Margarita Moreno-Betancur

The target trial: A powerful device beyond well-defined interventions.

Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epidemiology

Social networking and symptoms of depression and anxiety in early adolescence

Lisa K Mundy, Louise Canterford, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Monsurul Hoq, Susan M Sawyer, Nicholas B Allen, George C Patton

Journal article  |  2020  |  Depression and Anxiety

BACKGROUND: Use of social networking in later childhood and adolescence has risen quickly. The consequences of these changes for m..

Preconception depression and anxiety symptoms and maternal-infant bonding: a 20-year intergenerational cohort study

Craig A Olsson, Elizabeth A Spry, Yvette Alway, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, George Youssef, Christopher Greenwood, Primrose Letcher, Jacqui A Macdonald, Jennifer McIntosh, Delyse Hutchinson, George C Patton

Journal article  |  2020  |  Archives of Women's Mental Health

Early maternal-infant bonding problems are often forerunners of later emotional and behavioural difficulties. Interventions typica..

Multiple imputation methods for handling missing values in longitudinal studies with sampling weights: Comparison of methods implemented in Stata

Anurika P De Silva, Alysha M De Livera, Katherine J Lee, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Julie A Simpson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biometrical Journal

Many analyses of longitudinal cohorts require incorporating sampling weights to account for unequal sampling probabilities of part..

Bullying Across Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: A Prospective Cohort of Students Assessed Annually From Grades 3 to 8.

Shinya Fujikawa, Lisa K Mundy, Louise Canterford, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, George C Patton

Journal article  |  2020  |  Academic Pediatrics

OBJECTIVE: Bullying is a well-established risk factor for common adolescent mental disorders. Yet there has been little published ..

Adiposity and Endometrial Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women: A Sequential Causal Mediation Analysis.

S Ghazaleh Dashti, Dallas R English, Julie A Simpson, Amalia Karahalios, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Carine Biessy, Sabina Rinaldi, Pietro Ferrari, Anne Tjønneland, Jytte Halkjær, Christina C Dahm, Helene Tilma Vistisen, Florence Menegaux, Vittorio Perduca, Gianluca Severi, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Matthias B Schulze, Giovanna Masala, Sabina Sieri, Rosario Tumino, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

BACKGROUND: Adiposity increases endometrial cancer risk, possibly through inflammation, hyperinsulinemia, and increasing estrogens..

Parental mental health before and during pregnancy and offspring birth outcomes: A 20-year preconception cohort of maternal and paternal exposure.

Elizabeth A Spry, Claire A Wilson, Melissa Middleton, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Lex W Doyle, Louise M Howard, Anthony J Hannan, Mary E Wlodek, Jeanie Ly Cheong, Lindsey A Hines, Carolyn Coffey, Stephanie Brown, Craig A Olsson, George C Patton

Journal article  |  2020  |  EClinicalMedicine

Background: Preterm birth (PTB) and small for gestational age (SGA) are increasingly prevalent, with major consequences for health..

Electronic media use and academic performance in late childhood: A longitudinal study

Lisa K Mundy, Louise Canterford, Monsurul Hoq, Timothy Olds, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Susan Sawyer, Silja Kosola, George C Patton

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

INTRODUCTION: The effects of electronic media use on health has received much attention but less is known about links with academi..

Evaluation of approaches for multiple imputation of three-level data

Rushani Wijesuriya, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, John B Carlin, Katherine J Lee

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medical Research Methodology

BACKGROUND: Three-level data arising from repeated measures on individuals who are clustered within larger units are common in hea..

Growth Trajectories in Genetic Subtypes of Prader-Willi Syndrome

Daisy A Shepherd, Niels Vos, Susan M Reid, David E Godler, Angela Guzys, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, David J Amor

Journal article  |  2020  |  Genes

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare disorder caused by the loss of expression of genes on the paternal copy of chromosome 15q11-..