Publications by authors named "K Auret"
Article Synopsis
- Advance care planning (ACP) is crucial for older adults but is not widely adopted in community aged care settings; recent studies suggest that holistic, person-centered approaches may enhance engagement.
- The EARLI trial is a randomized study involving 12 aged care organizations in Australia, aiming to test a combined life story work and facilitated ACP intervention over two years with participants aged 65 and older.
- By assessing outcomes like ACP engagement, documentation, and emotional well-being, the trial seeks to demonstrate that personalized approaches can improve ACP uptake and ultimately benefit older adults and their families.
Background: Evidence for the longer-term benefits of online mindfulness training for medical students, including in the reduction of stress and improved wellbeing, is limited. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a novel online mindfulness training program on trait mindfulness, wellbeing and study engagement of medical students at program completion and 6-month follow-up.
Methods: This was a randomised waitlist control study of an 8-week, online, mindfulness-based intervention versus normal curriculum alone for medical students (N = 114).
Aim: To explore the associations between depression, anxiety, decisional conflict and advance care planning engagement and the potential mediating role of decisional conflict in the associations between depression, anxiety and advance care planning among community-dwelling older adults.
Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 262 community-dwelling older Australians across metropolitan, regional and rural communities between August and October 2022.
Methods: Validated self-reported questions were used to collect data on anxiety, depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), decisional conflict (Decisional Conflict Scale), advance care planning engagement (Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey) and covariates (demographic characteristics, health literacy [Health Literacy Screening Questions]), overall health status (Short form 36).
Background: The need for palliative care is ever-increasing globally. However, it is least developed or not available in most low-and-middle-income-countries including Bhutan.
Objective: This study was aimed at exploring the perspectives of Bhutanese healthcare professionals on the need for palliative care in the country.
Objective: Decisional conflict is used increasingly as an outcome measure in advance care planning (ACP) studies. When the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS) is used in anticipatory decision-making contexts, the scale is typically tethered to hypothetical scenarios. This study reports preliminary validation data for hypothetical scenarios relating to life-sustaining treatments and care utilisation to inform their broader use in ACP studies.
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