EQ-5D-5L Population Norms and Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Modifiable Risk Factors for Adults in Queensland, Australia.

Objectives: Over half of Australia's disease burden is due to morbidity, predominantly chronic conditions. Health-related quality of life instruments provide measures of morbidity and health status across different dimensions with EQ-5D being one of the most widely used. This study reports EQ-5D-5L general population norms for Queensland, Australia using the recently published Australian value set.

Trends in Total Physical Activity Time, Walking, and Vigorous Physical Activity Time in Queensland Adults From 2004-2018.

Background: Health benefits of physical activity (PA) accrue with small increases in PA, with the greatest benefits for those transitioning from inactivity to any level of PA. This study examined whether self-reported PA time in Queensland adults changed between 2004 and 2018.

Methods: The Queensland government conducts regular cross-sectional telephone surveys.

Dynavision Normative Data for Healthy Adults: Reaction Test Program.

Importance: Previous research has calculated normative data for the Dynavision D2 Visuomotor Training (D2) System among healthy athletes to understand concussion management, but to date no studies have identified the norms for healthy adults over a large age range (18-80 yr) for physical response speed.

Objective: To provide normative data for the D2 for physical response speed in adults ages 18-80 yr.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study to obtain normative data on physical response speed using the D2 for adults in age categories 18-40, 41-60, and 61-80 yr.

Where children play most: physical activity levels of school children across four settings and policy implications.

Objective: This study examined physical activity levels among 2,296 Queensland school children in the school, club sport, active transport and free time settings. Childhood physical activity contributes to musculoskeletal strength, psychosocial benefits and cardiovascular health.

Methods: Data were collected from parents by computer-assisted telephone interview on an annual preventive health monitoring survey conducted by the Queensland Government.

Including mobile-only telephone users in a statewide preventive health survey-Differences in the prevalence of health risk factors and impact on trends.

The Queensland preventive health survey is conducted annually to monitor the prevalence of behavioural risk factors in the north-east Australian state. Prompted by domestic and international trends in mobile telephone usage, the 2015 survey incorporated both mobile and landline telephone numbers from a list-based sampling frame. Estimates for landline-accessible and mobile-only respondents are compared to assess potential bias in landline-only surveys in the context of public health surveillance.

Psychological distress may affect nutrition indicators in Australian adults.

Objective: The purpose of this research was to explore which demographic and health status variables moderated the relationship between psychological distress and three nutrition indicators: the consumption of fruits, vegetables and takeaway.

Method: We analysed data from the 2009 Self-Reported Health Status Survey Report collected in the state of Queensland, Australia. Adults (N = 6881) reported several demographic and health status variables.

A comparison of EQ-5D-3L population norms in Queensland, Australia, estimated using utility value sets from Australia, the UK and USA.

Purpose: To provide population norms for the EQ-5D-3L by age and gender based on a representative adult sample in Queensland, Australia; to assess differences in health-related quality of life by applying the Australian, UK and USA value sets to these data; and to assess differences in utility scores for key preventive health indicators.

Methods: A cross-sectional computer-assisted telephone interview survey (March-June 2011) with 5,555 adults. Respondents rated their impairment (none, moderate, severe problems) across five domains (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain and discomfort, anxiety or depression) using the validated EQ-5D-3L health-related quality of life instrument.

Summer of sorrow: measuring exposure to and impacts of trauma after Queensland's natural disasters of 2010-2011.

Objectives: To assess the population prevalence of property, income and emotional impacts of the 2010-2011 Queensland floods and cyclones.

Design, Setting And Participants: Cross-sectional telephone-based survey using a brief trauma exposure and impact screening instrument, conducted between 11 March and 6 June 2011, of 6104 adults who answered natural disaster and mental health questions.

Main Outcome Measures: Natural disaster property damage exposure and emotional wellbeing impacts.

Frequency of sunburn in Queensland adults: still a burning issue.

