School-Based Prevention in Very Remote Settings: A Feasibility Trial of Methods and Measures for the Evaluation of a Social Emotional Learning Program for Indigenous Students in Remote Northern Australia.

Skills for Life (SFL) is a social-emotional curriculum for Indigenous middle school students that was co-developed with educators and community members in a remote community of northern Australia. This preliminary study aimed to test the feasibility of processes and methods of data-gathering, the reliability of youth self-report measures, and to identify the direction of effects for an evaluation of a longer-term pilot of the curriculum. Indigenous Students in years 7-9 of a remote school participated in SFL over 2 years.

Delivery of preventive health services to Indigenous adults: response to a systems-oriented primary care quality improvement intervention.

Objective: To describe changes in delivery of preventive services among adults in Aboriginal communities that occurred in association with a systems-oriented intervention.

Design, Setting And Participants: A quality improvement intervention with a 2-year follow-up was undertaken at 12 Aboriginal community health centres in the Northern Territory between January 2002 and December 2005. The study involved 360 well adults aged 16-49 years who had no known diagnosis of chronic disease.

Aboriginal health workers and diabetes care in remote community health centres: a mixed method analysis.

Objective: To assess the effect of employing Aboriginal health workers (AHWs) on delivery of diabetes care in remote community health centres, and to identify barriers related to AHWs' involvement in diabetes and other chronic illness care.

Design, Setting And Participants: Three-year follow-up study of 137 Aboriginal people with type 2 diabetes in seven remote community health centres in the Northern Territory.

Main Outcome Measures: Delivery of guideline-scheduled diabetes services; intermediate outcomes (glycated haemoglobin [HbA(1c)] and blood pressure levels); number and sex of AHWs at health centres over time; barriers to AHWs' involvement in chronic illness care.

A multifaceted health-service intervention in remote Aboriginal communities: 3-year follow-up of the impact on diabetes care.

Objective: To examine the trends in processes of diabetes care and in participant outcomes after an intervention in two remote regions of Australia.

Design: Follow-up study over 3 years.

Setting: Seven health centres in the Tiwi Islands and the Katherine West region of the Northern Territory.