Adrian Barnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Barnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnett |
| SIGNATURE | BARNETT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6339-0374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The varying perceptions of a statistician’s value, from “critical” to “not needed for 99.9% of applications”
Currently, much medical research is wasted due to inappropriate study design or analysis. Qualified statisticians are essential for ensuring ideal study design and analysis, and the ethical review process is an ideal stage for their input. We estimated the percentage of Australian ethics committees with access to a qualified statistician. Sixty percent of committees reported access to a qualified statistician, either as a full committee member or…
The evolution of scientific writing
For at least a century, scientists have been concerned with the need for clear scientific writing. This concern has grown with the advent of the internet allowing for global, interdisciplinary collaboration. In this study, we used R software to analyse over twenty million abstracts from scientific papers in the health and medical fields — tracking changes in the frequency with which different writing components have been used since the 1950s. Thi…
Health and medical researchers are willing to trade their results for journal impact factors
The fixation of the research community on the prestige of journals harms research quality as some researchers focus on where to publish instead of what. We examined researchers’ publication preferences using a discrete choice experiment in a cross-sectional survey of international health and medical researchers. We asked researchers to consider two hypothetical journals and decide which one they would prefer. The hypothetical journals varied in t…
Oversight of Research Outputs by Public Organisations as a Threat to Research Integrity
Observation of Masturbation After Visual Sexual Stimuli From Conspecifics in a Captive Male Bearded Capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus)
Race and ethnicity in the Covid-19 Critical Care Consortium
Disease severity was higher for Indigenous ethnicity groups in the US and Australia than for other ethnicities. Race and ethnicity groups with longstanding healthcare disparities were found to have high acuity from COVID-19 and high mortality. Because there is no global system of race and ethnicity classification, researchers designing case report forms for international studies should consider including related information, such as socioeconomic…
‘The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back’
BACKGROUND: We conducted a survey to identify what types of health/medical research could be exempt from research ethics reviews in Australia. METHODS: We surveyed Australian health/medical researchers and Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) members. The survey asked whether respondents had previously changed or abandoned a project anticipating difficulties obtaining ethics approval, and presented eight research scenarios, asking whether these…
Demonstrating the ascendancy of Covid-19 research using acronyms
No Country Bureaucratised its way to Excellence”
We created a petition for a national inquiry into the Australian system of research ethics and governance, to inform the politicians about the problems with the existing system. We analyzed the reasons that signatories offered for why signing the petition was important to them. A total of 409 comments (by 805 signatories) focused on five major themes: (1) views on previous changes to the system of research ethics and governance; (2) drawbacks of …
Beyond the ‘extinction of experience’ – Novel pathways between nature experience and support for nature conservation
The Vocal Repertoire of Golden-Faced Sakis, Pithecia chrysocephala, and the Relationship Between Context and Call Structure
Assessing Effect Modification of Excess Winter Death by Causes of Death and Individual Characteristics in Zhejiang Province, China
Mortality in many parts of the world has a seasonal pattern, with a marked excess of deaths during winter. To date, however, there is very little published evidence on the nature of this wintertime excess in low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we aimed to quantify the extent of the death peak in winter and to assess effect modification on excess winter death (EWD) by individual characteristics and cause of deaths in China. We used a …
Pitheciid vocal communication
The variation in ecological traits in pitheciids allows investigation of vocal communication over a range of social and acoustic circumstances. In this review paper we present a summary of the history of pitheciid vocal studies and review i) the status of our current knowledge of the vocal repertoire sizes of pitheciid primates, ii) how much do we understand about the context of different acoustic signals and iii) how can we potentially use our k…
The Role of Influenza in the Delay between Low Temperature and Ischemic Heart Disease
Many studies have found that cardiovascular deaths mostly occur within a few days of exposure to heat, whereas cold-related deaths can occur up to 30 days after exposure. We investigated whether influenza infection could explain the delayed cold effects on ischemic heart diseases (IHD) as they can trigger IHD. We hypothesized two pathways between cold exposure and IHD: a direct pathway and an indirect pathway through influenza infection. We creat…
Predictors of health-related quality of life in people with a complex chronic disease including multimorbidity
Moving MobileMums forward
The trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12611000481976)
Obituary
Seasonal variation in cardiovascular disease risk factors in a subarctic population
BACKGROUND: Seasonal changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may be due to exposure to seasonal environmental variables like temperature and acute infections or seasonal behavioural patterns in physical activity and diet. Investigating the seasonal pattern of risk factors should help determine the causes of the seasonal pattern in CVD. Few studies have investigated the seasonal variation in risk factors using repeated measurements fr…
Working for a Better Life
