Margot J Schofield
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 316763 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Margot J Schofield |
| NOMBRES | Margot J |
| APELLIDO | Schofield |
| FIRMA | SCHOFIELD M J |
| AFILIACIONES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0543-5751 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Building healthcare workers' confidence to work with same-sex parented families
This article reports on a qualitative study of barriers and access to healthcare for same-sex attracted parents and their children. Focus groups were held with same-sex attracted parents to explore their experiences with healthcare providers and identify barriers and facilitators to access. Parents reported experiencing uncomfortable or anxiety-provoking encounters with healthcare workers who struggled to adopt inclusive or appropriate language t…
Depressive Symptoms Among Australian University Students
ObjectiveUniversity students have a high risk of psychological distress; however, few Australian studies have specifically examined the prevalence of, or risk factors for, depressive symptoms. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among university students and the characteristics of those with depressive symptoms.MethodParticipants were randomly selected university students at a large metropolitan university in Victori…
Efficacy of family mediation and the role of family violence
Family violence is a major risk to the physical and mental health of women and children. This study will inform debates about the role of family violence and how to manage it in the family mediation context. It will also inform decision-making about mediation practices by better understanding how mediation impacts on parenting agreements, and the implications for children, especially in the context of family violence
Social Connectedness Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents Living in Metropolitan and Regional and Rural Areas of Australia and New Zealand
This article explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents’ sense of connection to their families, friends, and communities. The study compares LGBT parents who live in inner metropolitan areas with those living in outer metropolitan and regional and rural areas. We also look at experiences of discrimination and being out about sexuality in various community settings. Data for this article were drawn from the Work, Love, Play st…
Short and long-term effectiveness of couple counselling
The study protocol describes the first large scale investigation of the effectiveness of two types of relationship services to be conducted in Australia. Its significance lies in providing more detailed profiles of couples who seek relationship services, in evaluating both 3 and 12-month relationship and health outcomes, and in determining factors that best predict improvements. It builds on prior research by using a naturalistic sample, an effec…
Bisexual Parents and Family Diversity
This article reports on findings from the Work, Love, Play study, an Australian/New Zealand study of same-sex attracted parents. There were 48 parents in this study who identified as bisexual. There was a diversity of contexts in which people in this sample were parenting: heterosexual relationships, same-sex relationships, coparenting with ex-partners or nonpartners, and sole parenting. A large number of these bisexual parents had experience of …
Gay and bisexual dads and diversity
Gay and bisexual dads and diversity
This paper reports on findings from the Work, Love, Play (WLP) study, an Australian/New Zealand study of same-sex attracted parents. There were 88 fathers who responded to the WLP survey. There was a diversity of contexts in which these men had become parents and were currently parenting: 34 (39%) had become parents while in a previous heterosexual relationship, 20 (23%) were parenting children who had been conceived via surrogacy in the context …
What Helps Couples Rebuild Their Relationship After Infidelity
Despite infidelity being a highly traumatic experience, not all couples end their relationship after discovery of the affair. The present study provides insights into the experience of couples who remained together after having experienced infidelity by one partner. Narrative inquiry methods were used to undertake and analyze in-depth interviews with eligible participants from eastern Australia who responded to advertisements. The key themes ackn…
Understanding resilience in same-sex parented families
This study will make an important contribution to the existing research on same-sex parented families. Strengths of the study design include the longitudinal method, which will allow understanding of changes over time within internal family relationships and social supports. Further, the mixed method design enables triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data. A broad recruitment strategy has already enabled a large sample size with the inc…
Australian Women Seeking Counseling Have Higher Use Of Health Services
Innovative approaches to family violence
The WHO typology of violence is based on a classification of who commits violent acts against whom (eg partner abuse), and through what means (eg physical violence). Family violence would be viewed as interpersonal violence perpetrated by a family member against a victim who might be a child, partner or older family member. However, if we consider the causes and consequences of family violence we can begin to see links into the self-directed and …
Parental suicide and its aftermath
It is well-established that suicide is associated with grief that is complex. However, there is very limited research examining the grief experiences and long-term outcomes for a particularly vulnerable group, namely, children who have lost a parent through suicide. This review aims to critically examine the small body of available quantitative and qualitative research on the impact of parental suicide and examines factors associated with the chi…
How Counsellors Cope with Traumatized Clients
History of Domestic Violence and Physical Health in Midlife
