A5024880815- Child and Adolescent Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Family Support in Illness
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
2021-2024
Royal Children's Hospital
2021
Cancer Council Victoria
2009-2013
Diabetes Australia
2009-2010
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Child mental health disorders are a significant Australian public issue with high prevalence rates compounded by inequitably higher for those living in families lower income, levels of parental education and unemployment. Prevention early intervention approaches critical to address problems early. When caregivers seek information services support their child’s needs they commonly use many untested online search strategies. To this, we developed digital Family...
Introduction Integrated community healthcare Hubs may offer a ‘one stop shop’ for service users with complex health and social needs, more efficiently use resources. Various policy imperatives exist to implement Hub models of care, however, there is dearth research specifically evaluating targeted at families experiencing adversity. To contribute building this evidence, we propose co-design, test evaluate integrated care in two Australian services low socioeconomic areas that serve...
Kids - 'Go for your life' (K-GFYL) is an award-based health promotion program being implemented across Victoria, Australia. The aims to reduce the risk of childhood obesity by improving socio-cultural, policy and physical environments in children's care educational settings. Membership K-GFYL open all primary pre-schools early services State. Once program, member schools are centrally supported undertake (intervention) activities. 'criteria' reached school/service assessed 'awarded'. This...
Background Unaddressed family adversity has potentially modifiable, negative biopsychosocial impacts across the life course. Little is known about how Australian health and social practitioners identify respond to in community primary settings. Objective To describe, two services: (1) number of adversities experienced by caregivers, (2) practitioner identification caregivers experiencing adversity, (3) response (4) caregiver uptake referrals. Methods Survey children aged 0–8 years attending...
This paper aimed to identify the best way engage, motivate and support early childhood services (ECS) primary schools (PS) create policy practise changes promote healthy eating physical activity. information would be used develop a suitable program implement within these children's settings reduce risk of overweight obesity. The Medical Research Council's (UK) framework for design evaluation complex interventions was guide development activity ECS PS. Within this range methods, including...
Explore the feasibility of an integrated Child and Family Hub within Victorian Community Health Services (CHS) to identify respond family adversities as preventable determinants child mental health problems.Thirteen CHS staff government policy makers (PMs), recruited via snowball sampling, participated in semi-structured interviews exploring: 1) barriers facilitators for implementing a hub; 2) proposed 3) resources needed scale sustain hub. Transcripts were analysed employing framework...
Adverse childhood experiences can impact physical and mental health throughout the lifespan. To support families experiencing adversity improve child developmental equity, an integrated, multi-sector response is required. Child Family Hubs (Hubs) are a feasible acceptable approach to providing such response. In Australian context, number of federal New South Wales (NSW) state policies using adversity. This study examined NSW policy stakeholder service manager perspectives on barriers...
The objective of this study was to develop Service, Research and Policy priorities prevent the impact family adversity on child mental health determine comparative diverse stakeholders those with lived experience adversity. Value-weighting approach conducted in a staged process: (i) professionals experts from health, education, justice social care sectors attended national symposium identify for (ii) subsequent resource allocation survey gathered views participants external priorities....
Abstract Background Despite the well-established link between childhood adversity and mental health problems, there is a dearth of evidence to inform decision making about most acceptable feasible interventions for preventing problems children experiencing adversity. Expert consensus an important input into evidence-informed policy practice but often employed at national level which misses local contextual factors shaping making. This study aimed to: (1) reach on priority living with in...
Abstract Issue Addressed To determine if Australian policies support a primary health care system to identify family adversity and subsequently these families. Methods Two methodological approaches were used: (i) scoping review of federal two states (Victoria New South Wales) related (e.g., childhood maltreatment or household dysfunction, such as parental mental illness); (ii) thirteen semi‐structured interviews with Victorian Community Health Service (CHS) staff government policy makers,...
Abstract Background: Despite the well-established link between childhood adversity and mental health problems, there is a dearth of evidence to inform decision making about most acceptable feasible interventions for preventing problems children experiencing adversity. Expert consensus an important input into evidence-informed policy practice but often employed at national level which misses local contextual factors shaping making. This study aimed to: (1) reach on priority living with in...