Although a number of studies have investigated the predictors of employment among refugee migrants, there is a dearth of evidence from longitudinal data. This study investigated the cross‐sectional and longitudinal predictors of employment among 233 adult refugee men living in South‐East Queensland, Australia. Participants were interviewed four times at six‐month intervals between 2008 and 2010. Using a conceptual model developed from the literat…
Living Well with Diabetes
ACTRN12608000203358
Longing to belong
The association between birth weight, season of birth and latitude
Environmental factors that have regular within-year variation influence birth weight in Australia. The evidence suggests that at least two distinguishable seasonal processes contribute to the findings. Identifying the factors underlying these seasonal fluctuations could have implications from a public health perspective
Cold periods and coronary events
Study objective: To investigate the association between cold periods and coronary events, and the extent to which climate, sex, age, and previous cardiac history increase risk during cold weather. Design: A hierarchical analyses of populations from the World Health Organisation’s MONICA project. Setting: Twenty four populations from the WHO’s MONICA project, a 21 country register made between 1980 and 1995. Patients: People aged 35–64 years who h…
Regression to the mean
BACKGROUND: Regression to the mean (RTM) is a statistical phenomenon that can make natural variation in repeated data look like real change. It happens when unusually large or small measurements tend to be followed by measurements that are closer to the mean. METHODS: We give some examples of the phenomenon, and discuss methods to overcome it at the design and analysis stages of a study. RESULTS: The effect of RTM in a sample becomes more noticea…
Longing to belong
Working for a Better Life
Although a number of studies have investigated the predictors of employment among refugee migrants, there is a dearth of evidence from longitudinal data. This study investigated the cross‐sectional and longitudinal predictors of employment among 233 adult refugee men living in South‐East Queensland, Australia. Participants were interviewed four times at six‐month intervals between 2008 and 2010. Using a conceptual model developed from the literat…
Beyond the ‘extinction of experience’ – Novel pathways between nature experience and support for nature conservation
No Country Bureaucratised its way to Excellence”
We created a petition for a national inquiry into the Australian system of research ethics and governance, to inform the politicians about the problems with the existing system. We analyzed the reasons that signatories offered for why signing the petition was important to them. A total of 409 comments (by 805 signatories) focused on five major themes: (1) views on previous changes to the system of research ethics and governance; (2) drawbacks of …
Pitheciid vocal communication
The variation in ecological traits in pitheciids allows investigation of vocal communication over a range of social and acoustic circumstances. In this review paper we present a summary of the history of pitheciid vocal studies and review i) the status of our current knowledge of the vocal repertoire sizes of pitheciid primates, ii) how much do we understand about the context of different acoustic signals and iii) how can we potentially use our k…
Seasonal variation in cardiovascular disease risk factors in a subarctic population
BACKGROUND: Seasonal changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may be due to exposure to seasonal environmental variables like temperature and acute infections or seasonal behavioural patterns in physical activity and diet. Investigating the seasonal pattern of risk factors should help determine the causes of the seasonal pattern in CVD. Few studies have investigated the seasonal variation in risk factors using repeated measurements fr…
Cold periods and coronary events
Study objective: To investigate the association between cold periods and coronary events, and the extent to which climate, sex, age, and previous cardiac history increase risk during cold weather. Design: A hierarchical analyses of populations from the World Health Organisation’s MONICA project. Setting: Twenty four populations from the WHO’s MONICA project, a 21 country register made between 1980 and 1995. Patients: People aged 35–64 years who h…
Regression to the mean
BACKGROUND: Regression to the mean (RTM) is a statistical phenomenon that can make natural variation in repeated data look like real change. It happens when unusually large or small measurements tend to be followed by measurements that are closer to the mean. METHODS: We give some examples of the phenomenon, and discuss methods to overcome it at the design and analysis stages of a study. RESULTS: The effect of RTM in a sample becomes more noticea…
The association between birth weight, season of birth and latitude
Environmental factors that have regular within-year variation influence birth weight in Australia. The evidence suggests that at least two distinguishable seasonal processes contribute to the findings. Identifying the factors underlying these seasonal fluctuations could have implications from a public health perspective
Cold periods and coronary events
Study objective: To investigate the association between cold periods and coronary events, and the extent to which climate, sex, age, and previous cardiac history increase risk during cold weather. Design: A hierarchical analyses of populations from the World Health Organisation’s MONICA project. Setting: Twenty four populations from the WHO’s MONICA project, a 21 country register made between 1980 and 1995. Patients: People aged 35–64 years who h…
Living Well with Diabetes
ACTRN12608000203358
Longing to belong
Moving MobileMums forward
The trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12611000481976)
Obituary
Seasonal variation in cardiovascular disease risk factors in a subarctic population
BACKGROUND: Seasonal changes in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors may be due to exposure to seasonal environmental variables like temperature and acute infections or seasonal behavioural patterns in physical activity and diet. Investigating the seasonal pattern of risk factors should help determine the causes of the seasonal pattern in CVD. Few studies have investigated the seasonal variation in risk factors using repeated measurements fr…
