Competitive Grants
This page lists the competitive grants research that is in progress or has recently been completed in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Current Research Projects
- Building a cohort of Indigenous research leaders in community health development
- Citizen Engagement Listening to citizens' views about Australia's health system and prevention
- Development and implementation of an evidence-based primary health care workforce planning model to support best practice chronic disease management
- Emotional well-being of young Australians with refugee experiences project
- Priority setting in Child Protection: developing an evidence based strategy to reduce child abuse and neglect and associated harms
- Re-participation in screening for colorectal cancer: Behavioural outcomes and predictors
- Strengthening Primary Healthcare Services through Innovative Practice Networks
- Unpacking the intervention mechanisms of Aboriginal well-being interventions for young people
Completed Research Projects
Building a cohort of Indigenous research leaders in community health development |
Investigators
Funding
National Health and Medical Research Council
Project OverviewThere are currently very few indigenous people with PhDs in health-related fields. This project aims to train indigenous PhD students who will eventually become research leaders in their own communities. There are currently six students enrolled in the program, of whom three have started their PhD. Contact
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Citizen Engagement Listening to citizens' views about Australia's health system and prevention |
Investigators
Funding
Australian Research Council of Australia (ARC) Linkage Projects Scheme Project OverviewThis project will apply and evaluate innovative methods for engaging citizens in public policy debate. The project will use new methods to identify community perspectives about the future directions of the Australian health system. How should prevention and treatment be balanced in the health system? What trade-offs are we, as a society, willing to make to achieve a greater emphasis on prevention? The project will improve the capacity of citizens to contribute to policy development, by developing effective methods of actively engaging citizens in dialogue and by developing methods to transfer this information to the policy context. Contact
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Development and implementation of an evidence-based primary health care workforce planning model to support best practice chronic disease management |
Investigators
Funding
Australian Research Council of Australia (ARC) Linkage Projects Scheme Project OverviewThe project will apply an evidence-based health workforce planning model devised by CI1 to support delivery of best practice care for persons with chronic diseases. Despite the known benefits importance of multidisciplinary team care in chronic disease management, health workforce planning has not been applied to ensure access to the necessary competencies. The model draws on population health status and published best practice guidelines, translated into competencies by a national clinical panel to ascertain the required health workforce. The Model will be applied to the population of Adelaide and the provincial centre of Whyalla with Type 2 diabetes. Contact
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Emotional Well-being of Young Australians with Refugee Experiences Project |
Investigators
Funding
Australian Research Council of Australia (ARC) Linkage Projects Scheme Project OverviewThe mental health status of refugee children and adolescents has received scant scholarly attention despite the fact that they are at high risk of developing mental health problems. The present study will be the first of its kind undertaken in Australia. It will provide data on the prevalence of mental health problems affecting refugee children and adolescents in South Australia, the level of disability associated with these problems and the extent to which children and adolescents are receiving appropriate help. The absence of this information greatly hinders the development of intervention strategies to help refugee children and adolescents. Results will be used to inform mental health policy and program development and service delivery. Contact
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Priority setting in Child Protection: developing an evidence based strategy to reduce child abuse and neglect and associated harms |
Investigators
Funding
Australian Research Council of Australia (ARC) Linkage Projects Scheme Project OverviewThe aim is to inform State and National child protection policies by applying an evidence-based priority setting model to child maltreatment. Cost-benefit analysis will be applied to 30 interventions across education, health including mental health, child protection, justice and community renewal to determine where investment will yield greatest returns for society. Its significance is that for the first time internationally, evidence of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness will be applied comprehensively to compare diverse interventions for preventing child maltreatment. An outcome will be the utilisation of the findings in decision-making by governments to prevent and reduce the harm of child maltreatment. Contact
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Re-participation in screening for colorectal cancer: Behavioural outcomes and predictors |
Investigators
FundingNational Health and Medical Research Council Project OverviewThe National Bowel Cancer Screening program has now commenced in Australia. This project aims to develop predictors of rescreening for those who have already taken up screening once. We hope to use this information to improve uptake rates of rescreening. Contact
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Strengthening Primary Healthcare Services through Innovative Practice Networks |
Investigators
Funding
Canadian Health Service Research Foundation (CHSRF) Research, Exchange &
Impact for System Support (REISS) Project OverviewThis program of research addresses access to, and continuity of, primary healthcare (PHC) services. Using a participatory combined methods, comparative case-study approach we will describe how contextual influences act together with PHC models to generate varying outcomes (e.g., system, provider and patient), with particular focus on the role of inter-professional relationships. We will do this by comparing the adoption of differing PHC models across different regional, provincial and national contexts. The objectives for this program of research include, but are not limited to: documenting a range of primary health care models that exist across the country; identifying common characteristics that cut across these models; developing an understanding of the interaction between contextual influences and the development and implementation of models; documenting a range of inter-professional relationship structures across different models; developing an overarching framework for model development adaptable for different contexts; and, describing the application of a participatory, deliberative process for combining different sources of evidence to guide health systems decision-making. Potential implications for management of services or health services policy resulting from enhanced understanding of the interaction between context and models of PHC include: more informed PHC policy development and model planning; improved PHC implementation processes; clarification of resource requirements for implementation of different models; and, improved understanding of what outcomes are important to stakeholders in different contexts and why. Contact
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Unpacking the intervention mechanisms of Aboriginal well-being interventions for young people |
Investigators
FundingStrategic Health Research Program, Department of Health, South Australia. Project OverviewThere has been considerable interest and research into interventions that
promote social and emotional well-being among Aboriginal children and youth.
However despite this, existing evidence about the strategies that support
mental health practices in this area is limited and often contradictory.
This in part relates to the complexities of this social situation and the
many contributing factors. This also reflects the challenges of researching
interventions that address complex health issues.
Contact
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Completed Research Projects
More effective communication to improve participation in bowel cancer screening |
Investigators
FundingNational Health and Medical Research Council
Project OverviewExplored different behavioural models for improving uptake rate of bowel cancer screening. Contact
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