Facilitating engagement through strong relationships between primary healthcare and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Objective: Given the high prevalence of chronic disease, it is of concern that access to and sustained engagement with primary healthcare services by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is often far lower than would be expected. This study sought to explore ways in which relationships can support sustained engagement with healthcare services.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 126 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants with and without chronic disease and 97 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous healthcare providers, healthcare service managers or administrative staff.

Facilitators and barriers to implementation of a pragmatic clinical trial in Aboriginal health services.

Objective: To identify facilitators and barriers to clinical trial implementation in Aboriginal health services.

Design: Indepth interview study with thematic analysis.

Setting: Six Aboriginal community-controlled health services and one government-run service involved in the Kanyini Guidelines Adherence with the Polypill (KGAP) study, a pragmatic randomised controlled trial that aimed to improve adherence to indicated drug treatments for people at high risk of cardiovascular disease.