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Wendy Reid

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PubMed2005

The impact of poster advertising in buses on young people's awareness and knowledge of a telephone counselling service.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a public poster advertising campaign for Kids Help Line, a national Australian telephone counselling service providing young people with 24-hour access to trained counsellors. METHODS: Posters were displayed in the interior of 50% of all Brisbane City Council buses for a period of six months. 1,642 high school students were surveyed at the end of the campaign to determine their awareness and knowledge of Kids Help Line services. Awareness and knowledge of frequent bus users was compared with that of non-bus users and the linear relationship between bus usage and awareness and knowledge was investigated. RESULTS: After controlling for age, socio-economic status and gender effects, there was evidence of a linear relationship between exposure to advertisements and expectation that Kids Help Line could assist with a larger range of problems. There was a trend towards a relationship between exposure and knowledge of Kids Help Line. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Although effect size was small, the results suggest that the advertising campaign had a modest but potentially important impact.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2004

Automatic message handling for a national counselling service.

An automatic email handling system (AutoRouter) was introduced at a national counselling service in Australia. In 2003, counsellors responded to a total of 7421 email messages. Over nine days in early May 2004 the administrator responsible for the management of the manual email counselling service recorded the time spent on managing email messages. The AutoRouter was then introduced. Since the implementation of the AutoRouter the administrator's management role has become redundant; an average of 12 h 5 min per week of staff time has been saved. There have been further savings in supervisor time. Counsellors were taking an average of 6.2 days to respond to email messages (n = 4307), with an average delay of 1.2 days from the time counsellors wrote the email to when the email was sent. Thus the response was sent on average 7.4 days after receipt of the original client email message. A significant decrease in response time has been noted since implementation of the AutoRouter, with client responses now taking an average of 5.4 days, a decrease of 2.0 days. Automatic message handling appears to be a promising method of managing the administration of a steadily increasing email counselling service.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2003

Telephone counselling for adolescent suicide prevention: changes in suicidality and mental state from beginning to end of a counselling session.

Telephone counselling is an accessible and confidential means by which distressed young people can seek help. Telephone counselling services were funded under Australia's National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy between 1997 and 2000. In this study, the effectiveness of telephone counselling for young people seeking help in the context of suicidal ideation or intent was evaluated in an investigation of calls made by suicidal young people to a telephone counselling service. Independent raters measured callers' suicidality and mental state at the beginning and end of 100 taped counselling sessions. Changes in suicidality and mental state were measured using a reliable rating scale developed for the study. Significant decreases in suicidality and significant improvement in mental state were found to occur during the course of counselling sessions, suggesting positive immediate impact. Limitations of the study with respect to longer-term outcomes and the relevance of the results for suicide prevention are discussed. Notwithstanding the study limitations, the results lend support for continuing development of hotline services.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2002

Highly active antiretroviral therapy and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has improved HIV prognosis, but its effect on cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), which is associated with HIV, is uncertain. Among 71 HAART-treated women the prevalence of CIN before HAART was 55%. After a median of 10 months after starting HAART the prevalence had increased to 62% (P = 0.20); 13% of patients experienced regression of a CIN lesion, and this was most strongly associated with a greater increase in CD4 cell count. Such studies will provide the basis for guidelines for monitoring CIN in HIV-positive women in the HAART era.

Adult↗
PubMed2002

Clinical governance: implementing a change in workplace practice.

The development of a draft guideline on confirming placement of nasogastric tubes laid the basis for a senior nurse to use the principles of clinical governance to lead an improvement in practice. Key factors included risk management, dissemination of draft guidelines reflecting current evidence and changing practice. Good communication was vital to the project.

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