- Title
- A community-based sports massage course for Aboriginal health workers
- Creator
- Vindigni, Dein; Parkinson, Lynne; Walker, Bruce; Rivett, Darren Anthony; Blunden, Steve; Perkins, Janice June
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 13, no. 2, p. 111-115
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- Objective: To pilot a community-based and owned sports massage course for Aboriginal health workers (AHWs). Design: Descriptive, pilot educational intervention study. Setting: Rural, Indigenous Australian community. Subjects: AHWs working in a rural community. Main outcome measures: Cultural and logistical acceptability of the program to AHWs. Results: The course was delivered within a culturally acceptable framework with applicability for the evaluation of sports massage skills and knowledge changes in a larger sample. Conclusion: The sports massage course demonstrated its applicability in this rural Aboriginal community and it has the potential to be adapted and adopted in other similar settings.
- Identifier
- uon:605
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24682
- Identifier
- ISSN:1038-5282
- Language
- eng
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