Debra Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8996-9624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The process of co‐designing a model of social prescribing: An Australian case study
INTRODUCTION: Social needs such as housing, employment, food, income and social isolation are having a significant impact on individuals, families and communities. Individuals are increasingly presenting to health settings with social needs, which are ill-equipped to address nonmedical needs. Social prescribing is a systematic approach connecting the health, social and community sectors to better address social needs and improve health and wellbe…
Towards collective community education: Pasifika diabetes health forums in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Collective community education co-designed with the Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Pasifika (Pacific Islander peoples living in Australia) communities through participatory community engagement, Indigenous methods and cultural knowledge are vital for development and implementation of diabetes community forums. A community-based participatory action research was co-designed with three Pasifika diabetes community forums in p…
Changes in health behaviours in adults at-risk of chronic disease: Primary outcomes from the My health for life program
While participants showed improvements in dietary indicators, changes in alcohol consumption and physical activity were less amenable to the program. Additional research is needed to help understand the multi-level barriers and facilitators of behaviour change in this context to further tailor the intervention for priority groups
Using Talanoa in Community-Based Research with Australian Pacific Islander Women with Type 2 Diabetes
The community-academia partnership and the participatory processes using talanoa facilitated dialogue and engagement to promote diabetes prevention and management for API communities
Deconstructing type 2 diabetes self‐management of Australian Pacific Islander women: Using a community participatory research and talanoa approach
Community-based participatory research using culturally appropriate talanoa approaches provided the framework to explore diabetes self-management of Australian Pacific Islander (API) women living with type 2 diabetes in South-East Queensland. Data collection included interviews with key informants (21), in-depth interviews with API women with diabetes (10), talanoa group discussions (7) and monthly steering committee meetings. Using an interpreti…
Predictors of mental health in midlife and older Australian women: A multilevel investigation
The purpose of this article is to examine the factors associated with women's mental health. A random sample of 340 Australian women aged 40-55 completed surveys on menopausal and lifestyle factors and mental health at three time points. We used hierarchical models to show that decrements in mental health were associated with a corresponding increase in some midlife symptoms (p < .01), time (p < .01), and poor physical health (p < .01), but the e…
A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: Protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study
The proposed study hypothesizes that women are at increased risk of exposure to multiple or repeated stressors, some being unique to women, and the frequency and chronicity of stressors increases women's risk of adverse health outcomes. This study aims to further our understanding of the relationships between stressful life experiences, perceived quality of life, stress biomarkers, chronic illness, and health status in women
Stress, Lifestyle, and Quality of Life in Midlife and Older Australian Women: Results From the Stress and the Health of Women Study
Yarning” as a Method for Community-Based Health Research With Indigenous Women: The Indigenous Women's Wellness Research Program
This project explores yarning as a methodology for understanding health and wellness from an indigenous woman's perspective. Previous research exploring indigenous Australian women's perspectives have used traditional Western methodologies and have often been felt by the women themselves to be inappropriate and ineffective in gathering information and promoting discussion. This research arose from the indigenous women themselves, and resulted in …
Perspectives on a Decolonizing Approach to Research About Indigenous Women's Health: The Indigenous Women's Wellness Study
This paper explores a decolonizing approach to research about Indigenous women's health in Australia. The paper identifies the strengths of decolonizing methodologies as a way to prioritize Indigenous values and worldviews, develop partnerships between researchers and the researched, and contribute to positive change. The authors draw on Laenui's (2000) five-step model of decolonization to describe their work in the Indigenous Women's Wellness Pr…
Self-Critical Perfectionism, Acculturative Stress, and Depression Among International Students
The authors tested a classic diathesis-stress, stress-enhancement model of perfectionism with subgroups of Chinese ( N = 129) and Asian Indian ( N = 166) international graduate students attending a major U.S. university. More specifically, the authors tested whether self-critical perfectionism, acculturative stress, and their interaction accounted for different directions of effects and variability in depression. The authors found that self-criti…
The Health of Women and Girls Determines the Health and Well-Being of Our Modern World: A White Paper From the International Council on Women's Health Issues
The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay n…
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Lifestyle and Mental Health Among Midlife and Older Women in Australia: Findings From the Healthy Aging of Women Study
We investigated the temporal relationship between lifestyle and mental health among 564 midlife women. The mental health measured included anxiety, depression, and mental well-being; the lifestyle measures included body mass index (BMI), exercise, smoking, alcohol use, and caffeine consumption. We found that BMI was positively related with mental well-being (r = .316, p = .009); smokers had lower mental well-being than nonsmokers (β = 6.725, p = …
The Shaping of Midlife Women's Views of Health and Health Behaviors
The menopausal transition is a marker of aging for women and a time when health professionals urge women to prevent disease. In this research we adopted a constructivist, inductive approach in exploring how and why midlife women think about health in general, about being healthy, and about factors that influence engaging in healthy behaviors. The sample constituted 23 women who had participated in a women's wellness program intervention trial and…
