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23 Heart age: intuitive communication tool or gateway to overdiagnosis? A comparison of 3 countries
Bonner, Carissa; McKinn, Shannon; McCaffery, Kirsten; Glasziou, Paul; Doust, Jenny; Jansen, Jesse; Bell, Katy J.L.Published 2019Heart age calculators are increasingly popular around the world as a way to promote and communicate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment to patients/consumers. While they have intuitive appeal, the implicit assumptions ...Presentation -
Behavioural barriers to COVID-19 testing in Australia: Two national surveys to identify barriers and estimate prevalence by health literacy level
Bonner, Carissa; Batcup, Carys; Ayre, Julie; Pickles, Kristen; Cvejic, Erin; Copp, Tessa; Cornell, Samuel; Dodd, Rachael; Isautier, Jennifer; Nickel, Brooke; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2021ABSTRACT Background COVID-19 testing and contact tracing has been crucial in Australia's prevention strategy. However, testing for COVID-19 is far from optimal, and behavioural barriers are unknown. Study 1 aimed to ...Preprint -
Benefits and Harms of Hypertension and High-Normal Labels: A Randomized Experiment
Muscat, Danielle M; Morris, Georgina M; Bell, Katy J.L.; Cvejic, Erin; Smith, Jenna; Jansen, Jesse; Thomas, Rae; Bonner, Carissa; Doust, Jenny; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2021Recent US guidelines lowered the threshold for diagnosing hypertension while other international guidelines use alternative/no labels for the same group (blood pressure [BP], <140/90 mm Hg). We investigated potential ...Open AccessArticle -
Clinician views and experiences of non-invasive prenatal genetic screening tests in Australia
McKinn, Shannon; Javid, Nasrin; Newson, Ainsley J.; Freeman, Lucinda; Bonner, Carissa; Shand, Antonia W.; Nassar, Natasha; Bell, Katy JLPublished 2022Background Non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) is being increasingly used by expectant parents. Much provision of this test in Australia is occurring in clinical settings where specialised genetic counselling is ...Open AccessArticle -
Communicating cardiovascular disease risk: an interview study of General Practitioners’ use of absolute risk within tailored communication strategies
Bonner, Carissa; Jansen, Jesse; McKinn, Shannon; Irwig, Les; Doust, Jenny; Glasziou, Paul; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2014-05-29Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines encourage assessment of absolute CVD risk - the probability of a CVD event within a fixed time period, based on the most predictive risk factors. However, few ...Open AccessArticle -
Communicating Heart Disease Risk: Development and testing of a health-literate decision aid for people with low health literacy dataset
Bonner, CarissaPublished 2024-07-16This dataset includes 859 participants aged 45-74 years (52.8% females and 47.2% males) randomised to see one of six different versions of the results page: either a version aimed at lower health literacy, a standard ...Dataset -
Contextualising COVID-19 prevention behaviour over time in Australia: Patterns and long-term predictors from April to July 2020 in an online social media sample.
Ayre, Julie; Cvejic, Erin; McCaffery, Kirsten; Copp, Tessa; Cornell, Samuel; Dodd, Rachael H; Pickles, Kristen; Batcup, Carys; Isautier, Jennifer M J; Nickel, Brooke; Dakin, Thomas; Bonner, CarissaPublished 2021BACKGROUND: In Australia in March 2020 a national public health directive required that non-essential workers stay at home, except for essential activities. These restrictions began easing in May 2020 as community transmission ...Article -
COVID-19 challenges faced by general practitioners in Australia: a survey study conducted in March 2021
Copp, Tessa; Isautier, Jennifer M. J.; Nickel, Brooke; Pickles, Kristen; Tracy, Marguerite; Doust, Jenny; Bonner, Carissa; Dodd, Rachael H.; Ayre, Julie; Cvejic, Erin; Trevena, Lyndal; Manocha, Ramesh; McCaffery, Kirsten J.Published 2021Limited studies at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic found GPs have been negatively affected by increased workload, reduced income and major concerns about staff and patient safety. This study aimed to investigate the ...Article -
COVID-19 misinformation in Australia: key groups and trends over time in a national longitudinal survey (Preprint)
Pickles, Kristen; Cvejic, Erin; Nickel, Brooke; Copp, Tessa; Bonner, Carissa; Leask, Julie; Ayre, Julie; Batcup, Carys; Cornell, Samuel; Dakin, Thomas; Dodd, Rachael H; Isautier, Jennifer M J; McCaffery, Kirsten JPublished 2021BACKGROUND: Misinformation about COVID-19 is common and has been spreading rapidly across the globe through social media platforms and other information systems. Understanding what the public knows about COVID-19 and ...Article -
COVID-19 testing and vaccine willingness: Cross-sectional survey in a culturally diverse community in Sydney, Australia
Ayre, Julie; Muscat, Danielle M; Mac, Olivia; Batcup, Carys; Cvejic, Erin; Pickles, Kristen; Dolan, Hankiz; Bonner, Carissa; Mouwad, Dana; Zachariah, Dipti; Turalic, Una; Santalucia, Yyvonne; Chen, Tingting; Vasic, Gordana; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2021The current study examined patterns in COVID-19 testing and vaccination intentions across multiple language groups in Greater Western Sydney, Australia. Participants completed a cross-sectional survey available from March ...Preprint -