The association between domestic violence and physical health in middle-aged Australian women is investigated via a cross-sectional survey of 14,100 women (45 to 50 years old) who responded to the first Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health survey. After adjustment for demographic and health behavior characteristics and menopause status in multivariate analyses, various physical conditions (allergies or breathing problems, pain or fatig…
Three Year Health Outcomes Among Older Women at Risk of Elder Abuse
Psychosocial and Health Behavioural Covariates of Cosmetic Surgery
Current psychosocial and health behavioural covariates of past cosmetic surgery were assessed in a population-based sample ( n = 14,100) aged 45-50 years, from the baseline survey of the Women’s Health Australia study. Seven percent ( n = 982) reported having ever had cosmetic surgery. Multivariate analysis found that self-reported dieting frequency in the past year and body mass index were highly significant covariates of cosmetic surgery; perce…
Factors associated with hysterectomy among women in Australia
Women's Health Australia
The Women's Health Australia (WHA) project is a longitudinal study of several cohorts of Australian women, which aims to examine the relationships between biological, psychological, social and lifestyle factors and women's physical health, emotional well-being, and their use of and satisfaction with health care. Using the Medicare database as a sampling frame (with oversampling of women from rural and remote areas), 106,000 women in the three age…
Is There Consensus Between Breast Cancer Patients and Providers on Guidelines for Breaking Bad News
Eighty-four breast cancer patients, 64 oncologists, and 140 oncology nurses rated the importance of 15 general principles and 12 recommended steps to guide clinicians in breaking bad news to patients. At least 70% of the three samples rated 7 of the 15 principles and 6 of the 12 steps as essential. All three groups agreed that patients have a legal and moral right to accurate and reliable information and that patients should be given the diagnosi…
SF-36 Health Profiles of Recently Discharged Hospital Patients in Australia
This study investigated the characteristics and validity of the SF-36 (Australian version) health profile and summary scores for recently discharged hospital patients and compared this with US and Australian community samples with minor and serious medical conditions. Adult medical, surgical, obstetric and gynaecological patients from a large teaching hospital in NSW, Australia, completed a postal survey 1 week after discharge. The SF- 36 discrim…
Validity of the SF-12 Compared with the SF-36 Health Survey in Pilot Studies of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
This study assessed the relative validity of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36 and SF-12) for Australian women and compared norms for the independently administered and embedded SF- 12. Two samples of women in New South Wales were randomly selected from the Medicare database ( N = 3600). The sample was stratified into young (18 to 22 years), middle-aged (45 to 49 years) and older (70 to 74 years) women, and into w…
Patient-Provider Agreement on Guidelines for Preparation for Breast Cancer Treatment
Guidelines for preparing cancer patients for threatening medical procedures were developed and refined and their perceived relevance and importance rated by three concerned groups--84 breast cancer patients, 64 doctors, and 140 nurses and nurse oncologists. All three groups indicated strong support for the guidelines. Patients and nurses rated more of the guidelines as essential aspects of good quality care than did doctors. Items in which a sign…
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
Norms for the physical and mental health component summary scores of the SF-36 for young, middle-aged and older Australian women
What Helps Couples Rebuild Their Relationship After Infidelity
Despite infidelity being a highly traumatic experience, not all couples end their relationship after discovery of the affair. The present study provides insights into the experience of couples who remained together after having experienced infidelity by one partner. Narrative inquiry methods were used to undertake and analyze in-depth interviews with eligible participants from eastern Australia who responded to advertisements. The key themes ackn…
Social Connectedness Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents Living in Metropolitan and Regional and Rural Areas of Australia and New Zealand
This article explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents’ sense of connection to their families, friends, and communities. The study compares LGBT parents who live in inner metropolitan areas with those living in outer metropolitan and regional and rural areas. We also look at experiences of discrimination and being out about sexuality in various community settings. Data for this article were drawn from the Work, Love, Play st…
Bisexual Parents and Family Diversity
This article reports on findings from the Work, Love, Play study, an Australian/New Zealand study of same-sex attracted parents. There were 48 parents in this study who identified as bisexual. There was a diversity of contexts in which people in this sample were parenting: heterosexual relationships, same-sex relationships, coparenting with ex-partners or nonpartners, and sole parenting. A large number of these bisexual parents had experience of …
Psychosocial and Health Behavioural Covariates of Cosmetic Surgery
Current psychosocial and health behavioural covariates of past cosmetic surgery were assessed in a population-based sample ( n = 14,100) aged 45-50 years, from the baseline survey of the Women’s Health Australia study. Seven percent ( n = 982) reported having ever had cosmetic surgery. Multivariate analysis found that self-reported dieting frequency in the past year and body mass index were highly significant covariates of cosmetic surgery; perce…
Smoking control in restaurants
OBJECTIVES. The provision of smoke-free areas in restaurants has been a controversial issue; the restaurant industry largely opts for a self-regulation approach. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of self-regulation as a strategy in meeting the industry's and customers' perceived needs. METHODS. Restaurateur and customer perspectives on the provision of smoke-free areas in restaurants were examined by survey among 365 restaurateurs and…
