Luke Wolfenden
Biographic Data
| ID | 259787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Wolfenden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfenden |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFENDEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6178-3868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Economic evaluation of an implementation intervention to increase outdoor free play in early childhood education
Get Outside Get Active (GOGA) is a multi-component implementation strategy (six strategies) to increase the provision of outdoor free play opportunities in early childhood education and care (ECEC). A randomized controlled trial with 84 ECECs within New South Wales, Australia found an increase of 61 min of outdoor free play opportunities per day, per service in the intervention compared with usual care at 6-months follow-up (P = .041). This study…
Evaluating the perceived outcome and impact of an integrated knowledge translation approach in the development of an equity reporting guideline
Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) involves active engagement of knowledge users in co-producing research, ensuring their perspectives shape study design, analysis, and reporting. This can strengthen justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) considerations. We adopted an IKT approach in developing STROBE-Equity, an equity-focused reporting guidelin extension. The perceived value of embedding JEDI principles in reporting guideline devel…
Mejorar la comunicación sobre la equidad en la salud en la investigación observacional (STROBE Equidad)
Melhorando a apresentação de informações sobre equidade em saúde em pesquisas observacionais (STROBE-Equity)
Economic evaluation of the ‘Click & Crunch’ online intervention to improve healthy food purchases from Australian primary school canteens
Objective: Behavioural interventions can be delivered via online school canteens to improve healthy purchasing for students. However, no evaluations of the cost or cost effectiveness of online canteen interventions have been conducted. The objective was to conduct a cost and cost effectiveness analysis of implementing an online school canteen intervention to improve healthy purchasing. Setting: The ‘Click & Crunch’ cluster randomised controlled t…
Taking stock
The complexity of research translation is well recognized. Efforts to accelerate the process have emerged through implementation science, scale-up, scalability, and sustainability. This area of research is now inundated with a plethora of new concepts, creating overlap and confusion for those working in public health, implementation science, and scale-up as well as those seeking to understand it. This perspective examines the commonly used proces…
Effectiveness of referral to a population-level telephone coaching service for improving health risk behaviours in people with a mental health condition
Registered retrospectively with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12620000351910)
Exploring the impact of a daily sport uniform policy in primary schools
This study deepens our understanding of the potential health and wellbeing benefits a daily sport uniform policy may have and highlights barriers such as traditions persist in school settings. Policy sustainment may require considered implementation support and consulting students in uniform designs and options
Advancing the Speed and Science of Implementation Using Mixed-Methods Process Mapping - Best Practice Recommendations
Mixed-methods process mapping is a visualisation tool that identifies the steps, resources and personnel required to deliver a clinical practice, and has been previously used in an ad hoc manner to develop effective implementation strategies and solutions. To realise the potential of mixed-methods process mapping as an implementation tool, we aimed to develop and formalize the methodological steps and provide guidance for contemporary best practi…
Unpacking the cost of the lunchbox for Australian families
Ninety per cent of Australian school children bring a home-packed lunch to school, with 44% of the food consumed during school hours being unhealthy. Among other factors, cost is a key consideration for food provision; however, the costs to Australian families are not well understood. Therefore, we aimed to determine what families are currently paying for school lunchboxes in Australian primary schools and to examine associations between food cos…
Real-world public health interventions demonstrate how research evidence informs program scale-up
Evidence-based population interventions rely on intervention testing (efficacy and effectiveness trials) to determine what works to improve public health. We investigated the characteristics of real-world public health interventions to address obesity and explored the extent to which research testing was undertaken prior to scale-up. We identified 90 population health interventions targeting physical activity, nutrition or obesity-related health …
Barriers and facilitators to dissemination of non-communicable diseases research
A collaborative network trial to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation strategies to maximize adoption of a school-based healthy lunchbox program
Introduction: An important impediment to the large-scale adoption of evidence-based school nutrition interventions is the lack of evidence on effective strategies to implement them. This paper describes the protocol for a "Collaborative Network Trial" to support the simultaneous testing of different strategies undertaken by New South Wales Local Health Districts to facilitate the adoption of an effective school-based healthy lunchbox program ('SW…
E‐cigarette use in pregnancy in Australia
Living Systematic Reviews and Living Guidelines to Maintain the Currency of Public Health Guidelines
Health and social care professionals' views and experiences of supporting parents with serious mental illness
Participants believed that parents with SMI experience complex parenting challenges over and above other parents, describing a largely detrimental impact on the child. Support services were deemed inadequate, and participants stressed the need to develop specialist services tailored toward the needs of parents with SMI and their children. Although participants endorsed joined up working across health and social care settings to facilitate a whole…
Development and Application of the Scale-Up Reflection Guide (SRG)
Scaling up effective interventions in public health is complex and comprehensive, and published accounts of the scale-up process are scarce. Key aspects of the scale-up experience need to be more comprehensively captured. This study describes the development of a guide for reflecting on and documenting the scale-up of public health interventions, to increase the depth of practice-based information of scaling up. Reviews of relevant scale-up frame…
