"I can't make all this work." End of life care provision in natural disasters: a qualitative study.

Background: Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe and profoundly impact the end-of-life care experience, including service provision. There is a paucity of research examining healthcare workers' experiences in responding to care demands when disasters strike. This research aimed to fill this gap by exploring end-of-life care providers' perceptions of the impact of natural disasters on end-of-life care.

Developing a death literacy index.

Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts.

End-of-life care in natural disasters including epidemics and pandemics: a systematic review.

Background: Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, and place additional strains on end-of-life care services and users. Although end-of-life and palliative care are considered essential components of disaster planning and response, there are gaps in understandings about their real-life application, and how natural disasters impact end-of-life care.

Objective: To synthesise existing evidence of the impacts of natural disasters (eg, bushfires, communicable pandemics, etc) on end-of-life care.

Australian women's experiences of the subdermal contraceptive implant: A qualitative perspective.

Background: The number of prescriptions for contraceptive implants has steadily increased in Australia, but implant use is still low.

Objective: The objectives of the study were to describe women's nuanced responses, and characterise their multidimensional and complex reasons for (dis)continuing use of the contraceptive implant.

Methods: A descriptive qualitative approach was used for this study.

Contraceptive choices and sexual health of Japanese women living in Australia: A brief report from a qualitative study.

Background: There is a lack of research focused specifically on the contraceptive and sexual health practices of Japanese women living in Australia.

Objective: This paper reports findings from a cohort of migrant Japanese women who participated in a study of Australian women's understanding and experience of contraceptives.

Methods: In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted between August 2012 and June 2013 in New South Wales.

Performing (heterosexual) femininity: female agency and role in sexual life and contraceptive use - a qualitative study in Australia.

Women's liberation and the sexual revolution have changed the social landscape for heterosexual women in the West over the past 50 years, but exploration of women's lived experiences of contraceptive use in the context of their sexual lives is comparatively recent. We conducted 94 in-depth open-ended interviews with women of reproductive age (16-49 years) living in New South Wales, Australia. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive thematic approach.

Doctors' experience of the contraceptive consultation: a qualitative study in Australia.

Background: Contraception is a field in which good doctor-patient communication is crucial and core to shared decision making. Despite the centrality of contraception to primary health care in Australia, little is known about how doctors manage the contraceptive consultation. In particular, little is known about how doctors discuss sexual issues related to contraception.

Australian women's attitudes towards and understandings of the subdermal contraceptive implant: a qualitative study of never-users.

Objective: Few studies have explored Australian women's understandings of contraception. This study examined the attitudes towards, and understandings of, the subdermal contraceptive implant expressed by women living in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

Study Design: As part of a larger qualitative study using in-depth, open-ended interviews in 2012-2013 with women aged 16-49 years who had ever used contraception (=94), 65 interviews from women who discussed or mentioned the subdermal implant, but had not previously used the device, were examined and analysed using thematic analysis.

Identity, intimacy, status and sex dating goals as correlates of goal-consistent behavior and satisfaction in Australian youth.

The most common dating goals of adolescents are identity, intimacy, status and sex. In this study of Australian youth (16-30 years, N = 208), dating goals were expected to explain goal-consistent behavior in each domain. Also, goals coupled with consistent behavior were expected to be associated with greater satisfaction in each domain.

Seeing the beauty in everyday people: a qualitative study of young Australians' opinions on body image, the mass media and models.

While governments have called for greater body size diversity in media imagery to promote positive body image and prevent disordered eating, the fashion and advertising industries often argue that average-size models do not appeal to consumers. Focus groups were conducted with 76 young Australian women and men to provide a previously neglected consumer perspective on this debate. Thematic analysis identified dissatisfaction with the restricted range of body sizes, and the objectification of women, in media imagery.

Change from an office-based to a walk-around handover system.

This project stemmed from a desire to review the interdisciplinary handover system in an over-65s rehabilitation ward. The idea was to involve staff, including all members of the interdisciplinary team, in the decision-making process, and to canvass patients' opinions about the walk-around report.