Table 1.
Articles (First Author and Year); (Study Name) 1 |
State/ Region; Sampling 2 |
Population Description; Sample Size 3 |
Study Period; Age Range (and/or Mean) 4 |
Outcomes 5 | ||||
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Obesity | BP | Glucose | Lipids | MetS | ||||
Longitudinal Studies | ||||||||
Mackerras 2003 [37], Sayers 2004 [38], Sayers 2007 [39], Sellers 2008 [15], Sayers 2009 [40], Sayers 2011 [41], Priest 2011 [42], Sayers 2013 [43], Mann 2015 [44], Juonala 2016 [17], Gialamas 2018 [45], Sjöholm 2018 [46], Juonala 2019 [47], Sevoyan 2019 † [48], Sjöholm 2020 [49], Sjöholm 2021 [50]; (ABC) |
NT; Hospital |
Singletons delivered at Royal Darwin Hospital between January 1987 and March 1990 to an Aboriginal mother; n = 686 |
1987–2016; W2: 8–14 (11), W3: 16–20 (18), W4: 23–28 (25) |
X | X | X | X | X |
Thurber 2013 ‡ [51], Thurber 2015 [52], Thurber 2017 [53], Shepherd 2017 [54], Deacon-Crouch 2018 [55], Cave 2019a, [56] Cave 2019b [57], Westrupp 2019 [58], Fatima 2020 [59]; (LSIC) |
National; Community/ population database |
Indigenous children aged 0.5–2 years (‘younger cohort’) and 3.5–5 years (‘older cohort’) at baseline (2008), purposively recruited using administrative databases and local community networks at 11 undisclosed sites representing a mix of remote, regional and urban Australian locations; n = 1759 |
2008–2015; W1: 0.5–5, W3: 2–7, W4: 3–9, W6: 5–10, W7: 6–12, W8: 7–12 (9) |
X | ||||
Larkins 2017 [60], Riley 2021 [61]; (SEARCH) |
NSW; Clinic/community |
Aboriginal children aged 0–17 years (with a parent/ caregiver >16 years) who attended one of four participating ACCHS in urban and large regional centers in NSW (Mount Druitt, Campbelltown, Wagga Wagga, Newcastle), recruited between 2008 and 2011; n = 1594 |
2008–2020; Baseline: 2–17 (6.3), W2: 5–18 |
X | X | X | ||
Webster 2013 [62], Denney-Wilson 2020 [63]; (Gudaga study) |
NSW; Hospital |
Aboriginal infants born at Campbelltown hospital or to mothers who resided in the Campbelltown region of Sydney between October 2005 and May 2007; n = 159 |
2007–2016; W1: 2, W2: 9 |
X | ||||
Pringle 2019 [64]; (Gomeroi gaaynggal study) |
NSW; Clinic |
Infants born since 2010 to mothers who identified during pregnancy as Indigenous or who were carrying an Indigenous infant and attended a participating antenatal clinic or AMS in Tamworth or Walgett, NSW; n = 245 |
2010–2017; 1–3 (2) |
X | ||||
Campbell 2019 [65] | Qld.; Clinic |
Indigenous people aged 15–25 years who attended Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service Aboriginal Corporation in Yarrabah between 2013 and 2016 for a Young Persons Check (Medicare item 715); n = 433 |
2013–2016 ^; 15–25 |
X | X | X | X | X |
Braun 1996 [66] | WA; Random/community |
A random, opportunistic sample of 100 apparently healthy Aboriginal people aged 7–18 years in 1989, with 25 each from 4 communities in the Kimberley region of WA, followed up after 5 years; n = 100 |
1989–1994; Baseline: 7–18 (13), Follow-up: ~12–23 (18) |
X | ||||
Cross-Sectional Studies | ||||||||
Valery 2009 [16], Valery 2012 [67] |
Torres Strait; School |
Students aged 5–17 years who attended one of the five schools across four Torres Strait islands: Thursday Island, Horn Island, Sue Island, and Mabuiag Island; n = 327 |
2003; 5–17 (11.2) |
X | X | X | X | X |
Spurrier 2012 [68] | SA; Preschool |
Children attending preschool or kindergarten in SA in 2009 aged 3–6 years; n = 337 § | 2009; 3.5–6 (4.8) |
X | ||||
Haysom 2013 [69]; (YPiCHS 2009) |
NSW; Custodial |
Young people (87% male) in custody in NSW between August and October 2009; n = 151 § | 2009; 13–21 (17) |
X | ||||
Esler 2016 [70] | Qld.; Community |
Indigenous young people aged 15–24 years from 11 remote north Queensland communities attending their first Young Persons Check between March 2009 and April 2011; n = 1883 |
