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Addressing nutrition and social connection through community gardening: A South Australian study
(Wiley, 2019-02-11)Background This research aimed to evaluate the benefits of the community gardening program called ‘‘Magic Harvest (MH)” with respect to its key elements: social interaction; gardening skills; and, healthier eating. The ... -
Evaluation of the Young Deadly Free Peer Education Training Program: Early Results, Methodological Challenges, and Learnings for Future Evaluations
(Frontiers, 2019-04-05)Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience disproportionately higher rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs) when compared with the non-Indigenous population. ... -
Topic search filters: a systematic scoping review
(Wiley, 2018-12-21)Background Searching for topics within large biomedical databases can be challenging, especially when topics are complex, diffuse, emerging or lack definitional clarity. Experimentally derived topic search filters offer ... -
The background and development of quality of life and family quality of life: applying research, policy, and practice to individual and family living
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)This article introduces the concepts of quality of life and family quality of life and shows how they have developed in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities in terms of concepts and principles. The ... -
Family quality of life and the building of social connections: practical suggestions for practice and policy
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)Family quality of life literature suggests that families with a member with an intellectual/developmental disability frequently face major difficulties in building social connections with others. They experience low levels ... -
Family quality of life and nurturing the sibling relationship
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)Research that gauges family quality of life in families that include a child with a disability has often focused on the relationship between parents and the child, but in doing so they underestimate the importance of the ... -
Health-related family quality of life when a child or young person has a disability
(University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada, 2018)Parents of a child or young person with disability face not only the same challenges as parents of typically developing children and young people, but also the extra challenges of supporting the child or young person with ... -
The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis
(Elsevier, 2018-11-07)Involvement in voluntary associations is a key form of social capital and plays an especially important role following disaster as a venue for coordination and decision-making for the wider community. Yet, relatively little ... -
Root caries incidence and increment in the population – A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of longitudinal studies
(Elsevier, 2018-06-21)Objectives Previous meta-analyses of root caries incidence and increment studies reported different estimates due to the limited number of studies, heterogeneity and variations in studies included. Currently, new ... -
Agreement between pre-exercise screening questionnaires completed online versus face-to-face
(Public Library of Science, 2018-06-26)Objectives To investigate the levels of agreement between self-reported responses to the Adult Preexercise Screening System (APSS) questionnaire using online versus face-to-face (F2F) modalities. Design Convenience ... -
Safety and feasibility of a first-person view, full-body interaction game for telerehabilitation post-stroke
(University of Pittsburgh, 2018-03)This study explored the feasibility and safety of pairing the Microsoft Kinect® sensor with the Oculus Rift® Head Mounted Display (HMD) as a telerehabilitation technology platform for persons post-stroke. To test initial ... -
Expansion of Sphingosine Kinase and Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor Function in Normal and Cancer Cells: From Membrane Restructuring to Mediation of Estrogen Signaling and Stem Cell Programming
(MDPI, 2018-01-31)Sphingolipids, sphingolipid metabolizing enzymes, and their receptors network are being recognized as part of the signaling mechanisms, which govern breast cancer cell growth, migration, and survival during chemotherapy ... -
Purification and functional characterization of recombinant Balsamin, a ribosomeinactivating protein from Momordica balsamina
(Elsevier, 2018-02-16)Balsamin, a type I ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP), has been shown to inhibit HIV-1 replication at the translation step. Our recent studies have shown that balsamin also possess anti-tumor, antibacterial and DNase-like ... -
Feasibility of a novel participatory multi-sector continuous improvement approach to enhance food security in remote Indigenous Australian communities
(Elsevier, 2017-06-23)Background Food insecurity underlies and compounds many of the development issues faced by remote Indigenous communities in Australia. Multi-sector approaches offer promise to improve food security. We assessed the ... -
Effectiveness of a Web 2.0 Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Real-World Settings: Randomized Ecological Trial
(JMIR Publications, 2017-11-17)Background: The translation of Web-based physical activity intervention research into the real world is lacking and becoming increasingly important. Objective: To compare usage and effectiveness, in real-world settings, ... -
Estrogen, estrogen receptors, and hepatocellular carcinoma: Are we there yet?
(Baishideng Publishing Group Inc., 2018-01-07)A protective role of the sex steroid hormone estrogen in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was suggested a few decades ago according to clinical data showing higher HCC morbidity and mortality among males. Several recent ... -
Two heads are better than one: Australian tobacco control experts' and mental health change champions' consensus on addressing the problem of high smoking rates among people with mental illness
(CSIRO Publishing, 2016)Abstract Objective. The aims of the present study were to explore the beliefs of Australian experts in tobacco control and change champions working in mental health and tobacco cessation, and to identify measures for ... -
Media actors' perceptions of their roles in reporting food incidents
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background Previous research has shown that the media can play a role in shaping consumer perceptions during a public health crisis. In order for public health professionals to communicate well-informed health information ... -
Protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of feedback on familial risk of chronic diseases on family-level intentions to participate in preventive lifestyle behaviors
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background Common disease risk clusters in families due to shared genetics, exposure to environmental risk factors, and because many health behaviours are established and maintained in family environments. This randomised ... -
'I mean I expect that it's pretty safe': Perceptions of food trust in pregnancy-implications for primary health care practice
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2013)Background Pregnancy is a time in which food choice is of particular importance. Trust in the food supply and those who regulate it is receiving greater acknowledgement because of the influence ...
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