A5066596960- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Community Health and Development
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Nuclear and radioactivity studies
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
University of Auckland
2017-2025
Medical University of South Carolina
2024-2025
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
2006-2022
San Francisco State University
2019-2022
Mind
2020-2022
Stratford Hospital
2017-2020
IC Independent Consulting (Australia)
2020
Australian Catholic University
2009-2016
University of Kent
2014-2015
University of Cambridge
2015
We sought to test the efficacy of an intervention that was designed promote social inclusion and commitment education, in reducing among students health risk behaviors improving emotional well-being.The design a cluster-randomized trial 25 secondary schools Victoria, Australia. The subjects were 8th-grade (aged 13 14 y) 1997 (n=2545) subsequent 1999 (n=2586) 2001 (n=2463). main outcomes recent substance use, antisocial behavior, initiation sexual intercourse, depressive symptoms.At 4-year...
The aim of this study was to determine the effect a multilevel school based intervention on adolescents' emotional wellbeing and health risk behaviours.School cluster randomised controlled trial. Students were surveyed using laptop computers, twice in first year annually thereafter for further two years.Secondary schools.2678 8 students (74%) participated wave data collection. Attrition across waves less than 3%, 8%, 10% respectively with no differential response rate between control groups...
Objective: The objective of this paper is to outline the conceptual background and strategy intervention for a systematic sustainable approach mental health promotion in secondary schools. Method: origins Gatehouse Project are described terms epidemiology adolescent problems, attachment theory, education reform research promotional theory practice. elements work structural change priority setting; implementation at multiple levels within participating schools described. Results: framework...
The Gatehouse Project is an innovative, comprehensive approach to mental health promotion in secondary schools. It sets out promote student engagement and school connectedness as the way improve emotional well-being learning outcomes. key elements of whole-school intervention are establishment support a school-based adolescent team; identification risk protective factors each school’s social leaning environment from surveys; and, through use these data, implementation effective strategies...
ABSTRACT Background: Bullying occurs in all schools. Measuring bullying schools is complicated because both definitions of and methods for measuring vary. This study compared a brief 12‐item Gatehouse Scale (GBS) with items drawn from the Peer Relations Questionnaire (PRQ), well‐established questionnaire to measure concurrent validity GBS. Methods: Year 8 secondary school students (14 years age) metropolitan regional Victoria, Australia, completed questionnaires assessing being teased,...
Abstract Compared to the general population, people with pre‐existing serious and persistent mental illness ( SPMI ) have higher rates of physical die at an earlier age, raising questions about their palliative end‐of‐life care needs when they are diagnosed incurable illness. In present study, we explored access specialist services within one New Zealand health district. Routinely‐collected, de‐identified patient information on a cohort , receiving from Capital Coast District Health Board...
Abstract Programs and policies invariably contain new knowledge. Theories about knowledge utilization, diffusion, implementation, transfer, translation theories illuminate some mechanisms of change processes. But more often than not, when it comes to understanding patterns processes, “the foreground” is privileged background.” The foreground the or technology tied up with product program that prompted evaluation. background ongoing dynamics context into which inserted. Complex adaptive...
The red squirrel population in Great Britain has declined dramatically recent decades, principally due to squirrelpox. Concern exists that squirrels may become extinct nationally and, as there been limited research diseases other than squirrelpox, this study aimed identify additional causes of mortality. Post-mortem examinations on 163 found dead Isle Wight (IoW) England, Scotland and at locations showed 41.7% (n = 68) were killed by road traffic 9.2% 15) predators, domestic cats dogs....
Objectives: Inequities in access to physical health care for those with mental conditions and substance use disorders are well recognised, evidence of unequal palliative is emerging. This study uses complete national data examine the place death specific Aotearoa New Zealand. Methods: Mortality between 2013 2018 was linked secondary service usage. Place cause were compared diagnoses bipolar affective disorder or schizophrenia without, stratified by ethnicity. Results: A cohort 498,293...
ABSTRACT: This study examined the impact of a school‐based preventive intervention on cannabis use in adolescence, using cluster‐randomized trial multilevel aimed at improving social relationships within schools by promoting change school environment. Four waves data were collected baseline (1997, Year 8: mean age 13 years) and six, 18, 30 months later (1999, 10: 16 years). Self‐reported substance use, engagement, sociodemographic computer‐administered questionnaires. Some 2,678 (74%) 8...
Transmission electron microscopy identified adenovirus particles in 10 of 70 (14.3 per cent) samples large intestinal content collected at postmortem examination from free-living wild red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) across Great Britain between 2000 and 2009. Examination was limited to cases which an enteropathy suspected on the basis predetermined macroscopic criteria such as semi-solid or diarrhoeic faeces, enteritis presence intussusception. In most cases, meaningful histological enteric...
Amphibians, the most threatened group of vertebrates, are seen as indicators sixth mass extinction on earth. Thousands species with and many have been affected by an emerging infectious disease, chytridiomycosis, caused fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). However, amphibians exhibit different responses to such survival population persistence infection, or mortality individuals complete collapse after pathogen invasion. Multiple factors can affect host dynamics, yet few...
Schools and school systems are increasingly asked to use evidence-based strategies promote the health well-being of students. The dissemination school-based promotion research, however, offers particular challenges conventional approaches dissemination. education multifaceted organizations that sit within constantly shifting broader contexts. This article argues needs be rethought for communities as complex this requires understanding harnessing dynamic ecology sociopolitical context. In...