Sarah J Durkin

Summary

Affiliation: The Cancer Council Victoria
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi Interrupting a narrative transportation experience: program placement effects on responses to antismoking advertising
    Sarah Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    J Health Commun 13:667-80. 2008
  2. ncbi Which types of televised anti-tobacco campaigns prompt more quitline calls from disadvantaged groups?
    Sarah J Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Health Educ Res 26:998-1009. 2011
  3. ncbi Comparative responses to radio and television anti-smoking advertisements to encourage smoking cessation
    Sarah Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Health Promot Int 25:5-13. 2010
  4. ncbi Effects of different types of antismoking ads on reducing disparities in smoking cessation among socioeconomic subgroups
    Sarah J Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Am J Public Health 99:2217-23. 2009
  5. ncbi Mass media campaigns designed to support new pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets: evidence of a complementary relationship
    Emily Brennan
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
    Tob Control 20:412-8. 2011
  6. ncbi Looking for boomerang effects: a pre-post experimental study of the effects of exposure of youth to television advertising for nicotine replacement therapy and Zyban
    Sarah Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Addict Behav 31:2158-68. 2006
  7. ncbi Adolescents' perceptions of cigarette brand image: does plain packaging make a difference?
    Daniella Germain
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Australia 3053
    J Adolesc Health 46:385-92. 2010
  8. ncbi Making news: the appearance of tobacco control organizations in newspaper coverage of tobacco control issues
    Melanie A Wakefield
    Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Am J Health Promot 26:166-71. 2012
  9. ncbi Evaluations of dieting prevention messages by adolescent girls
    Susan J Paxton
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
    Prev Med 35:474-91. 2002
  10. ncbi Impact of tobacco control policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence
    Melanie A Wakefield
    Centre for Behavioral Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Am J Public Health 98:1443-50. 2008