2009–2011; 15–24 (18.8) |
X | ||||
Singh 2003 [71], Singh 2004 [72] |
NT; Community |
Participants of a community-wide health screening program conducted between 1992 and 1998 in an Aboriginal community on a remote island off the northern coast of Australia; n = 1473 (Singh 2003 n = 311 §, Singh 2004 n = 210 §) |
1992–1998; Singh 2003: 7–17 (13.3) §, Singh 2004: 4–14 (9.5) § |
X | ||||
Two articles with overlapping samples: |
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Schutte 2005 [36] | Central Australia, Torres Strait, North Qld. |
Aboriginal people over 15 years of age from Central Australia and Torres Strait Islander people from Torres Strait and Far North Queensland communities who participated in community-based diabetes and coronary risk factor assessments between 1993 and 1995; n = 485 § |
1993–1995; 15–29 § |
X | ||||
Daniel 2002 [35] | Central, northern, north-western Australia; Community |
Residents over 15 years of age from 15 remote Aboriginal settlements who participated in community-based diabetes and coronary risk factor assessments between 1983 and 1997; n ~1450 § |
1989–1994; 15–34 § |
X | ||||
Smith 1992 [73] | WA; Population database |
Random selection of Aboriginal people aged 15–70 years in the Kimberley region of WA, identified from the WA Health Department Community Healthy Client Register as at January 1987; n = 118 § | 1988–1989; 15–29 § |
X | X | |||
Intervention Studies | ||||||||
Smithers 2017 [74], Smithers 2021 [75] (Baby Teeth Talk trial) |
SA; Clinic/community |
Children of women who were SA residents and were either pregnant with or had given birth to an Aboriginal baby within the previous 6 weeks, recruited from January 2011 to May 2012; n = 454 (448 mothers) |
2011–2016; W1: 2, W2: 3 |
X | X | |||
Black 2013 [76] | NSW; Clinic |
Children under 17 years from 55 participating families recruited at 3 ACCHSs in NSW (Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Bowraville) between December 2008 and September 2009, with follow-up assessments between December 2009 and September 2010; n = 167 | 2008–2010; Baseline: 2–17 (7.6) |
X | ||||
Gwynn 2014 ‡ [77] (MRDPP) |
NSW; School |
Children in school years 5, 6, 7 and 8 from all primary and high schools in the Kempsey and Greater Taree regions of NSW during Summer 2007/08 (control group) and 2011/12 (intervention group); n = 251 control §, 240 intervention § |
Summer 2007–2008 and 2011–2012; Years 5–8 (~10–14) |
X | ||||
Qualitative Studies | ||||||||
Angelino 2017 [78] | Qld.; Clinic |
Mother (≥18 years) or grandmother of an eligible Indigenous child (5–14 years and attended Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service from 31 June 2013 until 1 July 2014), an active client of the health service, and had expressed concern with their child’s weight; n = 9 |
2013–2014; 5–14 |
X |
1: † the sample in this article combines ABC participants (80% of sample) and a non-Indigenous birth cohort; ‡ grey literature; ABC = Aboriginal Birth Cohort; LSIC = Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children; MRDPP = Many Rivers Diabetes Prevention Project; YPiCHS = NSW Young People in Custody Health Survey; SEARCH = Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health. 2: NSW = New South Wales; NT = Northern Territory; Qld. = Queensland; SA = South Australia; WA = Western Australia. 3: § sample size of included subgroup (disaggregated by age or Indigenous status); ACCHS = Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service; AMS = Aboriginal Medical Service; 4: § age of included subgroup; W1 = follow-up wave 1; ^ retrospective exposure assessment. 5: Outcomes: Obesity = obesity measures; BP = blood pressure; Glucose = blood glucose, insulin, or diabetes; Lipids = blood lipids; MetS = the metabolic syndrome, or cardio-metabolic risk marker clustering; ‘X’ denotes outcomes measured by study.