Melita J Giummarra
Biographic Data
| ID | 201251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melita J Giummarra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melita J |
| FAMILY NAME | Giummarra |
| SIGNATURE | GIUMMARRA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7839-6058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women
The 21st century has witnessed an emergence of strategies in a variety of fields that promote empathy as a catalyst for change. This paper seeks to understand how, and to what effect these strategies have had on the realisation of women’s human rights. Guthridge et al. previously developed a model of affective empathy for advancing gender equality. The present study aims to understand the practical application of this model, which is based on thr…
How accessible are the websites of health services for people who have had a stroke
Health services should take concerted steps towards ensuring that their websites are accessible for all healthcare consumers, including people with language, cognitive and visual processing impairments, which are common after stroke. Online service information provides a key role in enabling stroke survivors to access information and make decisions about their healthcare
Health Services for Young Adults with Stroke
Despite increased incidence of stroke in young adulthood across the world, young adults report significant difficulties finding services with the expertise and experience to meet their needs. This service mapping study sought to identify and characterise the availability, accessibility, and accommodation of services to meet the needs of young adults (aged 18–44 years) with stroke in two Australian states. Methods . Relevant clinical, rehabilitati…
Measuring Sleep Quality in the Hospital Environment with Wearable and Non-Wearable Devices in Adults with Stroke Undergoing Inpatient Rehabilitation
Sleep disturbances are common after stroke and may affect recovery and rehabilitation outcomes. Sleep monitoring in the hospital environment is not routine practice yet may offer insight into how the hospital environment influences post-stroke sleep quality while also enabling us to investigate the relationships between sleep quality and neuroplasticity, physical activity, fatigue levels, and recovery of functional independence while undergoing r…
The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women
Due to its wide-ranging reservations and lack of effective enforcement mechanisms the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has failed to dismantle widespread and systemic discrimination. The present paper proposes a broad, theoretical, preventive and relational approach to creating and enhancing the effectiveness of novel interventions to accelerate gender equality. We describe the main elements of af…
Promoting Gender Equality
More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted. Now is an opportune time to consider whether the interventions seeking to realise CEDAW’s aspirations have brought us closer to achieving gender equality. This systematic review aimed to identify and synthesise evidence for the effectiveness of social justice, cognitive, or behaviour-change i…
Association of fear-avoidance and self-efficacy on pain disability in individuals with co-morbid post-traumatic stress and chronic pain
This study investigated relationships between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and pain disability. Fifty people with chronic pain (probable PTSD, n = 22) completed measures assessing pain interference, PTSS, fear avoidance, and pain self-efficacy. We hypothesized that people with probable PTSD would have higher fear avoidance and lower pain self-efficacy; and that PTSS would be indirectly associated with pain disability via fear avoidance a…
Driver, Collision and Meteorological Characteristics of Motor Vehicle Collisions among Road Trauma Survivors
Road trauma remains a significant public health problem. We aimed to identify sub-groups of motor vehicle collisions in Victoria, Australia, and the association between collision characteristics and outcomes up to 24 months post-injury. Data were extracted from the Victorian State Trauma Registry for injured drivers aged ≥16 years, from 2010 to 2016, with a compensation claim who survived ≥12 months post-injury. People with intentional or severe …
Health status after penetrating major trauma in Victoria, Australia
Compulsory and voluntary drug treatment models in China
The Taxonomy of Empathy
The conceptual diversity in the definition of empathy has resulted in descriptions of a highly heterogeneous collection of related phenomena, causing confusion as to what empathy actually is. Some of this heterogeneity arises due to disparate viewpoints across different disciplines. Capturing this transdisciplinary construct and arriving at a clear and unambiguous overarching definition of empathy will help provide a clearer outline of the fundam…
Prognostic Role of Demographic, Injury and Claim Factors in Disabling Pain and Mental Health Conditions 12 Months after Compensable Injury
Identifying who might develop disabling pain or poor mental health after injury is a high priority so that healthcare providers can provide targeted preventive interventions. This retrospective cohort study aimed to identify predictors of disabling pain or probable mental health conditions at 12 months post-injury. Participants were recruited 12-months after admission to a major trauma service for a compensable transport or workplace injury ( n =…
A critical review of interdisciplinary perspectives on the paradox of prosocial compared to antisocial manifestations of empathy
Empathy is the ability to experience affective and cognitive states of another person, whilst maintaining a distinct self, in order to understand the other. It is a multidimensional phenomenon, ranging from vicarious distress to near complete understanding, with many shades in between. As an almost universal and integral human construct, empathy has been considered in many disciplines and contexts, from evolution to gender, politics, economics, e…
Feeling the burn
Corporeal awareness and proprioceptive sense of the phantom
Phantom limb perception almost invariably follows limb amputation, and can be characterized by various corporeal and proprioceptive qualities. We report a study of 283 amputees, which administered a structured questionnaire to systematically determine the relative frequency and nature of various bodily aspects of phantom limb perception. These include the size, shape, posture, and telescoping of the phantom; exteroceptive sensations of itch, touc…
The Lay Concept of Childhood Mental Disorder
The Taxonomy of Empathy
The conceptual diversity in the definition of empathy has resulted in descriptions of a highly heterogeneous collection of related phenomena, causing confusion as to what empathy actually is. Some of this heterogeneity arises due to disparate viewpoints across different disciplines. Capturing this transdisciplinary construct and arriving at a clear and unambiguous overarching definition of empathy will help provide a clearer outline of the fundam…
