Cairns Clinical School

Aileen Traves

Aileen Traves

Anna Vnuk

Anna Vnuk

Natalie Drever

Natalie Drever

Sarah Russell

Sarah Russell

Clare Heal

Clare Heal

Rachel Quigley

Rachel Quigley

Kane Langdon

Kane Langdon

Val Wallace

Val Wallace

Zinat Mohammadpour

Zinat Mohammadpour

Anne Creaton

Anne Creaton

Reducing Dementia Risk in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (Old ID 26279)
Rachel Quigley
01 Aug 2019 - 31 Jul 2025
The aim of the project is to address these issues through the development of a range of interventions to specifically target the high rates of dementia in Indigenous communities. This project will use a Participatory Action Research approach to enable communities to identify and prioritise dementia risk reduction strategies/potential risk and protective factors. Using a Continuous Quality Improvement Framework, primary health care centries will address modifiable dementia risk factors to change practice and systems through the development of culturally appropriate interventions. The outcome will be a culturally appropriate framework that incorporates evidence-based best-practice guidelines for delivering community specific interventions for risk reduction and prevention of dementia.
ADAPTTS - App-Based Diet and Physical Activity Tools for the Torres Strait (Old ID 27530)
Rachel Quigley
01 Mar 2022 - 01 Mar 2024
The aim of this project is to develop and validate dietary and physical activity assessment tools for use in the Torres Strait. Having culturally appropriate assessment tools embedded in primary health care services will facilitate appropriate identification and referral for at risk patients. This will promote best practice care in the region leading to better health outcomes and improved service delivery for the benefit of Torres Strait Islanders living in Far North Queensland. The project also is a collaboration between researchers at JCU Healthy Ageing Research Team (HART), clinical staff in TCHHS and local NGOs based in the Torres Strait.
Developing culturally appropriate assessments for people with dementia (Old ID 28929)
Rachel Quigley
01 Apr 2022 - 31 Dec 2023
This study's aim is to develop culturally appropriate measures of anxiety and depression for older adults living with dementia in the Torres Strait. This is of significance given high rates of psychological distress identified in First Nations peoples. Outcomes from the study will (1) improve the accurate and timely diagnosis of comorbid psychological conditions in people with dementia; and (2) clarify differential diagnosis of dementia in older Torres Strait adults. Having culturally appropriate tools will facilitate equity of assessment for treatment within an underserved and disadvantaged group and ensure appropriate treatment and management within this vulnerable population of older adults.
Strengthening the Quality of Dementia Care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Residential Aged Care (Old ID 27652)
Rachel Quigley
01 Feb 2022 - 31 May 2022
Aim: Develop and field-test an audit tool for assessing the standard of dementia care in Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander residential aged care (RAC), against Quality Standards and Best Practice guidelines for dementia care. Method: - Undertake scoping review on best practice dementia care; - Develop a standardised audit tool based on scoping review evidence; - Field-test tool to evaluate face and content validity and inter-rater reliability. Outcome: Best practice dementia care audit tool and accompanying manual. Significance: Groundwork for a larger funding application to Dementia Australia that will test the audit tool and inform the feasibility and acceptability of a continuous quality improvement approach for strengthening dementia care in Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander RAC.
Defining and predicting Healthy Ageing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Populations (HATS) (Old ID 26597)
Rachel Quigley
01 Jul 2019 - 31 May 2025
There is no current model of healthy ageing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island populations. Although there are many similarities to health related quality of life, there remain fundamental differences to the domains and uses for a model of healthy ageing. In response to worldwide population ageing, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently released a blueprint for Ageing and Health (2015). This document has produced a framework that may be applied to all populations. This blueprint has adopted a life course approach to health determinants and proposed a broad based intrinsic capacity of individuals that interactions with the environment and society. This framework will need to be strengthened with specific cultural and aspects for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island populations. We will apply this approach to our previously studied populations for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples to define healthy ageing. These studies include both longitudinal and cross-sectional studies. Using our previously studied cohorts from the last 15 years, we will then deer
Developing culturally appropriate tools to screen for common mental health disorders in older adults aged 45 and over living in the Torres Strait. (Old ID 27232)
Rachel Quigley
10 May 2021 - 30 Oct 2022
The aim of the study is to develop culturally appropriate mental health assessment tools for older adults (e.g. aged 45 and over) living in the Torres Strait. Data from yarning circles with Torres Strait community members and health care staff will be used to identify how mental health disorders are expressed in the Torres Strait. A Delphi process will then be used to identify appropriate tools for assessing these domains of mental ill health for use in older adults in the Torres Strait. These tools will then be piloted to determine acceptability and validated for use in the Torres Strait.
Caregiver Burden in the Torres Strait - are we asking the right questions? (Old ID 27480)
Rachel Quigley
27 Apr 2022 - 27 Apr 2024
The proposed project will investigate the best way to assess carer burden in the Torres Strait. Research suggests that current approaches to assessing carer burden may not accurately capture the Indigenous perspective of caregiver wellbeing. Yarning circles will be used to investigate carer experience in the Torres Strait. Yarning circles will focus on key issues such as the experience of burden, barriers to accessing support and providing care, and the health service response to carer issues. Findings will guide the development of a culturally appropriate framework for the assessment of carer burden, and provision of supports and tailored interventions.
HART Yarning Circle Training (Old ID 27254)
Rachel Quigley
01 May 2021 - 30 Jul 2021
The aim of this grant is to provide travel assistance to members of the Healthy Ageing Research Team living in the Torres Strait attend yarning circle training in Cairns provided by Professor Yvonne Cadet-James
A framework for healthy ageing in the Torres Strait (Old ID 26175)
Rachel Quigley
01 Jun 2019 - 31 May 2025
The aim of this project is to develop a culturally appropriate framework of healthy ageing for Torres Strait Comjmunities to enable older persons to remain living well at hme and on Country for as long as possible. Participatory Action Research (PAR) within a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) framework will be the overarching lmethodology for this project. The scope of the framework will be guided by the World Health organisation Framework of Healthy Ageing encompassing both intrinsic capacity and environmental characteristics that influence health outcomes.
Strong community, strong health: Exploring opportunities for chronic disease prevention in the Torres Strait (Old ID 27539)
Rachel Quigley
01 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2026
Despite a decrease in mortality rates from chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease since 2006, they still represent significant risk to the health and wellbeing of Australia’s First Nations peoples. This project will partner with First Nations people living in the Torres Strait to support their chronic disease outcomes by: 1) co-developing diet and physical activity (PA) tools; and 2) mapping social and environmental impacts on health in each partner community. This project will provide essential information about dietary and PA practices of people living in the Torres Strait.

