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HealthCheck Issue 40, 2013

Promoting Health, Enabling Communities

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2013 Gold Coast Health & Medical Research Conference Edition

Inside this issue > Keynote Speaker Professor Jeff Dunn, CEO, Cancer Council Queensland

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> Keynote Speaker Ashley Gordon, gambling in Aboriginal communities

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> Contribution to Health science and education honoured

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> Gold Coast Medical Association breakfast

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> Exercise and obesity related inflammation

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> Physical activity, bone strength and neuromuscular performance in young adult men

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> New project management software for research

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> Individualisation of Fentanyl in cancer patients

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> The costs of non melanoma skin cancer laid bare

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> Social networking and eating disorders

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> Program at a glance

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Pro Vice Chancellor (Health), Professor Allan Cripps Allan editorial

> Do babies from poor families get sick more often?

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> Nutrition strategies in dementia care 11 > The trustworthiness of nutritional information

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This issue of Health Check highlights a few of the presentainos at the 2013 Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference. As one of the key events of the year for Gold Coast health research, this conference has long been a significant facilitator of collaboration, forum for new ideas and proving ground for early career researchers. It is also the only time the health research groups from across the coast and Griffith campuses have a dedicated opportunity to exchange ideas and establish collaborations. The conference this year has the theme, ‘Chronic Diseases – Prevention and Improving Health Outcomes’. Conference delegates will discuss new improved diagnostics, preventative programs, innovative treatments and clinical interventions being developed and researched on the Gold Coast.

Editorial: Hamish Townsend Email: [email protected] Telephone: + 61 (7) 5552 7017

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Professor Dunn’s work with CCQ has fostered many research collaborations and more importantly linked a significant consumer advocacy movement with the research community.

The way we choose to live is a threat to the health of many Australians. In Queensland, over 90 per cent of deaths each year are attributed to our escalating chronic disease burden, many of which could have been avoided if we had made different lifestyle choices. By 2021, the number of new cancer diagnoses will increase by 48 per cent, an average increase of 4.4 per cent per year from 2010 to 2021, more than double Queensland’s population growth.

The substantial impact chronic diseases are having on our lives today cannot be underestimated. Four out of every five Australians are affected by at least one chronic disease, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes. More profound is the fact that by addressing lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease, this impact can be significantly reduced, our health improved and our health systems sustainably maintained. This year we have four highly respected key-note speakers in Professor Jeff Dunn from Cancer Council Queensland (CCQ), Professor Urs Ribary from Simon Fraser University in Canada, PLOS Medicine’s Chief Editor, Dr Virginia Barbour and Ashley Gordon, an expert in gambling habits in Aboriginal communities from Southern Cross University.

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Keynote Speaker Professor Jeff Dunn, CEO, Cancer Council Queensland

Likewise, diabetes rates have tripled in the past two decades and are expected to triple again in the next two, causing a five-fold escalation in the economic cost of diabetes to our community. Cardiovascular disease will kill three Australians in the time it takes to deliver this conference address. We need to examine the context of current debates, about chronic diseases and how to minimise their collective impact on our community, including lessons from our past.

Research leadership and a direct translational connection between the research community, public health agencies, community-based health organisations and individual Australians will be key to effectively preventing chronic disease to improve health outcomes into the future.

To begin addressing the issues around Indigenous Australians and gambling, we must understand Aboriginal people, their culture and communities. Statistics prove Aboriginal people do not seek help from Gambling Counselling services or telephone help lines. There are numerous reasons why, the most significant being cultural and personal factors.

Professor Ribary will be speaking about neural biomarkers and the understanding of the brain’s functional connectivity.

The results of this year’s conference will make a significant contribution to advancing the campaign against chronic disease through new collaborations and research.

In the modern context, the challenges faced by those wanting to prevent chronic disease are best understood through consideration of the complex and evolving relationship between the social, political and scientific determinants of health.

Keynote Speaker Ashley Gordon, gambling in Aboriginal communities

Mr Gordon’s research and field work includes extensive education programs and community engagement around gambling in Aboriginal communities.

The Gold Coast Medical Association will be hosting an exciting breakfast session on genetics and fertility. I am also pleased to welcome Bond Univeristy who will present a symposium on Strategies to Maximise Benifits and Minimise Harms in Health.

In Australia, the history of public health includes, among other things, lethal sunshine, spittoons and snake bites. Despite the isolation of the Australian continent and the relative wealth of our population, creating a partial shield from history’s contagious epidemics, the perils of chronic disease have been harder to keep at bay.

Most gambling counselling services also lack the ability to attract Aboriginal people to their service; again the reasons are cultural and personal factors. Gambling has a significant effect on Aboriginal communities, given the higher rates of unemployment experienced by Aboriginal people and their lower levels of income. Research suggests that close to 20 per cent of Aboriginal people have a serious gambling problem. In most communities gambling is regarded as recreation and part of socialising. It is still not recognised as a problem and is therefore not discussed or addressed.

The failure to identify the seriousness of gambling in these communities is alarming, considering that gambling in Aboriginal communities can often be linked to poor mental health, domestic violence, crime, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, unemployment and financial hardship. The issues that Aboriginal communities experience can contribute to the individuals need to gamble, the inability to identify problem gambling and influence the desire to receive assistance.

This is a damaging societal trend that requires change before the gambling problem escalates to the level of damage felt by Aboriginal communities as a result of alcohol and substance abuse. Biography Mr Gordon is a gambling researcher with Southern Cross University in Lismore and previously a gambling counsellor with seven years experience in education programs and community engagement processes. Ashley currently manages the NSW Aboriginal Safe Gambling Services.

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Contribution to Health science and education honoured

them with real scientific problems to solve and assess their results against standards measured by the University. Successful students are offered guaranteed entry into Griffith courses. For Griffith Health the change has been enormous, with nearly 30 per cent of all of its annual student intake on the Gold Coast coming through the program. “For me, I just love the kids and watching them develop and succeed in the program. I’ve had kids who were normal year nine boys and girls, not very motivated, but who are now doctors,” said Dr Owen.

Dr Suzzie Owen with students from Ormeau Woods State High School There are literally hundreds of young people in South East Queensland who have had their eyes opened to the possibility of a career in the health industry by Dr Suzzie Owen. During the Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference, Dr Owen will be honoured by the Griffith University Health Group with their highest award The Pro Vice Chancelor’s Award.

The medical scientist and clinical educator is the key driver of the Go Health Go Griffith team who have been working with High School students across the region, making possible a career in the health professions or sciences. Dr Owen gives students experience in high-end Griffith University laboratories and clinical training rooms, provides

Pro Vice Chancellor of the Health Group, Professor Allan Cripps, will present the award to Dr Owen. “She’s a vital and really energetic part of this group. Dr Owen is a first rate teacher, scientist and clinician and a combination of those things is very rare,” said Professor Cripps. “The role she performs in connecting with communities and future students symbolises the kind of creative action which is seeing Griffith rapidly becoming one of the best health and medical programs in Queensland.”

