ORCID Profile
0000-0001-6352-0407
Current Organisation
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-02-2023
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 09-05-2023
Abstract: large proportion of Australians are affected by mental illness each year, and treatment gaps are well known. To meet current and future demands and enable access to treatment which is safe, effective, and acceptable, a robust and sustainable mental health workforce is required. Factors reported to attract people to work within the mental health sector include aspirations to help others, having an interest in mental health and human behaviour, desires to make a difference and do something worthwhile, personal lived experience, recognition and value of discipline-specific roles, and being able to use skills and knowledge within their professional framework. However, despite the various reasons people choose to enter the public mental health workforce, recruitment and retention continue to be ongoing challenges. his study aims to explore factors related to attraction, recruitment, and retention of the public mental health workforce in Victoria, Australia. The information obtained will be used to provide specific strategies that will aid in addressing the identified challenges. he study is a multi-site, mixed methods, cross-sectional study to be conducted at four public hospital services within Victoria, Australia: two in metropolitan and two in regional/rural locations. Current, previous and non-mental health workers will be asked to complete a 20-25 minute online survey, and offered participation in an optional 30-60 minute qualitative interview. Both aspects of the project will examine factors related to attraction, recruitment, and retention in the public mental health workforce. Differences between groups (i.e., current, past, and non-mental health workers), as well as location, discipline and health setting will be examined. Regression analyses will be performed to determine the factors most strongly associated with retention (i.e., job satisfaction), and turnover intention. Qualitative data will be transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed to identify common themes. s of May 2023, we enrolled 539 participants in the online survey, and 27 participants in the qualitative interview. o understand issues of attraction, recruitment, and retention specifically within Victoria, Australia, this project seeks to build on current knowledge from within Australia, as well as consider available evidence from international sources. The current project also supports several recommendations made by the Royal Commission in Victoria’s Mental Health System, and results will enable critical workforce planning to ensure alignment of job supply with the demand required by the mental health system, in order to create a sustainable mental health workforce.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-08-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S40519-021-01286-2
Abstract: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with poor sleep and altered circadian rhythms. Evidence is unclear as to whether these features relate to ongoing psychiatric symptoms of AN, or are merely concomitant with low weight. In this study, we sought to evaluate subjective sleep quality and sleep-wake preferences in a s le of in iduals with lifetime AN. Furthermore, we aimed to examine whether sleep quality would significantly predict AN symptom severity, after accounting for demographic features and negative emotions (depression, anxiety and stress). Adults with a lifetime diagnosis of AN (n = 96) or no lifetime psychiatric diagnoses (NC n = 246) completed an online survey assessing demographics, sleep quality, circadian sleep-wake preferences, eating disorder symptoms, and negative emotions. AN participants reported significantly poorer sleep quality overall, including increased sleep disturbances, use of sleep medications, and daytime dysfunction, as compared to NC participants. Groups did not differ significantly in circadian sleep-wake preferences. Regression analysis showed that among AN participants, sleep quality and negative emotions significantly predicted AN symptom severity, while sex and body mass index (BMI) did not. The findings demonstrate that poor sleep quality was associated with more severe symptoms of AN, even when accounting for negative emotions and BMI. Future research should investigate causal interactions between sleep quality and AN symptom severity longitudinally and across different recovery stages. Level III-Cohort and case-control analytic studies.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-10-2023
DOI: 10.1111/INM.13233
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 31-10-2023
DOI: 10.2196/48855
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-12-2023
DOI: 10.1111/INM.13097
Abstract: The COVID‐19 pandemic led to significant adaptations to healthcare. Provision of mental healthcare in a changing environment presented healthcare workers with unique challenges and demands, including changes in workload and expectations. To inform current and future healthcare service responses, and adaptations, the current review aimed to collate and examine the impact of the pandemic on mental healthcare workers (MHWs). We conducted a rapid systematic review to examine the overall impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on MHWs. Searches were conducted in Ovid Medline and PsycInfo and restricted to articles published from 2020. Inclusion criteria specified articles written in English, published in peer‐reviewed journals, and that examined any outcome of the impact of COVID‐19 on MHWs 55 articles fulfilled these criteria. Outcomes were categorized into ‘work‐related outcomes’ and ‘personal outcomes’. Mental healthcare workers worldwide experienced a range of work‐related and personal adversities during the pandemic. Key work‐related outcomes included increased workload, changed roles, burnout, decreased job satisfaction, telehealth challenges, difficulties with work‐life balance, altered job performance, vicarious trauma and increased workplace violence. Personal outcomes included decreased well‐being, increased psychological distress and psychosocial difficulties. These outcomes differed between inpatient, outpatient and remote settings. The COVID‐19 pandemic significantly altered the delivery of mental healthcare and MHWs experienced both work‐related and personal adversities during the COVID‐19 pandemic. With the continuation of changes introduced to healthcare in the initial stages of the pandemic, it will be important to maintain efforts to monitor negative outcomes and ensure supports for MHWs, going forward.
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