Sian K Smith

Datos Biográficos

ID3800432
NOMBRESian K Smith
NOMBRESSian K
APELLIDOSmith
FIRMASMITH S K
AFILIACIONESUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-9541-2221
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS14
TOTAL DE CITAS19
TOTAL COMO AUTOR14
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Refinement and Validation of a New Patient‐Reported Experience Measure for Hearing Loss (My Hearing PREM)

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Helen Pryce et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2025

    CONTEXT: Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) generate insights into daily challenges experienced when living with a chronic condition and experiences of care. There are no validated PREMs to measure the experience of hearing loss. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a newly developed tool, 'My Hearing PREM', designed to assess the experience of living with hearing loss and receiving audiology c…

  • ‘The burden is very much on yourself’

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Helen Pryce et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: Hearing loss is a chronic health condition that rises sharply with age. The way people respond to and cope with health conditions is influenced by their capacity to perform illness and treatment-related work. The aim was to explore the cumulative burdens of living with hearing loss and the resources mobilised to ease the burdens. METHODS: A qualitative design was used with semi-structured interviews (online or in-person) with partic…

  • Development of the First Patient‐Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for Hearing Loss in Audiology Care—My Hearing PREM

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Georgina Burns-O’Connell et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    CONTEXT: Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) provide important insights into the challenges experienced when living with a chronic condition. Although patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) exist in audiology, there are no validated PREMs to help clinicians understand patient perspectives and identify areas where patients may need additional support or interventions. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate content…

  • Barriers and drivers of positive Covid-19 vaccination behaviours among healthcare workers in Europe and Central Asia

    Open AccessCath Jackson, Sian K Smith et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2023

    Vaccination uptake is essential to controlling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare workers (HCWs) play a critical role in receiving, recommending and delivering COVID-19 vaccination. Understanding the specific influences on each behaviour enables the development of targeted and tailored interventions to improve vaccination uptake. This paper presents a qualitative synthesis of HCWs’ individual and context barriers and drivers to these three…

  • Improving health literacy through adult basic education in Australia

    Open AccessSuzanne Morony, Emma Lamph et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2018

    Adults with low literacy are less empowered to take care of their health, have poorer health outcomes and higher healthcare costs. We facilitated partnerships between adult literacy teachers and community health providers to deliver a health literacy training program in adult basic education classrooms. Following course completion we interviewed 19 adult education teachers (15 delivering the health literacy program; 4 delivering standard literacy…

  • Listening to both sides

    Open AccessVictoria Anne Sublette, Sian K Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2018

    This qualitative study compares and contrasts the perspectives of healthcare professionals who treat hepatitis C with those of patients in treatment. Comparative analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 healthcare professionals and 20 patients undergoing treatment for hepatitis C concluded that patients and healthcare professionals disagreed on the source of communication breakdowns, but both felt that individualised clinical information im…

  • Qualitative insights into the experience of teaching shared decision making within adult education health literacy programmes for lower‐literacy learners

    Open AccessDanielle M Muscat, Suzanne Morony et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2017

    BACKGROUND: Enhancing health literacy can play a major role in improving healthcare and health across the globe. To build higher-order (communicative/critical) health literacy skills among socially disadvantaged Australians, we developed a novel shared decision making (SDM) training programme for adults with lower literacy. The programme was delivered by trained educators within an adult basic education health literacy course. OBJECTIVE: To explo…

  • Incorporating health literacy in education for socially disadvantaged adults

    Open AccessDanielle M Muscat, Sian K Smith et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2016

    Positive feasibility results support a larger RCT of the health literacy program. However, there is a need to identify better, multi-dimensional measures of health literacy in order to be able to quantify change in a larger trial. This feasibility study represents the first step in providing the high quality evidence needed to understand the way in which health literacy can be improved and health inequalities reduced through Australian adult educ…

  • Evaluation of an Australian health literacy training program for socially disadvantaged adults attending basic education classes

    Open AccessKirsten J Mccaffery, Suzanne Morony et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12616000213448

  • Health literacy and the social determinants of health

    Open AccessGuy Rowlands, Gillian Rowlands et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2015

    Health literacy, ‘the personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health’, is key to improving peoples’ control over modifiable social determinants of health (SDH). This study listened to adult learners to understand their perspectives on gathering, understanding and using information for health. This qualitative proje…

  • Informed choice in bowel cancer screening

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Paul Kearney et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2014

    Background Offering informed choice in screening is increasingly advocated, but little is known about how evidence‐based information about the benefits and harms of screening influences understanding and participation in screening. Objective We aimed to explore how a bowel cancer screening decision aid influenced decision making and screening behaviour among adults with lower education and literacy. Methods Twenty‐one men and women aged 55–64 yea…

  • Insights into the concept and measurement of health literacy from a study of shared decision-making in a low literacy population

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Don Nutbeam et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2013Citada por: 4Referencias: 43

    This article explores the concept and measurement of health literacy in the context of shared health decision-making. It draws upon a series of qualitative and quantitative studies undertaken in the development and evaluation of a bowel cancer screening decision aid for low literacy populations. The findings indicate that different types of health literacy (functional, interactive and critical) are required in decision-making and present a set of…

  • Exploring patient involvement in healthcare decision making across different education and functional health literacy groups

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Ann Dixon et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2009Citada por: 15Referencias: 33

  • Information needs and preferences of low and high literacy consumers for decisions about colorectal cancer screening

    Open AccessSian K Smith, Lyndal Trevena et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2008

    Context The use of written decision aids (DAs) in clinical practice has proliferated. However, few DAs have been developed for low literacy users, despite this group having low knowledge about healthcare and lacking involvement in health decisions. Objective To explore the information needs and understanding of adults with varying literacy in relation to colorectal cancer screening, and to consider their responses to two versions of a decision ai…