Sustainability of a Multimodal Intervention to Promote Lifestyle Factors Associated With the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Midlife Australian Women: A 5-year Follow-Up
We evaluated sustainability of an intervention to reduce women's cardiovascular risk factors, determined the influence of self-efficacy, and described women's current health. We used a mixed method approach that utilized forced choice and open-ended questionnaire items about health status, habits, and self-efficacy. Sixty women, average age 61, returned questionnaires. Women in the original intervention group continued health behaviors intended t…
The Effects of a Multimodal Intervention Trial to Promote Lifestyle Factors Associated With the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Menopausal and Postmenopausal Australian Women
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a multimodal intervention (Women's Wellness Program) to improve women's cardiovascular risk factors. This 12-week randomized experiment with a control group targeted women 50-65 years living in the general population. Women in the intervention group were provided with a consultation with a registered nurse at which time biophysical cardiovascular risk measures were taken and health education w…
The Relationship between Country of Residence, Gender and the Quality of Life in Australian and Taiwanese Midlife Residents
Using Films to Teach Social Welfare Policy
Because social welfare policy tends to be among the least-preferred courses in the social work curriculum, using contemporary films to augment the course content may help students gain awareness of the nature of the relationship between micro- and macro-level social work. Films may also help to bring abstract policy concepts into a more grounded and focused format. The purpose of this article is to explore the use of contemporary film in teaching…
The use of complementary and alternative medications by menopausal women in South East Queensland
The road to freedom: Ending violence against women
Self-Critical Perfectionism, Acculturative Stress, and Depression Among International Students
The authors tested a classic diathesis-stress, stress-enhancement model of perfectionism with subgroups of Chinese ( N = 129) and Asian Indian ( N = 166) international graduate students attending a major U.S. university. More specifically, the authors tested whether self-critical perfectionism, acculturative stress, and their interaction accounted for different directions of effects and variability in depression. The authors found that self-criti…
The Shaping of Midlife Women's Views of Health and Health Behaviors
The menopausal transition is a marker of aging for women and a time when health professionals urge women to prevent disease. In this research we adopted a constructivist, inductive approach in exploring how and why midlife women think about health in general, about being healthy, and about factors that influence engaging in healthy behaviors. The sample constituted 23 women who had participated in a women's wellness program intervention trial and…
Using Talanoa in Community-Based Research with Australian Pacific Islander Women with Type 2 Diabetes
The community-academia partnership and the participatory processes using talanoa facilitated dialogue and engagement to promote diabetes prevention and management for API communities
Deconstructing type 2 diabetes self‐management of Australian Pacific Islander women: Using a community participatory research and talanoa approach
Community-based participatory research using culturally appropriate talanoa approaches provided the framework to explore diabetes self-management of Australian Pacific Islander (API) women living with type 2 diabetes in South-East Queensland. Data collection included interviews with key informants (21), in-depth interviews with API women with diabetes (10), talanoa group discussions (7) and monthly steering committee meetings. Using an interpreti…
Perspectives on a Decolonizing Approach to Research About Indigenous Women's Health: The Indigenous Women's Wellness Study
This paper explores a decolonizing approach to research about Indigenous women's health in Australia. The paper identifies the strengths of decolonizing methodologies as a way to prioritize Indigenous values and worldviews, develop partnerships between researchers and the researched, and contribute to positive change. The authors draw on Laenui's (2000) five-step model of decolonization to describe their work in the Indigenous Women's Wellness Pr…
The Relationship between Country of Residence, Gender and the Quality of Life in Australian and Taiwanese Midlife Residents
The road to freedom: Ending violence against women
The use of complementary and alternative medications by menopausal women in South East Queensland
Using Films to Teach Social Welfare Policy
Because social welfare policy tends to be among the least-preferred courses in the social work curriculum, using contemporary films to augment the course content may help students gain awareness of the nature of the relationship between micro- and macro-level social work. Films may also help to bring abstract policy concepts into a more grounded and focused format. The purpose of this article is to explore the use of contemporary film in teaching…
The Effects of a Multimodal Intervention Trial to Promote Lifestyle Factors Associated With the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Menopausal and Postmenopausal Australian Women
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a multimodal intervention (Women's Wellness Program) to improve women's cardiovascular risk factors. This 12-week randomized experiment with a control group targeted women 50-65 years living in the general population. Women in the intervention group were provided with a consultation with a registered nurse at which time biophysical cardiovascular risk measures were taken and health education w…
The Relationship between Country of Residence, Gender and the Quality of Life in Australian and Taiwanese Midlife Residents
Sustainability of a Multimodal Intervention to Promote Lifestyle Factors Associated With the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Midlife Australian Women: A 5-year Follow-Up
We evaluated sustainability of an intervention to reduce women's cardiovascular risk factors, determined the influence of self-efficacy, and described women's current health. We used a mixed method approach that utilized forced choice and open-ended questionnaire items about health status, habits, and self-efficacy. Sixty women, average age 61, returned questionnaires. Women in the original intervention group continued health behaviors intended t…
