https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Psychological treatment for methamphetamine use and associated psychiatric symptom outcomes: A systematic review https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46789 Wed 30 Nov 2022 13:21:29 AEDT ]]> Eating As Treatment (EAT): a stepped-wedge, randomized controlled trial of a health behavior change intervention provided by dietitians to improve nutrition in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiation therapy (TROG 12.03) https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36396 Wed 28 Feb 2024 14:54:48 AEDT ]]> Impact of fast-food outlet density on incidence of myocardial infarction in the Hunter region https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:46408 P < 0.001). An increase of one fast-food outlet corresponded with four additional cases of MI per 100 000 people per year (4.07, 95% confidence interval, 3.86-4.28). Conclusions: FFD was positively associated with incidence of MI in both rural and metropolitan areas of NSW. This relationship remained consistent after multivariate adjustment for standard cardiovascular risk factors, highlighting the importance of an individual's food environment as a potential contributor towards their health.]]> Wed 28 Feb 2024 14:47:00 AEDT ]]> Antibiotic prescribing for acute otitis media and acute sinusitis: a cross-sectional analysis of the ReCEnT study exploring the habits of early career doctors in family practice https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34513 Wed 27 Apr 2022 14:49:53 AEST ]]> Antibiotic prescribing for sore throat: a cross-sectional analysis of the ReCEnT study exploring the habits of early-career doctors in family practice https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29875 Wed 27 Apr 2022 14:49:21 AEST ]]> Disparities in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction: long-term trends from the Hunter region https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32642 Wed 24 Nov 2021 15:52:35 AEDT ]]> Short-term androgen suppression and radiotherapy versus intermediate-term androgen suppression and radiotherapy, with or without zoledronic acid, in men with locally advanced prostate cancer (TROG 03.04 RADAR): 10-year results from a randomised, phase 3, factorial trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36361 Wed 24 May 2023 12:19:20 AEST ]]> Cervical muscle volume in individuals with idiopathic neck pain compared toasymptomatic controls: a cross-sectional magnetic resonance imaging study https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:48359 Wed 15 Mar 2023 11:41:52 AEDT ]]> Cluster randomised controlled trial of an online intervention to improve healthy food purchases from primary school canteens: a study protocol of the ‘click & crunch’ trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36126 Wed 12 Feb 2020 16:22:06 AEDT ]]> A cluster randomised trial of an intervention to increase the implementation of physical activity practices in secondary schools: study protocol for scaling up the Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1) program https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36124 Wed 12 Feb 2020 15:47:05 AEDT ]]> Effectiveness of a healthy lifestyle intervention for low back pain and osteoarthritis of the knee: protocol and statistical analysis plan for two randomised controlled trials https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24534 Wed 11 Apr 2018 12:18:12 AEST ]]> Multi-strategic intervention to enhance implementation of healthy canteen policy: a randomised controlled trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30877 Wed 11 Apr 2018 11:00:54 AEST ]]> Aboriginal Wingadhan Birrang (woman's journey) of smoking cessation during pregnancy as they participate in the ICAN QUIT in pregnancy pilot step-wedge trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36864 Wed 07 Apr 2021 20:17:21 AEST ]]> Scale-up of the Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1) intervention in secondary schools: 24-month implementation and cost outcomes from a cluster randomised controlled trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:44033 75%). The total cost of the program was $415,112 AUD (2018) ($17,296 per school; $117.30 per student). Conclusions: The adapted implementation intervention provides policy makers and researchers with an effective and potentially cost-effective model for scaling-up the delivery of PA4E1 in secondary schools. Further assessment of sustainability is warranted. Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12617000681358 prospectively registered 12th May 2017.]]> Wed 05 Oct 2022 15:25:23 AEDT ]]> A prolonged antibiotic protocol to treat persistent Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection improves the extracranial venous circulation in multiple sclerosis https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36092 Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Cpn). The objective of the current study is to determine the effect of a combined antibiotic protocol (CAP) on the venous flow in MS patients as measured by a quantitative duplex ultrasound examination (QDUS). Method: A non-randomised before-after cohort study was conducted to investigate differences in blood flow volumes pre and 6-months post antibiotic treatment for Cpn infection. Flow volume data were measured by QDUS across affected and unaffected sides from multiple veins segments, including internal jugular vein (IJV) segments J2 and J3, and vertebral vein (VV), as well as global arterial blood flow (GABF). Results: 91 patients were included in the study. 64 (70%) were found to have positive Cpn serology. There was a statistically significant post-treatment difference seen for the affected side of Cpn infected patients (mean difference = 56 mL/min, p = 0.02). There was a non-significant increase seen for the affected side of uninfected patients (mean difference = 23 mL/min, p = 0.2). The difference in these effects (34 mL/min) was not statistically significant (p = 0.3). The mean flow rate decreased in the unaffected side for both infected (-27 mL/min, p = 0.5) and uninfected patients (-69 mL/min, p = 0.01). There was a statistically significant post-treatment increase in GABF for the infected patients (mean difference = 90 mL/min, p = 0.02) and a difference of 76 mL/min for non-infected patients (p = 0.01). Conclusion: A CAP appears to improve the extra-cranial circulation in patients diagnosed with MS. This effect is statistically significant in patients with positive Cpn serology, although patients with negative Cpn serology also show some benefit, betraying a lack of specificity of this effect.]]