Exercise and obesity related inflammation Biomarkers are a range of biological signals which provide a signpost to possible conditions developing in the body. However, little is known about whether some of these markers can be changed though exercise, specifically immune or inflammatory biomarkers that might provide prospective information to monitor chronic inflammatory disease. If changed markers at rest can be identified between individuals who have undertaken regular physical activity, they might serve to assist in determining targets for dampening the inappropriate inflammatory responses typically seen in chronic disease states of non-exercisers. The Griffith Health Institute (GHI) group, including Dr Amanda Cox, worked with 119 adult exercisers for a 150 day nutritional supplement trial in which participants agreed to provide a resting blood sample for analysis. Results were compared to laboratory reference intervals (RI) derived

Billed as a “must-not-miss” meeting of Gold Coast GPs, medical specialists, nurses, midwives, scientists and students, the symposium will be discussing the latest challenges, advances and issues in genetic related fertility treatments. The breakfast, at QT Hotel, Surfers Paradise, will be hosted by the GCMA’s Professor Philip Morris and signals the growing reputation of the Gold Coast as a hub of health and medical advancement, energised by an increasing synergy between health professions and research. “The previously dry subject of human genetics has moved rapidly ahead in the last decade. It is now a ‘hot topic’ that clinicians, researchers and the public cannot ignore,” said Professor Morris. “Gone are preoccupations with Mendel’s genetics we all learned in high school. 4

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Descriptive statistics from 10 immune markers and 9 acute phase reactants were compared with exercise loads and separated by gender. Six of the 19 markers had more than 10 per cent of the values below the healthy reference range for individuals. Only the IgM and IgG proteins were significantly correlated (-0.22 and -0.31 respectively) with exercise load. “What we have, at this early stage, is immune and acute phase biomarkers that appear to react with exercise. It’s an exciting first step in finding a way to wind back some of these chronic inflammatory diseases like obesity.”

Exercise needs to be for life, not just when you feel you need it.

We now have the human genome fully exposed for all to see. The mapping of gene variations across whole populations allows us to identify specific genes associated with poor health outcomes.”

Research presented by Dr Sean Horan from the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research details the relationships between lifetime physical activity participation, neuromuscular performance and body composition in men at musculoskeletal maturity.

The linking of health outcomes with gene variations allows research to identify medications and other interventions able to correct the protein and metabolic abnormalities intrinsic to some diseases.

The group, led by international research intern Judith Weeda and supervised by Dr Horan and Dr Benjamin Weeks, gathered 50 healthy young men and asked them to fill out a Bone-specific Physical Activity Questionnaire (BPAQ) to determine their lifetime physical activity.

Along with this explosion of knowledge have come newer techniques to identify genetic conditions pre-conception, during pregnancy and soon after the birth of the infant. “Our breakfast symposium will cover new developments in the field of human genetics and their application to fertility enhancement, obstetrics and foetal and infant well-being,” said Professor Morris. “This is a fantastic opportunity, as part of the Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference, to bring the fertility and birthing health professions together around the latest developments in the field.”

“What we’re looking for in these biomarkers is a way to find what they react to. Once we can work out they react to certain stimuli, we may be able to find a way to synthesize that result,” said Dr Cox.

They then measured impulse generated during a vertical jump as an index of neuromuscular performance. All participants then underwent densitometry testing, to determine bone mineral density (BMD), lean mass, and fat mass measures. GCMA’s Professor Philip Morris

Dr Amanda Cox

Physical activity, bone strength and neuromuscular performance in young adult men

Gold Coast Medical Association brings professions together The Gold Coast Medical Association will be hosting a breakfast as part of the Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference on fertility and human genetics.

from mostly sedentary individuals or minimal exercisers.

Dr Sean Horan and Judith Weeda

“The group with the highest levels of lifetime physical activity exhibited the

greatest lumbar spine BMD and lean body mass index. Those who displayed the highest levels of neuromuscular performance as determined by impulse, also exhibited the highest bone mineral density for the whole body and femoral neck,” said Dr Horan. Positive relationships were observed between impulse and lean muscle mass, lean body mass index (LBMI) and pQCT indices of tibial strength and muscle area. Dr Horan found childhood physical activity was positively related to LBMI, whereas sedentary activity was inversely related to femoral neck BMD. “We’re moving toward finding enough evidence to say that lifetime physical activity participation is positively related to indices of bone and muscle mass and that childhood participation strongly influences lean BMI in adulthood.” “This supports the recommendation for sustained physical activity participation throughout life during the growing years.” griffith.edu.au/health-check

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Individualisation of Fentanyl in cancer patients PhD candidate, Sudeep Bista

New project management software for research It is a problem familiar to every researcher. How does one keep all the elements of a research project under control, well managed and progressing your research, instead of getting in the way? Quadrant has been co-developed by Griffith’s Centre for Community Science with the University of Melbourne and the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) and is funded by NeCTAR. Quadrant combines the project tracking and resource allocation of traditional project management software with participant management tools and addresses the enhanced security required of ethical research and the complex monitoring of research subjects. “Quadrant has been developed by researchers to replicate the demands of real life research as much as possible, it allows you to

mimic your research method and team collaboration,” said developer Hamish Holewa. “It shouldn’t require a course to learn, it should be as simple as dropbox and robust as commercial PM software. “It’s also a cloud-based solution, so it gives the researcher the power to control a lot of the data and resources from a consolidated base.” The great hope for Quadrant is not just an efficiency gain in research and reporting times, but also in accuracy of results and detail of reporting. Being specifically built for research, it enhances collaboration rather than working against it, as most PM software tends to do. “The system helps the project leaders to think about the steps they need to take, see what they have achieved and how their research project is tracking, anywhere in the world,” said Holewa. “It speeds up the research by removing the hassle of managing participants through a spreadsheet or database and automates a lot of the tedious record keeping reporting.”

Quadrant is ready to use now for free at www.quadrant.edu.au

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Australia has the highest rate of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in the world, which means NMSC is one of the biggest cost burdens for the Australian health system. Recent economic analyses by the Population and Social Health research group has managed to nail down a per individual cost of NMSC, which may go some way to assist in greater planning for future health system needs.

Pain is a frequent complication of advanced cancer. Opioids, like fentanyl are used to control severe pain, but can have a variety of adverse effects. A range of factors including age, sex, dose, delivery system, genetic variations, plasma protein binding (PPB), kidney and liver function influence how opioids are processed by the body. A Griffith Health Institute (GHI) study lead by Dr Alison Haywood, the Director of Palliative and Supportive Care, Mater Health Services, Prof Janet Hardy and Director of the Australian Centre for Paediatric Pharmacokinetics, Associate Prof Ross Norris, is calling for a better understanding of these factors to allow doctors to more easily individualise dosing regimens and better manage cancer pain. The team from the Molecular Basis of Disease group believed that measuring the PPB of fentanyl could be used to relate unbound fentanyl concentrations to pharmacodynamic (PD) responses while assessing the suitability of less invasive saliva, versus blood sampling, for pharmacokinetics (PK) studies. “In a small pilot study, we obtained 16 paired plasma and saliva samples from patients receiving fentanyl for cancer pain via a transdermal patch to investigate the relationship between plasma and saliva concentrations,” said PhD candidate, Sudeep Bista. “Total PPB of fentanyl in plasma for our patient group was found to be greater than reported in the literature, but with the small sample size, no significant correlation was found between saliva and plasma concentrations.” The group believe an increased sample size in future research should allow description of the relationship between saliva and plasma concentrations and may help to develop a predictive model to optimize the dosing of fentanyl in individual patients with cancer pain.

