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Perceptions and Experiences of Inequity for Women of Refugee Background Having a Baby during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Melbourne, Australia
International journal of environmental research and public health
children conduct problems cp found heavy costly medical service users adulthood however little knowledge medical service use develops childhood adolescence among youth without childhood cp knowing whether differences developmental trajectories medical service use specific types problems eg injuries predicted childhood cp would help clinicians identify developmental periods might intensify interventions young people cp order prevent later problems associated increased service use participants drawn ongoing longitudinal study boys girls without childhood cp rated parents teachers medical service use assessed using administrative data public single payer health plan latent growth modeling used estimate mean trajectory four types medical visits psychiatric injuryrelated preventative total visits across time evaluate effect cp covariates support hypothesis early cp predicts higher medical service use nine years old difference persists chronic manner time even controlling effects adhd family income girls fewer medical visits psychiatric reasons boys baseline difference diminished time clinicians aware childhood cp already predicts increased medical service use elementary school issues specific different contexts injuries might occur sex differences discussed