Improving social justice in observational studies
Achieving global imperatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 10 Reduced inequalities, SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing) requires advancing health equity in research. The implementation of the STROBE-Equity guidelines will enable a better awareness and understanding of health inequities through better reporting. We will broadly disseminate the reporting guideline with tools to enable adoption and use by journal editors, authors…
A cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a multi-strategy sustainability intervention on teachers’ sustained implementation of classroom physical activity breaks (energiser…
ACTRN12620000372987 version 1 registered 17 th March 2020. Version 3 (current version) updated 4 th August 2023
Factors associated with physical activity policy and practice implementation in British Columbia’s childcare settings
A hierarchy of theoretically defined factors influenced childcare providers' implementation of the AP Standards in BC. Future research should test the feasibility of modifying these factors to improve the implementation of PA policy and practice interventions in this setting
Assessing the scalability of healthy eating interventions within the early childhood education and care setting
Objective: Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a recommended setting for the delivery of health eating interventions ‘at scale’ (i.e. to large numbers of childcare services) to improve child public health nutrition. Appraisal of the ‘scalability’ (suitability for delivery at scale) of interventions is recommended to guide public health decision-making. This study describes the extent to which factors required to assess scalability are re…
Online food delivery systems and their potential to improve public health nutrition
Exploratory analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial of a multi-strategy intervention delivered via online canteens on improving the nutritional quality of primary school students’ pre-ordere…
School canteens are a recommended setting to deliver public health nutrition strategies given their wide reach, and frequent use by children. Online canteens, where users (i.e. students or their carers) pre-order and pay for food and drinks online, represent attractive systems to deliver strategies that encourage healthier food choices. There have been few studies exploring the efficacy of public health nutrition interventions in online food orde…
The Triple P Positive Parenting Program for Parents With Psychosis
Although many people with psychosis are parents, managing the dual demands of poor mental health and parenting can be stressful and may contribute to poorer outcomes for both parent and child. Parenting interventions have the potential to improve outcomes for the whole family but need evaluation of feasibility in this context. The Triple-P Self-Help Workbook was implemented with guidance and support with 10 parents experiencing psychosis in a mul…
Exploring Support Provided by Community Managed Organisations to Address Health Risk Behaviours Associated with Chronic Disease among People with Mental Health Conditions
People living with mental health conditions experience a significantly reduced life expectancy compared to people without, largely linked to health risk behaviours and associated chronic disease. Community managed organisations (CMOs) represent an important setting in which to address health risk behaviours among people with mental health conditions. However, little is known about how these behaviours (smoking, poor nutrition, alcohol consumption…
Nurturing children's development through healthy eating and active living
Fostering the growth, development, health, and wellbeing of children is a global priority. The early childhood period presents a critical window to influence lifelong trajectories, however urgent multisectoral action is needed to ensure that families are adequately supported to nurture their children's growth and development. With a shared vision to give every child the best start in life, thus helping them reach their full developmental potentia…
The effect of energy and traffic light labelling on parent and child fast food selection
Home environment predictors of vegetable and fruit intakes among Australian children aged 18 months
Assessing the potential impact of a front-of-pack nutritional rating system on food availability in school canteens
Evaluation of an Educational Policing Strategy to Reduce Alcohol-related Crime Associated With Licensed Premises
A cluster randomised trial to evaluate a physical activity intervention among 3-5 year old children attending long day care services
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12610000087055
A cluster randomised trial of a telephone-based intervention for parents to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in their 3- to 5-year-old children
If effective, this telephone-based intervention may represent a promising public health strategy to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in childhood and reduce the risk of subsequent chronic disease
Parental influences on child physical activity and screen viewing time
Parental barriers are associated with the time that children spend in both active and sedentary pursuits. These findings highlight family, economic and environmental factors that should be addressed in programs to promote child physical activity and tackle sedentary behaviour
Associations between characteristics of the home food environment and fruit and vegetable intake in preschool children
This study identified a range of modifiable characteristics within the home food environment that are associated with fruit and vegetable consumption among preschool children. Such characteristics could be considered potential targets for interventions to promote intake among children of this age
A pilot study of a telephone-based parental intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in 3–5-year-old children
Objective To examine the potential efficacy of a brief telephone-based parental intervention in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged 3–5 years and to examine the feasibility of intervention delivery and acceptability to parents. Design A pre–post study design with no comparison group. Telephone surveys were conducted approximately 1 week before and following intervention delivery. Setting Participants were recruited through…
