A5078936237- Resilience and Mental Health
- Disaster Response and Management
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Polyomavirus and related diseases
Australian Catholic University
2022-2024
Melbourne Health
2022-2023
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
2020-2021
The University of Melbourne
2020-2021
Alfred Health
2020
There is a critical global shortage of nurses in mental health, with workforce attrition due large part to workplace stressors. Proactive strengths-based interventions strengthen nurses' capacity manage stress and improve wellbeing resilience may also support retention.
Mental health nurses (MHNs) experience a range of stressors as part their work, which can impact well-being and turnover intention. There is no prior evidence, however, on MHNs' mental health, well-being, resilience, intention during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aims this online survey-based cross-sectional study, conducted pandemic, were to explore psychological distress, emotional intelligence, coping self-efficacy, posttraumatic growth, sense workplace belonging, n = 144 Australian...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic challenges multiple sclerosis services to be innovative in delivering infusible therapies. To reduce time clinical settings, and potential staff or space losses, we implemented rapid infusion protocols for selected patients.Objective: analyse the rate of related reactions patient experience infusions natalizumab ocrelizumab. document reduction patients spent settings during pandemic.Methods: Patients with prior exposure at least three two 300mg ocrelizumab...
Abstract Mental health nurses are exposed frequently to occupational stress and can experience a range of negative impacts on their well‐being intention stay in the nursing workforce. Promoting Resilience Nurses (PRiN) is strength‐based resilience education programme that incorporates evidence‐based cognitive behavioural interpersonal approaches with post‐traumatic growth theory. A partially clustered randomized controlled trial at large public mental service will be used examine effects...
The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented demands and additional stress for nurses in mental health settings. There is no prior evidence on nurses' experience of building maintaining resilience the context work during COVID-19. aim this study was to explore impacts Data from semi-structured interviews with 20 an Australian service were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four main themes generated: experiencing significant disruptions; making sense shared chaos; having professional...
Abstract Cognitive impairments associated with advanced age are a growing concern in our aging society. Such alterations brain structure and function, especially the hippocampus, which changes to experience throughout life. It is well-known that regular exercise can maintain hippocampus volume. The critical for cognitive flexibility involved extinction reinstatement of conditioned fear. Therefore, we asked whether voluntary chronic middle-aged mice improve and/or fear compared standard...