Human ethics

This thesis investigates the use of crusade rhetoric in Anzac mythology in Australian far right ideology from 2001 to today. The thesis’ central hypothesis is that the notions of crusade and crusader have become increasingly present and vigorous in relation to the Anzac mythology in the Australian public domain in this period, in particular among far- right supporters.

With the rise of COVID-19, virtual internships have been increasing as a mode of gaining work experience for tertiary students. This poses particular issues for cross-cultural internships that have typically relied on in-person cultural or linguistic immersin in order to develop student competency. There is currently lmited research on the challenges posed and opportunities afforded by virtual cross-cultural internships. Therefore, this study investigates the specific challenges and opportunities of virtual internships for tertiary students, and how these can be addressed or utilised.

This project compares the measurements between two HbA1c devices, a new replacement model and the current model in use, by means of a correlation study using remainder diagnostic samples. 

During May 2019, a workshop, designed to support rural staff working in the NDIS environment was held in Alice Spring. Sixty-nine people attended, ranging from CEOs to frontline staff workshop. Over two days, attendees heard about the work being done by the NDIA and DSS to support providers working in the bush and the evidence needed to gain access to the NDIS, and shared experiences of working with the NDIS in remote settings. At the beginning of the workshop, attendees brainstormed the main challenges impacting the transition to the NDIS in rural and remote regions. These challenges were used as focus topics throughout the workshop, and attendees developed a wide range of suggestions and solutions. These findings identify the unique issues and challenges faced by these providers and provide information about activities to support this cohort in future efforts. 

The aim of this project is to explore how organised youth sports engage parents across the sporting journey and develop a protocol to enhance parent and club engagement.

This is a Teaching and Learning evaluation project. It looks for the main reported barriers to communication in nursing contexts experienced by international students.

This study will investigate why veterans become involved in the Australian corrective services system in order to recommend strategies to enhance desistance from crime among that group.

Service-learning speech pathology placements are becoming common across Australia, but feedback from service-learning placements in remote areas with high Aboriginal populations has not yet been reported. The Katherine Region Interprofessional Student Placement Program  (KRISPP) was established in 2013 and has evolved (and changed it's name over the last ten years), but essentially supervises and supports allied health students to provide services in an area of huge unmet need. The results of the pilot of the program were reported in 2015, but there has been no further reporting on the operation or outcomes of the program since. Routine qualitative feedback that has already been collected from students and organisational stakeholders will be collated and analysed thematically. Sharing these details may assist other services to provide the best possible placements from student and stakeholder perspectives.

Aim: Understand final year medical students’ confidence and knowledge in prescribing opioids in the hospital setting.

Methods: Utilising a cross-sectional study design. A quiz of 92 final year medical students at Flinders University undergoing rotations in either General Medicine or Palliative Care were asked to complete a quiz in a classroom setting – followed by an education session regarding safe opioid use and prescribing. Confidence and knowledge in opioid prescribing was assessed.

Australia has an ageing population, with many older people (17%) drinking alcohol at unsafe levels and vulnerable to adverse consequences. However, it is unclear how older people perceive alcohol-related risks. This is an oversight, as risk perceptions are related to behaviour and form the basis of health promotion activities. This project seeks to explore how older people think about their own alcohol consumption, how risky they consider their consumption to be, and how potential harms are weighed against perceived benefits. Interviews will be conducted with approximately 50 older Australians (aged 65+ years) to explore these issues. Data on demographic characteristics, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related knowledge will be collected. Participants will then be invited to discuss motivations for drinking, perceived risks/benefits, and help seeking behaviours. Data will be analysed using content analysis. Results will inform future health interventions promoting safe consumption among older people.

This project aims to investigate the data collected using the Appellon Care-Rite Survey tools. The Care-Rite Surveys were developed to assesses the psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being of people living in aged care residential facilities and how staff perceive the quality of the psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being care they deliver to residents. In this project, we will be using non-identifiable data sets collected via online surveys with residents and staff to compare the results collected using the tools, to identify similarities and differences in how residents experience receiving care, compared to staff perceptions around delivering care.

We propose to use existing data about children's ear drum function (collected as part of the Swimming Pool Study) which can be used to develop a diagnostic support tool.

The demand for emergency healthcare services has grown steadily in Australia in recent years, representing an average annual increase of 2.3%. Return visits to the emergency department (ED) shortly after discharge may be an additional workload, which accounts for 3.6% to 4.9% of all ED visits in Australia.  

