33 results match your criteria: "University of Western Sydney Macarthur[Affiliation]"
This paper reports the results of a preliminary investigation into whether the drinking of alcohol contributes to impaired control of gambling behaviour. The sampling method consisted of a two-phase survey design, collecting data both prospectively 'within session' and retrospectively via a take-home questionnaire. One hundred sixteen people were interviewed while in a gaming venue playing on an electronic gaming machine (egm) of whom 34 men and 11 women also returned take-home surveys.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Ment Health Nurs
March 2002
University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health, PO Box 555, Campbelltown, NSW 2560, Australia.
Nurses are increasingly developing and coordinating quality improvement projects under the auspices of state, area health service and organization policies, however, ethical frameworks are commonly absent. This study aims to define key terms, provide an overview of current policy in relation to ethics and outline some procedures and processes for mental health nurses involved in such projects. The use of appropriate ethical frameworks has the potential to foster participation and safeguard participants by providing a greater assurance of integrity and confidentiality regarding quality improvement data collection, utilization and dissemination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIssues Ment Health Nurs
June 2001
Division of Nursing, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, P.O. Box 555, Campbelltown 2560, Sydney, Australia.
This article highlights the centrality of gender to mental health nursing practice by providing evidence that gendered assumptions are embedded in psychiatric knowledge. After a brief account of gendered rates of mental illness, the first two-thirds of this article explores formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria, casebook specificity, and processes involved in gaining a psychiatric diagnosis in relation to gender. In contemporary psychiatric practice the two tendencies of overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis are simultaneously evident, with woman-predominant styles of expressing distress being particularly associated with underdiagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Sci Q
October 1999
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Int J Psychophysiol
May 2001
Department of Sport Studies, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Bankstown, P.O. Box 555, Campbelltown 2560, Australia.
This study examined patterns of physiological activity in elite pistol shooters and compared them with novice shooters. Heart rate and electrodermal activity were recorded for three 150-s epochs. Participants performed part of the Standard Pistol Shooting Protocol, firing five rounds at a target 25 m distant within the first 150 s epoch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrain Inj
November 2000
University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
Objective: Paid attendant carers spend many hours assisting people with a brain injury. Despite this considerable responsibility, most carers receive little support or training and their roles are often ill-defined. This exploratory study set out to define the key roles of paid carers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmbul Surg
July 2000
Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, P.O. Box 555, NSW 2560, Campbelltown, Australia
As length of Australian hospital stays decreased, concerns were raised about benefits of shorter stays for older people. We investigated personal characteristics, perceived health outcomes (SF-36) and service use of day-only and other patients aged 70+, at one and 12 weeks after hospital discharge. Day-only patients were younger, had better self-reported health, were selected for orthopaedic, gastrointestinal and ophthalmic procedures and used similar levels of formal and informal services after discharge as people with longer stays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
December 1999
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, Australia.
This article aims to explore and explain some possible antecedents to behaviours revealed by consumers in mental health settings who evoke strong and often negative responses in nurses and other health professionals. The contemporary exemplar par excellence is people who are diagnosed as having a borderline personality disorder. The paper discusses four different but overlapping domains that may contribute to understanding the difficulties many nurses face in relation to working with consumers whose behaviours are complex and distressing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeonatal Netw
October 1999
Faculty of Health, Division of Nursing, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, NSW, Australia.
Purpose: To investigate the development of feelings of attachment between fathers and their preterm infants and to identify factors that help or hinder this process.
Design: A longitudinal descriptive design was used to obtain fathers' perceptions of their infants, feelings for their infants, and other related factors.
Sample: A convenience sample of 27 fathers of preterm infants was recruited.
Victim impact statements have been introduced in response to growing community concern about apparent neglect of victims in the criminal justice system. Their use in sentencing is a contentious issue, because victim characteristics such as resilience or fragility can contribute to impacts. Is it appropriate for sentences to be influenced by consequences arising from chance victim circumstances unforeseeable by the offender? In the interest of achieving an optimal fit between the justice system and community expectations, this research examined a neglected question: how does the public reason about the issue? Using offense vignettes presented to 260 people in Western Australia, sentencing decisions were found to vary according to consequences arising from victim characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Podiatr Med Assoc
February 2000
Division of Podiatry, University of Western Sydney-Macarthur, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
A range of patient-oriented and practitioner-oriented outcomes were used to evaluate the efficacy of "gait plate" shoe inlays in controlling symptoms associated with in-toeing in otherwise healthy children. For 18 in-toeing children, parents completed a preintervention questionnaire. Then, during randomized trials, foot placement angle was measured both with and without gait plate inlays in the children's footwear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Qual Clin Pract
December 1999
Division of Public Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
There is increasing recognition that many quality management initiatives in health care are undertaken without the appropriate development of a responsive and supportive organizational environment. In the present study, a multidisciplinary team was empowered to make appropriate changes in order to improve a variety of problem areas that affected the total pathology service of the hospital. Major changes were initially undertaken to develop a quality management environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddiction
May 1999
Department of Psychology, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Australia.