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The costs of non melanoma skin cancer laid bare

The group found the annual cost of NMSC treatment was $636 per treated individual, of which the public subsidy was $494 and the individual co-payment was $142. Mr David Rowell, a research fellow with the School of Medicine, used a 2011 QSkin Sun and Health study,which surveyed approximately 44,000 adults living in Queensland, to investigate the effects of environmental and genetic factors on the causes of skin cancer. Mr David Rowell

“37,000 participants volunteered to have the results linked to their Medicare

records and through logistical regression, we were able distill the cost of NMSC,” Mr Rowell said. “We picked out a random sample of 2,000 individuals with NMSC and matched them, 1:1 on age and gender, to a subset of individuals without NMSC. The dependent variable cost was derived from the sum of medical and pharmaceutical costs supplied by Medicare Australia. “We had to reverse engineer a medical history through the item codes supplied by Medicare Australia because self reported medical histories are pretty unreliable.” The average cost of services explicitly related to the excision of a NSMC was $266, while the average cost of secondary procedures was $370. Mr Rowell’s team believes the ability to quantify and identify the constituent costs of NMSC may offer new insights into the management of NMSC for a struggling system.

Social networking and eating disorders Social networking sites, such as Instagram are traditionally believed to have a negative effect on people with eating disorders, however new research from Griffith University’s school of Public Health has found that may not be the case. The school’s research has found sites can provide new and unique opportunities for people with eating disorders to connect and discuss their condition, keeping communication pathways open when traditional relationships are not working. Researchers, Tristan Duncan, Bernadette Sebar and Jessica Lee, sought to address this gap by identifying the role social media platforms serve for individuals with eating disorders. “The study involved the observation of user profiles located on Instagram. We analysed a variety of content, including image posts, captions, hashtags, comments and interactions as a means of uncovering the function of content-based

Tristan Duncan, Researcher social networking services for individuals with eating disorders” said Mr Duncan. “We found that as an online space, Instagram allows the user to transcend the barriers that repress the individual and empowers them with the ability to manage their own identity within a broader society that seeks to strip it away. “The users are active and willing protagonists in the formation of this identity, rather than passive victims of what is often termed a ‘destructive’ or ‘delinquent’ community.

“Through these channels, one’s eating disorder identity can be effectively expressed, validated and projected in a virtual community, built upon and embracing of, eating disorders. “Our findings emphasise the potential for these online spaces to provide the support, acceptance and understanding that is denied in the offline world. A failure to acknowledge the potential therapeutic benefits of social networking services may result in the neglect of a highly valuable opportunity to reach and assist those with eating disorders.” griffith.edu.au/health-check

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2013 Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference QT Surfers Paradise

Program at a glance

Thursday 28 November 7.30 – 8.30

Friday 29 November

Registrations and posters to be displayed

From 7am

Registrations

Pipeline Room (Point Break and Diamond Head combined)

[Upstairs] Sunset Room

8.30 – 8.45

Opening Address – Prof Allan Cripps, Pro Vice Chancellor (Health)

8.45 – 9.30

Keynote Speaker Prof Jeff Dunn, CEO Cancer Council Queensland Sunshine, spittoons, and snake bites: public health and chronic disease prevention

9.30 – 10.30

Panel discussion - translational research

10.30 – 10.50

7.30 – 9.00

11.00 – 11.45

Stream 1 Point Break Room 9.30 – 10.30

Morning break - Ballroom foyer and Longbeach room Pipeline Room

10.30 – 11.30

Keynote Speaker Prof Urs Ribary, BC LEEF Chair Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada The cognitive-brain-network in health and disease

11.45 – 1.00

11.30 – 12.30

Lunch – Ballroom foyer and Longbeach room

Stream 3 [Upstairs] Sunset Room

Translating research into clinical practice

Data collection - Managing clinical trials and clinical research at Griffith

Digital poster – session 1

Bond symposium *open to all registrants Strategies to maximise benefits and minimise harms in health

Digital poster - session 2

Lunch – Ballroom foyer and Longbeach room

12.30 – 1.15

Keynote Speaker - Mr Ashley Gordon, ex-First Grade player for the Newcastle Knights and drug and alcohol counsellor Aboriginal people and gambling

1.15 – 2.15

Best of the Best Podium’s (Top 5 selected podiums)

ECR session Stream 1 Point Break Room

Stream 2 Diamond Head Room


1.00 – 2.00

Interventions for improved health outcomes

Innovative therapies for chronic disease

A healthy start to life

2.00 – 3.00

Oral health and systemic disease

Understanding and treating brain dysfunctions

Nutritional awareness and obesity

3.00 – 4.00

Innovative teaching practices

Population health – physical and mental health

Obesity and other lifestyle related diseases

4.00 – 4.30


Pipeline Room

[Upstairs] Sunset Room 11.45 – 1.00

Gold Coast Medical Association Symposium *Open to all registrants New frontiers in clinical genetics - application to reproductive medicine

Pipeline Room 2.15 – 2.45 2.45 – 3.15

Keynote Speaker - Dr Virginia Barbour, Medicine Editorial Director, PLOS and Chair, COPE Publishing in medical journals in 2013: impact, open access and more Conference awards and conference close

Afternoon break- Ballroom foyer and Longbeach room Stream 1 Point Break Room



4.30 – 5.30

Dementia and ageing

New approaches to cancer treatment

The challenge of co-morbidity on managing chronic disease

5.30 – 6.30

Free session (a variety of topics)

Free session (a variety of topics)

Environmental determinants of chronic disease

Business Events

Ballroom Foyer and Longbeach Room 6.30 – 7.00

Cocktails and canapés/Poster Viewing Session Pipeline room

7.45 – 11.45

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Vibration therapy can have positive benefits for postmenopausal women Whole body vibration therapy (WBV) is the kind of buzz-treatment that causes exercise scientists to raise a skeptical eyebrow. However, after a four-year study of the therapy by Associate Professor Belinda Beck from Griffith Health Institute’s Musculoskeletal Research Program, she has found that long term WBV therapy can reduce the skeletal degeneration associated with menopause and lessen the chance of falls. “Historically, human bone responses to this treatment have been inconsistent,” said Associate Professor Beck. “It has some real supporters and detractors because, while the animal evidence is very clear, it has been hard to detect the same degree of benefit in humans. “The supporters say the inability to detect vibration-induced skeletal adaptation is because of inadequate trial durations and that longer term stimulus was required, so I decided to test it.”

As its name implies, the therapy involves simply standing on a device much like a large set of bathroom scales - it feels a bit like the vibration you would feel standing up in the bus. The mild stimulus and easy technique is appealing to the more frail, that is, the ones who are most at risk of osteoporosis and falls. There are many people looking for an alternative to osteoporosis medications.. Associate Professor Beck’s study measured the bone density and muscle function of a group of post-menopausal women as they undertook a WBV program of between 10-20 minutes a day. Her results found a clear difference between her control and test groups, indicating WBV may have some very positive benefits to long-term users in inhibiting the degeneration of bone density, which can cause osteoporosis. “In combination with other techniques WBV could be a very positive therapy for people with bone and muscle degeneration conditions.”

Data from a study conducted through the Griffith Health Institute indicates the relationship between health and wealth already exists in the first 12 months of life, with children from lower socio/economic (SES) families more at risk of injury and illness and having greater need for GP services. Previous studies in Australia have shown that people of lower socio-economic status (SES) have used GPs more often due to greater health risks. However, GP consultations are shorter compared to people of higher SES which results in unmet need and contributes to disparities in health outcomes. The research project by Xanthe Golenko set out to examine the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and general practitioner (GP) service use for children in the first 12 months of life in the Australian health care system.

