• Is the “flipped” pedagogical model the answer to the challenges of rural nursing education?: A discussion paper? 

  Anolak, Helena; Coleman, Andrew; Sugden, Paul (Elsevier, 2018)

  Rural Australian health services face significant challenges such as aging populations, access and retention of services and health practitioners as well as difficulties with staff training due to geographic isolation. ...

• Validation of a risk prediction model for Barrett’s esophagus in an Australian population 

  Ireland, Colin J; Gordon, Andrea; Thompson, Sarah K; Watson, David Ian; Whiteman, David C; Reed, Richard Lewis; Esterman, Adrian Jeffrey (Dove Press, 2018-03-28)

  Background: Esophageal adenocarcinoma is a disease that has a high mortality rate, the only known precursor being Barrett’s esophagus (BE). While screening for BE is not cost-effective at the population level, targeted ...

• The Experience of Paid Family-Care Workers of People with Dementia in South Korea 

  Kim, Jungmin; De Bellis, Anita Marie; Xiao, Lily Dongxia (Elsevier Korea LLC, 2018-01-22)

  Purpose: The South Korean government introduced the universal long-term care insurance program in 2008 that created a new employment category of “paid family-care worker” to assist the elderly with chronic illnesses ...

• Knowledge, attitude and use of complementary and alternative medicine among nurses: A systematic review 

  Balouchi, Abbas; Mahmoudirad, Gholamhossein; Hastings-Tolsma, Marie; Shorofi, Seyed Afshin; Shahdadi, Hosien; Abdollahimohammad, Abdolghani (Elsevier, 2018-02-10)

  Objectives The purpose of this study was to systematically review the literature to describe the knowledge, attitude and practice of CAM by nurses. Methods Three databases were searched for relevant studies from ...

• Reshaping curricula: Culture and mental health in undergraduate health degrees 

  Muir-Cochrane, Eimear Caitlin; O'Kane, Deb; McAllister, Margaret; Levett, Kerry (Wiley, 2017-08-20)

  Australia is a country rich in cultural diversity, with Indigenous Australians having specific cultural values and a variety of spoken languages. In addition, the increasing number of people from migrant and refugee ...

• Is It Last Call for the Gay Bar? Why gay nightclubs and bars still matter for same-sex attracted people 

  Gerace, Adam (Psychology Today, 2017-12-12)

  I was saddened when I heard some months ago that The Mars Bar, the only dedicated gay and lesbian nightclub in Adelaide, South Australia, would be closing after 40 years in business. The announcement followed several years ...

• Perceptions of Heat-Susceptibility in Older Persons: Barriers to Adaptation 

  Hansen, Alana; Bi, Peng; Nitschke, Minika; Pisaniello, Dino L; Newbury, Jonathan; Kitson, Alison L (MDPI, 2011-12-19)

  The increase in the frequency of very hot weather that is a predicted consequence of climate change poses an emerging threat to public health. Extreme heat can be harmful to the health of older persons who are known to be ...

• FIRE (Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence): a study protocol 

  Seers, Kate; Cox, Karen; Crichton, Nicola J; Edwards, Rhiannon Tudor; Eldh, Ann Catrine; Estabrooks, Carole A; Harvey, Gill; Hawkes, Claire; Kitson, Alison L; Linck, Pat; McCarthy, Geraldine; McCormack, Brendan; Mockford, Carole; Rycroft-Malone, Jo; Titchen, Angie; Wallin, Lars (BioMed Central, 2012-03-27)

  Background Research evidence underpins best practice, but is not always used in healthcare. The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework suggests that the nature of evidence, the ...

• The LINKIN Health Census process: design and implementation 

  Hoon, Elizabeth; Newbury, Jonathan; Kitson, Alison L; Whitford, Deirdre; Wilson, Anne; Karnon, Jonathon; Baker, Jenny; Jamrozik, Konrad; Beilby, Justin (BioMed Central, 2012-09-18)

  This paper describes the first phase of the LINKIN Health Study, which aims to evaluate health system functioning within a rural population. Locally relevant data on the health status and service usage of this population, ...

• A study protocol for applying the co-creating knowledge translation framework to a population health study 

  Powell, Kathryn; Kitson, Alison L; Hoon, Elizabeth; Newbury, Jonathan; Wilson, Anne; Beilby, Justin (BioMed Central, 2013-08-29)

  Background Population health research can generate significant outcomes for communities, while Knowledge Translation (KT) aims to expressly maximize the outcomes of knowledge producing activity. Yet the two approaches ...

