2005 PHCRED Collaboration Event

The 2005 PHCRED Collaboration event was held on 28th October in Port Lincoln and showcased Indigenous and non-Indigenous Primary Health Care Research and Evaluation.

Morning Session:
Chair: Paul Aylward, SA/NT/GGT Primary Health Care
Research & Evaluation (PHCRED) Coordinator
8:30 - Paul Aylward : Introduction to the day
8:35 - Brenton Richards, Barngarla Elder from the PL area and the Chairperson for the Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health service Inc :

Welcoming address
8:50 - Jackie Ah Kit (Director) & Tina Miller (Senior Aboriginal Health Worker), Port Lincoln Aboriginal Health Service Inc :
Aboriginal Health Services in Port Lincoln
Indigenous Research & Evaluation
Chair: Judy Taylor, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School (SGRHS), Whyalla

9:00 – 10:30 - Sonya Champion, Les Taylor & Maree Ellis : Nunyara Well-Being Centre, Whyalla Research Project Christine Franks : Gallinyalla: a town of substance? Alcohol, tobacco, medicines and other drug use in the Port Lincoln community Geraldine Anderson, Anthony Smith & Georgie Stamp : Dunjiba anangu tjutja Working Towards Social Change in their Remote Community: An evaluation project Tahnia Edwards, Ricky Mentha & Anita Curtis : Making Research Culturally Safe

10:30 – 11:00 Morning break/networking
Navigating Pathways in Research Capacity Development
Chair: Lee Martinez, PHCRED Coordinator SGRHS

11:00 – 12:00
Alwin Chong : PHCRED and Indigenous Research Capacity Building
Merridy Malin : Pathways to Building Indigenous Research Capacity – Developing a TAFE Indigenous Research Course
Karin Piper : PHCRED – Being Creative in the Northern Territory
Cate Howell : Journey into Research – Research: any regrets?

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and poster discussion (1:00 – 1:30)
Afternoon Session
PHC – Research across the SA/NT/GGT partnership – Diverse Challenges
Chair: Karin Ried, Flinders University

1:30 – 2:45
Paul & Mary Holmes : Volunteering – Why Do It?
Heather Tan : The Family Meeting as an Instrument for the Spiritual Care of Palliative Patients and Their Families – Does it help?
Tuesday Udell : How the Media Portrays the Causes of Obesity in Children – The Role of the Coalition on Food Advertising to Children in the Australian Media Debate 2002–2005 Antonina Mikocka-Walus et al : Psychological Disorders in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Co-morbidity and the Ways of Treatment – The review of literature Jodie Shoobridge : Does Alcohol and Other Drug Training have an Impact? A Systematic Review of AOD Training Outcomes – Implications for practice

2:45-3:00 Afternoon break/Information networking
PHC – Research across the SA/NT/GGT partnership – General Practice Research and Evaluation
Chair: Nigel Stocks, University of Adelaide

3:00 – 4:00
Russell Tait : SMaRT Self-management and Recovery Tool
James Allen : Patient Satisfaction Surveys – A ten year view
Susan Selby : The Development of a Program in General Practice to Deal with Issues of Loss and Grief in Cross-cultural Workers on Re-entry
Glenys Bissett : Evaluating the Orientation of Overseas Trained Doctors

4:00 Close
Poster Presentations:
Louisa Matwiejczyk : An evaluation of a pilot
childcare nutrition intervention initiative in South Australia
Paul Burgess : Healthy land, healthy people
Allie Di Marco : Wheelchair Prescription in Spinal Cord Injury – Outcomes after five years
Caroline Laurence, Zak Baig & Sharon Campbell : Management of ccute myocardial infarction by GPs in a rural setting
Sharon Campbell, John Campbell & Glenda Woodward : Getting evidence into practice using an Asthma Desktop Tool
Carla DeAngelis et al : Enhancing the uptake and completion of cardiac rehabilitation in south-west Victoria
Sonia Champion, Brenda Carter & Les Taylor : Aboriginal people promoting well-being within their own community of
Whyalla through Participatory Action Research