255 results match your criteria: "University of Sunshine Coast[Affiliation]"
Sensors (Basel)
November 2024
School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556, Australia.
Runway surface friction is critically important to safe aircraft operations and mostly depends on the surface texture, which provides grip in the presence of contamination and directly affects the friction coefficient in general. Microtexture assessment is the most challenging part of texture assessment since there is no standardised pavement microtexture control method in runway maintenance and management practice. The purpose of this study was to develop a simple laser profilometer and analysis model and subsequent validation for use in runway friction surveys.
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December 2024
Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Parent-child Brain Camp, a 4-week video-based executive functions (EFs) training program for children ages 5-6, through a randomized controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children (intervention ni = 79, 48.7% girls, M = 69.16 months; control n = 94, 56.
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December 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Birtinya, Queensland, Australia.
Background: Paper-based patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient education can assist in improving outcomes but is administratively burdensome. Mobile phone applications ('apps') can distribute extensive information and PROMs at relevant time points. This study aimed to assess the suitability of an app to guide postoperative management and record PROMs based on satisfaction and compliance.
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January 2025
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Sunshine coast, Australia. Electronic address:
Eur J Psychotraumatol
November 2024
Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Emergency service personnel perform roles associated with high levels of trauma exposure and stress, and not surprisingly experience greater risk for poor mental health including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and substance use relative to the general population. Although programs exist to minimise the risk of developing mental health problems, their efficacy to date has been limited or untested. We will test the efficacy of the three programs which form PEREI: Protecting Emergency Responders with Evidence-Based Interventions.
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November 2024
Queensland University of Technology, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Brisbane, Australia.
Purpose: Understanding important features for performance in non-disabled bench press and Paralympic powerlifting may inform talent identification and transfer models. The aim of this scoping review was to describe features associated with bench press performance.
Methods: We conducted a systematic search of three electronic databases (PubMed, SportDiscus and EMBASE) to identify studies involving non-disabled and Para athlete populations that investigated features related to bench press one-repetition maximum (1RM), across six domains (anthropometric, body composition, demographic, technical, disability and neuromuscular).
BMC Psychol
October 2024
School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of Sunshine Coast, 1 Moreton Parade, Petrie, Queensland, 4502, Australia.
Int J Ment Health Nurs
October 2024
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Eat Weight Disord
August 2024
Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Birtinya, QLD, Australia.
Purpose: Understanding how early adaptive schemas, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation influence eating disorder (ED) symptoms, and whether this differs across diagnostic subtypes is critical to optimising treatment. The current study investigated the relationship between these variables and ED symptomology in individuals self-reporting an ED diagnosis and healthy controls.
Methods: A dataset of 1576 online survey responses yielded subsamples for anorexia nervosa (n = 155), bulimia nervosa (n = 55), binge eating disorder (n = 33), other specified feeding or eating disorder (n = 93), and healthy participants (n = 505).
Transl Vis Sci Technol
August 2024
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate longitudinal changes in choroidal vascular characteristics in childhood, and their relationship with eye growth and refractive error.
Methods: Analysis of high-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans, collected over an 18-month period as part of the Role of Outdoor Activity in Myopia (ROAM) study, was conducted in 101 children (41 myopic, 60 non-myopic, age 10-15 years). OCT images were automatically analyzed and binarized using a deep learning software tool.
Ophthalmic Physiol Opt
November 2024
Contact Lens and Visual Optics Laboratory, Optometry and Vision Science, Centre for Vision and Eye Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Purpose: To quantify the magnitude and recovery of central and limbal corneal oedema induced by short-term unilateral eyelid closure without contact lens wear.
Methods: The left eye of 10 adults with healthy corneas was patched using a folded eye pad for 30 min. High-resolution optical coherence tomography images (which captured the limbal and central corneal regions simultaneously) were obtained before patching, immediately after eye opening and again at 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 and 15 mins after eyelid opening.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
August 2024
University of Western Australia, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science (incorporating the Lions Eye Institute), Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Purpose: Few studies have explored choroidal changes after cessation of myopia control. This study evaluated the choroidal thickness (ChT) and choroidal vascularity index (CVI) during and after discontinuing long-term low-concentration atropine eye drops use for myopia control.
Methods: Children with progressive myopia (6-16 years; n = 153) were randomized to receive 0.
F1000Res
August 2024
School of Health, University of Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, 4556, Australia.
Background: Determine the effects of a multifactorial lifestyle intervention on physical activity (PA), BMI and health-related quality of life (QoL) in obese and overweight adolescents.