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi Interrupting a narrative transportation experience: program placement effects on responses to antismoking advertising
    Sarah Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    J Health Commun 13:667-80. 2008
    ..Placing antismoking advertising in light entertainment, sports, documentaries, and news programs may make scarce public health dollars go further...
  2. ncbi Which types of televised anti-tobacco campaigns prompt more quitline calls from disadvantaged groups?
    Sarah J Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Health Educ Res 26:998-1009. 2011
    ..Airing higher emotion narrative anti-smoking ads may contribute to reducing, but not eliminating, socio-economic disparities in calls to the quitline through maximizing the responses of the lower SES smokers...
  3. ncbi Comparative responses to radio and television anti-smoking advertisements to encourage smoking cessation
    Sarah Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Health Promot Int 25:5-13. 2010
    ....
  4. ncbi Effects of different types of antismoking ads on reducing disparities in smoking cessation among socioeconomic subgroups
    Sarah J Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Am J Public Health 99:2217-23. 2009
    ..We assessed which types of mass media messages might reduce disparities in smoking prevalence among disadvantaged population subgroups...
  5. ncbi Mass media campaigns designed to support new pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets: evidence of a complementary relationship
    Emily Brennan
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
    Tob Control 20:412-8. 2011
    ..In Australia, introduction of pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets was supported by a televised media campaign highlighting illnesses featured in two of the warning labels--gangrene and mouth cancer...
  6. ncbi Looking for boomerang effects: a pre-post experimental study of the effects of exposure of youth to television advertising for nicotine replacement therapy and Zyban
    Sarah Durkin
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Addict Behav 31:2158-68. 2006
    ..This study suggests that exposure to NRT and Zyban advertising in an experimental context does not reliably influence youth smoking-related beliefs, especially those vulnerable to becoming regular smokers...
  7. ncbi Adolescents' perceptions of cigarette brand image: does plain packaging make a difference?
    Daniella Germain
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Victoria, Australia 3053
    J Adolesc Health 46:385-92. 2010
    ....
  8. ncbi Making news: the appearance of tobacco control organizations in newspaper coverage of tobacco control issues
    Melanie A Wakefield
    Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Am J Health Promot 26:166-71. 2012
    ..To characterize the presence of advocacy groups in media coverage about tobacco issues...
  9. ncbi Evaluations of dieting prevention messages by adolescent girls
    Susan J Paxton
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
    Prev Med 35:474-91. 2002
    ..We aimed to identify anti-dieting messages rated most strongly on persuasive dimensions and participant characteristics that predicted message evaluations in adolescent girls...
  10. ncbi Impact of tobacco control policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence
    Melanie A Wakefield
    Centre for Behavioral Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Am J Public Health 98:1443-50. 2008
    ..We sought to assess the impact of several tobacco control policies and televised antismoking advertising on adult smoking prevalence...
  11. ncbi Non-smokers' responses when smokers light up: a population-based study
    Daniella Germain
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Control Research Institute, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton Victoria 3053, Australia
    Prev Med 45:21-5. 2007
    ....
  12. ncbi Antismoking television advertising and socioeconomic variations in calls to Quitline
    Mohammad Siahpush
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, 100 Drummond Street, Carlton 3053 Victoria, Australia
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:298-301. 2007
    ..To assess the socioeconomic variations in call rates to the Quitline (Victoria, Australia) and in the impact of anti-tobacco television advertising on call rates...
  13. ncbi An experimental study of effects on schoolchildren of exposure to point-of-sale cigarette advertising and pack displays
    Melanie Wakefield
    The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
    Health Educ Res 21:338-47. 2006
    ..Retail tobacco advertising as well as cigarette pack displays may have adverse influences on youth, suggesting that tighter tobacco marketing restrictions are needed...
  14. ncbi Secondhand smoke exposure and respiratory symptoms among casino, club, and office workers in Victoria, Australia
    Melanie Wakefield
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
    J Occup Environ Med 47:698-703. 2005
    ..To examine the association between smoke-free policies, exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) at work, and self-reported respiratory and sensory symptoms of workers...
  15. ncbi Does tobacco-control mass media campaign exposure prevent relapse among recent quitters?
    Melanie A Wakefield
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria Melbourne, Australia
    Nicotine Tob Res 15:385-92. 2013
    ..To determine whether greater mass media campaign exposure may assist recent quitters to avoid relapse...
  16. ncbi Secondhand smoke exposure (PM2.5) in outdoor dining areas and its correlates
    Melissa Cameron
    Cancer Council Victoria, Carlton, Australia
    Tob Control 19:19-23. 2010
    ..This study assessed the magnitude of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure when people smoke in outdoor dining areas and explored conditions influencing exposure levels...
  17. ncbi How do adolescent girls evaluate body dissatisfaction prevention messages?
    Sarah J Durkin
    Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    J Adolesc Health 37:381-90. 2005
    ....
  18. ncbi Secondhand smoke drift: examining the influence of indoor smoking bans on indoor and outdoor air quality at pubs and bars
    Emily Brennan
    Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
    Nicotine Tob Res 12:271-7. 2010
    ..This study aimed to examine the influence of indoor smoking bans on indoor and outdoor air quality at pubs and bars and to assess whether secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) drifts from outdoor smoking areas to adjacent indoor areas...
  19. ncbi Predictors of vulnerability to reduced body image satisfaction and psychological wellbeing in response to exposure to idealized female media images in adolescent girls
    Sarah J Durkin
    Psychology Department, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
    J Psychosom Res 53:995-1005. 2002
    ..These findings indicate the importance of individual differences in short-term reaction to viewing idealized media images...
  20. ncbi Improving the postnatal outcomes of new mothers
    Carol Morse
    Faculty of Human Development, Alma Unit for Research on Ageing, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 45:465-74. 2004
    ..This latter workforce encounters the onset of distress/depression in vulnerable women and is expected to manage their care, but their training does not equip sufficiently them to do this...
  21. ncbi Men's adjustment to fatherhood: implications for obstetric health care
    Anne Buist
    Department of Psychiatry, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
    J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 32:172-80. 2003
    ..To assess factors affecting first-time fathers' transition to parenthood...