Increasing the use of preventative health services to promote healthy eating, physical activity and weight management
The findings suggest that proactive telemarketing of health services to facilitate healthy eating, physical activity or weight loss is considered highly acceptable and may be effective in encouraging service use by more than half of all adults with these behavioural risks
A cluster randomised trial of a school-based resilience intervention to decrease tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use in secondary school students
ACTRN12611000606987
Effectiveness of a multi-strategy intervention in increasing the implementation of vegetable and fruit breaks by Australian primary schools
The findings suggest that a multi-strategy intervention can significantly increase the implementation of vegetable and fruit breaks by a large number of Australian primary schools
Evaluation of an Educational Policing Strategy to Reduce Alcohol-related Crime Associated With Licensed Premises
A cluster randomised trial of a school-based intervention to prevent decline in adolescent physical activity levels
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12612000382875
Alcohol consumption and sport
The findings of this study suggest a need and opportunity for the implementation of alcohol harm reduction strategies targeting specific alcohol management practices at community football clubs
Validity of a measure to assess healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices in Australian childcare services
The study found that Nominated Supervisors and Room Leaders were able to accurately report on a number of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices. Items assessing healthy eating practices tended to have higher kappa scores than those assessing physical activity related policies or practices. The tool represents a useful instrument for public health researchers and policy makers working in this setting
Strengthening the rigour of population-wide, community-based obesity prevention evaluations
Objective The aim of the present study was to review the methodological literature regarding evaluation methods for complex public health interventions broadly and, based on such methods, to critically reflect on the evaluation of contemporary community-based obesity prevention programmes. Design A systematic review of the methods and community-based literature was performed by one reviewer. Results The review identified that there is considerabl…
Public, official, and industry submissions on a Bill to increase the alcohol minimum purchasing age
The effect of energy and traffic light labelling on parent and child fast food selection
The impact of a hypothetical designated driver program on intended alcohol-related behavior
UNLABELLED: This study was aimed to assess, using vignettes, the impact of a hypothetical 'designated driver' (DD) initiative on level of intended alcohol consumption. A secondary aim was to assess whether using any form of transport where someone else drove was associated with level of intended consumption. A total of 390 individual sports club members from 72 clubs in New South Wales, Australia, completed a telephone survey. Individuals were ra…
Targeting multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students using electronic feedback and online and telephone support
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12615000105549; Registered 5/2/15
An implementation intervention to encourage healthy eating in centre-based child-care services
Objective To determine the impact of an implementation intervention designed to introduce policies and practices supportive of healthy eating in centre-based child-care services. Intervention strategies included staff training, resources, incentives, follow-up support, and performance monitoring and feedback. Design A quasi-experimental design was used to assess change over 20 months in healthy eating policy and practice in intervention and compa…
Alignment of systematic reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Database of Abstracts and Reviews of Effectiveness with global burden-of-disease data
Tackling risky alcohol consumption in sport
BACKGROUND: An increased prevalence of risky alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm has been reported for members of sporting groups and at sporting venues compared with non-sporting populations. While sports clubs and venues represent opportune settings to implement strategies to reduce such risks, no controlled trials have been reported. The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of an alcohol management intervention in red…
Smoking and environmental characteristics of smokers with a mental illness, and associations with quitting behaviour and motivation; a cross sectional study
Modifiable characteristics of the physical and social environment, and of smoking, should be considered in smoking cessation interventions for persons with a mental illness
A randomised controlled trial of multiple periods of outdoor free-play to increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among 3 to 6 year old children attending childcare
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry 12616000347460 . Prospectively registered 17th March 2016
Systematic Review of Universal Resilience-Focused Interventions Targeting Child and Adolescent Mental Health in the School Setting
Hospital Smoke-Free Policy
Background: Smoke-free hospital policies are becoming increasingly common to promote good health and quit attempts among patients who smoke. This study aims to assess: staff perceived enforcement and compliance with smoke-free policy; the current provision of smoking cessation care; and the characteristics of staff most likely to report provision of care to patients. Methods: An online cross-sectional survey of medical, nursing, and allied staff …
Smoke-Free Recovery from Trauma Surgery
Smoking increases the risk of complications associated with orthopaedic trauma surgery, however delivery of care is low. Online interventions may provide needed smoking cessation care and promote abstinence. This study aims to examine the engagement, acceptability, and retention of an online smoking cessation program (Smoke-Free Recovery; SFR) among a sample of orthopaedic trauma patients, as well as themes around the smoking cessation process. A…
Medicine (59 works) · Nursing (42 works) · Environmental health (39 works) · Public health (39 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (38 works) · Biostatistics (28 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Psychological intervention (24 works) · Randomized controlled trial (24 works) · Intervention (counseling (23 works)