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Effect of Clubbell Exercises on Shoulder Kinematics in Female Handball Players
(Australian International Academic Centre, 2023)<jats:p>Background: Clubbells were popular shoulder exercise equipment used during the 17-18th centuries. Currently there is a resurgence in the use of clubbells to strengthen the shoulder rotators, but there are no studies ... -
Strengths of family carers: Looking after a terminally ill adult under 65 years of age
(2022)INTRODUCTION: To learn of a terminal illness is devastating at any age. How much more so when it occurs in early or mid-adulthood, when people are busy with family and career goals. Those facing death when under 65 years ... -
The future of Māori health is here – The 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand health reforms
(Elsevier BV, 2022)The formal launch of Te Aka Whai Ora, the new Maori Health Authority, on 1 July 2022 marks one of the most significant health system changes in Aotearoa’s recent history. The new authority joins a suite of newly ... -
Is the Parwarish parenting intervention feasible and relevant for young people and parents in diverse settings in India? A mixed methods process evaluation
(BMJ, 2022)Objective To assess the feasibility, acceptability and relevance of the Parwarish, a positive parenting intervention (adapted from PLH-Teens) in three diverse settings in India. Design This mixed methods study used the ... -
Participatory mental health interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: a realist review protocol
(BMJ, 2022)Introduction The launch of the Movement for Global Mental Health brought long-standing calls for improved mental health interventions in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to centre stage. Within the movement, the ... -
Conducting research with young people at the margins – lessons learnt and shared through case studies in Cambodia, India, Sweden and Zambia
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Building on the value of engaging with and enabling the participation of marginalised young people in research, the aim of this article was to profile practical and procedural issues faced when conducting studies with young ... -
Decentralisation; The Question of Management Capacity: A Response to Recent Commentaries
(Maad Rayan Publishing Company, 2016)Our article, limited in scope, employed the widely applied decision space framework in understanding Fiji’s decentralisation of a particular function, service delivery. Application of the decision space framework was ... -
The effectiveness of a multi-pronged psycho-social intervention among people with mental health and epilepsy problems-a pre-post prospective cohort study set in North India
(Maad Rayan Publishing Company, 2021)Background: In low-and middle-income settings, many people with mental health problems cannot or do not access psychiatric services. Few studies of people with epilepsy and mental problems have evaluated the effectiveness ... -
New Zealand cricket injury analysis based on 12 years of Accident Compensation Corporation data
(BMJ, 2022)Objectives To provide epidemiological data for cricket injuries in New Zealand. Methods A retrospective analytical review using epidemiological cricket data obtained from the national Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) ... -
A cross-tabulated analysis for the influence of climate conditions on the incidence of dengue fever in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia during 2006–2009
(2022)Objective: Increased temperature and humidity across the world and emergence of mosquito-borne diseases, notably dengue both continue to present public health problems, but their relationship is not clear as conflicting ... -
Electronic cigarette use among university students aged 18-24 years in New Zealand: Results of a 2018 national cross-sectional survey
(BMJ, 2020)Objectives: To examine electronic cigarette use, reasons for use and perceptions of harm among university students. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: University students across New Zealand. Methods: We ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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