Methods: Nine schools in India were clustered randomly in a 12-month study with students allocated to a multifactorial intervention (MFI), or exercise only (EX) or control (CON) group. Participants were adolescents aged 11-16 years (n=671).
Int J Mol Sci
July 2024
School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.
Linoleic acid (LA) is required for neuronal development. We have previously demonstrated sex-specific changes in cardiovascular and hepatic function in rat offspring from mothers consuming a high-LA diet, with some effects associated with reduced LA concentration in the postnatal diet. At this time, the impact of a high-maternal-LA diet on offspring brain development and the potential for the postnatal diet to alter any adverse changes are unknown.
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November 2024
School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
September 2024
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
In Colombia, the long-lasting internal conflict heavily shaped the socio-ecological context and imposed relationships that persisted after the peace agreement was signed in 2016. One question of interest is whether policies or interventions conceived to attain desirable goals for the post-conflict society may be effective or, rather, if the constraints imposed by the conflict scenario might produce unintended effects, either on the environmental or the social side. To explore this issue, we envisaged the socio-ecological system as a parsimonious set of characteristic ecological and social variables within the conflict-related framework and reconstructed their interactions, exploiting elicitation-based information and the literature.
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August 2024
The National Placement Evaluation Centre, Australia; Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, Australia. Electronic address:
Aim: This study aimed to investigate factors influencing nursing students' satisfaction with aged care placements.
Background: Providing positive clinical experiences in aged care is crucial for students to learn safe, quality care and to foster a sustainable workforce.
Design: Cross-sectional study METHODS: Nursing students in nursing degrees participated in the national placement evaluation survey.
Healthcare (Basel)
July 2024
School of Health, University of Sunshine Coast, Petrie, QLD 4502, Australia.
Falls commonly occur in hospitals, particularly among older adults. Fractures in the older population can cause major morbidity, which can result in long hospital admissions and increased care costs. This study aimed to characterise the demographics of patients aged 65 years and over who fell in hospital and to determine the type of fractures they sustained.
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July 2024
School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia.
Emancipatory practice development (ePD) is a practitioner-led research methodology which enables workplace transformation. Underpinned by the critical paradigm, ePD works through facilitation and workplace learning, with people in their local context on practice issues that are significant to them. Its purpose is to embed safe, person-centred learning cultures which transform individuals and workplaces.
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June 2024
Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0810, Australia.
Background: Recently recognized by the World Health Organization as a neglected tropical disease, Noma, an acute and destructive gangrenous disease affecting the gums and facial structures within the oral cavity, has a high mortality rate if untreated.
Objectives: To investigate the prevalence and impact of Noma among internally displaced populations in Northeastern Nigeria.
Design: A retrospective study.
BMC Health Serv Res
May 2024
University of Sunshine Coast School of Health, Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore, DC, QLD, 4558, Australia.
Background: Paramedics' work, even pre-pandemic, can be confronting and dangerous. As pandemics add extra stressors, the study explored paramedics' lived experience of the barriers to, and enablers of, responding to suspected or confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.
Methods: This exploratory-descriptive qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to investigate Queensland metropolitan paramedics' experiences of responding to cases during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kidney Int Rep
April 2024
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Introduction: Public reporting of quality of care indicators in healthcare is intended to inform consumer decision-making; however, people may be unaware that such information exists, or it may not capture their priorities. The aim of this study was to understand the views of people with kidney disease about public reporting of dialysis and transplant center outcomes.
Methods: This qualitative study involved 27 patients with lived experience of kidney disease in Australia who participated in 11 online focus groups between August and December 2022.
Nutr Diet
September 2024
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Aim: To evaluate an 'On-Demand' snack service in a rehabilitation setting for satisfaction, intake, waste and cost.
Methods: In September 2021, a trial of an 'On-Demand' snack service was conducted on two general rehabilitation wards in a purpose-built rehabilitation hospital. A retrospective comparison of pre-implementation, 1-month and 8-month post-implementation audit data was used to evaluate staff and patient satisfaction, nutritional intake, waste and cost (labour and food).
Heart Lung Circ
June 2024
Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. Electronic address:
Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the most widely available and utilised imaging modality for the screening, diagnosis, and serial monitoring of all abnormalities related to cardiac structure or function. The primary objectives of this document are to provide (1) a guiding framework for treating clinicians of the acceptable indications for the initial and serial TTE assessments of the commonly encountered cardiovascular conditions in adults, and (2) the minimum required standard for TTE examinations and reporting for imaging service providers. The main areas covered within this Position Statement pertain to the TTE assessment of the left and right ventricles, valvular heart diseases, pericardial diseases, aortic diseases, infective endocarditis, cardiac masses, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases associated with cancer treatments or cardio-oncology.
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