Unlabelled: Previous survey research with both clinical populations and random samples of the general population has established that individuals may experience harmful impacts arising from both their gambling and their consumption of alcohol. Experimental study of the interaction of alcohol consumption on gambling is notable for its absence from the literature.
Aim: To experimentally study the interaction of alcohol consumption and gambling behaviour.
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc
October 1999
Division of Podiatry, University of Western Sydney-Macarthur, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
Seventy-nine subjects from 14 centers in eight English National Health Service Trusts recorded their levels of preoperative and postoperative pain and perceived change in pain on 100-mm visual analog scales before and after scalpel debridement of painful plantar hyperkeratosis. A significant reduction in pain was reported following treatment, and there were highly significant differences between the preoperative and postoperative scores. There were no age- or sex-related differences in any of the preoperative, postoperative, or perceived-change scores.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContemp Nurse
March 1999
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, NSW.
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc
September 1999
University of Western Sydney-Macarthur, New South Wales, Australia.
Falls in older people are common and may lead to considerable disability. Although a number of risk factors for falling have been identified, the role of foot problems has received relatively little attention in the literature. This article reviews the literature pertaining to the prevalence of foot problems in older people and discusses the relationship of foot problems to functional impairment and falls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Podiatr Med Assoc
August 1999
Faculty of Health, Division of Podiatry, University of Western Sydney-Macarthur, Australia.
This article discusses the classification and treatment of proximal diaphyseal fifth metatarsal fractures. There are two types of proximal diaphyseal fracture of the fifth metatarsal: the acute proximal diaphyseal fracture and the proximal diaphyseal stress fracture. Confusion between the two types of fractures is probably due to their similar location and the historical practice of referring to all fractures in this location as Jones fractures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Podiatr Med Assoc
July 1999
University of Western Sydney-Macarthur, New South Wales, Australia.
Accidental falls in the older population are common and often result in serious injury. Although a number of factors have been recognized as risk factors for falling, the effect of footwear on postural stability is often overlooked. This article reviews the literature on the effect of various footwear features on postural stability and suggests areas that warrant further investigation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAust J Rural Health
February 1999
Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
Many Aboriginal people reside in rural and remote Australia. Aboriginal health workers were the informants in this exploratory-descriptive study, which explored issues pertaining to postacute care for older Aboriginal people. Qualitative analysis of interview data revealed several issues were viewed as being of crucial importance in the provision of effective postacute services to older Aboriginal people.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Podiatr Med Assoc
January 1999
Division of Podiatry, University of Western Sydney-Macarthur, New South Wales, Australia.
The evolution of the human foot presents an obfuscation: explanations for its occurrence and the exact nature of mechanisms of change are still not fully understood. This article outlines a model of adaptation from a primitive ape foot and presents this as a hypothesis. Evidence substantiating the hypothesis is then presented, which explains many of the large-scale features distinctive to the human foot.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Adv Nurs
December 1998
Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
Lebanese migrants form a significant proportion of the population in southwestern Sydney (SWS), and in New South Wales, Australia. This pilot study was undertaken in south-western Sydney, a rapidly expanding and socioeconomically disadvantaged region, to explore the experiences of English speaking women of Lebanese origin whose spouses had recently experienced an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven Lebanese-born women at 2- and 4-week intervals, following the discharge of their husbands from hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Qual Clin Pract
December 1998
Division of Public Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia.
A study was undertaken to identify the causes that contributed to poor quality pathology services for hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction. Through the use of continuous quality improvement (CQI) strategies, the procedure involved a systematic process analysis which assessed the types and sources of variation, and possible causal factors for changes in performance. Thirteen suspected causes of poor quality were identified and data collected to confirm or reject their involvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv
December 1998
Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
Correctional or prison mental health nursing is a highly specialized area of practice that has undergone substantive role development in recent years. However, little research has explored aspects of prison-based nursing practice or practice arrangements. The experience of delivering mental health nursing care in prison can be disempowering, resulting in feelings of frustration, isolation, and stigma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJAMA
November 1998
Research Unit for Complementary Medicine, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
Context: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional bowel disorder for which there is no reliable medical treatment.
Objective: To determine whether Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is of any benefit in the treatment of IBS.
Design: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted during 1996 through 1997.