Gay and bisexual dads and diversity
This paper reports on findings from the Work, Love, Play (WLP) study, an Australian/New Zealand study of same-sex attracted parents. There were 88 fathers who responded to the WLP survey. There was a diversity of contexts in which these men had become parents and were currently parenting: 34 (39%) had become parents while in a previous heterosexual relationship, 20 (23%) were parenting children who had been conceived via surrogacy in the context …
History of Domestic Violence and Physical Health in Midlife
The association between domestic violence and physical health in middle-aged Australian women is investigated via a cross-sectional survey of 14,100 women (45 to 50 years old) who responded to the first Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health survey. After adjustment for demographic and health behavior characteristics and menopause status in multivariate analyses, various physical conditions (allergies or breathing problems, pain or fatig…
Depressive Symptoms Among Australian University Students
ObjectiveUniversity students have a high risk of psychological distress; however, few Australian studies have specifically examined the prevalence of, or risk factors for, depressive symptoms. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among university students and the characteristics of those with depressive symptoms.MethodParticipants were randomly selected university students at a large metropolitan university in Victori…
Factors associated with hysterectomy among women in Australia
Validity of the SF-12 Compared with the SF-36 Health Survey in Pilot Studies of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
This study assessed the relative validity of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36 and SF-12) for Australian women and compared norms for the independently administered and embedded SF- 12. Two samples of women in New South Wales were randomly selected from the Medicare database ( N = 3600). The sample was stratified into young (18 to 22 years), middle-aged (45 to 49 years) and older (70 to 74 years) women, and into w…
Gay and bisexual dads and diversity
Innovative approaches to family violence
The WHO typology of violence is based on a classification of who commits violent acts against whom (eg partner abuse), and through what means (eg physical violence). Family violence would be viewed as interpersonal violence perpetrated by a family member against a victim who might be a child, partner or older family member. However, if we consider the causes and consequences of family violence we can begin to see links into the self-directed and …
Children's Understanding of Friendship Issues
The structural-developmental model of interpersonal understanding proposed by Selman was investigated with respect to children's understanding of six issues of friendship: formation, intimacy, trust, jealousy, conflict and termination. Subjects were 81 boys and 85 girls (age range 9-11 years). A slide and tape presentation of a friendship dilemma was presented before a group-administered written assessment of levels of interpersonal understanding…
Children's Understanding of Friendship Issues
The structural-developmental model of interpersonal understanding proposed by Selman was investigated with respect to children's understanding of six issues of friendship: formation, intimacy, trust, jealousy, conflict and termination. Subjects were 81 boys and 85 girls (age range 9-11 years). A slide and tape presentation of a friendship dilemma was presented before a group-administered written assessment of levels of interpersonal understanding…
Skin cancer
Increasing skin cancer rates highlight the need to reduce the amount of solar exposure of young children. Children in early childcare are one potential target group for improved sun protection policy and practice. Solar protection policies and practices in 51 randomly selected early childcare centres in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia were examined. Only 18% of centres had written policies and 36% of centres unwritten policies, pr…
Smoking control in restaurants
OBJECTIVES. The provision of smoke-free areas in restaurants has been a controversial issue; the restaurant industry largely opts for a self-regulation approach. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of self-regulation as a strategy in meeting the industry's and customers' perceived needs. METHODS. Restaurateur and customer perspectives on the provision of smoke-free areas in restaurants were examined by survey among 365 restaurateurs and…
Smoking bans in restaurants
Retailer attitudes on tobacco sales to minors in New South Wales, Australia
Developing methodologies for evaluating community-wide health promotion
There has been growing recognition that health promotion programs which target whole communities are more likely to be effective in changing health behaviour. However, studies evaluating the impact of community-wide health promotion programs rarely use adequate methodology. Randomised control trials where multiple whole communities are randomly assigned to control and intervention groups are optimum if evaluators hope to validly attribute changes…
Community action for cancer prevention
This paper describes the rationale, aims, design and methods of a large-scale community action cancer prevention project. Cancer Action in Rural Towns (CART). The primary aim of the CART project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community action program in increasing community rates of preventive and screening behaviours relating to breast, cervical, smoking-related and skin cancer. Twenty towns in rural New South Wales, Australia (population…
Smoking on hospital grounds and the impact of outdoor smoke-free zones
This observation study of smoking behaviour in hospital grounds highlights the need to reduce smoking among staff and visitors near hospital entrances. Specific strategies are discussed, which are likely to enhance compliance and hence enable the effective introduction of smoke-free policies on hospital grounds
Patient-Provider Agreement on Guidelines for Preparation for Breast Cancer Treatment
