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How Professionals Work And Learn In Digitalised Work Contexts: Insights From An Australian Survey Of Education Professionals, Shirley Agostinho, Lori Lockyer, Kellie Buckley-Walker, Sarojni Choy, Sue Bennett, Allison Littlejohn, Claire Rogerson

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How professionals work and learn in digitalised work contexts The Australian Research Council Discovery project titled: “Investigating Professional Learning Lives in the digital evolution of work” (DP210100164) investigated how Education and Health professionals in Australia learn as they work in increasingly digitalised work contexts through a survey.

The survey was sent to members of 11 Education and 10 Health Australian professional associations.

The survey ran from August to November 2022.

This report presents the findings of Education professionals’ responses to this survey (299 responses).

Overwhelmed And Frustrated: Experiences Of Workplace Sexual Harassment And Discrimination; The Barriers Faced With The Legal System, Amanda Chan, Zana Bytheway, Jessica C. Oldfield, Rachel Loney-Howes, Georgina Heydon

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With the high volume of sexual harassment and discrimination calls to the JobWatch Telephone Information Service, JobWatch was interested in understanding the gap in justice system data about the non-legal and legal actions that are taken by workers after being provided with information about their issue. To address this information gap, JobWatch undertook a survey of these TIS callers.

227 people responded to the JobWatch 2022 Workplace Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Survey and 202 people consented to share their response in this research report.

“This Side Is The Real World And The Other One Is Like Minecraft” Using An Almost Wordless Picture Book To Explore Japanese Primary School Students’ Cultural Awareness, Michael Burri, Jessica Mantei, Lisa Kervin

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English has been introduced as a core subject in primary schools across Asia over the past decade. Besides aiming to improve the English proficiency of Japanese primary school students, Japan’s recent reforms also mandate the development of children’s awareness of cultures other than their own. However, relatively little is known about pedagogical strategies to achieve cultural awareness in the Japanese primary school classroom. The objective of this study was, therefore, to utilize an almost wordless picture book and examine the ways children interpret stories about people from cultures other than their own. This study explored the independent meaning-making practices and …

How Efl Teachers Perceive And Self-Evaluate The Knowledge Components In Forming Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Tpack), Leimin Shi, Lili Jiang

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Technology is widely involved across the learning environment including its integration into teaching English as a foreign language (EFL); however, few studies have explored EFL teachers’ perceptions of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). This study investigates how EFL teachers perceive and self-evaluate knowledge of content (CK), pedagogy (PK), and technology (TK), the interplay of these with each other (TPACK), and the underlying influential factors for TPACK construction. The data were gathered in China from an online survey (n = 64) comprising 35 items on the TPACK components, and self-evaluation by nine survey participants of their TPACK in follow-up interviews. …

A Thanatopolitical Visualisation Of Accounting History: Giorgio Agamben And Nazi Germany, Erin Twyford

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The extensive measures taken to destroy a people are facilitated by a complex matrix of interrelated actors and practices, yet there remains an underdeveloped implication of accounting in the wider moral and political imperatives. The purpose of this article is to introduce a thanatopolitical visualisation of accounting history adapted from the work of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. The theoretical triptych implicates business and accounting in the State-sanctioned financial, political and actual deaths of people. Through reference to Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and the companies Deutsche Bank and Ford Werke, the utility of the theoretical device is illustrated, and silences in …

Relative Age Effects On Academic Achievement In The First Ten Years Of Formal Schooling: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Prospective Study, Myrto F. Mavilidi, Herbert W. Marsh, Kate M. Xu, Phillip D. Parker, Pauline W. Jansen, Fred Paas

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The effects of school starting age and relative age effects (RAEs) have generated much interest from parents, teachers, policymakers, and educational researchers. Our 10-year longitudinal study is based on a nationally representative (N = 4,983) prospective sample from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. The primary outcomes are results from the high-stake, Australia-wide National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy tests in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9, controlling for demographic characteristics (gender, socioeconomic status, school type, and childhood cognition measured before the start of kindergarten). We evaluated how direct and mediated RAEs vary over the first 10 years of schooling …

"I Actually Felt More Confident": An Online Resource For Enhancing Pre-Service Teacher Resilience During Professional Experience, Caroline Mansfield, Susan Beltman, Noelene L. Weatherby-Fell

