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Accessibility and Acceptability of Public Sexual Health Clinics for Adult Clients in New South Wales, Australia.
Published 2006-01-01The objectives of this study were to examine the accessibility of public sexual health clinics (SHCs), identify the service preferences of clients and assess whether the services delivered by public SHCs were acceptable ...Open AccessThesis -
Accuracy of methods to estimate central aortic systolic blood pressure via upper-arm cuff: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2024Objectives. Central aortic BP may predict cardiovascular outcomes better than upper-arm brachial BP. In recent years technology has enabled central BP estimation by recording a peripheral BP waveform from a standard upper-arm ...Open AccessArticle -
Aerosol-generating behaviours in speech pathology clinical practice: A systematic literature review
Published 2021OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the evidence of aerosol generation across tasks involved in voice and speech assessment and intervention, to inform better management and to reduce transmission risk of such diseases as COVID-19 in ...Article -
The agentic Self and uncontrollable body: Young people’s management of chronic illness at university
Published 2019Young people’s experiences of living with a long-term health condition have been largely investigated from the perspective of developing autonomy and optimal self-management of treatment regimens. Little existing research ...Article -
Alcohol intake and mortality risk of COVID-19, pneumonia, and other infectious diseases: an analysis of 437,191 UK biobank participants
Published 2022This study aims to investigate the association between alcohol consumption and COVID-19, infectious diseases, and pneumonia mortality. This is a prospective analysis of 437,191 UK Biobank participants (age 56.3 years, 54% ...Article -
The association between disability and risk of exposure to peer cyber victimisation is moderated by gender: Cross-sectional survey.
Published 2021BACKGROUND: Little is known about the exposure of youth with disability to cyber victimisation. OBJECTIVE: /Hypothesis: To estimate the prevalence of peer cyber and non-cyber victimisation in a nationally representative ...Article -
Australian children with cleft palate achieve age-appropriate speech by 5 years of age
Published 2017-09-28Introduction: Children with cleft palate demonstrate atypical speech sound development, which can influence their intelligibility, literacy and learning. There is limited documentation regarding how speech sound errors ...Open AccessArticle -
Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners: A Scoping Study.
Published 2021The ongoing racism pandemic in the United States negatively impacts the health, safety, and occupations of Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color. Although occupational therapy (OT) practitioners have a pressing obligation ...Article -
Bioethics as Engaged Activity
Published 2021Whilst we applaud and support a call for “a proactive form of bioethics that actively resists and denounces injustice" we contend that the authors do not go far enough. The underlying theoretical issue is that the vision ...Open AccessArticle -
Blended and e-learning in pediatric education: harnessing lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. [Review]
Published 2021Face-to-face education as the traditional basis for medical education was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic as learners and educators were moved online with little time for preparation. Fortunately, as online learning has ...Article -
Breast Radiotherapy Audio Visual Enhancement for Sparing the Heart (BRAVEHeart) prosective randomised trial dataset
Published 2024-07-23This dataset is from the Breast Radiotherapy Audio Visual Enhancement for Sparing the Heart (BRAVEHeart) prosective randomised trial. Details of the trial and data can be found in: Protocol paper: https://link.springer. ...Open AccessDataset -
Challenges and Opportunities Experienced by Performing Artists during COVID-19 Lockdown: Scoping Review
Published 2022Abstract This scoping review synthesises published literature on the experiences of professional and amateur performing artists during COVID-19 and their perceptions of the challenges and opportunities faced. Six electronic ...Preprint -
Challenging times: disconnects between patient and professional temporalities in chronic condition management
Published 2022Chronic health conditions represent a key challenge for contemporary public healthcare. Current policy promotes self-management support to reduce demands on health services and improve patients’ health and wellbeing. Though ...Article -
Changes in Reoperation After Publication of Consensus Guidelines on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery. A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Published 2020The 2014 publication of the Society of Surgical Oncology-American Society for Radiation Oncology (SSO-ASTRO) Consensus Guideline on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery recommended a negative margin definition of no ink ...Article -
Chronic condition self-management is a social practice
Published 2021Self-management is widely promoted in Western health care policies as a way to address the impact of increasing rates of chronic conditions on health care systems. Mostly informed by psychological theories, self-management ...Article -
Converging impact of the ongoing conflict and COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and substance use disorders in Ukraine
Published 2021Since the Russian annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the subsequent occupation of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukraine has been facing increasing security and healthcare challenges. The ...Article -
Data-driven quality improvement program to prevent hospitalisation and improve care of people living with coronary heart disease: Protocol for a process evaluation
Published 2022BACKGROUND: Practice-level quality improvement initiatives using rapidly advancing technology offers a multidimensional approach to reduce cardiovascular disease burden. For the "QUality improvement in primary care to ...Article -
Dataset for "Knowledge, skills and barriers to evidence-based practice and the impact of a flipped classroom training program for physical therapists: an observational study"
Published 2021-02-17Objective: To evaluate the knowledge, skills and barriers to evidence-based practice and the impact of evidence-based practice training for physical therapy clinicians. Methods: Physical therapists from a health district ...Open AccessDataset -
Decolonising the dynamics of media power and media representation between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous peoples with disability
Published 2017-08-23Indigenous Australians have experienced the horrific consequences of European invasion and colonisation. Some of these consequences include wars, geographic displacement and attempted genocide. Both the high prevalence and ...Open AccessBook chapter