Building a bridge from the swamp to the ivory tower: conducting randomised controlled trials in general practice

Immunisation rates of medical students at a tropical Queensland university

Care transitions as street-level work: providers' perspectives on the dilemmas and discretions of older people's transitions across acute, sub-acute and primary care

Regional to tertiary inter-hospital transfer versus in-house percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndrome

Risk factors for surgical site infection after minor dermatological surgery: a systematic review

Regulatory T-cell dynamics with abatacept treatment in rheumatoid arthritis

Care transition types across acute, sub-acute and primary care: case studies of older people with complex conditions and their carers

Transgender peoples' experiences and perspectives about general healthcare: a systematic review

Factors correlating to the propensity of general practitioners to substitute borderline vitamin B12 deficiency

A snapshot of current Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) practice at Australian medical schools

Title: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Leadership Academy
Reseracher: Kane Langdon (JCU Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
Title: Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy – Research Associate
Reseracher: Kane Langdon (JCU Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Australasian Society for Clinical Immunology and Allergy Conference Poster Prize
Reseracher: Kane Langdon (JCU Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Rural Australia Medical Undergraduate Scholarship
Reseracher: Kane Langdon (JCU Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2015
Title: SAPC 2024 Distinguished Paper Award
Reseracher: Clare Heal (Professor, General Practice and Rural Medicine)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2024
Title: Nutrition Society of Australia
Reseracher: Zinat Mohammadpour (Research Officer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2022
Title: Research Officer, James Cook University
Reseracher: Rachel Quigley (Principal Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2015
End Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Senior Research Worker, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service
Reseracher: Rachel Quigley (Principal Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2015
End Date: 01 Jan 2016
Title: Acting Allied Health Team Leader, Older Persons Evaluation, Rehabilitation and Assessment Unit, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service
Reseracher: Rachel Quigley (Principal Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2013
End Date: 01 Jan 2015
Title: Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University
Reseracher: Rachel Quigley (Principal Research Fellow)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019