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One responsibility of teacher education is to provide opportunities for pre-service teachers to build skills and strategies to develop confidence for overcoming challenges and build their professional resilience, yet how students learn these skills is not clearly understood. This study examines how engaging with online modules influenced participants' efficacy and resilience during their final professional experience practicum. Interviews with 13 Australian pre-service teachers revealed that the module content and design reactivated existing knowledge, taught new emotional regulation and coping strategies, encouraged self-awareness and reflection, and built confidence. While further research is needed, participants used their new found knowledge during their …

A Gis-Based Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process (F-Ahp) For Ecotourism Suitability Decision Making: A Case Study Of Babol In Iran, Hasan Zabihi, Mohsen Alizadeh, Isabelle D. Wolf, Mohammadreza Karami, Anuar Ahmad, Hasan Salamian

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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Managing ecotourism through appropriate zoning is critical for land use planning. This study is the first to integrate a geographic information system (GIS) with a Fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process (F-AHP) to evaluate the relative importance of physical, natural, environmental, and socio-economic factors for determining the suitability of ecotourism sites. Eleven factors were selected through questionnaire-based surveying of 35 ecotourism and land management experts. F-AHP was applied to weight these factors in order to index and map the suitability of an Iranian case study area for ecotourism using GIS data. A reliable model for the identification of zone …

An Intervention For Mental Health Literacy And Resilience In Organized Sports, Stewart A. Vella, Christian Swann, Marijka Batterham, Katherine Boydell, Simon Eckermann, Helen Ferguson, Andrea Fogarty, Diarmuid Hurley, Sarah Liddle, Chris Lonsdale, Andrew Miller, Michael Noetel, Anthony D. Okely, Taren Sanders, Matthew Schweickle, Joanne Telenta, Frank P. Deane

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PURPOSE: In this study we tested the effectiveness of a multi-component sports-based program aimed at promoting early intervention, help-seeking and resilience among a sample of adolescent male sport participants. METHODS: The Ahead of the Game program comprised four intervention components and a messaging campaign. Two components targeted mental health literacy, intentions to seek and provide help, and resilience among adolescent males. A mental health literacy program for parents, and a coach education program to assist in the support of athletes' psychological needs were also included. We evaluated the program using a non-randomised controlled trial matching two regional communities. In total, …

Waitresses At Sea: Gender, Race And Service Labour On Ocean Liners, C.1930s–1960s, Frances Steel

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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Service labour on ships was feminised, but it was monopolised by men. Besides the limited role of the stewardess, women were not employed in general service positions until the 1930s when they began to be hired as waitresses in place of male dining-room stewards. This article considers the conditions of possibility for American and British lines recruiting white women in preference to men. This occurred at two significant junctures. Firstly, during the 1930s as race became more crucial to employment on American ships in transoceanic trades, and …

“We Are Feeling Older Than Our Age”: Vulnerability And Adaptive Strategies Of Aging People To Cyclones In Coastal Bangladesh, Md Abdul Malak, Abdul Sajib, Mohammad Quader, Humayra Anjum

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Bangladesh has been affected by the adverse impact of natural hazards such as cyclones, floods, erosion, salinity intrusion, and so on due to the changes in global climate variability. Among the environmental stressors, tropical cyclones frequently impact the coastal people of Bangladesh. This paper details a study on the vulnerability and adaptation strategies of older people in the face of cyclones in a coastal location in Bangladesh using qualitative strategy of enquiry. Field data have been collected through 32 semi-structured interviews, three focus group discussions, and three oral history in three selected villages (Lebubunia, Gabura and Dumuria) in the study …

The Paradoxical Decline And Growth Of Trust As A Function Of Borderline Personality Disorder Trait Count: Using Discontinuous Growth Modelling To Examine Trust Dynamics In Response To Violation And Repair, Gamze Abramov, Sebastien R. Miellet, Jason Kautz, Brin F. S Grenyer, Frank P. Deane

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with paradoxical trust cognitions and behaviours. While BPD is associated with difficulty forming trust and maintaining cooperation in trust-based exchanges, design and analytical methodology best suited to reveal the temporal ebb and flow of trust have been underutilized. We used an economic game to examine the trajectories of trust as it forms, dissolves, and restores in response to trust violation and repair, and to explain how these vary as a function of borderline pathology. Young adults (N = 234) played a 15-round trust game in which partner trustworthiness was varied to create three phases: …