> Wed 05 Feb 2020 14:51:07 AEDT ]]> Optimising a multi-strategy implementation intervention to improve the delivery of a school physical activity policy at scale: findings from a randomised noninferiority trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51130 Tue 22 Aug 2023 15:51:44 AEST ]]> The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:48599 Tue 04 Apr 2023 19:22:25 AEST ]]> Feasibility and acceptability of Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancy multicomponent implementation intervention and study design for Australian Indigenous pregnant women: a pilot cluster randomised step-wedge trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34419 Tue 03 Sep 2019 18:11:27 AEST ]]> Genetic determinants of heel bone properties: genome-wide association meta-analysis and replication in the GEFOS/GENOMOS consortium https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:20501 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:59:03 AEDT ]]> Genome-wide association analysis identifies six new loci associated with forced vital capacity https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:21233 P < 5 × 10⁻⁸) with FVC in or near EFEMP1, BMP6, MIR129-2–HSD17B12, PRDM11, WWOX and KCNJ2. Two loci previously associated with spirometric measures (GSTCD and PTCH1) were related to FVC. Newly implicated regions were followed up in samples from African-American, Korean, Chinese and Hispanic individuals. We detected transcripts for all six newly implicated genes in human lung tissue. The new loci may inform mechanisms involved in lung development and the pathogenesis of restrictive lung disease.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:53:01 AEDT ]]> Percutaneous device closure of patent foramen ovale using the premere occlusion device: initial experience, procedural, and intermediate-term results https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27302 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:38:33 AEDT ]]> Pathology test-ordering behaviour of Australian general practice trainees: a cross-sectional analysis https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26206 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:36:31 AEDT ]]> Prevalence and associations of general practice nurses' involvement in consultations of general practitioner registrars: a cross-sectional analysis https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29358 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:34:17 AEDT ]]> In-consultation information and advice-seeking by Australian GP trainees from GP trainers - a cross-sectional analysis. https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28249 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:28:33 AEDT ]]> Prevalence and associations of gender concordance in general practice consultations: a cross-sectional analysis https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23018 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:16:35 AEDT ]]> Scale-up of the Physical Activity 4 Everyone (PA4E1) intervention in secondary schools: 12-month implementation outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37430 80%). Conclusions: Through the application of multiple implementation support strategies, secondary schools were able to overcome commonly known barriers to implement evidence based school PA practices. As such practices have been shown to result in an increase in adolescent PA and improvements in weight status, policy makers and practitioners responsible for advocating PA in schools should consider this implementation approach more broadly when working with schools. Follow-up is required to determine whether practice implementation is sustained. Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12617000681358 registered 12th May 2017.]]> Mon 16 Nov 2020 17:11:49 AEDT ]]> Adapted motivational interviewing for brief healthcare consultations: A systematic review and meta-analysis of treatment fidelity in real-world evaluations of behaviour change counselling https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:53761 Mon 15 Jan 2024 09:48:58 AEDT ]]> GP trainees' in-consultation information-seeking: associations with human, paper and electronic sources https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27838 Mon 13 Jul 2020 13:41:44 AEST ]]> A Pilot Longitudinal Study of 3-Dimensional Head and Neck Kinematics During Functional Tasks in Individuals With Chronic Idiopathic Neck Pain Either Wait-Listed for or Receiving Chiropractic Spinal Manipulative Therapy With Exercise https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41069 Fri 22 Jul 2022 16:57:26 AEST ]]> General practice trainees' clinical experience of dermatology indicates a need for improved education: a cross-sectional analysis from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training Study https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32972 Fri 17 Aug 2018 11:45:43 AEST ]]> Secondary prevention of stroke. A telehealth-delivered physical activity and diet pilot randomised trial (ENAbLE-pilot) https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:54824 Fri 15 Mar 2024 09:11:39 AEDT ]]> Effectiveness of a clinical practice change intervention in increasing the provision of nicotine dependence treatment in inpatient psychiatric facilities: an implementation trial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32885 18 years, N = 4175) over a 19 month period in two inpatient adult psychiatric facilities in New South Wales, Australia. The clinical practice change intervention comprised six key strategies: leadership and consensus, enabling systems and procedures, training and education, information and resources, audit and feedback and an on-site practice change support officer. Systematic medical record audit and segmented logistic regression was used to determine differences in proportions for each nicotine dependence treatment outcome measure between the ‘pre’, ‘during’ and ‘post-intervention’ periods. Results: The prevalence of all five outcome measures increased significantly between the pre and post-intervention periods, including clinician recorded: assessment of patient smoking status (36.43 to 51.95%; adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.39, 99% Confidence Interval [CI]: 1.23 to 4.66); assessment of patient nicotine dependence status (4.74 to 11.04%; AOR = 109.67, 99% CI: 35.35 to 340.22); provision of brief advice to quit (0.85 to 8.81%; AOR = 97.43, 99% CI: 31.03 to 306.30); provision of nicotine replacement therapy (8.06 to 26.25%; AOR = 19.59, 99% CI: 8.17 to 46.94); and provision of nicotine dependence treatment on discharge (8.82 to 13.45%, AOR = 12.36; 99% CI: 6.08 to 25.14). Conclusions: This is the first study to provide evidence that a clinical practice change intervention may increase clinician recorded provision of nicotine dependence treatment in inpatient psychiatric settings. The intervention offers a mechanism for psychiatric facilities to increase the provision of nicotine dependence treatment in accordance with clinical guidelines.]]> Fri 03 Dec 2021 10:34:59 AEDT ]]>