Sustaining an Aboriginal wellbeing program: Informing health promotion practice and policy.

Issue Addressed: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' holistic concepts of wellbeing are inadequately represented in the health promotion discourse. The aim of this article was to explore what sustains an Aboriginal wellbeing program, to inform critical reflection and reorientation to empower Aboriginal wellbeing approaches in health promotion practice and policy.

Methods: Aboriginal and non-Indigenous researchers collaboratively designed a critically framed, strengths-based research approach with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service staff and wellbeing program participants.

Informing online professional dietetics practice: The development and pilot testing of the Social Media Evaluation Checklist.

Aim: To develop and pilot a tool to evaluate Australian dietitians' and student dietitians' ethical and professional practice using social media.

Methods: A Social Media Evaluation Checklist was developed based on checklist development literature with a four-staged process. Stage one included a literature review and input from an expert panel to ensure content validity.

Experiences of co-designing research about a rural Aboriginal well-being program: Informing practice and policy.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore data and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers' experiences and reflexivity in co-designing research about a rural Aboriginal well-being program to inform practice and policy.

Setting: Gumbaynggirr, Birpai, Kamilaroi and Awabakal countries located in regional and rural New South Wales, Australia.

Participants: Rural and regionally located research team who co-designed processes to challenge the status quo about a critically framed, rural-based Aboriginal well-being research project.

First Nation Peoples' nutrition and exercise group programmes: transforming success through the lifeworld.

Purpose: Previous literature has applied system-focused structures to understand the success of First Nations Peoples' nutrition and exercise group programmes. Existing system-focused measures have included biomedical outcomes, access and service utilization. By broadening the focus of programme success beyond the system, we can evaluate programmes from a First Nations Peoples' lifeworld perspective.

Starting from scratch: Developing and sustaining a rural research team lessons from a nutrition and dietetics case study.

Objective: To describe the development of and key factors for sustaining a rural-based research team focussed on nutrition and dietetics.

Design: A longitudinal embedded case study approach with data sourced from publicly available records and observations. Case study sub-units were developed into 3 phases with analysis using theoretical propositions and pattern matching.