• Risk Factors, Health Effects and Behaviour in Older People during Extreme Heat: A Survey in South Australia 

  Nitschke, Minika; Hansen, Alana; Bi, Peng; Pisaniello, Dino L; Newbury, Jonathan; Kitson, Alison L; Tucker, Graeme R; Avery, Jodie; Dal Grande, Eleonora (MDPI, 2013-12-03)

  Older people had a high incidence of hospitalisation during the 2009 heat wave in South Australia. We sought to explore resilience, behaviours, health risk factors and health outcomes during recent heat waves for a ...

• The prevention and reduction of weight loss in an acute tertiary care setting: protocol for a pragmatic stepped wedge randomised cluster trial (the PRoWL project) 

  Kitson, Alison L; Schultz, Timothy; Long, Leslye; Shanks, Alison; Wiechula, Rick; Chapman, Ian; Soenen, Stijn (BioMed Central, 2013-08-08)

  Background Malnutrition, with accompanying weight loss, is an unnecessary risk in hospitalised persons and often remains poorly recognised and managed. The study aims to evaluate a hospital-wide multifaceted intervention ...

• Knowledge translation within a population health study: how do you do it? 

  Kitson, Alison L; Powell, Kathryn; Hoon, Elizabeth; Newbury, Jonathan; Wilson, Anne; Beilby, Justin (BioMed Central, 2013-05-21)

  Background Despite the considerable and growing body of knowledge translation (KT) literature, there are few methodologies sufficiently detailed to guide an integrated KT research approach for a population health study. ...

• Development and Preliminary Testing of a Framework to Evaluate Patients’ Experiences of the Fundamentals of Care: A Secondary Analysis of Three Stroke Survivor Narratives 

  Kitson, Alison L; Athlin, Asa Muntlin (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013-05-22)

  Aim. To develop and test a framework describing the interrelationship of three key dimensions (physical, psychosocial, and relational) in the provision of the fundamentals of care to patients. Background. There are few ...

• Knowledge translation in health care: a concept analysis 

  Khoddam, Homeira; Mehrdad, Neda; Peyrovi, Hamid; Kitson, Alison L; Schultz, Timothy; Athlin, Asa Muntlin (Iran University of Medical Sciences, 2014-09-17)

  Background :Although knowledge translation is one of the most widely used concepts in health and medical literature, there is a sense of ambiguity and confusion over its definition. The aim of this paper is to clarify the ...

• Necessary but Not Sufficient…; Comment on “Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View From the Resource-Based View of the Firm” 

  Harvey, Gill; Kitson, Alison L (International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM), 2015-12)

  The challenge of mobilizing knowledge to improve patient care, population health and ensure effective use of resources is an enduring one in healthcare systems across the world. This commentary reflects on an earlier paper ...

• PARIHS revisited: from heuristic to integrated framework for the successful implementation of knowledge into practice 

  Harvey, Gill; Kitson, Alison L (BioMed Central, 2016-03-10)

  Background The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services, or PARIHS framework, was first published in 1998. Since this time, work has been ongoing to further develop, refine and test it. Widely used ...

• Translating a health service intervention into a rural setting: lessons learned 

  Dent, Elsa; Hoon, Elizabeth; Kitson, Alison L; Karnon, Jonathon; Newbury, Jonathan; Harvey, Gill; Gill, Tiffany; Gillis, Lauren; Beilby, Justin (BioMed Central, 2016-02-18)

  Background Limited research exists on the process of applying knowledge translation (KT) methodology to a rural-based population health intervention. Methods This study reports on the implementation and translational ...

• Feasibility, acceptability and diagnostic test accuracy of frailty screening instruments in community-dwelling older people within the Australian general practice setting: a study protocol for a cross-sectional study 

  Ambagtsheer, Rachel; Visvanathan, Renuka; Cesari, Matteo; Yu, Solomon; Archibald, Mandy M.; Schultz, Timothy; Karnon, Jonathon; Kitson, Alison L; Beilby, Justin (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-08-01)

  Introduction Frailty is one of the most challenging aspects of population ageing due to its association with increased risk of poor health outcomes and quality of life. General practice provides an ideal setting for the ...

• Why Do We Need to Study the Fundamentals of Care? 

  Kitson, Alison L (Longwoods Publishing Corporation, 2016-03)

  This paper makes the case for revisiting our understanding and valuing of basic or fundamental nursing care. Despite the interest in movements such as the person-centred or patient-centred care agenda, there continues to ...

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