Physiotherapy Research

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Kleiner, A,  Keating, J,Wise, K,  Haines, T

Evaluating the effect of two new program components on anatomy learning and appreciation

To determine the effect on assessment outcomes when a standardized anatomy curriculum was supplemented either by drawing classes related to anatomy or tutor supported self-directed learning tasks utilizing interactive computer programs

Haines T,  Hill A,  Hill K,  McKenna K, Brauer S, Oliver D, Hoffmann T, Beer C, McPhail S

RCT of multi-media patient education for prevention of falls in older hospital patients

NHMRC project grant 456097 – N=1206 participants have been randomly allocated across 3 groups. N=350 are being followed-up for a further 6 months post discharge.

Haines T, Bell R, Varghese P

Cluster RCT of low-low beds for prevention of in-hospital falls and fall injury

N = 18 hospital wards matched and randomly allocated with half to receive low-low hospital beds.  N=22,036 patients admitted during study observation period.

Borg C, Gulyas C, Haines T

Psychological morbidity and impact on rehabilitation outcomes

Epidemiologic investigation of impact of psychological morbidity on outcomes from inpatient rehabilitation

Jack N, Haines T

RCT of self-selected music listening for enhancing psychological outcomes during stroke rehabilitation

RCT of self selected music listening intervention.

Ryan D, Keating J, Hoggins T, Haines T

RCT of phase one cardiac rehabilitation program

Pilot Solomon RCT n=31.

Hill K, Moore K, Haines T, Robinson A, Nitz J.

Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing - Evidence Based Practice in Residential Aged Care projects

Evaluation of an action research approach to implementing evidence based practice across 9 residential aged care facilities

Vicenzino B, Chang A, Haines T, Fisher M, Nitz J, Low-Choy N, Yang I, Jackson C

Chronic disease self management or pulmonary rehabilitation for people with chronic obstructive airways disease

RCT with 12 month follow-up and concurrent economic evaluation

Haines T, Srikanth V, Browning C, Brown T, Keating J, Iacono T, Workman B, New P, Hampson R, Oldmeadow L.

Enhancing uptake of evidence based practice by allied health professionals

Observational and active parallel control group investigation of allied health attitudes towards evidence based practice and an innovative knowledge transfer and exchange activity to enhance this.

Comans T, Haines T, Brauer S

Domiciliary vs Centre-based therapy for rehabilitation of older adults

RCT with 6 month follow-up and concurrent economic evaluation

Purcell A, Fleming J, Haines T, McGuane K, Burmeister B

Cancer-related fatigue in radiation therapy patients

Prospective cohort study of factors associated with cancer-related fatigue.  Factorial RCT of educational program to minimise impact of cancer-related fatigue.

Fleming J, Worrall L, Cornwell P, Haines T, Kendall M, Chenoweth L

Success of transition from hospital to home for people with acquired brain injury

ARC-Linkage project – N=220 people with ABI are being followed up for 6 months post-discharge from hospital

Haines T, Sinnamon P, Wetzig N, Lehman M, Walpole E, Pratt T, Smith A

Multidimensional exercise for women following surgery for breast cancer

RCT with 6 month follow-up and concurrent economic evaluation

Jull G, Peterson R, O'Connor V, McMeeken J , Blackstock F, Morris N, Wright A, Jones A, Rivett D, Haines T

Innovations in clinical education of physiotherapy students

ARC linkage project: 4 multi-centre RCT’s with pre-planned meta-analysis and economic evaluation

Haines T, Jasiewicz J, Russell T, Urry S, Condie P, Brauer S

The Kitchen Table Exercise Program

RCT of multimedia exercise program for enhancement of quality of life and prevention of falls post hospital discharge N=53

Haines T, Jasiewicz J, Urry S, Condie P, Schuetz M, Baxter B, Tonks P.

Advancing ankle assessment

Laboratory based, qualitative and epidemiological assessment of rehabilitation of the ankle joint following fracture.