Guidelines for preparing cancer patients for threatening medical procedures were developed and refined and their perceived relevance and importance rated by three concerned groups--84 breast cancer patients, 64 doctors, and 140 nurses and nurse oncologists. All three groups indicated strong support for the guidelines. Patients and nurses rated more of the guidelines as essential aspects of good quality care than did doctors. Items in which a sign…
SF-36 Health Profiles of Recently Discharged Hospital Patients in Australia
This study investigated the characteristics and validity of the SF-36 (Australian version) health profile and summary scores for recently discharged hospital patients and compared this with US and Australian community samples with minor and serious medical conditions. Adult medical, surgical, obstetric and gynaecological patients from a large teaching hospital in NSW, Australia, completed a postal survey 1 week after discharge. The SF- 36 discrim…
Validity of the SF-12 Compared with the SF-36 Health Survey in Pilot Studies of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health
This study assessed the relative validity of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36 and SF-12) for Australian women and compared norms for the independently administered and embedded SF- 12. Two samples of women in New South Wales were randomly selected from the Medicare database ( N = 3600). The sample was stratified into young (18 to 22 years), middle-aged (45 to 49 years) and older (70 to 74 years) women, and into w…
Women's Health Australia
The Women's Health Australia (WHA) project is a longitudinal study of several cohorts of Australian women, which aims to examine the relationships between biological, psychological, social and lifestyle factors and women's physical health, emotional well-being, and their use of and satisfaction with health care. Using the Medicare database as a sampling frame (with oversampling of women from rural and remote areas), 106,000 women in the three age…
Is There Consensus Between Breast Cancer Patients and Providers on Guidelines for Breaking Bad News
Eighty-four breast cancer patients, 64 oncologists, and 140 oncology nurses rated the importance of 15 general principles and 12 recommended steps to guide clinicians in breaking bad news to patients. At least 70% of the three samples rated 7 of the 15 principles and 6 of the 12 steps as essential. All three groups agreed that patients have a legal and moral right to accurate and reliable information and that patients should be given the diagnosi…
Factors associated with hysterectomy among women in Australia
Psychosocial and Health Behavioural Covariates of Cosmetic Surgery
Current psychosocial and health behavioural covariates of past cosmetic surgery were assessed in a population-based sample ( n = 14,100) aged 45-50 years, from the baseline survey of the Women’s Health Australia study. Seven percent ( n = 982) reported having ever had cosmetic surgery. Multivariate analysis found that self-reported dieting frequency in the past year and body mass index were highly significant covariates of cosmetic surgery; perce…
Three Year Health Outcomes Among Older Women at Risk of Elder Abuse
How Counsellors Cope with Traumatized Clients
History of Domestic Violence and Physical Health in Midlife
The association between domestic violence and physical health in middle-aged Australian women is investigated via a cross-sectional survey of 14,100 women (45 to 50 years old) who responded to the first Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health survey. After adjustment for demographic and health behavior characteristics and menopause status in multivariate analyses, various physical conditions (allergies or breathing problems, pain or fatig…
Parental suicide and its aftermath
It is well-established that suicide is associated with grief that is complex. However, there is very limited research examining the grief experiences and long-term outcomes for a particularly vulnerable group, namely, children who have lost a parent through suicide. This review aims to critically examine the small body of available quantitative and qualitative research on the impact of parental suicide and examines factors associated with the chi…
Australian Women Seeking Counseling Have Higher Use Of Health Services
Innovative approaches to family violence
The WHO typology of violence is based on a classification of who commits violent acts against whom (eg partner abuse), and through what means (eg physical violence). Family violence would be viewed as interpersonal violence perpetrated by a family member against a victim who might be a child, partner or older family member. However, if we consider the causes and consequences of family violence we can begin to see links into the self-directed and …
Understanding resilience in same-sex parented families
This study will make an important contribution to the existing research on same-sex parented families. Strengths of the study design include the longitudinal method, which will allow understanding of changes over time within internal family relationships and social supports. Further, the mixed method design enables triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data. A broad recruitment strategy has already enabled a large sample size with the inc…
Short and long-term effectiveness of couple counselling
The study protocol describes the first large scale investigation of the effectiveness of two types of relationship services to be conducted in Australia. Its significance lies in providing more detailed profiles of couples who seek relationship services, in evaluating both 3 and 12-month relationship and health outcomes, and in determining factors that best predict improvements. It builds on prior research by using a naturalistic sample, an effec…
Bisexual Parents and Family Diversity
This article reports on findings from the Work, Love, Play study, an Australian/New Zealand study of same-sex attracted parents. There were 48 parents in this study who identified as bisexual. There was a diversity of contexts in which people in this sample were parenting: heterosexual relationships, same-sex relationships, coparenting with ex-partners or nonpartners, and sole parenting. A large number of these bisexual parents had experience of …
Gay and bisexual dads and diversity
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