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A Qualitative Analysis Of Medical Students Views Of Their First Psychiatry Rotation, Nagesh Brahmavar Pai, Shae-Leigh C. Vella, Kerry Dawes

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Objective: The importance of student's perspectives in informing curricula and pedagogy has long been recognised. However, student's perspectives are rarely reported in the academic literature. Therefore this study explores and reports on medical student's perspectives of their first psychiatry clinical rotation in a 'new' era medical school in Australia. Method: Seventy-three graduate entry medical students completed a semi-structured questionnaire about their experiences during a mental health rotation. The responses were analysed and coded into thematic categories. Results: The following thematic categories were evident; staff, breadth of experience, attitudes towards mental health, course materials and structure, and professional development. Conclusion: The …

'If My Arms And Legs Aren't Dropping Off I'Ll Wait To See My Usual Gp!' An Analysis Of Older Patients' Attitudes To Registrars Informed By Agency Theory, Andrew D. Bonney, Sandra C. Jones, Donald C. Iverson, Christopher A. Magee

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Continuity of care and trust are important in older patient-doctor relationships which impacts older patient willingess to consult registrars for chronic disease management.

Measuring Older Patients’ Attitudes To General Practice Registrars: Exploratory Factor Analysis Of A Survey Instrument, Andrew D. Bonney, Christopher A. Magee, Peter Caputi

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Introduction: Training general practice registrars (GPRs) to meet the challenges of an ageing population is hampered by their relatively reduced contact with older patients and a paucity of suitable research to inform training models. This paper describes an exploratory factor analysis of a survey instrument assessing the attitudes of older patients to GPRs, as part of a project to address these concerns. Methods: The instrument was developed on the basis of a qualitative study and a literature review and distributed to 500 patients aged 60 years and over from 10 training practices in regional Australia. Responses to 22 of the …

Alert But Less Alarmed: A Pooled Analysis Of Terrorism Threat Perception In Australia, Garry Stevens, Kingsley Agho, Melanie Taylor, Alison L. Jones, Jennifer Jacobs, Margo Barr, Beverley Raphael

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Background: Previous Australian research has highlighted disparities in community perceptions of the threat posed by terrorism. A study with a large sample size is needed to examine reported concerns and anticipated responses of community sub-groups and to determine their consistency with existing Australian and international findings. Methods: Representative samples of New South Wales (NSW) adults completed terrorism perception questions as part of computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) in 2007 (N = 2081) and 2010 (N = 2038). Responses were weighted against the NSW population. Data sets from the two surveys were pooled and multivariate multilevel analyses conducted to identify health …

Effects Of Benzodiazepines, Antidepressants And Opioids On Driving: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Of Epidemiological And Experimental Evidence, Tharaka L. Dassanayake, Patricia Michie, Gregory Carter, Alison L. Jones

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Background: Many individuals in the community are prescribed psychoactive drugs with sedative effects. These drugs may affect their daily functions, of which automobile driving is a major component. Objective: To examine the association of three classes of commonly used psychoactive drugs (viz. benzodiazepines and newer non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, antidepressants and opioids) with (i) the risk of traffic accidents (as indexed by epidemiological indicators of risk); and (ii) driving performance (as indexed by experimental measures of driving performance). Methods: A literature search for material published in the English language between January 1966 and January 2010 in PubMed and EMBASE databases was combined …

Defining The Host Mucosal And Gut Microflora Interactions In Crohn's Disease Using Redundancy Analysis On Microarray Datasets, Caroline A. Kerr, J Shaw, Christopher S. Mcsweeney, Seungha Kang, M J. Buckley, T Lockett, Peter Pavlik

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Introduction: Crohn’s disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease that is characterised by chronic relapsing inflammation of the digestive tract. There is a significant body of evidence that suggests the intestinal mucosal microbiome interacts with the immune response to produce pathological inflammation and together these factors play a major role in the pathogenesis of CD. The aim of this study is to investigate interactions between the human intestinal mucosal transcriptome and mucosal microbiome using multivariate redundancy analysis on microarray datasets.

Methods: DNA and RNA were extracted from the same mucosal biopsies collected from CD patients (terminal ileum: n=5 from sites …

A Mixed-Model Approach For The Analysis Of Cdna Microarray Gene Expression Data From Extreme-Performing Pigs After Infection With Actinobacillus Pleuropneumoniae, R J. Moser, A Reverter, Caroline A. Kerr, K J. Beh

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We proposed a novel statistical approach for the analysis of cDNA experiments based on mixed-model methodology combined with mixtures of distributions. Our objective was to detect genes that may be involved in conferring heritable differences in susceptibility to common infections in intensive pig production. We employed a microarray expression profiling strategy and a mixed-model approach to the analysis of the expression data. A cDNA microarray of pig with 6,420 probes from immune tissues and cells was used to compare gene expression in peripheral blood leukocytes of two pigs showing extreme performance in their response to infection with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. Principal …