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| Jane M GunnSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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The promise and pitfalls of generalism in achieving the Alma-Ata vision of health for allJane M Gunn
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 189:110-2. 2008
A trajectory-based approach to understand the factors associated with persistent depressive symptoms in primary careJane Gunn
General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic Centre, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia Electronic address
J Affect Disord 148:338-46. 2013..This study is aimed to identify depressive symptom trajectories and associated socio-demographic, co-morbidity, health service use and treatment factors to inform clinical care...
Ageing in general practice (AGP) trial: a cluster randomised trial to examine the effectiveness of peer education on GP diagnostic assessment and management of dementiaConstance D Pond
School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia 2308
BMC Fam Pract 13:12. 2012..This trial examines the effectiveness of a peer led dementia educational intervention for GPs...- Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process TheoryCarl R May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Implement Sci 4:29. 2009..CONCLUSION: Normalization Process Theory has been developed through procedures that were properly sceptical and critical, and which were opened to review at each stage of development. The theory has been shown to merit formal testing... - Evaluation of a decision aid for prenatal testing of fetal abnormalities: a cluster randomised trial [ISRCTN22532458]Cate Nagle
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
BMC Public Health 6:96. 2006..This study aims to test whether a decision aid for prenatal testing of fetal abnormalities, when compared to a pamphlet, improves women's informed decision-making and decreases decisional conflict... - PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers) Protocol for a community-randomised trial [ISRCTN03464021]Judith Lumley
Centre for the Study of Mothers and Children s Health, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Public Health 3:36. 2003..Analysis of the physical and mental health outcomes, by intention to treat, will adjust for the correlated structure of the data... - PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support for Mothers): a community-randomised trial to reduce depression and improve women's physical health six months after birth [ISRCTN03464021]Judith Lumley
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Public Health 6:37. 2006..Fewer than one in three seek help in primary care despite frequent health care contacts... - 'The difference in determinants of Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium in a sample of young Australian women'Jennifer Walker
Centre for Women s Health, Gender and Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
BMC Infect Dis 11:35. 2011..Differences in the determinants of Chlamydia trachomatis ('chlamydia') and Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) genital infection in women are not well understood... - An evaluation of the effect of an educational intervention for Australian social workers on competence in delivering brief cognitive behavioural strategies: a randomised controlled trialG Armstrong
Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 10:304. 2010..This study aims to build the evidence base by evaluating the impact of a brief educational intervention on social workers' competence in delivering cognitive behavioural strategies (strategies derived from cognitive behavioural therapy)... - Do longer consultations improve the management of psychological problems in general practice? A systematic literature reviewCatherine Hutton
General Practice, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 7:71. 2007.... - Exploring general practitioners' experience of informing women about prenatal screening tests for foetal abnormalities: a qualitative focus group studyCate Nagle
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Vic, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 8:114. 2008..The aim of this study was to explore GPs experience of informing women of prenatal genetic screening tests for foetal abnormality... - Exploring the feasibility of a community-based strength training program for older people with depressive symptoms and its impact on depressive symptomsJane Sims
School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
BMC Geriatr 6:18. 2006..The study also aimed to determine whether PRT improves depressive status in older depressed patients... - A snapshot of the prevalence of physical activity amongst older, community dwelling people in Victoria, Australia: patterns across the 'young-old' and 'old-old'Jane Sims
School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Geriatr 7:4. 2007..Physical activity has a range of health benefits for older people. The aim of this study was to determine physical activity prevalence and attitudes amongst respondents to a trial screening survey... - The association between intimate partner violence, alcohol and depression in family practiceGail Gilchrist
Substance Use Disorders Research Group, Neuropsychopharmacology Programme, Institut Municipal d Investigació Mèdica Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
BMC Fam Pract 11:72. 2010..Depressive symptoms, intimate partner violence and hazardous drinking are common among patients attending general practice. Despite the high prevalence of these three problems; the relationship between them remains relatively unexplored... - Observational studies of depression in primary care: what do we know?Gail Gilchrist
The Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 8:28. 2007.... - GPs' use of problem solving therapy for depression: a qualitative study of barriers to and enablers of evidence based careDavid Pierce
Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 8:24. 2007..Problem solving therapy (PST) is recognised as an effective treatment for depression that is not widely used by GPs. This research aims to explore barriers and enablers that may influence GPs use of this treatment... - The PAV trial: does lactobacillus prevent post-antibiotic vulvovaginal candidiasis? Protocol of a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN24141277]Marie Pirotta
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 3053
BMC Fam Pract 5:5. 2004..An independent Data Monitoring Committee is supervising the trial. Analysis will be intention-to-treat, with two pre-specified main comparisons: (i) oral lactobacillus versus placebo and (ii) vaginal lactobacillus versus placebo... - Should Australia develop primary care research networks?Jane M Gunn
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Med J Aust 177:63-6. 2002..Each network should have clearly defined aims, strategies and key indicators against which to evaluate performance... - Guidelines for assessing postnatal problems: introducing evidence-based guidelines in Australian general practiceJane Gunn