Objective: To assess the current frequency of sunburn, a preventable risk factor for skin cancer, among Queensland adults.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional population-based surveys of 16 473 residents aged ≥ 18 2013s across Queensland in 2009 and 2010.

Main Outcome Measures: Proportion of the adult population reporting sunburn (skin reddening lasting 12 hours or more) during the previous weekend, by age, sex and other risk factors.

New directions in childhood obesity research: how a comprehensive biorepository will allow better prediction of outcomes.

Background: Childhood obesity is associated with the early development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, to date, traditional methods of research have failed to identify effective prevention and treatment strategies, and large numbers of children and adolescents continue to be at high risk of developing weight-related disease.

Aim: To establish a unique 'biorepository' of data and biological samples from overweight and obese children, in order to investigate the complex 'gene × environment' interactions that govern disease risk.

Income inequality and alcohol attributable harm in Australia.

Background: There is little research on the relationship between key socioeconomic variables and alcohol related harms in Australia. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between income inequality and the rates of alcohol-attributable hospitalisation and death at a local-area level in Australia.

Method: We conducted a cross sectional ecological analysis at a Local Government Area (LGA) level of associations between data on alcohol caused harms and income inequality data after adjusting for socioeconomic disadvantage and remoteness of LGAs.

A review of the impacts of health and health behaviors on women's alcohol use.

Objectives: To summarize longitudinal research regarding physical health and health behaviors on women's subsequent alcohol use.

Methods: Medline/PsycINFO databases were searched; from over 5000 articles, 29 met inclusion criteria.

Results: Prior consumption and substance use are strong predictors of later consumption.

Estimating the prevalence of individuals likely to use publicly funded alcohol treatment services: an indirect estimation technique.

Introduction And Aims: Determining prevalence estimates of illicit or stigmatized behaviours is problematic, due to under-reporting and difficulties in sampling adequately populations most at risk of engaging in such behaviours. This has led to the development of indirect prevalence estimation techniques such as multiplier methods, capture-recapture, multivariate indicator methods and back-calculation. This study reports on the development of a treatment multiplier to estimate the number of clients estimated to seek treatment through publicly funded services annually.

Patterns and incidence of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)-related ambulance attendances in Melbourne, Victoria.

Objective: To examine the nature and extent of ambulance attendances involving gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and to compare these with heroin-related attendances in Melbourne, Victoria.

Design: Retrospective analysis of a database of ambulance service records on attendances at non-fatal drug overdoses, March 2001-October 2005.

Participants And Setting: Patients who took GHB and were attended to by an ambulance, as recorded by Metropolitan Ambulance Service (Melbourne) paramedics.

Comparison of a food-frequency questionnaire method and a quantity-frequency method to classify risky alcohol consumption in women.

Aims: Population surveys use a variety of methods to collect data on alcohol consumption. Comparability of results across methods is a prime consideration. Different methods have been demonstrated to be robust in terms of ranking individuals' alcohol use, while results have been mixed regarding comparability in terms of volume of consumption.

Alcohol consumption of Australian women: results from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.

Introduction And Aims: Alcohol misuse is responsible for extensive personal harm and high societal costs. Research related specifically to women's alcohol consumption is important due to gender differences in clinical outcomes and disease progression.

Design And Methods: This study examines longitudinal changes in the patterns of alcohol consumption associated with harm in the long term (chronic) and short term (acute) as defined by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.

Respiratory syncytial virus detection by Remel Xpect, Binax Now RSV, direct immunofluorescent staining, and tissue culture.

The performance characteristics of Xpect RSV (XP) and Binax Now RSV (BN) were compared to those of direct fluorescent-antibody staining and/or tissue culture for detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in nasopharyngeal aspirate and wash samples from children (n = 110) and adults (n = 66). The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of XP were 75%, 98%, 95%, and 90%, respectively; and those of BN were 74%, 100%, 100%, and 90%, respectively. The performances of the assays were similar within a given age group and specimen type (nasopharyngeal aspirate or wash specimen).