Publications by authors named "A M Montgomerie"
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to analyze mental health-related hospitalizations among adolescents aged 12-17 in South Australia in relation to their prior contact with the child protection system when they were younger (0-11 years).
- Using data from various linked administrative sources, the researchers highlight how the extent of contact with child protection services correlates with the likelihood of mental health hospitalizations.
- Results show that the rate of hospitalization for mental health issues increases significantly with each level of child protection contact, revealing a concerning trend where more severe interactions with child services are associated with higher hospitalization rates for mental health disorders.
Objective: Youth criminal justice systems are under growing pressure to reduce re-offending behavior and to support young people's health and developmental needs. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to synthesise evidence for 2 prominent community-based interventions for delinquent and antisocial behavior, namely, multisystemic therapy (MST) and functional family therapy (FFT).
Method: We searched Medline, PsycInfo, Scopus, Web of Science, and Social Services Abstracts for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental studies evaluating MST/FFT.
Objective: To describe how culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children are identified and enumerated in routine data collections and in child health research in Australia.
Methods: Descriptive analysis, where different definitions of CALD were applied to the 2021 Australian Census to measure the size of the CALD population of Australian children aged 0 to 17 years. Narrative review of the Australian child health literature to examine how CALD children were defined.
Purpose: Youth homelessness remains an ongoing public health issue worldwide. We aimed to describe the burden of emergency department (ED) presentations and hospitalizations among a South Australian population of young people in contact with specialist homelessness services (SHS).
Methods: This whole-of-population study used de-identified, linked administrative data from the Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data (BEBOLD) platform on all individuals born between 1996 and 1998 (N = 57,509).
Aim: To describe the cumulative incidence of child protection (CP) system contact, maltreatment type, source of reports to age 7 years, and socio-demographic characteristics for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Australian children.
Methods: We used CP, education, health, and birth registrations data for children followed from birth up to age 7 from the South Australian Better Evidence, Better Outcomes, Linked Data (SA BEBOLD) platform.
Participants: SA born children enrolled in their first year of school from 2009 to 2015 (n = 76 563).