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Foundation for Liver Research
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King's College London
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University College London
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University of New South Wales
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Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 08-2015
Abstract: Psychostimulant medication is considered a mainstay in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) however, research suggests that the typical duration of medication treatment for children and youth may be <3 years. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychostimulant treatment persistence for children and adolescents in New South Wales, Australia. This study used survival analysis to assess duration of medication treatment on a large administrative database of children and youth from New South Wales, Australia. Several models were fit to evaluate differences in survival rates among decades (1990-1999 vs. 2000-2010), gender, and age. Results showed that: 1) Overall median treatment time (i.e., median survival time) was 1.96 years (99% CI=1.93, 1.99) 2) there were small, but significant changes over time in duration of treatment 3) females had shorter treatment duration than males and 4) there were relatively large differences in treatment duration across age groups. These results indicate that the majority of children and youth receive medication treatment for only a small portion of childhood/adolescence, and that there are differential patterns in treatment duration across age groups.
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1332/174426417X14945838375115
Abstract: In the context of ongoing debates around academic engagements with policymakers, this article discusses how academics can successfully engage with the often overlooked institution of Parliament. We argue that the UK Parliament is not a homogeneous organisation but has differing knowledge requirements for different parliamentary sites. While there are common barriers that need to be overcome by researchers, there is no universal recipe that will ensure successful research impact. We argue that there are different forms of engagement likely to lead to influence, and that co-production is the most important way by which academics can engage with Parliament.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2002
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200208000-00008
Abstract: A retrospective analysis of archival data on psychostimulant prescriptions from South Australia for the period 1990 to 2000 for 5,189 youths from birth to age 18 years was conducted. A person-based data set was used to assess (1) rate of new prescriptions by age group, (2) demographic characteristics (age of psychostimulant start, male-to-female ratio), (3) duration of psychostimulant use, and (4) geographic variation in psychostimulant prescription. Four major findings were observed: (1) the rate of new prescriptions increased dramatically until 1995 but is now declining (2) demographic characteristics and changes over time mirror those observed in the United States (3) median duration of psychostimulant use (for a subset of 1,688 children) was approximately 2.5 years and (4) there was a significant correlation between geographic location and prescription rate. The patterns of psychostimulant use in Australia closely parallel U.S. patterns. Physicians'prescribing practices may be extremely volatile. Duration of medication treatment should receive increased attention. There is pronounced geographic variability in prescription rates which may be related to socioeconomic status.
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1891/1541-6577.29.3.214
Abstract: The Nurse Practitioner–Aged Care Models of Practice Program involved erse models of practice comprising multiple stakeholders located in more than 30 locations across Australia, in remote, rural, urban, and metropolitan settings. Funded by the Australian government, the aims of the program included supporting development of effective, economically viable, and sustainable aged care nurse practitioner models of practice and enabling improvements in access to primary health care for people aged older than 65 years. This article describes the process by which a framework was developed to support the evaluation of this program. A particular challenge for the nurse researchers involved in the evaluation was to ensure the unique values of the nursing profession were upheld alongside economic, biomedical, and empirical imperatives in the erse processes involved in collecting and interpreting data. The evaluation framework developed provides an important means of enabling research teams who undertake complex evaluations of erse nursing models of practice to maintain a common goal—to unify the various stakeholders involved, while at the same time upholding what is most important to the profession of nursing. This article highlights how nurses can play an influential role when involved in the multidisciplinary evaluation of new and innovative approaches to practice.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2008
DOI: 10.1007/BF03216879
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/00048670902721129
