Enhancing the implementation of provider-to-provider telehealth in rural and remote areas: A mixed methods study protocol.

Background: Virtual healthcare solutions are proposed as a way to combat the inequity of access to healthcare in rural and remote areas, and to better support the front-line providers who work in these areas. Rural provider-to-provider telehealth (RPPT) connects rural and remote clinicians to a 'hub' of healthcare specialists who can increase access to emergency and specialised healthcare via an integrated model. Reported benefits for the place-based provider include enhanced knowledge, expanded professional development opportunities, improved scope of practice, and increased confidence in treating more complex cases.

Meet us where we are: non-Indigenous young peoples' ideas on how to reduce alcohol-related harm in Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

Objective: This research sought to understand the strategies young people in a remote central Australian town believed would reduce alcohol-related harms amongst their peers.

Methods: A total of 38 non-Indigenous residents of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), aged between 14 and 18 years, participated in focus groups at their school. Participants discussed strategies they thought would reduce alcohol-related harms among people their age.

Effectiveness of strategies to reduce risky alcohol consumption among youth living in rural or remote areas: a systematic review.

Objective: This review aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to reduce risky alcohol consumption among youth living in rural and remote areas.

Introduction: Youth living in rural and remote areas are more likely to drink alcohol and experience alcohol-related harm than youth living in urban locations. This review assessed the effectiveness of strategies to reduce young people's risky alcohol consumption in rural and remote areas.

Association between alcohol restriction policies and rates of alcohol-related harms in remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: a systematic review.

Objective: The objective of this review was to examine the association between alcohol supply restriction policies and rates of alcohol-related harms in remote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Introduction: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in remote communities experience a higher rate of alcohol-related harms than other Australians. High rates of alcohol consumption are associated with a range of physical and social harms.

Solving the Puzzle of Global Health Inequity: Completing the Picture Piece by Piece by Piece.

Achieving health equity is an ongoing priority for the global community. Understanding, supporting, and addressing the challenges that face health workers is a critical component of the solution to this problem. The University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda has established the Institute of Global Health Equity Research (IGHER) to contribute to the generation of new knowledge through high-quality research and research training that seeks to improve our understanding of the important issues that influence the distribution of health and healthcare globally.

Effectiveness and appropriateness of culturally adapted approaches to treating alcohol use disorders in Indigenous people: a mixed methods systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to investigate the effectiveness and appropriateness of culturally adapted approaches for treating alcohol use disorders in Indigenous peoples in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the USA.

Introduction: Poor and disadvantaged people, particularly those who are Indigenous, suffer more health effects due to alcohol misuse and are therefore subject to more law enforcement actions. Analyses have identified strategies for improving health services for Indigenous people; chief among these is culturally safe care specifically tailored to the context.

Advancing nursing practice for improved health outcomes using the principles of perceptual control theory.

This article describes how an empirically supported theory of human behaviour, perceptual control theory, can be used to advance nursing practice and improve health outcomes for people who are accessing nursing care. Nursing often takes a pragmatic approach to the delivery of care, with an emphasis on doing what appears to work. This focus on pragmatism can sometimes take precedence over any consideration of the underlying theoretical assumptions that inform decisions to take one particular approach over another or the mechanisms through which nursing interventions have their effects.

Identifying Functional Mechanisms in Psychotherapy: A Scoping Systematic Review.

The identification of fundamental mechanisms is an important scientific pursuit in many fields of enquiry. With regard to the development of psychological treatments, understanding the mechanisms through which change occurs such that psychological distress resolves, can enable us to develop more effective and efficient interventions. In the field of psychotherapy, mechanisms are often identified either statistically or conceptually.

Effectiveness of strategies for reducing risky alcohol consumption among youth living in rural or remote areas: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: The aim of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of strategies for reducing risky alcohol consumption among youth living in rural and remote areas.

Introduction: Youth living in rural and remote areas are more likely to drink alcohol and are at higher risk of experiencing alcohol-related harm than youth living in urban locations. However, a review has not yet been conducted evaluating the effectiveness of strategies for reducing young people's risky alcohol consumption in rural and remote locations.

Retention strategies and interventions for health workers in rural and remote areas: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of the current review is to examine the association between exposure to strategies or interventions to retain health workers in rural and remote areas of high-income countries and improved retention rates.

Introduction: Attracting and retaining sufficient healthcare staff to provide adequate services for residents of rural and remote areas is an international problem. High-income countries have specific challenges in staffing remote and rural areas; despite the majority of the population clustering in large cities, a significant number of communities are in rural, remote or frontier areas which may be perceived as less attractive locations in which to live and work.

Valued but tenuous? Postgraduate clinical psychology placements for psychology students in rural and remote areas - implications for future directions.

Introduction: This study is located at the complex intersection of healthcare service provision, healthcare workforce and practice-based education. The study explored postgraduate clinical psychology placements in rural and remote locations and was part of a larger study known as the Mental Health Tertiary Curriculum project.

Method: A qualitative approach incorporating thematic analysis was used to explore experiences.

Association between restriction policies and rate of alcohol-related harm in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: This review aims to examine the association between alcohol restriction policies and rates of alcohol-related harms in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Introduction: A number of different strategies have been used to reduce the harms and costs associated with excessive alcohol consumption in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. These strategies, implemented at federal and state government levels, as well as by individual communities, have aimed to promote reduced alcohol consumption or prohibit consumption entirely.

To Mix or Not To Mix? A Meta-Method Approach to Rethinking Evaluation Practices for Improved Effectiveness and Efficiency of Psychological Therapies Illustrated With the Application of Perceptual Control Theory.

Progress in the development of more effective and efficient psychological therapies could be accelerated with innovative and nuanced approaches to research methodology. Therapy development has been dominated by a mono-methodology attitude with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarded as a "gold standard" despite the concept of a single methodology being ascribed gold standard status having been called into question. Rather than one particular methodology being considered superior to all others, the gold standard approach should be matching appropriate methodologies to important research questions.

Understanding why youth in remote Australia use alcohol in the ways that they do.

Objective: The objective of this research was to answer the question "In Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, why do young people aged between 18 and 25 use alcohol the way that they do?"

Design: A qualitative design incorporating semi-structured interviews and focus groups was used.

Setting: The focus groups and most individual interviews were conducted at various locations in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek according to the preferences of the participants.

Participants: Twenty young people aged between 18 and 25 years participated in the project.

Method of levels therapy for first-episode psychosis: The feasibility randomized controlled Next Level trial.

Objective: We aimed to determine the feasibility and acceptability of Method of Levels (MOL) for people experiencing first-episode psychosis (FEP) to inform decision making about the therapy's suitability for further testing in a larger clinical trial.

Method: A parallel group randomized controlled trial design was used. Participants (N = 36) were allocated to receive either treatment as usual (TAU) or TAU plus MOL.

'It was me answering my own questions': Experiences of method of levels therapy amongst people with first-episode psychosis.

In this study, we aimed to understand how people with first-episode psychosis experienced a transdiagnostic cognitive therapy called method of levels (MOL). Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 individuals who were participants of a feasibility randomized controlled trial of MOL for first-episode psychosis. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis.

Method of levels therapy for first-episode psychosis: rationale, design and baseline data for the feasibility randomised controlled Next Level study.

Background: Method of levels (MOL) is an innovative transdiagnostic cognitive therapy with potential advantages over existing psychological treatments for psychosis.

Aims: The Next Level study is a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) of MOL for people experiencing first-episode psychosis. It aims to determine the suitability of MOL for further testing in a definitive trial (trial registration ISRCTN13359355).