Association of fear-avoidance and self-efficacy on pain disability in individuals with co-morbid post-traumatic stress and chronic pain
This study investigated relationships between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and pain disability. Fifty people with chronic pain (probable PTSD, n = 22) completed measures assessing pain interference, PTSS, fear avoidance, and pain self-efficacy. We hypothesized that people with probable PTSD would have higher fear avoidance and lower pain self-efficacy; and that PTSS would be indirectly associated with pain disability via fear avoidance a…
The Lay Concept of Childhood Mental Disorder
Corporeal awareness and proprioceptive sense of the phantom
Phantom limb perception almost invariably follows limb amputation, and can be characterized by various corporeal and proprioceptive qualities. We report a study of 283 amputees, which administered a structured questionnaire to systematically determine the relative frequency and nature of various bodily aspects of phantom limb perception. These include the size, shape, posture, and telescoping of the phantom; exteroceptive sensations of itch, touc…
Feeling the burn
Prognostic Role of Demographic, Injury and Claim Factors in Disabling Pain and Mental Health Conditions 12 Months after Compensable Injury
Identifying who might develop disabling pain or poor mental health after injury is a high priority so that healthcare providers can provide targeted preventive interventions. This retrospective cohort study aimed to identify predictors of disabling pain or probable mental health conditions at 12 months post-injury. Participants were recruited 12-months after admission to a major trauma service for a compensable transport or workplace injury ( n =…
A critical review of interdisciplinary perspectives on the paradox of prosocial compared to antisocial manifestations of empathy
Empathy is the ability to experience affective and cognitive states of another person, whilst maintaining a distinct self, in order to understand the other. It is a multidimensional phenomenon, ranging from vicarious distress to near complete understanding, with many shades in between. As an almost universal and integral human construct, empathy has been considered in many disciplines and contexts, from evolution to gender, politics, economics, e…
Driver, Collision and Meteorological Characteristics of Motor Vehicle Collisions among Road Trauma Survivors
Road trauma remains a significant public health problem. We aimed to identify sub-groups of motor vehicle collisions in Victoria, Australia, and the association between collision characteristics and outcomes up to 24 months post-injury. Data were extracted from the Victorian State Trauma Registry for injured drivers aged ≥16 years, from 2010 to 2016, with a compensation claim who survived ≥12 months post-injury. People with intentional or severe …
Health status after penetrating major trauma in Victoria, Australia
Compulsory and voluntary drug treatment models in China
The Taxonomy of Empathy
The conceptual diversity in the definition of empathy has resulted in descriptions of a highly heterogeneous collection of related phenomena, causing confusion as to what empathy actually is. Some of this heterogeneity arises due to disparate viewpoints across different disciplines. Capturing this transdisciplinary construct and arriving at a clear and unambiguous overarching definition of empathy will help provide a clearer outline of the fundam…
Promoting Gender Equality
More than four decades have passed since the United Nation’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted. Now is an opportune time to consider whether the interventions seeking to realise CEDAW’s aspirations have brought us closer to achieving gender equality. This systematic review aimed to identify and synthesise evidence for the effectiveness of social justice, cognitive, or behaviour-change i…
Association of fear-avoidance and self-efficacy on pain disability in individuals with co-morbid post-traumatic stress and chronic pain
This study investigated relationships between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and pain disability. Fifty people with chronic pain (probable PTSD, n = 22) completed measures assessing pain interference, PTSS, fear avoidance, and pain self-efficacy. We hypothesized that people with probable PTSD would have higher fear avoidance and lower pain self-efficacy; and that PTSS would be indirectly associated with pain disability via fear avoidance a…
Measuring Sleep Quality in the Hospital Environment with Wearable and Non-Wearable Devices in Adults with Stroke Undergoing Inpatient Rehabilitation
Sleep disturbances are common after stroke and may affect recovery and rehabilitation outcomes. Sleep monitoring in the hospital environment is not routine practice yet may offer insight into how the hospital environment influences post-stroke sleep quality while also enabling us to investigate the relationships between sleep quality and neuroplasticity, physical activity, fatigue levels, and recovery of functional independence while undergoing r…
The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women
Due to its wide-ranging reservations and lack of effective enforcement mechanisms the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has failed to dismantle widespread and systemic discrimination. The present paper proposes a broad, theoretical, preventive and relational approach to creating and enhancing the effectiveness of novel interventions to accelerate gender equality. We describe the main elements of af…
Health Services for Young Adults with Stroke
Despite increased incidence of stroke in young adulthood across the world, young adults report significant difficulties finding services with the expertise and experience to meet their needs. This service mapping study sought to identify and characterise the availability, accessibility, and accommodation of services to meet the needs of young adults (aged 18–44 years) with stroke in two Australian states. Methods . Relevant clinical, rehabilitati…
How accessible are the websites of health services for people who have had a stroke
Health services should take concerted steps towards ensuring that their websites are accessible for all healthcare consumers, including people with language, cognitive and visual processing impairments, which are common after stroke. Online service information provides a key role in enabling stroke survivors to access information and make decisions about their healthcare
The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women
The 21st century has witnessed an emergence of strategies in a variety of fields that promote empathy as a catalyst for change. This paper seeks to understand how, and to what effect these strategies have had on the realisation of women’s human rights. Guthridge et al. previously developed a model of affective empathy for advancing gender equality. The present study aims to understand the practical application of this model, which is based on thr…
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Empathy (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (3 works) · Physical therapy (3 works) · Simulation theory of empathy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)