Working for a Better Life
Although a number of studies have investigated the predictors of employment among refugee migrants, there is a dearth of evidence from longitudinal data. This study investigated the cross‐sectional and longitudinal predictors of employment among 233 adult refugee men living in South‐East Queensland, Australia. Participants were interviewed four times at six‐month intervals between 2008 and 2010. Using a conceptual model developed from the literat…
The Role of Influenza in the Delay between Low Temperature and Ischemic Heart Disease
Many studies have found that cardiovascular deaths mostly occur within a few days of exposure to heat, whereas cold-related deaths can occur up to 30 days after exposure. We investigated whether influenza infection could explain the delayed cold effects on ischemic heart diseases (IHD) as they can trigger IHD. We hypothesized two pathways between cold exposure and IHD: a direct pathway and an indirect pathway through influenza infection. We creat…
Predictors of health-related quality of life in people with a complex chronic disease including multimorbidity
Pitheciid vocal communication
The variation in ecological traits in pitheciids allows investigation of vocal communication over a range of social and acoustic circumstances. In this review paper we present a summary of the history of pitheciid vocal studies and review i) the status of our current knowledge of the vocal repertoire sizes of pitheciid primates, ii) how much do we understand about the context of different acoustic signals and iii) how can we potentially use our k…
Assessing Effect Modification of Excess Winter Death by Causes of Death and Individual Characteristics in Zhejiang Province, China
Mortality in many parts of the world has a seasonal pattern, with a marked excess of deaths during winter. To date, however, there is very little published evidence on the nature of this wintertime excess in low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we aimed to quantify the extent of the death peak in winter and to assess effect modification on excess winter death (EWD) by individual characteristics and cause of deaths in China. We used a …
Beyond the ‘extinction of experience’ – Novel pathways between nature experience and support for nature conservation
The Vocal Repertoire of Golden-Faced Sakis, Pithecia chrysocephala, and the Relationship Between Context and Call Structure
‘The ethics approval took 20 months on a trial which was meant to help terminally ill cancer patients. In the end we had to send the funding back’
BACKGROUND: We conducted a survey to identify what types of health/medical research could be exempt from research ethics reviews in Australia. METHODS: We surveyed Australian health/medical researchers and Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) members. The survey asked whether respondents had previously changed or abandoned a project anticipating difficulties obtaining ethics approval, and presented eight research scenarios, asking whether these…
Demonstrating the ascendancy of Covid-19 research using acronyms
No Country Bureaucratised its way to Excellence”
We created a petition for a national inquiry into the Australian system of research ethics and governance, to inform the politicians about the problems with the existing system. We analyzed the reasons that signatories offered for why signing the petition was important to them. A total of 409 comments (by 805 signatories) focused on five major themes: (1) views on previous changes to the system of research ethics and governance; (2) drawbacks of …
Observation of Masturbation After Visual Sexual Stimuli From Conspecifics in a Captive Male Bearded Capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus)
Race and ethnicity in the Covid-19 Critical Care Consortium
Disease severity was higher for Indigenous ethnicity groups in the US and Australia than for other ethnicities. Race and ethnicity groups with longstanding healthcare disparities were found to have high acuity from COVID-19 and high mortality. Because there is no global system of race and ethnicity classification, researchers designing case report forms for international studies should consider including related information, such as socioeconomic…
The evolution of scientific writing
For at least a century, scientists have been concerned with the need for clear scientific writing. This concern has grown with the advent of the internet allowing for global, interdisciplinary collaboration. In this study, we used R software to analyse over twenty million abstracts from scientific papers in the health and medical fields — tracking changes in the frequency with which different writing components have been used since the 1950s. Thi…
Health and medical researchers are willing to trade their results for journal impact factors
The fixation of the research community on the prestige of journals harms research quality as some researchers focus on where to publish instead of what. We examined researchers’ publication preferences using a discrete choice experiment in a cross-sectional survey of international health and medical researchers. We asked researchers to consider two hypothetical journals and decide which one they would prefer. The hypothetical journals varied in t…
Oversight of Research Outputs by Public Organisations as a Threat to Research Integrity
The varying perceptions of a statistician’s value, from “critical” to “not needed for 99.9% of applications”
Currently, much medical research is wasted due to inappropriate study design or analysis. Qualified statisticians are essential for ensuring ideal study design and analysis, and the ethical review process is an ideal stage for their input. We estimated the percentage of Australian ethics committees with access to a qualified statistician. Sixty percent of committees reported access to a qualified statistician, either as a full committee member or…
Medicine (13 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Internal Medicine (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Disease (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)