Cornwell P, Haines T, Fleming J, Bennett M, Olson S.

Care requirements following diagnosis of brain tumour

Qualitative investigation amongst patients and carers following diagnosis of brain tumour

Green S, McKenzie J, Grimshaw J, Mortimer D, Keating J, Walker B.

Improving the care for people with acute low back pain by allied health professionals: cluster RCT

This NHMRC funded project investigates the translation of clinical practice guidelines to best practice methods in primary care providers. It explores barriers and facilitators and tests the effects of an implementation strategy designed to improve guideline uptake.

Iacano T, Galea, J, Brown T, Williams B, Keating J, Tracy J, Recoche K,  Lewis B, MacDonald R

A Comparison of Inter-Professional Education Strategies Using a Video Case Scenario of Developmental Disability             

This study will compare before and after scores on the Interaction with Disabled Persons scale when students of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and health science are assessed before and after learning activities utilised a video case scenario of a person with developmental disability.

A second component of this study  is to assess the properties of the Interaction with Disabled Persons scale by (a) determining if Factor 1 again emerges as the only replicable factor using exploratory factor analysis, (b) testing items associated with this factor using Rasch analysis to determine if it in fact comprises a single dimension and c) using Rasch to identify the hierarchy of item difficulty and its consistency.

Maloney S, Keating Jl 

Creating and populating a searchable online resource repository supporting efficient and innovative teaching and learning for Monash Physiotherapy staff and students

This project is developing a searchable database for storing all teaching and learning material that supports the education of students in the department of physiotherapy.

Maloney S, Ilic D, Keating J, McConologue K, Benson R, Kotsanos  G

Producing a market research informed e-learning template, for interprofessional online module development, of health care professionals

This project explores the market view of desirable content and attributes of on-line learning modules for health care professionals

Keating J, Davidson M, Bennett M,

Chipchase L, Morris M,

Laakso L

Palliative Care for Undergraduate Physiotherapy students. Funded by The Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates (PCC4U) Project

This project brings 6 universities together in exploring ideal methods and content for teaching palliative care to physiotherapy students.

Maloney  S,  Storr M,  Morgan P

Clinical skill acquisition; the effect of student video simulation and reflection in addition to practical class delivery

The project evaluates a new teaching innovation within the physiotherapy program aiming at improving skill acquisition and improving clinical performance in the upcoming clinical units.

Maloney  S,  Lo K,  Storr M,  Osadnik C,  Paynter S,  Haines T

The impact of database of curriculm resources on student learning and clinical educator engagement

This project aims to evaluate the impact of Physeek on student learning and clinical educator engagement.  The project has two main components – an audit of the resources being accessed and a qualitative study looking at the experiences of the database from the perspective of the various stakeholders

Stapleton C, Oldmeadow L Pilkington D, Perry G (Dr)

Gresle D, Massey-Chase A

Hinvichsen H

A strengthening exercise program for chronic kidney disease patients during haemodialysis: a pilot study

Quasi-randomised design with two non-equivalent groups: one group will participate in a strengthening exercise program while receiving all aspects of their usual care. The second group will receive all usual care only. Multidisciplinary project at Peninsula Health

Edwards K, Oldmeadow L

Physical activity limitations in chronic kidney disease patients receiving haemodialysis

This qualitative study is to gather information about activities that CKD patients attending the Frankston Hospital Dialysis Unit would like to do in their daily lives but have difficulty with.

Harrowfield S ,Oldmeadow L, Jones J,Hunt A, Storr M

Discharge outcomes for patients undergoing elective hip or knee arthroplasty at Peninsula Health : an audit

This project will investigate the outcomes of elective surgery patients on an Orthopaedic pathway of care.

Cotton A, Harrowfield S,

Oldmeadow L, Ratcliffe L

Archbold T, Boughan N (Mr)

The effect of exercise and weight loss on pain, disability and priority for surgery for patients with hip or knee arthritis referred to an orthopaedic surgical outpatient clinic.