Decision Support Tools for Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Do Not Meet Health Literacy Needs: A Systematic Environmental Scan and Evaluation
McKinn, Shannon; Batcup, Carys; Cornell, Samuel; Freeman, Natasha; Doust, Jenny; Bell, Katy J.L.; Figtree, Gemma; Bonner, CarissaPublished 2022A shared decision-making approach is considered optimal in primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. Evidence-based patient decision aids can facilitate this but do not always meet patients’ health literacy needs. ...Open AccessArticle -
Disparities in COVID-19 related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours by health literacy
McCaffery, Kirsten; Dodd, Rachael H; Cvejic, Erin; Ayre, Julie; Batcup, Carys; Isautier, Jennifer MJ; Copp, Tessa; Bonner, Carissa; Pickles, Kristen; Nickel, Brooke; Dakin, Thomas; Cornell, Samuel; Wolf, Michael SPublished 2020Objectives: To explore the variation in understanding, attitudes and uptake of COVID-19 health advice during the 2020 pandemic lockdown by health literacy. Study design: National cross sectional community survey. Setting: ...Preprint -
Do online decision aids reflect new prenatal screening and testing options? An environmental scan and content analysis
Lu, Jessica Yu Ting; McKinn, Shannon; Freeman, Lucinda; Turbitt, Erin; Bonner, CarissaPublished 2022Objective Decision aids have been developed to help prospective parents make informed, shared decisions about medical tests, but these options are rapidly changing. This study aimed to identify and evaluate publicly ...Open AccessArticle -
The effect of enhanced messaging on COVID-19 testing intentions and behaviour dataset
Bonner, CarissaPublished 2024-06-25This dataset includes 1527 participants (from 18 to 39 years old, both males and females) receiving 2 audio-visual interventions addressing common COVID-19 testing barriers for people with lower health literacy. Participants ...Dataset -
Factors influencing general practitioners’ decisions about cardiovascular disease risk reassessment: findings from experimental and interview studies
McKinn, Shannon; Bonner, Carissa; Jansen, Jesse; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; So, Matthew; Irwig, Les; Doust, Jenny; Glasziou, Paul; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2016-08-05Background: Guidelines on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reassessment intervals are unclear, potentially leading to detrimental practice variation: too frequent can result in overtreatment and greater strain on the ...Open AccessArticle -
Future directions in cardiovascular disease risk prediction.
Doust, Jenny; Bonner, Carissa; Bell, Katy J.L.Published 2020Although the National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA) guidelines were published in 2012, many individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are not prescribed preventive medication or have CVD risk ...Article -
General practitioners’ decision making about primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in older adults: a qualitative study
Jansen, Jesse; McKinn, Shannon; Bonner, Carissa; Irwig, Les; Doust, Jenny; Glasziou, Paul; Bell, Katy J.L.; Naganathan, Vasi; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2017-01-13Background: Primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in older people is challenging as they are a diverse group with varying needs, frequent presence of comorbidities, and are more sus- ceptible to treatment harms. ...Open AccessArticle -
General practitioners’ use of absolute risk versus individual risk factors in cardiovascular disease prevention: an experimental study
Jansen, Jesse; Bonner, Carissa; McKinn, Shannon; Irwig, Les; Glasziou, Paul; Doust, Jenny; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; Hayen, Andrew; Turner, Robin; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2014-05-01Objective: To understand general practitioners’ (GPs) use of individual risk factors (blood pressure and cholesterol levels) versus absolute risk in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk management decision-making. Design: ...Open AccessArticle -
General practitioners’ use of different cardiovascular risk assessment strategies: a qualitative study
Bonner, Carissa; Jansen, Jesse; McKinn, Shannon; Irwig, Les; Doust, Jenny; Glasziou, Paul; Hayen, Andrew; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2013-09-30Objectives: To identify factors that influence the extent to which general practitioners use absolute risk (AR) assessment in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment. Design, setting and participants: Semi-structured ...Open AccessArticle -
Heuristics and biases in cardiovascular disease prevention: How can we improve communication about risk, benefits and harms?
Bonner, Carissa; McKinn, Shannon; Lau, Annie; Jansen, Jesse; Doust, Jenny; Trevena, Lyndal; McCaffery, KirstenPublished 2018Objective Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines recommend medication based on the probability of a heart attack/stroke in the next 5–10 years. However, heuristics and biases make risk communication challenging ...Open AccessArticle
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