ORCID Profile
0000-0001-6441-1296
Current Organisations
Goulburn Valley Health
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University of Sydney
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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2017
DOI: 10.1111/JPC.13521
Abstract: Exercise-associated hyponatraemia is a potentially serious acute condition that may present early as asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. Standard treatment is intravenous hypertonic saline, which can be challenging and carries some risk. An alternative may be oral therapy. We undertook a review of existing literature to assess whether paediatric populations should receive oral or intravenous hypertonic saline solutions. One study addressed our question but was aimed at a presumably adult population of runners. That study found that intravenous and oral solutions provide similar effects on biochemistry, but intravenous hypertonic saline provides superior effects on subjective relief and plasma volume.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.STEM.2016.07.015
Abstract: A structured search reveals that online marketing of stem-cell-based interventions is skewed toward developed economies including the United States, Ireland, Australia, and Germany. Websites made broad, imprecise therapeutic claims and frequently failed to detail procedures. Widespread marketing poses challenges to regulators, bioethicists, and those seeking realistic hope from therapies.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 06-07-2011
Abstract: Using a conversation analytic methodology, this report looks at conversations in English in which lengthy silences are regularly present. These silences are treated as unproblematic in this corpus. They apparently deviate from the proposals that gaps are minimized (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson 1974) and that there is a standard maximum silence of one second (Jefferson, 1988). This is discussed in light of context and culture. Then the robustness of some features of the organisation of sequences (Schegloff 2007) and turn- taking (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson 1974) are considered. Finally, solutions are compared for rendering lengthy silences in such a way that their meaning is preserved in conversation analytic transcripts or others that include timed silences.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-04-2016
DOI: 10.1002/9781118663219.WBEGSS426
Abstract: Although the term cisgenderism was initially used synonymously with the word “cisgender” to describe people who were “not transgender” (cf., transgenderism), it has more recently been used to describe the ideology that delegitimizes people's own understanding of their genders and bodies. Forms of cisgenderism that have been explored in empirical research include pathologizing, which refers to constructing or treating people's genders, bodies, and experiences associated with their genders and bodies as disordered (e.g., “gender identity disorder,” “gender dysphoria,” and “disorders of sex development”), and misgendering, which misclassifies people's genders and bodies (e.g., describing a woman who was assigned as male as “a man”). In contrast to approaches that treat “cisgender” and “transgender” people as essentially distinct types of people, the assumption that all people fit into a “transgender/cisgender” binary is understood in the cisgenderism framework as an essentializing form of cisgenderism that excludes a variety of people from consideration, including, but not limited to, intersex people and women with polycystic ovary syndrome.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-10-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-08-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2018
DOI: 10.1038/S41391-018-0048-7
Abstract: Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) can be used to locate lesions based on PSMA avidity, however guidelines on its use are limited by its infancy. We aimed to compare multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) and PSMA PET/CT to prostatectomy histopathology. We conducted a chart review from February 2015 to January 2017 of 50 male patients staged for prostate cancer using PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI who then underwent radical prostatectomy. Pre-operative PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI were paired with corresponding histopathology. Correlations, sensitivity, and specificity were used for comparisons. A total of 81 lesions were confirmed by histopathology. Fifty index lesions were detected by histopathology, all of which were detected by PSMA PET/CT (100% detection), and 47 by mpMRI (94% detection). Thirty-one histologically confirmed secondary lesions were detected, 29 of which were detected by PSMA PET/CT (93.5% detection), and 16 by mpMRI (51.6% detection). PSMA had better sensitivity for index lesion localization than mpMRI (81.1 vs. 64.8%). Specificity was similar for PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI (84.6 vs. 82.7%). SUV PSMA-PET/CT provided superior detection of prostate cancer lesions with better sensitivity than mpMRI. PSMA-PET/CT can be used to enhance locoregional mpMRI to provide improved detection and characterization of lesions.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-06-2022
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-05-2017
DOI: 10.1108/IJHRH-12-2015-0040
Abstract: Although patients and lay people are often more knowledgeable about medical conditions than their predecessors, the dominant culture’s increased involvement in understanding their health and making treatment decisions does not translate into consistently more informed patients. High health literacy is associated with both improved health outcomes and receiving better quality-of-care. Low health literacy disproportionately affects people from marginalized ethnic and language groups. Regardless of how a particular clinician feels about a patient, malapropisms and mis-attributions may cause patients to appear less intelligent or to have lower perceived health literacy, potentially affecting their healthcare experiences with other clinicians. The paper aims to discuss these issues. This paper discusses the evidence for “up-skilling” patients and uses principles from conversation analysis to demonstrate how malapropisms can be corrected sensitively. Clinician training in skilled communication using the conversation analytic role-play method is also addressed. Malapropisms are best corrected through modelling rather than calling attention to the error directly, as this allows the patient to save face. Explanations using drawings and clearly written materials may also be useful. Helping patients to improve their communication with clinicians may lead to improved health outcomes through improved quality-of-care.