Before-after prospective cohort study of patients with hip and knee arthritis, prioritised as non- urgent for consideration for surgery participating in an intensive exercise and weight loss program.

Stapleton C, Hough P, Oldmeadow L, Bull K, Hill K

Greenwood K

A 4-item falls risk screening tool for sub-acute and residential aged care: The first step in falls prevention

A revised manuscript is under review by the Australasian Journal on Ageing.

Oldmeadow L, Bloomer M

Building research capacity: On-line ‘learn-by-doing’ project

This project explores the potential to increase the number of Peninsula Health physiotherapists involved in clinical research by time saving on-line mentorship.

Kimmel L, Oldmeadow L, Sage C, Liu S, Holland A

Three day hospital stay following hip or knee arthroplasty: Who should be selected?

Prospective observational study of 50 elective surgery patients admitted to a designated short stay unit at The Alfred

Kimmel L, Edwards E, Dixon M, Holland A, Oldmeadow L

Rest easy: is bed rest really necessary after surgical repair of an ankle fracture?

RCT of 104 patients at The Alfred. This study will add to our knowledge regarding safe early mobilisation in another orthopaedic surgical patient population.

Lo K, Maloney S, Haines T

Predicting students that need clinical support – an epidemiological study

This project evaluates predictors for students that may need support in the clinical environment

Nickson W, Paynter S, Haines T

Determine the inter-rater reliability of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) tool.

This project aims to determine the inter-rater reliability of the OSCE tool utilised in the musculoskeletal stream  of the Bachelor of Physiotherapy

Paynter S, Nickson W, Haines T

Audiovisual modeling and clinical skill acquisition in first year physiotherapy students

Investigation of whether the acquisition of clinical skills is enhanced by DVD expert modelling. Results of the physical examination component of OSCE exams in Year 1 student cohorts before and after the introduction of the DVD will be compared.

PhD STUDENTS RESEARCH

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Slade, S

Keating, J

Exercise for chronic low back pain

This research explores exercises  for low back pain, how they have been prescribed, whether exercise type makes a difference and factors that affect compliance.

Hodgson, C

Keating, J

Tuxen, D

Holland, A

Lung Recruitment Manoeuvres  in Intensive Care Patients

This  thesis investigates the safety and efficacy of recruitment manoeuvers in patients with acute lung injury requiring mechanical ventilation in intensive care.

Hill, J

Keating J

Factors predictive of first incidence of low back pain

There is currently no assessment procedure, and no consensus regarding the best method for predictive screening for children at risk of developing low back pain (LBP).  This thesis investigates factors that place children and adolescents at risk of developing LBP and the methods that have been used to assess these factors .

Dalton, M

Keating, J

Davidson, M

Development of an instrument for assessment of clinical competence of physiotherapy students

This  project aims to:

• develop a competency based assessment instrument to evaluate the performance of physiotherapy students in the workplace;
• investigate and refine the psychometric properties of the instrument; and
• investigate the viability of using the instrument as a measure of physiotherapy competency in the practice environment.

Watson, D

Keating, J

Optimal fracture immobilisation periods

This thesis investigates best practice in the management of distal radial fractures and explores optimal immobilisation periods following ORIF

Vu, T

Day, L

Haines, T

Finch, C

Evidence based targeting of statewide strategies for preventing falls among community dwelling older people in Victoria

This research will identify factors associated with high healthcare costs attributable to fall-related hospitalisations, and investigation of a theoretical framework to explain participation in falls prevention activities.

Davis, A

Haines, T

Murphy, A

Footwear and the prevention of falls

This research will incorporate laboratory-based investigation of gait biomechanics, and evaluation of a footwear prescription service for older adults.

