An Interdisciplinary Model Of Care For Early Detection Of Lung Damage, Smoking Cessation Support, And A Home-based Exercise/self-management Program
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$448,381.00
Summary
An interdisciplinary model of care comprising screening of long-term smokers for early detection of lung damage, smoking cessation support, and a home-based exercise/self-management program will be implemented and evaluated. This model could potentially reduce the burden of smoking, improve lung health and maintain health-related quality of life.
Implementation And Evaluation Of A Systems Navigation Model Of Transition And Care For Non-Metropolitan Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: Youth OutReach For Diabetes (YOuR-Diabetes) Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial In Hunter New England
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$769,833.00
Summary
Young people with diabetes have to learn to self-manage in their teens, as they transfer from children’s to adult services. Few adult services specifically cater for young people and many fail to establish good support; management of their diabetes suffers. We will use evidence from services successful at engaging and supporting young people to redesign youth-friendly services in Hunter New England. We will examine the processes required to achieve this, and test whether diabetes control is bett ....Young people with diabetes have to learn to self-manage in their teens, as they transfer from children’s to adult services. Few adult services specifically cater for young people and many fail to establish good support; management of their diabetes suffers. We will use evidence from services successful at engaging and supporting young people to redesign youth-friendly services in Hunter New England. We will examine the processes required to achieve this, and test whether diabetes control is better with the new model than the current service.Read moreRead less
Prevention Of Complications In Type 2 Diabetes By Using ICT To Optimise Self-management
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$849,181.00
Summary
The impact of the diabetes epidemic on individuals and society is severe but can be reduced by improving diabetes self-management. Conducted in partnership with Diabetes Australia (Queensland, Victoria, WA) and Roche Diagnostics, this research will evaluate the 'real world' implementation of a telehealth program, already successfully trialled, which has the potential to provide a low cost and effective program to a large number of Australians with type 2 diabetes.