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Researchers have revealed disadvantaged status drives higher smoking among Indigenous pregnant women in Australia, New Zealand, the ... they propose is partly due to the difficulty securing funding for trials that are focused on a relatively small sub-group. The team hopes ... developing novel, theory-based behavioral interventions for tobacco cessation with various populations including Alaska Native pregnant ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... risks to the health of individuals and communities are tobacco smoking, inadequate nutrition, risky alcohol consumption, and inadequate ... alcohol consumption, physical inactivity) Randomised controlled trials and complex community interventions Implementation scientist ... John Wiggers, population health, capacity building, smoking cessation, alcohol-related harm, obesity prevention, health services ...
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What are your research interests? Reducing health risks, for example smoking and exercise. Improving the quality of care to address the ... recently completed the largest ever national trial in smoking cessation programs for pregnant Aboriginal women. He has also led two of the largest cluster randomised community trials in cancer control and reducing alcohol harm. Professor ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... alcohol and other drugs who also have mental illness. Her pioneering smoking cessation research on people with psychosis has received wide ... promoted to Professor in 2009. Professor Baker has led the largest trials of treatments for substance use in major depression. These ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... helps reduce the risk of disease. Developing ways to help people stop smoking. Smoking continues to be the number one cause of disease in ... in this field of research, having led numerous randomised controlled trials (RCT) and cluster-RCTs of smoking cessation and multiple health behaviour change interventions. Together ...
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... of researchers working toward cancer prevention strategies such as smoking cessation, nutrition and lifestyle interventions. In partnership with ... and Palliative Care . Our teams are working on a range of clinical trials, often in association with collaborations including the Australia ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... To understand the influence of environmental factors on tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption in priority populations such as ... Islanders. To design health behaviour interventions for smoking cessation and reduction in risky alcohol consumption among priority ... health, mixed methods, econometric analysis and randomized controlled trials. His doctoral research focuses on the impact of vocation and ...
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... in comparison with the general population. Risk behaviours such as smoking, poor nutrition, harmful alcohol consumption and physical ... with a mental health condition who use their services. Clinical Trials Activity $2,823,845 awarded to Dr Rakshit Panwar and a team to ... who smoke, successfully quit during pregnancy. Group-based smoking cessation programs have been shown to increase quitting by 50 to 130% in ...
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... and his colleagues recently completed the largest trial in smoking cessation programs for pregnant Aboriginal women. He also led two of the largest cluster randomised community trials in cancer control and reducing alcohol harm. He is focused on ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... related to motivational interviewing and the cycle of change, smoking cessation for people with mental illness and psychosocial interventions ... health and substance use Motivational interviewing Effectiveness trials in mental health Affiliations HNE Mental Health - Nursing ...