Proximal And Distal Predictors Of Self-Regulatory Change In Children Aged 4 To 7 Years, Kate Williams, Steven J. Howard

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Background: Growth in early self-regulation skills has been linked to positive health, wellbeing, and achievement trajectories across the lifespan. While individual studies have documented specific influences on self-regulation competencies in early childhood, few have modelled a comprehensive range of predictors of self-regulation change across health, development, and environment simultaneously. This study aimed to examine the concurrent associations among a range of proximal and distal influences on change in children's self-regulation skills over 2 years from age 4-5 years. Methods: Data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (N = 4983) were used in a structural equation model, predicting a multi-source …

The Questionnaire Survey As More-Than-Human Achievement, Carrie Wilkinson, Leah Maree Gibbs, Gordon R. Waitt

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Geography is fostering a diverse range of methodologies that engage the more-than-human dimensions of research. Debates surround the efficacy of both longstanding and emergent methodological approaches in grappling with how to do more-than-human geography. Much attention has been given to the methodological implications of theoretical debates that evoke distributed agency and calls to “enliven” research. To date, however, questionnaire surveys have not been considered as part of these deliberations. Survey response rates are normally reported as percentages, with scholarly attention focusing on how question design, financial incentives, and delivery format may influence human engagement with the questionnaire. Little attention has …

Factors Associated With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Mdr-Tb) In Bhutan: A Nationwide Case-Control Study, Chador Tenzin, Natkamol Chansatitporn, Tashi Dendup, Tandin Dorji, Karma Lhazeen, Dorji Tshering, Thinley Pelzang

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BACKGROUND: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a growing public health concern globally. In Bhutan, the rates of MDR-TB are high. Data on the risk factors of MDR-TB that can help inform policies are limited in Bhutan. This study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with MDR-TB. METHODS: A nationwide unmatched case-control study was conducted that included 79 MDR-TB cases and 118 controls. Data was collected by trained health workers through interviews using a structured questionnaire. Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the risk factors associated with MDR-TB. RESULTS: The mean age of the participants was 32.4 and 33.7 years …

Compulsivity Is Measurable Across Distinct Psychiatric Symptom Domains And Is Associated With Familial Risk And Reward-Related Attentional Capture, Lucy Albertella, Samuel Chamberlain, Mike Le Pelley, Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Rico Lee, Lauren Den Ouden, Rebecca A. Segrave, Jon Grant, Murat Yucel

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BACKGROUND.: Compulsivity can be seen across various mental health conditions and refers to a tendency toward repetitive habitual acts that are persistent and functionally impairing. Compulsivity involves dysfunctional reward-related circuitry and is thought to be significantly heritable. Despite this, its measurement from a transdiagnostic perspective has received only scant research attention. Here we examine both the psychometric properties of a recently developed compulsivity scale, as well as its relationship with compulsive symptoms, familial risk, and reward-related attentional capture. METHODS.: Two-hundred and sixty individuals participated in the study (mean age = 36.0 [SD = 10.8] years; 60.0% male) and completed the …

Being Perceived And Being "Seen": Interpersonal Affordances, Agency, And Selfhood, Nick Brancazio

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Copyright 2020 Brancazio. Are interpersonal affordances a distinct type of affordance, and if so, what is it that differentiates them from other kinds of affordances? In this paper, I show that a hard distinction between interpersonal affordances and other affordances is warranted and ethically important. The enactivist theory of participatory sense-making demonstrates that there is a difference in coupling between agent-environment and agent-agent interactions, and these differences in coupling provide a basis for distinguishing between the perception of environmental and interpersonal affordances. Building further on this foundation for understanding interpersonal affordances, I argue that in line with some enactivist work …

Capitalism In Australia: New Histories For A Reimagined Future, Ben Huf, Yves Rees, Michael Beggs, Nicholas Brown, Frances Flanagan, Shannyn Palmer, Simon Ville

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The Author(s) 2020. Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passé. Now, after a decade of political and economic turmoil, capitalism and its temporal critique of progress and decline again seems an indispensable category to understanding a world in flux. Among the social sciences, historians have led both the embrace and critique of this 're-emergent' concept. This roundtable discussion between leading and emerging Australian scholars working across histories of economy, work, policy, geography and political economy, extends this agenda. Representing the outcome of a workshop convened …