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Fam Pract 20:382-9. 2003..Postnatal morbidity is high, and many GPs lack the confidence and knowledge to deal with common postnatal problems. There is a high consultation rate, but few women disclose common health problems... - The association between chronic illness, multimorbidity and depressive symptoms in an Australian primary care cohortJane M Gunn
General Practice and Primary Health Care Academic Centre, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Vic, 3053, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:175-84. 2012..To assess the link between multimorbidity, type of chronic physical health problems and depressive symptoms.. - When is an intervention ready to be tested in a randomised trial? Primary care alliance for clinical trials (PACT) networkJane Gunn
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 33:563-4. 2004 - Embedding effective depression care: using theory for primary care organisational and systems changeJane M Gunn
Primary Care Research Unit, The Department of General Practice, School of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Implement Sci 5:62. 2010..We set out to develop a conceptual framework to guide change and the implementation of best practice depression care in the primary care setting... - Who is identified when screening for depression is undertaken in general practice? Baseline findings from the Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in Primary Care (diamond) longitudinal studyJane M Gunn
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S119-25. 2008..To report the baseline characteristics of the Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in Primary Care (diamond) study cohort and discuss the implications for depression care in general practice... - A systematic review of complex system interventions designed to increase recovery from depression in primary careJane Gunn
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 6:88. 2006..We undertook this study to identify and assess the quality of RCTs testing system level depression management interventions in primary care and to determine whether these interventions improve recovery... - What do GPs get out of participating in research? - experience of the LEAP trialJane Gunn
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 37:372-5. 2008..This article examines why a group of general practitioners took part in clinical research... - Take the sex out of STI screening! Views of young women on implementing chlamydia screening in General PracticeNatasha L Pavlin
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BMC Infect Dis 8:62. 2008..Australia is developing a chlamydia screening program. This study aimed to determine the attitudes of young women to the introduction of chlamydia screening in Australian General Practice... - How do Australian patients rate their general practitioner? A descriptive study using the General Practice Assessment QuestionnaireMaria Potiriadis
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic
Med J Aust 189:215-9. 2008..To report patient responses to the General Practice Assessment Questionnaire (GPAQ) as a measure of satisfaction with health care received from Australian general practitioners... - Maximising retention in a longitudinal study of genital Chlamydia trachomatis among young women in AustraliaJennifer Walker
Centre for Women s Health, Gender and Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:156. 2011..The aims of this paper are to describe the methods used to recruit and retain young women in a longitudinal study and to explore factors associated with loss to follow up... - What needs to change to increase chlamydia screening in general practice in Australia? The views of general practitionersJane S Hocking
Key Centre for Women s Health in Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 8:425. 2008..The views of general practitioners (GPs) are necessary to inform the design of the program. This paper aimed to investigate Australian GPs' views on how chlamydia screening could work in the Australian context... - Computer reminders for Chlamydia screening in general practice: a randomized controlled trialJennifer Walker
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sex Transm Dis 37:445-50. 2010..The aim of this trial was to determine the effectiveness of a computer alert in general practice on chlamydia testing in young women... - Women's evaluation of abuse and violence care in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial (weave)Kelsey L Hegarty
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:2. 2010..It examines the effect on women's quality of life, mental health and safety behaviours... - Seeking help for anxiety and depression after childbirth: results of the Maternal Health StudyHannah Woolhouse
Healthy Mothers Healthy Families Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Arch Womens Ment Health 12:75-83. 2009..Public health campaigns may have been more effective in encouraging women to seek help for depression than anxiety... - Impact of an educational intervention on general practitioners' skills in cognitive behavioural strategies: a randomised controlled trialGrant A Blashki
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S129-32. 2008..To evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on general practitioners' skills in cognitive behavioural strategies (CBS)... - Diverse voices, simple desires: a conceptual design for primary care to respond to depression and related disordersVictoria Palmer
Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Fam Pract 27:447-58. 2010..Little information is provided about tasks GPs can undertake outside of guidelines that suggest to prescribe medication and refer to specialists... - Managing depression among ethnic communities: a qualitative studyJohn Furler
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053
Ann Fam Med 8:231-6. 2010..This study explores the complexities of this work through a study of how family physicians experience working with different ethnic minority communities in recognizing, understanding, and caring for patients with depression... - Establishing the Victorian Primary Care Practice Based Research NetworkMelinda Soos
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 39:857-62. 2010..This article describes the establishment of the Victorian Primary Care Practice Based Research Network (VicReN), which was established in 2007 and has grown to over 100 members... - Women teaching women's health: issues in the establishment of a clinical teaching associate program for the well woman checkKathryn Robertson
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Australia
Women Health 37:49-65. 2003..This paper describes the methods of recruitment and training of CTAs, use of CTAs in the medical course, preliminary evaluation, and ethical and other issues in the Melbourne and Queensland University programs... - How do Victorian GPs manage patients with depression?Heather McGarry