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A Griffith Health Institute study has found the care of people with dementia often falls to immediate family members who feel ill-equipped to deal with their nutritional needs. The study found family-based carers need a more integrated relationship with institutions and health professionals and a better understanding of what to expect in the months after they begin caring for their relative. Nutrition researcher with the Centre for Health Practice Innovation, Sarah Jansen conducted interviews with family carers of non-institutionalised people with dementia living in Queensland. The interviews explored carers’ perceptions of feeding and nutrition support, the burden of this care on them and their family and strategies applied to address nutrition-related challenges.

Associate Professor Belinda Beck Sarah Jansen

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“Family carers described a range of challenges, including physiological, cognitive, emotional, functional and/or behavioural challenges,” Ms Jansen said.

“It clearly makes people creative because carers described the many strategies they used to address feeding challenges, including supervising meal times, avoiding disagreements over food and providing regular snacks and finger foods. “Despite this, family carers felt uninformed and unsupported by health professionals around the needs for nutrition-related care.” The loss of food intake by their loved ones and subsequent weight loss and wasting became sources of considerable anxiety and most family carers said their experience of nutrition care had been difficult, stressful and a significant component of the overall burden of care. The study concluded carers needed more support and education from health professionals in order to enhance their care, including recommending low-risk strategies that have been tried and tested by experienced family carers. Sarah Jansen will be discussing her research on Thursday, 28th November.

The trustworthiness of nutritional information The prevalence of chronic disease in Australia is rising and poor nutrition plays a considerable role in its growth. One of the reasons for people’s poor nutrition could be poor information, with the prevalence of online information highly variable and people often struggling to find the information they trust most.

Xanthe Golenko, Researcher The study drew on existing data collected from the longitudinal birth study, Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL), with a study sample of 1,202 mothers and children recruited between 2006 and 2009. By cross-referencing demographic and health information with individual Medical Benefits Scheme data for child GP service use, Ms Golenko found an inverse relationship between SES and child GP visits; as SES decreases the number of GP visits increases.

Tracee Cash, a nutrition student from The School of Public Health conducted an online survey of nutritional information sources and ranked perceptions of trustworthiness, credibility and effectiveness of nutrition information.

Maternal education and child gender were found to be the strongest predictors of child GP visits. Bulk-billing rates were higher for lower SES families, however bulk-billing was not significantly associated to length of consultation. These findings suggest that removing cost improves equity of access to GP services, though Mrs Golenko wanted to see broader data before applying results to a wider population.

Ms Cash found nutrition information sources that were most preferred and perceived to be most trustworthy, credible and effective were dietitians, nutritionists and GPs.

Tracee Cash

However, over 30% of respondents reported time to attend appointments as a barrier to accessing their most preferred nutrition information sources.

“People are turning to the internet, probably because they just don’t have the time to make an appointment with a dietitian or GP,” said Ms Cash. “People are frequently seeking nutrition information from sources that are neither their preferred nutrition information source nor those that they perceive as trustworthy, credible or effective. People are chosing poor information sources even though they know they are unreliable. “We need to find better strategies for getting the best information out there and overcome the barriers people are facing to getting good information to help them improve their dietary intake.” In a more worrying sign, despite people’s stated preferences of GP and and nuturtionists information, between 32 and 60% of respondents were ambivalent about the information they actually accessed. griffith.edu.au/health-check

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Books Kalliath T, Brough P, O’Driscoll M, Manimala M, Siu OL, & Parker S. Organisational Behaviour: A Psychological Perspective. Second Edition. McGraw-Hill Publishers: Melbourne. McDonald D. The art of being deaf. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. Sun J, Buys N, Merrick J. Advances in Research in Preterm Infants. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. Sun J, Buys N, Merrick J. Community singing as a vehicle to promote health. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. Sun J, Buys N, Merrick J. Health promotion to prevent disease. New York: Nova Science Publisher Inc.

Book Chapters Mond J, Star A, Hay P (2013). Binge Eating Disorder Co-morbidity and Related Issues Ch6. In Alexander J, Goldschmidt A, Le Grange, D (eds), A Clinician’s Guide to Binge Eating Disorder, Eds. Routledge, Sussex. McDonald, D (2013). When Time Stops: The Courage for Joy. Book chapter; Complicated Grief, National Association of Social Workers, USA. Sun J, Buys N, Wang XC (2013). The Relationship between Mass Incidents and Social Inequality in the Social Transformation of China. In Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta Sanders-Thompson, & Anjanette Wells, Urban Ills: Post Recession Complexities of Urban Living in the Twenty First Century, in Global Contexts. Lexington, US.

Journals Amsters D, Schuurs S, Kendall M, Perhouse K, Barker R, Kuipers P (2013). General practice visits by people with traumatic spinal cord injury: a Queensland longitudinal study. Australian Journal of Primary Health. Anura Ariyawardana, Newell W Johnson (2013). Trends of lip, oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers in Australia 1982–2008: Overall good news but with rising rates in the oropharynx. BMC Cancer. Bell M, Usher W (2013). Primary School Teachers Topical Talk Concerning The Mental Health ‘Crisis’ In Their Classroom. Education and Health Journal. Ehrlich C, Kendal E, St John W (2013). How does care coordination provided by registered nurses “fit” within the organisational processes and professional relationships in the general practice context? Collegian. Fernando S, Kanthi RDFC, Johnson N (2013). Preschool teachers as agents of oral health promotion: An intervention study in Sri Lanka. Community Dental Health. Henderson K, Muller J, Helmes E (2013). Addressing mental health and reemployment for unemployed Australians through psychological interventions: An applied study. Australian Journal of Career Development. Kularatna S, Whitty JA, Johnson N, Scuffham PA (2013). Health state valuation in low and middle income countries: A systematic review of the literature. Value in Health. Maujean A, Kendall E (2013). The Daily Living Self-Efficacy Scale: A New Measure for Assessing Self-Efficacy in Stroke Survivors. Disability and Rehabilitation.

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McGrath P, Rawson N (2013). Key factors impacting on diagnosis and treatment for vulvar cancer for Indigenous women: Findings from Australia. Supportive Care in Cancer. Quan J, Morrison NA, Johnson NW, Gao J (2013). Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1): a potential target to inhibit the progression of bone invasion by oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. Sandell T, Sebar B, Harris N (2013). Framing risk: communication messages in the Australian and Swedish print media surrounding the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Sav A, Harris N, Sebar B (2013). Work-life conflict and facilitation among Australian Muslim men, Equality, diversity and inclusion: An International Journal. Sav A, Kendall E, McMillan S, Whitty JA, Kelly F, King M, Wheeler A (2013). ‘You say treatment, I say hard work’: treatment burden among people with chronic illness and their carers in Australia. Health and Social Care in the Community. Speicher DJ, Sehu MM, Mollee P, Griffin A, Shen L, Johnson NW, Yarwood T, Playford EG, and Faoagali J (2013). Post Liver Transplant Patient Presenting with HHV-8 Associated Multicentric Castleman’s Disease: The Role of qPCR. Journal of Clinical Oncology. Sun J, Buys N. Effects of community-based meditative Tai Chi program on improving quality of life, physical and mental health in chronic heart failure participants. Ageing & Mental Health. Sun J, Zhang T, Buys N, Sheng SY, Zhou Z. The role of Tai Chi, cultural dancing, playing a musical instrument and singing in promoting physical and mental health in Chinese older adults: A MindBody Meditative Approach. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion. Ullman AJ, Cooke ML, Mitchell M, Lin F, New K, Long DA, Mihala G, Rickard CM. Dressings and securement devices for central venous catheters (CVC) (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2013, Issue 2. Usher W, Laakso L, James D, Rowlands D. The Connective Matrix Of Emerging Health Technologies: Cyber-Management Of People With Chronic Disease. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications. Usher W. Utilising Web 2.0 Technologies In An Australian Higher Educational Setting; A Case Study of Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. International Journal of Information and Knowledge Management. Webster J, Mihala G. In intensive care and bone marrow transplantation settings, daily bathing with chlorhexidine wash cloths reduces the risk of hospital-acquired infection. Evidenced Based Nursing. Whitty JA, Crosland P, Hewson K, Narula R, Nathan TR, Campbell PA, Keller A, Scuffham PA (2013). A cost-minimisation analysis comparing photoselective vaporisation (PVP) and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for the management of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in Queensland, Australia. BJU International, 1-8. McCaskill JL, Marsh GA, Monaghan P, Wang L-F, Doran T, McMillan, Nigel A.J (2013). Potent Inhibition of Hendra Virus Infection via RNA Interference and Poly I:C Immune Activation. PLoS ONE 8(5): e64360. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0064360.