Abstract: Objective: The aim of the present study was to undertake a retrospective analysis of archival data on psychostimulant prescriptions from South Australia for the periods 1990–2000 and 2001–2006 for 7849 youths aged from birth to 18 years. Method: A person-based data set was used to assess: (i) rate of new prescriptions by age group (ii) demographic characteristics (age of psychostimulant start, male: female ratio) (iii) duration of psychostimulant use and (iv) geographic variation in psychostimulant prescription. Results: Four major findings were observed: (i) the rate of new prescriptions was highly variable both for 1990–2000 and 2000–2006 (ii) demographic characteristics such as start age and male:female ratio declined over both periods (iii) the duration of psychostimulant use was approximately 2.5 years for 1990–2000 and 2.0 years for 2000–2006 and (iv) there was geographic variation in both periods with a significant correlation between socioeconomic status and prescription rate per region. Conclusions: The patterns of psychostimulant use in Australia closely parallel the USA. Physicians’ prescribing practice may be extremely volatile. Duration of psychostimulant treatment should receive increased attention. There is pronounced geographic variability in prescription rates, which may be related to socioeconomic status.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 29-01-2011
DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2524.2010.00983.X
Abstract: Research within the disciplines of Social Work and Education has for sometime acknowledged the tragedy, trauma, conflict and misery that can be experienced by workers in their associated professions. More recently, there has been an aligned interest in the role of passion, emotion and energy in sustaining these professionals through such experiences. This paper contributes to the growing literature in this area by reporting on a study conducted with five social workers and six teachers who work in Australian lower socioeconomic, urban-fringe and communities. It also engages the concept of the 'personal domain' to explore how these social workers and teachers cannot only survive, but can actually thrive in demanding work contexts. The methodology adopted for the study was an appreciative enquiry approach, where these professionals, each with over a decade of experience in urban-fringe communities, were recruited via non-probability, purposive, snowballing techniques and interviewed about what sustained them in their work during November 2008-February 2009. Thematic analysis of the interviews found that participants not only identified specific survival strategies, but could also articulate how their life experiences, ideologies, beliefs, values and other life resources informed their work in ways that aided their flourishing as professionals. The paper concludes by calling for further research into the work of social work and teaching professionals from a 'personal domain' perspective and considering the potential implications of such research for these professions, particularly in terms of promoting professional trajectories characterised first by endurance, and then by development and triumph.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-10-2015
Abstract: Objective: There is a need for Australian studies of ADHD that utilize the in idual child as the unit of analysis because they provide a more accurate picture of national patterns (in new prescriptions, start age, and duration). The aim of this study was to build toward a national picture of patterns in psychostimulant use for ADHD by undertaking a retrospective analysis of archival data on prescriptions within New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s most populated state. Method: A person-based data set was used to assess (a) rate of new prescriptions by age group, (b) demographic characteristics (age of start, male:female ratio), (c) duration of use, and (d) comparisons across the two decades. Results: Five findings were observed: (a) The prevalence of psychostimulant use was 1.24% in 2010, (b) there was significant variability in the rate of new prescriptions by age group after 2003, (c) start age declined over the 1990 to 2000 period, but began to increase from 2000 to 2010, (d) the male:female ratio declined, and (e) the duration of psychostimulant use declined consistently. Conclusion: Results suggest disconnect between persistence across the life span and actual treatment patterns. A decline in medication treatment for more than 1 year and the growing proportion of discontinuous treatment suggests a need for strategies to assist families with the transition onto and off medications.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-01-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-10-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2008
DOI: 10.1007/BF03216881
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.EVALPROGPLAN.2014.12.021
Abstract: Increasingly, public sector programmes respond to complex social problems that intersect specific fields and in idual disciplines. Such responses result in multi-site initiatives that can span nations, jurisdictions, sectors and organisations. The rigorous evaluation of public sector programmes is now a baseline expectation. For evaluations of large and complex multi-site programme initiatives, the processes of ethics review can present a significant challenge. However in recent years, there have been new developments in centralised ethics review processes in many nations. This paper provides the case study of an evaluation of a national, inter-jurisdictional, cross-sector, aged care health initiative and its encounters with Australian centralised ethics review processes. Specifically, the paper considers progress against the key themes of a previous five-year, five nation study (Fitzgerald and Phillips, 2006), which found that centralised ethics review processes would save time, money and effort, as well as contribute to more equitable workloads for researchers and evaluators. The paper concludes with insights for those charged with refining centralised ethics review processes, as well as recommendations for future evaluators of complex multi-site programme initiatives.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2008
DOI: 10.1177/000494410805200204