From Backyards To Balconies: Cultural Norms And Parents’ Experiences Of Home In Higher-Density Housing, Sophie-May Kerr, Natascha Klocker, Christopher R. Gibson

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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Families increasingly make home in higher-density housing, a major transition for low-density suburban cities. Adjusting to everyday life in apartments requires distinctive material and emotional homemaking practices, particularly for families with children. Dominant cultural norms frame detached housing as more appropriate, with apartments merely transitional, or ‘unhomely’ and unsuitable for children. Scarcely has research examined how cultural norms shape parents’ experiences of home in apartments. This paper responds by analysing experiences of 18 apartment-dwelling families in Sydney, Australia. Conceptual influences from emotional geographies reveal the work of …

Perspectives Of Vietnamese, Sudanese And South Sudanese Immigrants On Targeting Migrant Communities For Latent Tuberculosis Screening And Treatment In Low-Incidence Settings: A Report On Two Victorian Community Panels, Christopher J. Degeling, Stacy M. Carter, Katie Dale, Kasha Singh, Krista Watts, Julie Hall, Justin Denholm

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) elimination strategies in Australia require a focus on groups who are at highest risk of TB infection, such as immigrants from high-burden settings. Understanding attitudes to different strategies for latent TB infection (LTBI) screening and treatment is an important element of justifiable elimination strategies. Method: Two community panels were conducted in Melbourne with members of the Vietnamese (n = 11), Sudanese and South Sudanese communities (n = 9). Panellists were provided with expert information about LTBI and different screening and health communication strategies, then deliberated on how best to pursue TB elimination in Australia. Findings: Both panels …

Review Of The Online One Welfare Portal: Shared Curriculum Resources For Veterinary Undergraduate Learning And Teaching In Animal Welfare And Ethics, Paul Mcgreevy, Anne Fawcett, Jane Johnson, Rafael Freire, Teresa Collins, Christopher J. Degeling, Andrew Fisher, Susan Hazel, Jennifer Hood, Janice Lloyd, Clive Phillips, Kevin Stafford, Michelle Hyde, Bethany Wilson, Vicky Tzioumis

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article introduces the online One Welfare learning and teaching portal (OWP) and describes its development, use, importance and relevance to animal welfare and ethics (AWE) stakeholders. As animal welfare issues increase in importance, veterinarians must be trained to lead the science that underpins AWE discourses. The OWP is a collection of resources designed to engage and challenge veterinary science students as they become advocates for animals. It was developed collaboratively by all eight veterinary schools in Australia and New Zealand, and funded by the Australian Government Office for Learning and …

Theorising Transdisciplinary Research Encounters: Energy And Illawarra, Australia, Gordon R. Waitt

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Risk Factors For Indicators Of Opioid-Related Harms Amongst People Living With Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: Findings From A 5-Year Prospective Cohort Study, Gabrielle Campbell, Firouzeh Noghrehchi, Suzanne Nielsen, Phillip Clare, Raimondo Bruno, Nicholas Lintzeris, Milton Cohen, Fiona Blyth, Wayne Hall, Briony K. Larance, Phillip Hungerford, Timothy Dobbins, Michael Farrell, Louisa Degenhardt

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2020 The Authors Background: The literature suggests patient characteristics and higher opioid doses and long-term duration are associated with problematic opioid behaviours but no one study has examined the role of all these factors simultaneously in a long-term prospective cohort study. Methods: Five-year, community-based, prospective cohort of people prescribed opioids for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP). Logistic mixed effect models with multiple imputation were used to address missing data. Oral morphine equivalent (OME) mg per day was categorised as: 0 mg OME/day, 1-49 mg OME/day (reference), 50-89 mg OME/day, 90-199 mg OME/day and 200mg+ OME/day. Patient risk factors included: age, gender, …

International Study Of Movement Behaviors In The Early Years (Sunrise): Results From Sunrise Sweden's Pilot And Covid-19 Study, Christine Nystrom, Christina Alexandrou, Maria Henstrom, Ellinor Nilsson, Anthony D. Okely, Serina El Masri, Marie Lof