McCaskill J, Singhania R, Burgess M, Allavena R, Wu S, Blumenthal A, McMillan NAJ (2013). Efficient biodistribution and gene silencing in the lung epithelium via intravenous liposomal delivery of siRNA. Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids. (IF 6.8) Liu TY, Hussein W, Zhongfan J; Zyta Z; Chandrudu S, McMillan NAJ Monteiro M, Toth I, Mariusz S (2013). Self-adjuvanting Polymer-peptide Conjugates as Therapeutic Vaccine Candidates against Cervical Cancer”, Biomacromolecules.

Cronin NJ, Barrett RS, Lichtwark GA, Mills PM, Carty CP (2013). Muscle activation strategies used by single and multiple steppers in response to forward loss of balance. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 23, 1139-44. Obst S, Barrett RS & Newsham-West R. (2013). The immediate effect of a single exercise bout on the properties of the human Achilles tendon: a systematic review. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 45, 1534-44..

Gardiner D, Stephens A, Munn A, Manners, J. (2013) An ABC pleiotropic drug-resistance transporter of Fusarium graminearum with a role in crown and root diseases of wheat. FEMS Microbiology Letters.

Chappell M, Potter Z, Hine TJ, Mullen K T & Shand J (2013). Reducing magnocellular processing of various motion trajectories tests single process theories of visual position perception. Journal of Vision, 13(10):16, 1–12, http://www. journalofvision.org/content/13/10/16,

Hinton C, Antony H, Hashimi SM, Munn A, Wei MQ (2013) Significance of prion and prion-like proteins in cancer development, progression and multi-drug resistance. Current Cancer Drug Targets.

Murphy K & Hunt, H (2013). The time course of semantic and associative priming effects is different in an attentional blink task. Cognitive Processing, 14 (3), 283-292.

West NP, Christophersen CT, Pyne DB, Cripps AW, Conlon MA, Topping DL, Kang S, McSweeney CS, Fricker PA, Aguirre D, Clarke JM (2013). Butyrylated starch increases colonic butyrate concentration but has limited effects on immunity in healthy physically active individuals. Exercise Immunology Review;19:102-19.

Timms C & Brough P (2013). “I like being a teacher”: Career satisfaction, the work environment and psychological health. Journal of Educational Administration, 51(6), 768-789.

Nayar U, Lu P, Goldstein RL, Vider J, Ballon G, Rodina A, Taldone T, Erdjument-Bromage H, Chomet M, Blasberg R, Melnick A, Cerchietti L, Chiosis G, Wang YL, Cesarman E (2013). Targeting the Hsp90-associated viral oncoproteome in gammaherpesvirus-associated malignancies. Blood. Ashton KJ , Tupicoff A, Williams-Pritchard G, Kiessling, CJ, See Hoe LE, Headrick JP, Peart JN (2013). Unique Transcriptional Profile of Sustained LIgand-Activated Preconditioning in Pre- and PostIschemi Myocardium PLoS One. Walsh, J., McKeough, Z., Morris, N.R., Chang. A., Yerkovich, S., Seale, H. and J.D. Paratz. (2013) Metabolic disease and participant age are independent predictors of response to pulmonary rehabilitation. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 33 (4) , pp. 249256 Walsh J.R., McKeough Z.J., Morris N.R., & Paratz J.D. (2013) Performance-based criteria are used in participant selection for pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Australian Health Review. 37(3): 331-6. Lotta Leveelahti, Kalle T. Rytkonen, Gillian M.C. Renshaw and Mikko Nikinmaa (2013). Revisiting the role of redox defenses in hypoxic responses of fish. Physiology and Biochemistry. McFarland AJ, Grant GD, Perkins AV, Flegg C, Davey AK, Allsopp TJ, Renshaw G, Kavanagh J, McDermott CM, Anoopkumar-Dukie S (2013). Paradoxical Role of 3-Methyladenine in PyocyaninInduced Toxicity in 1321N1 Astrocytoma and SHSY5Y Neuroblastoma Cells. International Journal Toxicology. Joyce S, Sabapathy S, Bulmer A, Minahan C (2013). Effect of long-term oral contraceptive use on determinants of endurance performance. Journal of Strength Conditioning Res. 2013 Jul;27(7):1891-6. Simmonds MJ, Connes P, Sabapathy S (2013). Exercise-induced blood lactate increase does not change red blood cell deformability in cyclists. PLOS ONE. 2013 Aug 5;8(8):e71219.

Brough P, Timms C, Siu OL, Kalliath T, O’Driscoll M, Sit C Lo D, & Lu CQ (2013). Longitudinal application of the Job Demands-Resources model to psychological strain and engagement in crossnational samples. Human Relations, 66(10), 1311-1335. Allen TD, Lapierre LM, Spector PE, Poelmans SAY, O’Driscoll M, Sanchez, JI, Cooper CL, Walvoord AG, Antoniou AS, Brough P, Geurts S, Kinnunen U, Pagon M, Shima S, Woo JM (2013). The link between national paid leave policy and work-family conflict among married working parents. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 1-29. Cartmill B, Cornwell PL, et al (2013). “Emerging understanding of dosimetric factors impacting on dysphagia and nutrition following radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer.” Head and Neck 35(8): 1211-1219. Cartmill B, Cornwell PL, et al (2013). “A prospective study examining the onset and progression of acute toxicity and patientreported side effects during altered fractionation radiotherapy with concomitant boost for oropharyngeal cancer.” World Journal of Surgical Medical and Radiation Oncology 2: 6.