Research on ED return visits (RVs) will help identify the changes required to improve clinical practice and health outcomes. To the best of our knowledge, there is a paucity of research on actually predicting return visits, particularly regarding the return visits for the same reasons occurring shortly after index discharge. Our analysis of distinct factors of return visits is crucial because it allows health services to intervene before return visits occur and redirect patients to more appropriate health services.

Furthermore, return visits might further strain the healthcare system and have been directly associated with increased healthcare costs and admission. Optimising the management of this small group of patients towards more cost-effective ways could improve health outcomes and healthcare planning. Developing a predictive model is a core strategy to reduce these potentially preventable return visits by identifying those at risk of clinical deterioration and hospital admission/readmission. 

Thus, we aim to understand RVs’ demographic patterns and clinical characteristics over 12 months and then use them to develop and validate a prediction model to identify those patients at risk of future RVs to the ED.

Including Indigenous Ways of Knowing as part of Caring for Country and conservation of Australian species can provide students with a broader learning opportunity and increase engagement in their studies.  This project aims to develop curriculum that will broaden student's knowledge of conservation by embedding Indigenous knowledges and practises through collaboration with Indigenous elders and published materials relating to Indigenous Caring for Country. This project will evaluate student understanding of embedded Indigenous curriculum, and student engagement with the topic.

Using a secondary data analysis. this study will investigate the perceptions of parents' behaviours and attitudes displayed during youth sporting events and further identify if this perception changes over time following participation in a sports parent education program, entitled 'Monkey See Monkey Do' (MSMD), facilitated by the Sammy D Foundation (SDF). Moreover, the analysis will seek to explore the mode of delivery of MSMD and highlight areas or strengths and weaknesses within the program delivery methods. As a routine evaluation method, the education team from the SDF attempts to survey all people who have participated in their educational programs. In this regard, the SDF education team has already used and distributed the surveys to be used for this project. Surveys have been collected from MSMD program participants in a time-series, three-survey approach, the first being before their participation in MSMD, the second immediately after, and the third survey conducted three months post their participation in the MSMD program. The secondary data analysis will employ a process and outcome evaluation of de-identified survey data, collected by the SDF education team. 

An exploration of experiences Instagram followers provided of having a caesarian section births linking to an external google form where followers responded by sharing their experiences related to separation from their babies, bonding and how things could be improved.

In this study, we will assess the quality and effective coverage of maternal health services in Ethiopia.  Effective  coverage will be the product of quality health service and crude coverage. We will assess the quality of services using Ethiopian Service Provision Assessment Plus (ESPA+) 2021/22 data. Quality score of maternal healthcare services will be assessed using infrastractural, adherence (compliance) and outcome (satisfaction) dimenstions of Donabedian quality framework. In addition, the crude coverage of maternal health services will be assessed using the Ethiopian Mini-Demography and Health Survey (EMDHS) 2019 dataset.

In this study, we will show the trends of complete maternal healthcare service utilisation using the Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey (EDHS) 2000 to 2019. In addition, we will also assess socioeconomic inequities in complete maternal healthcare service utilisation using the 2019 EMDHS data. We will also assess the contributors for the change in complete maternal healthcare service utilisation across overtime an socioeconomic groups. 

Southern Cross Care is an Australian aged care provider. They are interested in using deidentified data to explore the creation of an incident risk estimator. The aim is to use collected data to create a time-series estimate of the likelihood that a resident will have an "incident" (eg. a fall). If successful, this could allow a system to provide a warning to center operators that a resident is "at risk", hopefully avoiding the incident.

This project will be looking at gender representations on social media (Instagram) posted by wine brands. The research questions I aim to find out are:

1. How is gender represented within wine brand social media promotion in Australia?
2. What biases are presented within social media marketing in the Australian wine industry? 
   
   With potential to look at:
3. Are these biases influenced by socio-cultural or economic factors? 

This will be undertaken using theology standpoints to classify the visuals presented within posts to classify the intended audience, after the data is collected a final percentage breakdown will be calculated for the overall target audience of a brand. A thematic analysis will also be undertaken using these images to describe any trends, general representation descriptions or overarching findings. The brands will not be named or have any identifiable descriptions included in the thesis, they will instead be referred to as brand A, B, C etc.