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 31-08-2016
DOI: 10.1093/NTR/NTW216
Abstract: Tobacco use among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people is double the general population. Limited evidence suggests high smoking rates among intersex people. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people are a priority population in Australian health policy, particularly mental health and aging. Despite associations between smoking and noncommunicable diseases relevant to aging and mental health, LGBTI-targeted smoking cessation interventions in Australia have been limited to people living with HIV. Applying existing interventions to marginalized populations without modification and evaluation may fail and exacerbate inequities. To assess outcomes and characterize the populations served, cultural modifications, and behavior change techniques (BCTs) of interventions to reduce LGBTI smoking. We searched MEDLINE, six additional databases, and contacted authors to retrieve published and unpublished program evaluations. We retrieved 19 studies (3663 participants). None used control groups. Overall quit rate was 61.0% at the end of interventions and stabilized at 38.6% at 3-6 months. All studies included gay men, 13 included lesbians, 13 "LGBT," 12 bisexual people, five transgender people, and none included intersex people. Transgender people comprised 3% of participants. Of programs open to women, 27.8% of participants were women. Cultural modifications were used by 17 (89.5%) studies, commonly meeting in LGBT spaces, discussing social justice, and discussing LGBT-specific triggers. Common BCTs included providing normative information, boosting motivation/self-efficacy, relapse prevention, social support, action planning, and discussing consequences. Quit rates were high using control groups would improve evaluation. Existing programs may fail to reach groups other than gay men. This review examines the evidence for LGBTI-targeted smoking cessation interventions. Populations within LGBTI are not proportionally represented in smoking cessation research, and no study addressed intersex smoking. Overall, LGBT-targeted interventions appear to be effective, and simply having an LGBT-specific group may be more effective than groups for the general population. More rigorous research is necessary to draw firm conclusions. Our study space analysis provides suggestions for areas of more targeted research on mechanisms underlying these complex interventions' success.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-02-2017
DOI: 10.1111/DAR.12467
Abstract: Needle and syringe program (NSP) workers have highlighted that people who inject image and performance enhancing drugs (IPED) in Australia are a younger and more culturally and linguistically erse (CALD) group compared with other groups who inject drugs. Previous research has found riskier injecting practices and faster Hepatitis C acquisition rates among people who are new to injecting drugs and self-identify with CALD backgrounds, compared with their Anglo-Australian counterparts. Given recent indications of increasing IPED prevalence in Australia and elsewhere, this study sought to update knowledge of infection risk among a large group of IPED injectors, as well as explore sub-group differences. A cross-sectional survey of men who inject IPEDs was conducted from September 2014 to January 2015 at nine NSP sites, across five local health districts in Sydney, Australia. Six hundred and five people participated. Small proportions reported previous 12month needle or syringe sharing (2.3%), sharing vials (4.6%), injecting psychostimulants (5.1%) or personal needle or syringe reuse (5.2%). Participants from CALD backgrounds were more likely to report sharing needles or syringes (P = 0.004), and participants from Middle Eastern and North African backgrounds were less likely to have ever been tested for blood-borne viruses, compared with Anglo-Australian participants (P = 0.04). The findings show that some groups who inject IPEDs may be more vulnerable to blood-borne virus transmission and/or less likely to know their blood-borne virus status. From design to delivery, IPED harm minimisation strategies should pay attention to the needs of CALD groups.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-04-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-04-2014
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2013.871625
Abstract: Sexual prejudice is an important threat to the physical and mental well-being of lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people. Therefore, we reviewed the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce such prejudice. A study-space analysis was performed on published and unpublished papers from all over the world to identify well-studied and underexplored issues. Most studies were conducted with North American undergraduates and were educational in nature. Dissertations were often innovative and well designed but were rarely published. We then performed meta-analyses on sets of comparable studies. Education, contact with gay people, and combining contact with education had a medium-size effect on several measures of sexual prejudice. The manipulation of social norms was effective in reducing antigay behavior. Other promising interventions, such as the use of entertainment media to promote tolerance, need further investigation. More research is also needed on populations other than American students, particularly groups who may have higher levels of sexual prejudice.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2013
Publisher: Mark Allen Group
Date: 10-2012
DOI: 10.12968/BJOM.2012.20.10.724
Abstract: Twenty percent of babies in the UK are receiving breast milk for the recommended 6 months, suggesting that long-term breastfeeding is untenable for many mothers. This article reviews research on breastfeeding experiences and analyses six mothers' experiences of initiating and ceasing, or continuing breastfeeding. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to understand how they made sense of their breastfeeding experiences. All had breastfed in the last year, had similar socioeconomic backgrounds, and varied in their breastfeeding durations from up to 1 month, for 1-6 months and more than 6 months. Three major themes emerged: 1) reality of breastfeeding was highly discrepant from expectations, 2) the role of others in sustaining breastfeeding, and 3) feelings of guilt. Breastfeeding promotions that focus on biological benefits of breastfeeding without regard for psychosocial factors create a moral dilemma for mothers. Educational and counselling interventions using a biopsychosocial perspective can help mothers make informed feeding decisions.
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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