Fu CY, Moyle W, Cooke M. (2013). A randomised controlled trial of aromatherapy and hand massage to reduce disruptive behaviour in people with dementia. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 13: 165: DOI: 10.1186/14726882-13-165 URL: http://www.biomedcentral. com/1472-6882/13/165 Moyle, W. Jones, C. Cooke M. O’Dwyer S, Sung, B, Drummond S. (2013). Social robots helping people with dementia: Assessing efficacy of social robots in the nursing home environment. HIS 2013, Peer Reviewed Conference Paper, Sopot, Poland, June 06-08. IEEE Journal 978-1-4673-56374/13/$31.00 Lin, F., Chaboyer, W., Wallis, M. & Miller, A. (2013). Factors contributing to the process of intensive care patient discharge: An ethnographic study informed by activity theory, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 50, 1054-1066. McKenzie, S., St John, W., Wallis, M. & Griffiths, S. (2013). Men’s management of urinary incontinence in daily living: Implications for practice. International Journal of Urological Nursing, 7(1), 43-52. Arbon P, Ranse J, Cusack L, Considine J, Shaban RZ, Woodman R, Bahnisch L, Kako M, Hammad K, Mitchell B (2013). Exploring staff willingness to attend work during a disaster: a study of nurses employed in four Australian emergency. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal. Volume 16, Issue 3. p103-109. Shaban RZ, Christiansen K & the Antimicrobial Resistance Standing Committee (2013). National Surveillance and Reporting of Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Usage in Australia. Australian Heath Protection Principal Committee: Canberra. Mitchell BG, Dancer SJ, Shaban RZ, Graves N (2013). Moving forward with hospital cleaning. American Journal of Infection Control. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.03.307 Carr PJ, Alexandrou E, Jackson GM, Spencer TR. Assessing the Quality of Central Venous Catheter and Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Videos on theYouTube Video-Sharing Web site. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA). August, 18 (3), 177-182. Keogh, S. New Research: Change Peripheral Intravenous Catheters as Clinically Indicated, Not Routinely. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA), August. 18 (3), 153-154.

Finch E, Cornwell P, et al (2013). “Research interest and experience in a speech-language pathology workforce: Factors influencing research engagement.” Biomed Central: Health Services Research 13: 144.

Higgins N, Taraporewalla K, Edirippulige S, Ware R, Steyn M and Watson M. Educational Support for Specialist International Medical Graduates in Anaesthesia. Medical Journal of Australia. 2013. 199, Issue 4. p272-274

Nalder E, Fleming J, Cornwell P, et al (2013). “Reflections on life: Experiences of individuals with brain injury during the transition from hospital to home.” Brain Injury 27(11): 1294-1303.

Neubauer O, Sabapathy S, Lazarus R, Jowett JBM, Desbrow B, Cameron-Smith D, Haseler LJ, Wagner K-H, Bulmer AC (2013). Transcriptome analysis of neutrophils after endurance exercise reveals novel signalling mechanisms in the immune response to physiological stress. Journal of Applied Physiology, 114 (12) , pp. 1677-1688.

Rodriguez AD, Worrall L, Cornwell P, et al (2013). “Aphasia LIFT: A Phase I/II trial of an intensive comprehensive therapy program “ Aphasiology 27(11): 1339-1361. Tyack Z, Frakes K, Cornwell P. et al (2013). “The health outcomes and costs of people attending an interdisciplinary chronic disease service in regional Australia.” BMC Health Services Research 13: 410.

Gray P & Mehr S, Katelaris C, Wainstein B, Star A, Campbell D, Joshi P, Wong M & Frankum B, Keat K, Dunne G, Dennison B, Kakakios A, Ziegler J. ‘Salicylate elimination diets in children: is food restriction supported by the evidence?’, in Medical Journal of Australia, 2013, 198 (11).

O’Dwyer S & Moyle W (2013).Using Google Adwords to recruit Family Carers of People with Dementia. Australasian Journal on Ageing.

Schubert MM, Astorino TA, & Azevedo JA. The Effects of Caffeinated “Energy Shots” on Time Trial Performance. Nutrients 2013, 5(6), 2062-2075.

Menakaya U, Albayati S, Vella E, Angstetra D, Fenwick J (2013). A retrospective comparison of water birth and conventional vaginal birth among low risk women in a secondary level hospital in Australia. Women and Birth. 26 (2): 114-118. Burns E, Fenwick J, Sheehan A, Schmied V (2013). Mining for Liquid Gold: Midwifery language and practices associated with early breastfeeding support. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 9(1): 57-73 Jordan K, Fenwick J, Slavin V, Sidebotham M, Gamble J (2013). Level of burnout in a small population of Australian midwives, Women and Birth, 26 (2): 125 – 132. Roth H, Homer C, Fenwick J (2013). “Bouncing Back” Response to Letter to Editor”. Women and Birth. June 26(2): 159. Fenwick J, Burns E, Sheehan A, Schmied V (2013). We only talk about breast feeding: A discourse analysis of infant feeding messages in antenatal group-based education, Midwifery, 29(5): 425 – 433. Clements V, Davis D, Fenwick J (2013). Continuity of Care: Supporting new graduates to grow into confident practitioners. International Journal of Childbirth 3(1): 3-12. Johansson M, Hildingsson I, Fenwick J, (2013). Fathers want to stay close to their partners and new baby in the early postnatal period: the importance of being able to room, Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 4 (1):35-36. Jordan K, Slavin V, Fenwick J (2013) A Delphi Study to identify the Research Priorities of Midwives. Practicing Midwife, March, 1-3. Fenwick J, Gamble J, Creedy D, Barclay L, Buist A, Ryding EL (2013). Women’s perceptions of emotional support following childbirth: A qualitative investigation. Midwifery 29(3): 217-224. Godsell MR, Shaban R & Gamble J (2013). ‘Recognising rapport’: Health professionals’ lived experience of caring for patients under transmission-based precautions in an Australian healthcare setting. American Journal of Infection Control. Gamble J. Creedy DK & Fenwick J. (2013) Effect of a midwife-led counselling on mental health outcomes for women experiencing a traumatic childbirth: A RCT. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 16: 1 Supp: 1-146. Khoo JW, Gamble J, Creedy DK. (2013) Impact of caring for bereaved parents and protective factors on maternity health professionals. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 16: 1 Supp: 1-146. Crowe S, Gamble J, Creedy DK (2013). Postpartum depression and maternal attachment beyond two years: The role of maternal self-efficacy. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 16: 1 Supp: 1-146. Sidebotham M, Jomeen J & Gamble J (2013). Teaching evidence-based practice and research through blended learning to undergraduate midwifery students form a practice based perspective. Nurse Education in Practice. Slavin V, Fenwick J, Gamble J (2013). Pregnancy care and birth outcomes for women with moderate to super-extreme obesity. Women and Birth. Jordon K, Fenwick J, Slavin V, Sidebotham M, Gamble J (2013). Level of burnout in a small population of Australian midwives. Women and Birth.


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Boorman R, Devilly GJ, Gamble J, Creedy DK & Fenwick J (2013). Childbirth and criteria for traumatic events. Midwifery. Jones, C. J. Creedy DK & Gamble, J. A. (2013) Rejoinder - Detection and management of perinatal depression by midwives. Women & Birth 26:e66. Baird, K., Mitchell, T. (2013) Issues for consideration by researcher conducting sensitive research with women who have endured domestic violence during pregnancy. Evidence Based Midwifery, 11 (1) 21 – 27. Baird, K., Salmon, D., White, P. (2013) A Five Year Follow- up of the Bristol pregnancy domestic violence programme to promote routine enquiry, Midwifery, 29, 1003 – 1010. Moyle, W. (2013). Robots offering opportunities for frail older people. Australian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin. Moyle, W. (2013) Companion robots: Assisting people with dementia, family and staff. Australian Journal of Dementia care. Sitheeque MAM, Tilakaratne WM, Amarasinghe H (Eds), Johnson NW (External Advisor) (2013). Guidelines for the Screening, Surveillance, Diagnosis and Management of Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders. Government of Sri Lanka.