Abstract: The state of Middle Schooling in many Western countries has been described as under threat, at a crossroads and like a wasteland. Within Australia, it has also been claimed that the past generation focus on Middle Schooling is unfinished and exhausted. But a Middle Schooling movement continues in Australia that provides ex les of a way out of a state of arrested development. This article explores the Australian situation in the light of past literature and research, before detailing the potential contributions of a current Australian Research Council project in the area of Middle Schooling. The article argues that, while Middle Schooling may be down in many nations, it is far from down and out, and an Australian perspective has much to offer the Middle Schooling movement internationally.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2008
DOI: 10.1007/BF03216885
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-1999
DOI: 10.1177/106342669900700206
Abstract: There has been rapid growth in the use of medication for treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the last decade. This growth has often been explained as the recognition of a condition that affects up to 5% of all young people. The purpose of this study is to compare past medication trends and current usage in Australia with that in the United States. We present country-wide data from Australia on psychostimulant production and prescription rates. We also analyze data from one city on the number of children receiving medication. Results suggest that medication use in Australia is increasing at a rate similar to that found in the United States and that in one city a relatively small proportion of practitioners accounted for the majority of prescriptions. Results also suggest that, in Australia, there may be differences in prescription rates by income and unemployment.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-02-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2002
DOI: 10.1177/000494410204600106
Abstract: With growing numbers of Australian children receiving Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis, special educators will increasingly be expected to provide interventions. We outline Australian special education policy and practice regarding ADHD in the public school context. Drawing upon American comparisons, we consider how recent government legislation may have made the label ‘disability’ appear pragmatic to those seeking special education assistance, and discuss whether making ADHD an educational disability category would expand the range of interventions currently available. Although biological aspects of ADHD have received much attention, the important social aspects remain relatively unexplored. We propose that a socially sensitive reconceptualisation will assist special educators to better meet the needs of young people with impulsive, inattentive and hyperactive behaviours.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-11-2015
Abstract: Emotions have been the subject of social science research for many decades. Predominantly, this research has been orientated around research on emotion. While this genre of research focuses on emotion as a topic of inquiry, I propose that research with emotion can contribute to different ways of understanding social experience. Due to a different epistemological foundation, different methodological approaches are required with different ethical implications. This article will define research with and on emotion, before providing ex les of the former. Based on these ex les, this article explores ethical implications. The article concludes with a brief reflection on the benefits of sociological research with emotion, against which the many challenges should be assessed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-08-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-07-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-07-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-01-0001
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 04-2017
DOI: 10.1332/030557317X14895974141213
Abstract: The current process of devolving powers within England constitutes a significant change of governance arrangements. This process of devolution has been widely criticised for including insufficient consultation. This paper assesses whether that criticism is fair. Modifying Archon Fung’s framework for the analysis of public participation mechanisms, we begin by considering whether the depth of public engagement has been limited. Then, by comparing these consultation practices with other ex les (including one we have ourselves trialled in pilot experiments), we find that deeper forms of public engagement would have been both possible (though at some financial cost) and productive.
Publisher: Rural and Remote Health
Date: 12-04-2016
DOI: 10.22605/RRH3647
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-01-2015
Abstract: Over the last twenty years, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has become one of the most diagnosed childhood disorders in the western world. Research within the disciplines of psychiatry and criminology has increasingly identified a link between ADHD, delinquency and crime. So far, consideration of ADHD from sociological perspectives has been limited, while it has been virtually ignored as a diagnosis with social impact and a popular phenomenon within Australia. In response, this article draws on conceptual resources from the sociology of deviance to illustrate the value of sociological perspectives and to explore questions about the impact of ADHD that psycho-medical perspectives cannot. In doing so, the article adds to existing understandings of the social aspects of this prominent disorder and aims to encourage the development of new conceptualisations that lie beyond the existing deficit label.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2008
Publisher: Global Science and Technology Forum Pte Ltd
Date: 03-08-2016
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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