MASTERS BY RESEARCH

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Chari, S

Haines, T

The role of extrinsic  factors on the risk of falls and injuries among older people in hospital

HONOURS STUDENTS RESEARCH

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Gregory, N

Stepto, N

Keating, J

How does exhaustive exercise alter decision making, skill performance and cognition in AFL players

Shipperd, B

Stepto, N

Keating, J

Does amino acid supplementation prevent changes in decision making, skill performance and cognition in AFL players that occur with exhaustion?

McBain, B

Green, S

Update an existing Cochrane review: Physiotherapy interventions for shoulder pain

Wesley, K

O’Connor, M

Keating, J

Identifying physiotherapy needs of patients receiving palliative care in in-patient settings

Jenkins, M

Kent, P

Is low back pain ‘irritability’ related to pain, activity or fear-avoidance beliefs

Terrens, F

Huxham, F

Keating, J

An assessment of balance under variable medication effects

Knight, M

Scholes, R

High-fidelity patient stimulation in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy undergraduate education

Lewis, J

De Morton, N

Keating, J

Normative data for a new mobility outcome measure

Davenport, S

De Morton, N

Keating, J

Reliability and validity of a new mobility measure

Jenvey, O

Stepto, N

Keating, J

Intensified interval training on running time

Williams, J

Day, L

Association between physical performance and self-reported function

Chamberlain, M

De Morton, N

Paynter, S

Keating, J

What is the best instrument for assessing community participation of older people?

Fitzsimmons, J

Mitchell, B

Keating, J

Recurrence rates of lumbar (and/or sacroiliac) Radiofrequency Neurotomy (RFN): Does a core strengthening program change pain/function outcome? A controlled trial

Batterham, S

Heywood, S

Keating, J

Comparison of functional rehabilitation in aquatic and land based physiotherapy

Jenkins, B

Jaberzadeh, S

Morgan, P

Does dual-task exercise training improve dual-task performance?  A pilot study.

Deutron, K

Scholes, R

The perceived effectiveness of an educational package in improving knowledge and performance of physiotherapy in toddler and young children with cystic fibrosis (Pt I)

Nash, C

Vivian, D

Keating, J

Validity of methods used to assess the presence of neuropathic back pain

Hu, S

Millard, G

Broad, L

Keating, J

What factors predict incontinence at 6 months after child birth

Jefferson, H

Hough, P

Morgan, P

Keating, J

Reliability of knee pedometers in older walkers

Loninski, E

Scholes, R

The perceived effectiveness of an educational package in improving knowledge and performance of physiotherapy in toddler and young children with cystic fibrosis(Pt II)

Last, S

Whitelock, H

Keating, J

Clinical practice guidelines for pool rescue training

Johnstone, A

Keating, J

Are physiotherapists and GPs recommending exercise for prevention and treatment of high blood pressure

Sansom, P

Hough, J

Morgan, P

What is known about the reliability and validity of techniques for measuring range of movement in children with cerebral palsy?

Simek, J

Bernhardt, J

Collier, J

Jaberzadeh, S

Morgan, P

What is known about the reliability and validity of techniques for assessing physical activity/behaviour in acute stroke?

Gladwell, E

Haines, T

O’Conor, D

What is known about the effects of physical activity compared to other interventions for  institutionalized older adults with delirium on the measures of delirium

Carroll, H

Heywood, S

Cronin, S

Keating, J

What is best practice in the prescription of exercise for Type 2 diabetes

Robins, L

Haines, T

What is the effect of physical activity on community participation or isolation of older adults, particularly house bound

Yeo, D

Jaberzadeh, S

Storr, M

Zoghi, M

What is known about the effects of sensory facilitation on muscle activation compared to no sensory input or alternative stimulation

De Souza, K

Keating, J

Molly, L

Francis-Cracknell, A

What is known about methods that have been used to teach public speaking skills

Archibald, D

Keating, J

Slade, S

What is known about  the effects of motivational interviewing  in the management of chronic illness, and in particular for low back pain

Doyle-Jones, B

Jaberzadeh, S

Storr, M

Zoghi, M

What is known about the effects of motor facilitation on muscle activation compared to no sensory input or alternative stimulation