Conferences Ahmed F, Wiseman J, Piper K and Lee P. Association between Stress and Dietary Behaviour among First Year University Students in Australia. IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition, Granada, Spain, September 2013. Ball L, Desbrow B, Leveritt M. An exploration of individuals’ preferences for nutrition care from Australian primary care health professionals (poster). Primary Health Care Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2013 Ball L, Desbrow B, Yelland M, Leveritt M. Direct observation of nutrition care practices of Australian General Practitioners (oral). Primary Health Care Research Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2013. Brenu EW, Hardcastle SL, Huth TK, Cosgrave LM, Staines DR, Marshall-Gradisnik S. T Cell Dysregulation in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, 2013 Brenu EW, Huth TK, Hardcastle SL, Cosgrave LM, Staines DR, Marshall-Gradisnik S. The Role of Dendritic Cells and Monocytes in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, 2013

Desbrow B, MurrayD & Leveritt M. Beer as a sports drink? Manipulating beer’s ingredients to replace lost fluid. 18th Congress of the European College of Sports Science, Barcelona, Spain, 2013. Echocardiography for the Assessment of Strain After High-Intensity Endurance Exercise”. CSANZ 2013, 61st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Gold Coast, QLD Elias T, Crail S, Meade A, Roberts C, Todd A, Donnelly F. Short days to long nights incentre haemodialysis - evaluating a new service. World Congress of Nephrology, Hong Kong, May 2013. Fenwick, J. Breaking Free: Normalising birth, breastfeeding and bonding. Invited Keynote speaker. ABA Breastfeeding: from science to skills. Program 2. Sydney, Adelaide, Perth 12 – 16 March 2013. Fenwick, J. Midwifery Models of care for women with fear of childbirth. Invited speaker, Mental Health Professionals Network, Gold Coast Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Network Meeting Robina Hospital June 2013 Gamble J Sidebotham M Cullen D. Being Young: Young Women’s Journey into the Midwifery Profession. Passage to Motherhood conference. Gold Coast May 17th.

Johnsoton S, Brenu EW, Staines DR, MarshallGradisnik S. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Update for Mental HealthProfessionals,14th International Mental Health Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 2013

Moyle W. The feasibility of robots in improving quality of life for people with cognitive impairment. Invited Keynote Presentation. Matsiquel Conference, University of Capetown, SA, 3-6th Sept 2013

Villette, Thibon A, Modenese L, Phillips A. Combined Musculoskeletal and finite element modelling of the femur., XXIV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB 2013), August 2013, Natal, Brazil

Kendall M, Amsters D, Kuipers P. Community Rehab W/F R&D Grant. Strengthening help seeking: Understanding when and why trauma survivors request services and the implications for health practitioners. $13,300.

Johnsoton S, Brenu EW, Staines DR, MarshallGradisnik S.A Meta-Analysis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Prevalence, European Congress of Epidemiology, Aarhus, Denmark, 2013.

Moyle W. & Jones C. Up close with the PARO, Our Friends Electric: Robots in Healthcare, Invited presentation. Robotronica 18th August, Brisbane, QLD 2013.

West, NP. Immune signatures of health. 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, August 22-27 2013

Krinks R. The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI.) Consumer voices and their health service improvement ideas: a citizens’ jury on emergency care services. $10,000.

Klein B, Cooke G & Moyle W. Social and emotional robots in the healthcare sector – current developments and future directions, Matsiquel Conference, University of Capetown, SA, 3-6th Sept 2013 Kuys SS, Clarke J, Lynch M, Dilworth C. Portable peroneal electrical stimulation early following stroke: risks and recovery. Smarts Stroke Conference 9th Australasian Nursing & Allied Health Stroke Conference. Kuys SS. Level 1 Gerontology Course: Gait changes with Ageing; Outcome Measures. Australian Physiotherapy Association, Gerontology Special Group, Queensland, August 2013 Lloyd DG. “Preventing common ACL injury mechanisms” AFL Grand Final Sports Medicine Symposium, Melbourne, Victoria, September 2013.

Gopalakrishnan, Modenese L, Phillip ATM, Generating computer simulations of movement using muscle synergy inputs (oral presentation), XXIV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB 2013), August 2013, Natal, Brazil

Mahendran N, Downie E, Ng P, Kuys SS, Brauer SG. The validity and reliability of accelerometers and GPS for the purpose of fee-living community ambulation measurement post stroke. Smarts Stroke Conference 9th Australasian Nursing & Allied Health Stroke Conference.

Hardcastle SL, Brenu EW, Staines DR, MarshallGradisnik S. Analysis of Neutrophil Function in Severe and Moderately Affected Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Subjects, 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, 2013

Marshall-Gradisnik S. “NK gene expression and functional changes associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, Heidelberg, Germany, September 25, 2013.

Hardcastle SL, Brenu EW, Staines DR, MarshallGradisnik S. Assessment of Natural Killer Cell Receptors and Activity in Severe and Moderate Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, 2013 Hayward KS, Kuys SS, Barker RN, Brauer SG. Stroke survivors with severe motor disability can make clinically important improvements during inpatient rehabilitation. Stroke 2013, 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Stroke Society of Australia, Darwin July 2013. Heruc G, Star A, Harris D, Ashley M, Roberton M, Lord A “Nutrition basics for eating disorders: an education workshop for non-dietetic professionals”, Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders conference August 2013.

Marshall-Gradisnik S. “Potential vasoactive neuropeptide involvement in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, Pecs, Hungary, 28 August 2013. McArdle A, Toohill J, Gamble J, Creedy DK, & Flenady V (2013) Maternal perceptions of changes in foetal movements. Paper presented at 18th Congress of the Federation of Asian & Oceania Perinatal Societies (FAOPS & PSANZ). McCormack J, Star A, Beadle J, Maartins N “Body Image and Sport: A qualitative study” at Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders conference August 2013 McFarlane C, Yip L, Doola R, Haworth K, Todd A. Glycaemic control in cystic fibrosis related diabetes. 10th Australian Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Auckland, August 2013. McFarlane C, Yip L, Doola R, Haworth K, Todd A. Is smart phone technology and tablet based education effective in adult cystic fibrosis patients? 10th Australian Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Auckland, August 2013.

Choolun P, Kuys SS, Bisset L, Mills P. Glenohumeral joint position, motor recovery and shoulder pain in acute post-stroke hemiplegia patients. Stroke 2013, 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Stroke Society of Australia, Darwin July 2013.

Hoang HX, Modenese L, Lloyd DG, Hip contact forces in healthy and hip osteroarthitis population. XXIV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB 2013), August 2013, Natal, Brazil.

Crail, Elias T, Meade A, Roberts C, Todd A, Donnelly F. Is it really better? Quality of Life outcomes in patients transitioning from maintenance haemodialysis to thrice weekly incentre nocturnal haemodialysis. World Congress of Nephrology, Hong Kong, May 2013

Huth TK, Brenu EW, Staines DR, Marshall-Gradisnik S. Measurement of Natural Killer Cell Apoptotic Inducing Lytic Proteins in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells and Isolated Natural Killer Cells, 15th International Congress of Immunology, Milan, Italy, 2013

Meade A, Roberts C, Crail S, Elias T, Todd A, Donnelly F. Assessment of biochemical nutritional indicators and nutritional intakes of subjects changing from thrice weekly haemodialysis to thrice weekly nocturnal incentre haemodialysis. World Congress of Nephrology, Hong Kong, May 2013.

