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Fiona Mensah is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, prominently including Psychology, Medicine, and Social Sciences, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work addresses a range of topics such as Child Abuse and Trauma, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Family and Disability Support Research, Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Early Childhood Education and Development, Health disparities and outcomes, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Frequent publication venues for Fiona Mensah include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • PEDIATRICS
  • BMJ Open
  • Academic Pediatrics
  • Australian Journal of Social Issues

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Fiona Mensah include:

  • Body Mass Index From Early to Late Childhood and Cardiometabolic Measurements at 11 to 12 Years, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort, 2021, Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Speech in children with cerebral palsy, 2020, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
  • Measuring Positive Childhood Experiences: Testing the Structural and Predictive Validity of the Health Outcomes From Positive Experiences (HOPE) Framework, 2021, Academic Pediatrics
  • Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start): Urgent call to action to address crisis in infant removals, 2022, Australian Journal of Social Issues

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Sharon Goldfeld
  • Stephanie Brown
  • Melissa Wake
  • Sheena Reilly
  • Lisa Gold

The breadth of their work shows a prominent interdisciplinary approach, linking psychological, medical, and social perspectives in exploring health outcomes, childhood development, and social issues. Their publication record reflects ongoing engagement with topics related to child health, family dynamics, and community well-being.

Best Publications

  • Specific language impairment: a convenient label for whom?

    Sheena Reilly;Sheena Reilly;Bruce Tomblin;James Law;James Law;Cristina McKean;Cristina McKean

  • Treating infant colic with the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri: double blind, placebo controlled randomised trial

    Valerie Sung;Harriet Hiscock;Harriet Hiscock;Mimi L K Tang;Mimi L K Tang;Fiona K Mensah;Fiona K Mensah

  • Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment: The mediating role of parenting

    Kathleen E. Kiernan;Fiona K. Mensah

  • Impact of a behavioural sleep intervention on symptoms and sleep in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and parental mental health: randomised controlled trial

    Harriet Hiscock;Harriet Hiscock;Emma Sciberras;Fiona Mensah;Bibi Gerner;Bibi Gerner

  • Poverty, Maternal Depression, Family Status and Children's Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Study

    Kathleen E. Kiernan;Fiona K. Mensah

  • An epidemiological study to establish the prevalence of urinary symptoms and felt need in the community: the Leicestershire MRC incontinence study

    S Perry;C Shaw;P Assassa;H Dallosso

  • Maternal depression from early pregnancy to 4 years postpartum in a prospective pregnancy cohort study: implications for primary health care.

    H Woolhouse;D Gartland;F Mensah;F Mensah;SJ Brown;SJ Brown

  • Adverse impact of hepatitis C virus infection on renal replacement therapy and renal transplant patients in Australia and New Zealand.

    David R. Scott;Jeffrey K. W. Wong;Tim S. Spicer;Hanna Dent

  • Association between sleep and working memory in children with ADHD: a cross-sectional study

    E. Sciberras;E. Sciberras;A. DePetro;F. Mensah;H. Hiscock;H. Hiscock

  • Academic Outcomes 2 Years After Working Memory Training for Children With Low Working Memory : A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Gehan Roberts;Jon Quach;Megan Spencer-Smith;Peter J. Anderson

  • Parents’ mental health and children’s cognitive and social development

    Fiona K. Mensah;Kathleen E. Kiernan

  • Family history of hematopoietic malignancies and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL): a pooled analysis of 10 211 cases and 11 905 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph)

    Sophia S. Wang;Susan L. Slager;Paul Brennan;Elizabeth A. Holly

  • Preventing Early Infant Sleep and Crying Problems and Postnatal Depression: A Randomized Trial

    Harriet Hiscock;Fallon Cook;Jordana Bayer;Ha N D Le

  • Anxiety in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Emma Sciberras;Kate Lycett;Daryl Efron;Fiona Mensah

  • Activities and participation of children with cerebral palsy: parent perspectives

    Cristina Mei;Sheena Reilly;Dinah Reddihough;Fiona Mensah

  • Language outcomes at 7 years: early predictors and co-occurring difficulties

    Cristina McKean;Sheena Reilly;Edith L Bavin;Lesley Bretherton

  • Nurse Home Visiting for Families Experiencing Adversity: A Randomized Trial.

    Sharon Goldfeld;Sharon Goldfeld;Anna Price;Anna Price;Charlene Smith;Tracey Bruce

  • Father mental health during the early parenting period: results of an Australian population based longitudinal study

    Rebecca Giallo;Fabrizio D’Esposito;Daniel Christensen;Fiona Mensah;Fiona Mensah

  • Psychosocial risk factors associated with fathers’ mental health in the postnatal period: results from a population-based study

    Rebecca Giallo;Fabrizio D’Esposito;Amanda R Cooklin;Fiona Mensah;Fiona Mensah

  • Early puberty and childhood social and behavioral adjustment.

    Fiona K. Mensah;Fiona K. Mensah;Jordana K. Bayer;Jordana K. Bayer;Melissa Wake;Melissa Wake;John B. Carlin;John B. Carlin

  • Gastric marginal zone lymphoma is associated with polymorphisms in genes involved in inflammatory response and antioxidative capacity.

    Sara Rollinson;Adam P. Levene;Fiona K. Mensah;Philippa L. Roddam

Frequent Co-Authors

Sheena Reilly
Sheena Reilly Griffith University
Emma Sciberras
Emma Sciberras Deakin University
Jan M. Nicholson
Jan M. Nicholson La Trobe University
Rebecca Giallo
Rebecca Giallo Deakin University
Jordana K. Bayer
Jordana K. Bayer La Trobe University
Katrina Williams
Katrina Williams University of Melbourne
James Law
James Law Newcastle University
Frank Oberklaid
Frank Oberklaid Royal Children's Hospital
Richard Saffery
Richard Saffery University of Melbourne
Susan E. Gathercole
Susan E. Gathercole University of Cambridge

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