Hayley Kimball
Researcher biography
Hayley is completing her PhD on anxiety among children with Cystic Fibrosis and their parents, and trialling the Fear-Less Triple P intervention in this population. Hayley is completing her Masters in Clinical Psychology alongside her PhD, and is aiming to establish a research practitioner career in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Hayley completed her honours at The University of Melbourne, researching disordered eating across cultures. Her passions include early intervention, chronic health, and parenting/family relationships.
Journal Articles
Porter, Matthew, Kimball, Hayley, Gillespie, Kerri M., Schulz, Constanze and Branjerdporn, Grace (2025). 'She made me become a good mum': a qualitative evaluation of a parent support service. Advances in Mental Health, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/18387357.2025.2565345
Douglas, Tonia, Deery, Maddison, Kimball, Hayley, Cobham, Vanessa E., Panochini, Sophia, Robinson, Paul D., Wainwright, Claire E., Sly, Peter D. and Blake, Tamara (2025). Mental health, behaviour and sleep quality in children 6–11 years before and after elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor initiation. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 24 (3), 571-573. doi: 10.1016/j.jcf.2024.10.002
Adhikary, Sam, Gillespie, Kerri, Kimball, Hayley, Healey, Lyndall, Webb, Olivia, Balram, Abha and Branjerdporn, Grace (2024). A systematic review of research examining mothers, infants, family and staff in psychiatric mother‐baby units. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 150 (5), 284-307. doi: 10.1111/acps.13727
Gillespie, Kerri, Adhikary, Sam, Kimball, Hayley and Branjerdporn, Grace (2024). An evaluation of education videos for women experiencing domestic and family violence in healthcare settings: protocol for a mixed methods systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 13 (1) 213, 1-5. doi: 10.1186/s13643-024-02625-x
Branjerdporn, Grace, Kimball, Hayley, Pirotta, Reaksmey, Branjerdporn, Nataya, Collins, Taryn, Bowman, Genevieve and Gillespie, Kerri M. (2024). Characteristics and outcomes of community-based perinatal peer support: Protocol for a systematic review. PLoS One, 19 (7) e0303277, 1-7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303277
Kimball, Hayley, Cobham, Vanessa E., Sanders, Matthew and Douglas, Tonia (2023). Procedural anxiety among children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis and their parents. Pediatric Pulmonology, 58 (7), 1967-1976. doi: 10.1002/ppul.26419
McKeown, Lisa, Burke, Kylie, Cobham, Vanessa E., Kimball, Hayley, Foxcroft, Katie and Callaway, Leonie (2023). The prevalence of PTSD of mothers and fathers of high-risk infants admitted to NICU: a systematic review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 26 (1), 33-49. doi: 10.1007/s10567-022-00421-4
Kimball, Hayley, Douglas, Tonia, Sanders, Matthew and Cobham, Vanessa E. (2021). Anxiety in children with cystic fibrosis and their parents: a systematic review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 24 (2), 370-390. doi: 10.1007/s10567-021-00345-5
Cobham, Vanessa E., Hickling, Anna, Kimball, Hayley, Thomas, Hannah J., Scott, James G. and Middeldorp, Christel M. (2020). Systematic review: anxiety in children and adolescents with chronic medical conditions. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59 (5), 595-618. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.10.010
Kimball, Hayley, Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew, De Paoli, Tara, McKinlay, Audrey and Krug, Isabel (2019). Testing a new interpersonal model of disordered eating between Australian and East-Asian women: The relationships between theory of mind, maladaptive schemas, and appearance-based rejection sensitivity. Psychiatry Research, 275, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.02.065
Conference Papers
Deery, M., Blake, T., Cobham, V., Kimball, H., Panochini, S., Sly, P., Robinson, P., Wainwright, C. and Douglas, T. (2025). Neuropsychiatric symptoms 6-months post elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor initiation in children. TSANZSRS Annual Scientific meeting 2025, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 21-25 March 2025. Richmond, VIC, Australia: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/imj.70003
Deery, M., Blake, T., Cobham, V., Kimball, H., Panochini, S., Sly, P., Robinson, P., Wainwright, C. and Douglas, T. (2025). Evaluating the impact of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor on anxiety in school-aged children. TSANZSRS Annual Scientific meeting 2025, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 21-25 March 2025. Richmond, VIC, Australia: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/imj.70003
Blake, T., Deery, M., Cobham, V., Kimball, H., Panochini, S., Sly, P., Wainwright, C. and Douglas, T. (2024). Mental health and sleep quality in children receiving elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor therapy. 47th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 5-8 June 2024. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/s1569-1993(24)00121-8
Deery, M., Blake, T., Cobham, V., Kimball, H., Sly, P., Wainwright, C. and Douglas, T. (2024). Anxiety, resilience, and quality of life in paediatric Cystic Fibrosis. TSANZSRS 2024 The Australia and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science and The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (ANZSRS/TSANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting for Leaders in Lung Health and Respiratory Science, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 22-26 March 2024. Richmond, VIC, Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Deery, M., Blake, T., Cobham, V., Kimball, H., Panochini, S., Sly, P., Wainwright, C. and Douglas, T. (2024). Mental health and sleep quality in children receiving Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor therapy. TSANZSRS 2024 The Australia and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science and The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (ANZSRS/TSANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting for Leaders in Lung Health and Respiratory Science, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 22-26 March 2024. Richmond, VIC, Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Thesis
Kimball, Hayley (2023). Anxiety in cystic fibrosis: insights and intervention feasibility for school-age children and their parents. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/9039167