Cripps, A. “Immunisation against nontypeable Haemophilus influenzaemucosal infections”. European Meningococcal Disease Society. Conference, Bad Loipersdorf, Austria. (Sept 17-19, 2013)

Johnsoton S, Brenu EW, Staines DR, MarshallGradisnik S. Interpreting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Prevalences: Differences in Clinical Definitions; S. European Congress of Epidemiology, Aarhus, Denmark, 2013

Modenese L, Gopalakrishnan A, Lloyd DG, Phillips ATM, Falsification of a lower limb model predicting hip contact force vectors. XXIV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB 2013), August 2013, Natal, Brazil

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Moyle W. Our Friends Electric: Robots in Healthcare, Invited presentation. Robotronica 18th August, QUT Brisbane, QLD 2013. Moyle W. What do we know about quality of life and how can we improve it for people with dementia? 14th international Mental Health Conference, 5-7th August, Outrigger Hotel, Surfers Paradise, QLD 2013. Moyle W. New initiatives in Dementia & Alzheimer’s Wicking Symposium, 2nd August, Sofitel Melbourne 2013. Peart J. “Age, Calorie Restriction, and Myocardial Ischemic Tolerance”. CSANZ/ISHR Australasian Section, Gold Coast 2013 Roberts C, Meade A, Crail S, Elias T, Todd A, Donnelly F. Anthropometrical changes from conventional thrice weekly haemodialysis to incentre nocturnal thrice weekly haemodialysis. World Congress of Nephrology, Hong Kong, May 2013 Ryan M, Elashi M, Newsham-West R, Taunton J. Examining the Potential Role of Minimalist Footwear for the Prevention of Proximal LowerExtremity Injuries. Footwear Science. Proceedings from the 11th Biennial Footwear Biomechanics Symposium. Sabapathy S, “Interval Training in the Management of “Diabesity”. Australian Physiotherapy Association (Queensland Branch) Annual Regional Smorgasbord, Mooloolaba, QLD. Saxby DJ, Panizzolo FA, Modenese L, Dunne JJ, Rubenson J,. Lloyd DG, Effects of different scaling methods on opensim model fidelity. XXIV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB 2013), August 2013, Natal, Brazil Sidebotham M Rath S. Midwives’ views on their Roles in Maternity Services. Passage to Motherhood conference. Gold Coast May 17th 2013. Simmonds M, Connes P, Sabapathy S. HeavyIntensity Cycling does not alter Red Blood Cell Deformability. 17th Conference of the European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, Pecs, Hungary, 2013. Simmonds M, Milne N. Hemorheology in the PreDiabetic and Diabetic States. 17th Conference of the European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, Pecs, Hungary, 2013. Star A, “Obesity and Eating Disorders” invited speaker for the Australian and New Zealand Society for Obesity Annual Scientific Meeting October 2013 Star A. “Salicylate elimination diets in children: evidence and risk” invited speaker for Sydney Nutrition Update Day, “Programming for a healthy life – The First 1000 Days are important” Joint initiative by Nestle Nutrition Institute and the Nutrition Society of Australia July 27th 2013. Tiralongo, E. Presentation at School of Public Health’s Research Forum, 20 August, 2013.

Whitehouse T, Climstein M, Simmonds MJ. Type 2 Diabetes: Acute Effect of Whole Body Vibration on Glycaemic Control and Haemorheology.17th Conference of the European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, Pecs, Hungary, 2013. Wilkes L, Teakle B & Toohill J. 2013. Delivering Continuity of Midwifery Care: Ways of Working. The Passage to Motherhood Conference. Gold Coast 17th May.

Grants Amsters D, Kendall M, Kuipers P, Carpenter C. Community Rehab W/F R&D Grant. How does an Opinion Leader model of engagement enhance SCI rehabilitation? $9,600. Amsters D, Kendall M, Kuipers P, Schurrs S.Community Rehab W/F R&D Grant. Evaluating the “Person-Environment Profile” – a new tool for community rehabilitation practitioners and clients. $21,000. Barrett RS, Lloyd DG, Hills AP, Milburn PD & Newsham-West R, Tools for evaluating musculoskeletal structure and mechanics. NHMRC Equipment grant, $80,000. Cripps A 2013 – 2017. National Institute of Health (NIH) – Mechanisms and effects of prenatal maternal affect on pregnancy and infant development. $135,000 USD Farrell, Waters, McConnell, Zimmer-Gembeck, Tiralongo, Ollendick, Storch, Rappee, Hudson and others Jan 2014-Dec 2016. Improving outcomes of evidence-based behaviour therapy for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a translational efficacy trial of d-cycloserine augmented behaviour therapy National Health and Medical Research Council, Project grant, $285,000. Green, D., Crilly, J., Wallis M., O’Dwyer. Scuffham, P., Enraught-Moony, E. Chaboyer, W. (2012). An evaluation of the ambulance offload clinical initiatives nurse in a Queensland Emergency Department. Queensland Emergency Medical Research Foundation $40,553. Administered in QHealth.

Moyle, W. & Estevill-Castro V. (2013). Telepresence robots: Engaging people living with dementia. 2014. GURIP, 60,0000 Moyle, W; Jones C; O’Dwyer S; Blumenstein M & Estivill-Castro V. (2013). Piloting an emotional response animal robot: Feasibility and impact of CuDDler on the person with dementia. Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, $37,484. Pizzolato C, Lloyd DG. International Society of Biomechanics - International Travel Grant Program. $2,500. Salajegheh, A. 2013 Griffith University Research Infrastructure Program (GURIP). Aperio image analysis system, Griffith University, Australia. Sebar B, Harris N. Gold Coast Health and Hospital Service (Consultancy), Process Evaluation of a Smoking Management Program. $9,000. Spence S, Donovan C, March S, Kenardy J. To establish an online self-help therapy site for the treatment, early intervention, and prevention of anxiety in children and adolescents. Beyond Blue Commercialisation/ Community Engagement Grant, $550,899 Sun J. Queensland Government for the project in “Preventing chronic disease and promoting mental and physical health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities”, $20,000. Sunderland N, Henderson S, Lenette C. AEL Collaborative Research Project Grant. Crossroads: Interdisciplinary music-health intersections. $45,050. Toohill, J. Australian Midwifery Scholarship Fund Grant June, 2013. ($4,145) Vider J, Clarke D, Ralph S, Munn A, Forwood M (2014). GURIP and GHI. Cellular and molecular imaging package. $50,000. Waters, Zimmer-Gembeck, Mogg, Bradley, Craske. Jan 2014-Dec 2016. Rotary Mental Health grant for children and youth, $147,000. Zimmer-Gembeck, Shanley, Walsh, Hawkins, Lines. July 2013-June 2016 ARC Linkage. Empowering and protecting children by enhancing knowledge, skills and well-being: A randomised trial of Learn to BE SAFE with Emmy™, $282,000.

Haywood A, Khan S, Norris R, Hardy J, Lilley H, Shannon C, Laupp A, Hascke M, Martin J, Whitty J, Lobb M, Barras M, Neely M (2013-2014). Mater Medical Research Institute Theme 2 Grant, Clinical assessment of a predictive pharmacokinetic program for individualised vancomycin dosing in paediatrics. $2,000 seed funding. Hoang H, Lloyd DG, Modenese L. International Society of Biomechanics - Matching Dissertation Grant. $2,372 Kavanagh JJ, Bisset LM, Lloyd DG, Haseler LJ, Shum DHK. Transcranial magnetic stimulation for assessing central nervous system activity and neuroplasticity: Griffith University Research Infrastructure Program, $50,000.


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