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 34:603-6. 2005..Government initiatives are targeting general practitioners' provision of mental health care... - Association between depression and abuse by partners of women attending general practice: descriptive, cross sectional surveyKelsey Hegarty
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
BMJ 328:621-4. 2004..To explore the association between depression and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by partners or ex-partners of women attending general practice... - Accurate sampling in general practice waiting room surveys: methodological issuesMarie Pirotta
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Carlton
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:152-5. 2002..This is a pilot study to test the validity of using one research assistant to train and support reception staff at five clinics to obtain waiting room data in general practice surveys... - Effect of lactobacillus in preventing post-antibiotic vulvovaginal candidiasis: a randomised controlled trialMarie Pirotta
Department of General Practice, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 3053
BMJ 329:548. 2004..To test whether oral or vaginal lactobacillus can prevent vulvovaginitis after antibiotic treatment... - Exploratory economic analyses of two primary care mental health projects: implications for sustainabilityCathrine Mihalopoulos
Program Evaluation Unit, Melbourne University Health Economics Group, School of Population Health, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Med J Aust 183:S73-6. 2005..The sustainability of these approaches depends on a range of factors, including funding, workforce availability, and acceptability to consumers and health care providers... - Physical and social predictors of partner abuse in women attending general practice: a cross-sectional studyKelsey Hegarty
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Br J Gen Pract 58:484-7. 2008..Currently there is insufficient evidence for screening all women but case finding of women at risk of intimate partner abuse is recommended... - How could depression guidelines be made more relevant and applicable to primary care? A quantitative and qualitative review of national guidelinesKelsey Hegarty
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Br J Gen Pract 59:e149-56. 2009..Many guidelines have been developed in the area of depression but there has been no systematic assessment of their relevance to general practice... - Lay accounts of depression amongst Anglo-Australian residents and East African refugeesRenata Kokanovic
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3053, Australia
Soc Sci Med 66:454-66. 2008.... - Publish or perish? Evaluation of a writing weekMeredith Temple-Smith
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 38:257-60. 2009..To improve research publication output, a general practice department in Australia declared a department wide 'writing week'... - Using problem solving therapy in general practiceDavid Pierce
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 36:230-3. 2007..Many of these patients prefer a nondrug therapeutic approach. Problem solving therapy (PST) is an evidence based psychological treatment that can be provided to such patients by GPs... - Effect of type and severity of intimate partner violence on women's health and service use: findings from a primary care trial of women afraid of their partnersKelsey L Hegarty
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
J Interpers Violence 28:273-94. 2013..Health practitioners should take a history of type and severity of abuse for women with mental health issues to assist access to appropriate specialist support... - Can Australian general practitioners tackle childhood overweight/obesity? Methods and processes from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) randomized controlled trialZoe McCallum
Centre for Community Child Health, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 41:488-94. 2005..General practitioners (GPs) could make an important contribution to management of childhood overweight. However, there are no efficacy data to support this, and the feasibility of this approach is unknown... - Putting woman-centered care into practice: a new (ANEW) approach to psychosocial risk assessment during pregnancyJane Gunn
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Australia
Birth 33:46-55. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: The program increased the self-reported comfort and competency of health professionals to identify and care for women with psychosocial issues... - "Not thrush again!" Women's experience of post-antibiotic vulvovaginitisMarie V Pirotta
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic
Med J Aust 179:43-6. 2003..To examine the frequency of post-antibiotic vulvovaginitis (PAV); describe how women prevent and treat PAV; and determine whether concern about PAV affects their decisions about taking antibiotics... - Research productivity in Australian general practice: what has changed since the 1990s?Deborah A Askew
Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 189:103-4. 2008..This finding suggests that more time and sustained investment in PHCRED are essential to see tangible outputs from funded research in general practice... - The politics of conducting research on depression in a cross-cultural contextRenata Kokanovic
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Qual Health Res 19:708-17. 2009.... - Implementing chlamydia screening: what do women think? A systematic review of the literatureNatasha L Pavlin
Department of General Practice, Melbourne University, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 6:221. 2006..We undertook a literature review to document the views, attitudes and opinions of women about being screened, tested and diagnosed with Chlamydia trachomatis... - Women's views and outcomes of an educational intervention designed to enhance psychosocial support for women during pregnancyKelsey Hegarty
Department of General Practice, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, University of Melbourne, and Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birth 34:155-63. 2007..This paper evaluates if a health professional education program, a new (ANEW) approach, improves pregnant women's ratings of care and practitioner's listening skills and comfort to disclose psychosocial issues... - Negotiations of distress between East Timorese and Vietnamese refugees and their family doctors in MelbourneRenata Kokanovic
Department of Sociology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Sociol Health Illn 32:511-27. 2010.... - A new case-finding tool for anxiety: a pragmatic diagnostic validity study in primary careSophie Puddifoot
Leeds University, England
Int J Psychiatry Med 37:371-81. 2007..The first question asks the patient whether they have been worrying a lot during the past month; and the second question asks whether the patient would like help with this problem...