Publications by authors named "P A Dale"

Background: Indigenous Australians in custody experience much greater rates of poor mental health and well-being than those of the general community, and these problems are not adequately addressed. Digital mental health strategies offer innovative opportunities to address the problems, but little is known about their feasibility in or impact on this population.

Objective: This study aims to conduct a pilot trial evaluating the impact of adding the Stay Strong app to mental health and well-being services for Indigenous women and men in custody.

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Background: Health inequalities are a well-known and widespread phenomenon throughout health care settings. In particular, people of color experience higher rates of delayed and/or misdiagnosis contributing to poorer outcomes and an increased mortality risk. Research suggests that health care professionals find it more difficult to correctly diagnose dermatological conditions in the non-White patient demographic.

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Ba(Zr,Hf)S solid solutions are proposed for photovoltaic applications and a fast non-destructive measurement of the composition of these solutions and the identification of any possible secondary phases is a prerequisite for understanding their opto-electronic properties. Previously multi-wavelength Raman spectroscopy has been used for such purposes in other chalcogenide solution series. Here we calculate the non-resonant one-phonon Raman spectra of pure BaHfS and BaZrS, which show only subtle differences between them, since the most prominent modes are dominated by the sulfur atoms and the change in mass of going from Hf to Zr is balanced by a near equal and opposite change in the bonding.

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The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Mental Health and Social and Emotional Wellbeing identifies building a strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led evidence-base to inform care as a key priority. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander adolescents in contact with the criminal justice system are a highly vulnerable group of Australians, with substantial unmet needs. There is limited evidence to inform culturally appropriate models of care that meet the social and emotional wellbeing needs of justice-involved Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander adolescents.

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The properties of centimeter-sized thin-film compound semiconductors depend upon the morphology and chemical composition of the multiple submicrometer-thick elemental and alloy precursor layers from which they are synthesized. The challenge is to characterize the individual precursor layers over these length scales during a multistep synthesis without altering or contaminating them. Conventional electron and X-ray-based morphological and compositional techniques are invasive, require preparation, and are thus incompatible with in-line synthesis processes.

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