills become more evident in school (Dunn, 2001). ...

... First, ADHD symptoms and irritability were measured exclusively via parent reports. Future research should consider a multi-informant approach when measuring symptoms in this age range, given previous work showing informant discrepancies in ADHD (Kennerley et al., 2018;Yeguez & Sibley, 2016) and irritability (Mallidi et al., 2022;Zik et al., 2022). Second, although our study used a longitudinal design and temporal network analysis, our findings are correlational in nature as the temporal edges in the network represent partial correlations between lagged and nonlagged variables after controlling for all other variables from the previous timepoint. ...