Faculty of Health: Recent submissions
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Assessment of the feasibility of opportunistic screening for oral potentially malignant disorders and oral cancer at dental colleges in India : a public health initiative from Bengaluru.
(2022)Introduction Oral cancer (OC) is a cancer that is preventable by controlling the risk factors and treating the precancerous stages. However, it remains a global problem, principally due to tobacco and alcohol use. In ... -
Examining parental predictors of young children’s problematic screen media use.
(2022)There is a rapid growth in children’s media use, which raise parents’ concern over time. Nowadays children can access to media at an early stage either actively or passively. Parenting practices behaviours start to intervene ... -
PolySaturated : illuminating the experiences of Polynesian athletes in professional rugby league.
(2022)Polynesian athletes represent almost 50% of the Australian National Rugby League’s (NRL) top tier player contracts. The proportion of Polynesian professional rugby league players has trended upward from the mid-1990s and ... -
Attitudes towards the New Zealand Government's Smokefree 2025 goal associated with smoking and vaping in university students aged 18 to 24 years: Results of a 2018 national cross-sectional survey
(BMJ, 2020)Objective: In March 2011, New Zealand (NZ) launched an aspirational goal to reduce smoking prevalence to 5% or less by 2025 (Smokefree 2025 goal). Little is known about university students' awareness of, support for and ... -
Successful ageing and trajectories of health among New Zealand older adults.
(2022)Background The goal of this thesis is to explain and examine successful ageing using disease conditions, functional capacity, life engagement, and health-related quality of life using longitudinal data, and to examine ... -
Mental health screening for children in care using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Brief Assessment Checklists: Guidance from three national studies
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Although children residing in statutory out-of-home care and those adopted from care are more likely than not to have mental health difficulties requiring clinical intervention or support, their difficulties often remain ... -
A narrative review of stability and change in the mental health of children who grow up in family-based out-of-home care
(SAGE Publications, 2019)The present review sought to address the following questions: What evidence is there that long-term, family-based out-of-home care (OOHC) has a general, population-wide effect on children’s mental health such that it is ... -
A narrative review of mental and relational health interventions for children in family-based out-of-home care
(Wiley, 2021)The present article reviews the evidence base for psychosocial interventions provided to children in family-based out-of-home care that seek to improve children’s mental health, felt security, and/or the quality, strength ... -
Exposure to particulate matter and lung cancer survival among adults in New Zealand.
(2022)Introduction: Epidemiological and toxicological evidence has indicated that PM10 and PM2.5 exposure increase the incidence and mortality of lung cancer. It is possible that PM10 and PM2.5 exposure also reduce length of ... -
Alignment of Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder With Complex Developmental Symptomatology
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Cluster analysis of maltreatment-related mental health symptoms manifested by adolescents in foster care suggest the absence of an underlying taxonomic structure. To test this further, we investigated alignment between ... -
Mental Health Symptom Profiles of Adolescents in Foster Care
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)The article describes an investigation of the nature, patterns and complexity of carer-reported mental health symptoms for a population sample (N = 230) of adolescents (age 12–17) placed in long-term foster and kinship ... -
Helping Young People in Out-of-Home Care: Basic Elements
(Elsevier BV, 2022)Children and adolescents (young people) who experience maltreatment early in life and are subsequently placed in out-of-home care (OOHC) are specifically at risk of poor mental health outcomes1 . Though rates vary by ... -
Factors associated with having family/whānau or close friends who used alcohol or other drugs in harmful ways among university students in New Zealand
(MDPI AG, 2022)The consequences of alcohol and other drug (AoD) use are well documented. This study investigated factors associated with having family/whānau or close friend who used AoD in harmful ways in New Zealand. Data came from a ... -
Conceptualisations and implications of ‘newness’ in education outside the classroom
(Informa UK Limited, 2022)Newness was a key theme identified in a comprehensive national study of education outside the classroom (EOTC) in Aotearoa New Zealand. This paper examines what newness means from the perspectives of students, educators ... -
Management of the aggressive emergency department patient: Non-pharmacological perspectives and evidence base
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)Introduction: Aggression in the Emergency Department (ED) remains an ongoing issue, described as reaching epidemic proportions, with an impact on staff recruitment, retention, and ability to provide quality care. Most ... -
Three weeks of combined resisted and assisted in-water training for adolescent sprint backstroke swimming: a case study
(Termedia Sp. z.o.o., 2022)Purpose. Resisted and assisted in-water training methods are often employed in swimming training but their effectiveness remains unsubstantiated for different strokes and age groups. The study aim was to quantify the ... -
Sport Research Report
(2021)This report outlines the findings from the St Bede’s College (SBC) Sport Research Project undertaken by Glenn Fyall during the period of March 2021-September 2021. This report has been designed to provide information ... -
District nursing and family/whanau assessment practices: A New Zealand study
(Wiley, 2022)Aim: District Nurses apply specialized nursing knowledge and assessment skills to provide care in New Zealand communities. This study aimed to identify whether District Nurse's (both Registered and supervised Enrolled ... -
Telehealth as a Means of Enabling Health Equity.
(Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2022)The goal of this paper is to provide a consensus review on telehealth delivery prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop a set of recommendations for designing telehealth services and tools that contribute to ...