Health: Theses and Dissertations
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Adolescents and oral health service utilisation in Canterbury, New Zealand : a geospatial cross-sectional study.
(2022)Objective: Non-utilisation of dental care during adolescence can result in poorer oral health and subsequently higher expenditures on dental services. This study examined the geospatial and epidemiological factors associated ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of function-based behavioural sleep interventions for the treatment of anxiety related sleep disturbance in autistic youth
(2022)The prevalence of anxiety disorders, and sleep disturbance is elevated among autistic youth. However the ways in which anxiety, autism characteristics, and sleep disturbance interact with each other, in the context of an ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An investigation of stereotypy in relation to sleep disturbance in children on the autism spectrum : effectiveness of functional behaviour assessment-based interventions.
(2022)Sleep is essential to our overall functioning and wellbeing. Children on the autism spectrum experience high rates of sleep problems that can be both chronic and severe, and which are associated with a wide range of ... -
An evaluation of the ParentWorks parenting programme for families with acknowledged care and protection issues.
(2022)Families that have care and protection concerns are considered a high-risk cohort due to multiple risk factors such as psychosocial and socioeconomic stress and mental health concerns, which greatly increase the probability ... -
Executive functioning profile of a national cohort of adults born very low birthweight.
(2022)Introduction. Increasing evidence shows that children born very preterm (<33 weeks; VPT) and/or very low birthweight (<1500g; VLBW) are at high risk for neurodevelopmental difficulties across a range of domains. One of the ... -
Framework to enhance the uptake of sustainable telehealth services across the DHBs in New Zealand
(2021)Background The healthcare sector today, across many countries, including New Zealand, faces many challenges, including a shortage of, and an uneven distribution of, health workers, an ageing population, and the prevalence ... -
The effectiveness of parenting and family-based interventions for severe and persistent conduct problems in children and adolescents aged 10-17 : a scoping review.
(2022)Severe and persistent conduct problems are complex manifestations of behaviour, a result of multiple family systemic and developmental processes. Parenting and family-based interventions are regarded as the best method in ... -
What is ‘me time’? An exploratory investigation into the qualitative characteristics of me time for parents of preschoolers.
(2022)Me time (independent leisure) is one of the least researched phenomena in the leisure literature, with no current operational definition based on parent perspectives and descriptions. The aim of this thesis was to explore ... -
Exploring facilitators for successful home literacy engagement at school entry.
(2022)The home literacy environment is a well-established area of research. Few studies, however, have explored the facilitators to and challenges of the home literacy environment in the context of Aotearoa. The aims of this ... -
Experiences of silence in end-of-life-care : a phenomenological study
(2022)This research was undertaken in order to seek a way of acknowledging and understanding the lived experience of people giving and receiving palliative care. Utilising the World Health Organisation’s philosophy of palliative ... -
An investigation into the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia for treating sleep difficulties in young people on the autism spectrum
(2022)Many individuals on the autism spectrum experience sleep difficulties. This includes sleep onset delay, night wakings, early morning wakings and a lower sleep efficiency. Sleep difficulties are associated with a number of ... -
Student wellbeing in secondary schools: an exploration of opportunities and challenges in the greater Ōtautahi Christchurch region.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)There is a growing movement, both nationally and internationally, to support the integration of wellbeing and related concepts into the core work of educational institutions, both at the primary and secondary levels. In ... -
Factors influencing caregivers’ choice of support sources and support-acceptance decisions : a systematic review.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Background Social support has been found to be an alternative to formal treatments and can be effective in buffering against the stress experienced by parents and teachers, due to the demands of their roles. Support ... -
Children’s perceptions and experiences of being sent to respite care for short-term stays.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The objective of the current study was to investigate New Zealand children’s perceptions and experience of short-term respite care provided as a support intervention for disadvantaged families. An exploratory study was ... -
A formative evaluation of an Aotearoa New Zealand family/whānau violence programme : examining facilitators’ perspectives of goodness of fit, efficacy, and fidelity.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Family/whānau violence and intimate partner violence are now unquestionably seen as a major social burden internationally and in Aotearoa New Zealand (Martin et al., 2006). In our communities there are some populations ...
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