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2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The International Study of Movement Behaviors in the Early Years (SUNRISE) was initiated in response to the 2019 WHO guidelines for physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep in children aged 0-5 years. This Swedish pilot study aimed to: (i) assess the proportion of preschoolers meeting the guidelines, (ii) evaluate the feasibility of the methods for the SUNRISE study, and (iii) assess how movement behaviors have been affected in preschoolers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical activity and sleep (waist-worn ActiGraph); screen time and movement behaviors (parental questionnaire); motor skills (Ages and Stages Questionnaire); …

Editorial: Now, The Theory Of Ubuntu Has Its Space In Social Work, Jacob Mugumbate, Admire Chereni

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In this issue, we published short articles that show application of ubuntu in social work. We prioritized articles that showed how ubuntu could be used and applied in social work as well as those with a visual model representing ubuntu. Advances in technology and rapid growth of social media requires that we promote and use visual learning tools for social work especially for the young learner. This special issue’s objective was to accelerate use of concepts, models, theories and approaches that fill the gaps left by western approaches that are being put aside as Africa decolonises social work. Another objective …

Phenomenology Of Agency And The Cognitive Sciences, Shaun Gallagher

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When engaged in action, the experience of agency includes the experience of one’s actions and of oneself. This is a relational phenomenology, that is, it is not just an experience of an action as unrelated to me, and not just an experience of myself without some kind of relation to an action or set of actions. Part of this relation involves the notion of intention, and the kind of intention in play. Both action and intention, and therefore, the experience of agency, are complex phenomena. Some aspects of action are non-conscious and sub-personal; others involve consciousness. To understand the phenomenology …

Australian Primary Private Schools Should Be Fully Funded By Governments — But Banned From Charging Fees, Rachel Wilson, Paul Andrew Kidson

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To fix inequality in Australian education, governments should fully fund all non-government primary schools, according to former former NSW Education Minister and now head of the UNSW Gonski Institute, Adrian Piccoli. In an opinion piece published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Piccoli suggests government funding be dependent on non-government schools no longer collecting fees from parents and agreeing to abide by the same enrolment and accountability rules as public schools. The fully-funded non-government primary private schools would still be run by the same organisations as before, and abide by the same educational philosophy. But no student would be turned away. …

Complex Scenes From The International Affective Picture System (Iaps), Maryann Wei, Steven J. Roodenrys, Leonie M. Miller, Emma Barkus

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Complex scenes from standardized stimuli databases such as the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) are organized dimensionally rather than discretely. Further, the potentially unique function of socially relevant scenes is often overlooked. This study sought to identify discrete categories of complex scenes from the IAPS and to explore if there were qualitative features that make the emotional content of some social scenes identifiable with higher levels of agreement. One hundred and three participants (53.4% female, mean age 24.4) judged 118 IAPS scenes as reflecting fear, happy, sad, or neutral. A second judgment study was conducted with a separate group of …

Using Peer Workers With Lived Experience To Support The Treatment Of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Qualitative Study Of Consumer, Carer And Clinician Perspectives, Karlen Barr, Michelle L. Townsend, Brin F. S Grenyer

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2020 The Author(s). Background: Peer support is a recovery oriented approach where consumers and carers are introduced to people with lived experience of the disorder who have recovered. Paid roles within health services for such consumer peer workers and carer peer workers (or 'specialists') are increasingly common. To date specific studies on such peer support for consumers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and their carers has not been conducted. Methods: This qualitative study used interviews to explore perceptions and models of peer support for BPD from the perspectives of 12 consumers, 12 carers, and 12 mental health professionals. Participant responses …

Living With Personality Disorder And Seeking Mental Health Treatment: Patients And Family Members Reflect On Their Experiences, Karlen Barr, Mahlie Jewell, Michelle L. Townsend, Brin F. S Grenyer

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The Author(s). Background: Despite effective treatments for personality disorders being developed, consumers and carers often report negative experiences of mental health services, including challenges accessing these treatments. Methods: This qualitative study used separate focus groups to compare the unique perspectives of consumer and carers, and to investigate how to improve services for individuals with personality disorders. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: Both consumers and carers (N = 15) discussed the value of providing appropriate information to consumers when they are diagnosed with personality disorder. Consumers and carers described the importance of creating a safe environment …