A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Lifestyle and Mental Health Among Midlife and Older Women in Australia: Findings From the Healthy Aging of Women Study
We investigated the temporal relationship between lifestyle and mental health among 564 midlife women. The mental health measured included anxiety, depression, and mental well-being; the lifestyle measures included body mass index (BMI), exercise, smoking, alcohol use, and caffeine consumption. We found that BMI was positively related with mental well-being (r = .316, p = .009); smokers had lower mental well-being than nonsmokers (β = 6.725, p = …
The Shaping of Midlife Women's Views of Health and Health Behaviors
The menopausal transition is a marker of aging for women and a time when health professionals urge women to prevent disease. In this research we adopted a constructivist, inductive approach in exploring how and why midlife women think about health in general, about being healthy, and about factors that influence engaging in healthy behaviors. The sample constituted 23 women who had participated in a women's wellness program intervention trial and…
The Health of Women and Girls Determines the Health and Well-Being of Our Modern World: A White Paper From the International Council on Women's Health Issues
The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay n…
Self-Critical Perfectionism, Acculturative Stress, and Depression Among International Students
The authors tested a classic diathesis-stress, stress-enhancement model of perfectionism with subgroups of Chinese ( N = 129) and Asian Indian ( N = 166) international graduate students attending a major U.S. university. More specifically, the authors tested whether self-critical perfectionism, acculturative stress, and their interaction accounted for different directions of effects and variability in depression. The authors found that self-criti…
Yarning” as a Method for Community-Based Health Research With Indigenous Women: The Indigenous Women's Wellness Research Program
This project explores yarning as a methodology for understanding health and wellness from an indigenous woman's perspective. Previous research exploring indigenous Australian women's perspectives have used traditional Western methodologies and have often been felt by the women themselves to be inappropriate and ineffective in gathering information and promoting discussion. This research arose from the indigenous women themselves, and resulted in …
Perspectives on a Decolonizing Approach to Research About Indigenous Women's Health: The Indigenous Women's Wellness Study
This paper explores a decolonizing approach to research about Indigenous women's health in Australia. The paper identifies the strengths of decolonizing methodologies as a way to prioritize Indigenous values and worldviews, develop partnerships between researchers and the researched, and contribute to positive change. The authors draw on Laenui's (2000) five-step model of decolonization to describe their work in the Indigenous Women's Wellness Pr…
A longitudinal study of the impact of chronic psychological stress on health-related quality of life and clinical biomarkers: Protocol for the Australian Healthy Aging of Women Study
The proposed study hypothesizes that women are at increased risk of exposure to multiple or repeated stressors, some being unique to women, and the frequency and chronicity of stressors increases women's risk of adverse health outcomes. This study aims to further our understanding of the relationships between stressful life experiences, perceived quality of life, stress biomarkers, chronic illness, and health status in women
Stress, Lifestyle, and Quality of Life in Midlife and Older Australian Women: Results From the Stress and the Health of Women Study
Predictors of mental health in midlife and older Australian women: A multilevel investigation
The purpose of this article is to examine the factors associated with women's mental health. A random sample of 340 Australian women aged 40-55 completed surveys on menopausal and lifestyle factors and mental health at three time points. We used hierarchical models to show that decrements in mental health were associated with a corresponding increase in some midlife symptoms (p < .01), time (p < .01), and poor physical health (p < .01), but the e…
Deconstructing type 2 diabetes self‐management of Australian Pacific Islander women: Using a community participatory research and talanoa approach
Community-based participatory research using culturally appropriate talanoa approaches provided the framework to explore diabetes self-management of Australian Pacific Islander (API) women living with type 2 diabetes in South-East Queensland. Data collection included interviews with key informants (21), in-depth interviews with API women with diabetes (10), talanoa group discussions (7) and monthly steering committee meetings. Using an interpreti…
Changes in health behaviours in adults at-risk of chronic disease: Primary outcomes from the My health for life program
While participants showed improvements in dietary indicators, changes in alcohol consumption and physical activity were less amenable to the program. Additional research is needed to help understand the multi-level barriers and facilitators of behaviour change in this context to further tailor the intervention for priority groups
Using Talanoa in Community-Based Research with Australian Pacific Islander Women with Type 2 Diabetes
The community-academia partnership and the participatory processes using talanoa facilitated dialogue and engagement to promote diabetes prevention and management for API communities
Towards collective community education: Pasifika diabetes health forums in Southeast Queensland, Australia
Collective community education co-designed with the Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Pasifika (Pacific Islander peoples living in Australia) communities through participatory community engagement, Indigenous methods and cultural knowledge are vital for development and implementation of diabetes community forums. A community-based participatory action research was co-designed with three Pasifika diabetes community forums in p…
The process of co‐designing a model of social prescribing: An Australian case study
INTRODUCTION: Social needs such as housing, employment, food, income and social isolation are having a significant impact on individuals, families and communities. Individuals are increasingly presenting to health settings with social needs, which are ill-equipped to address nonmedical needs. Social prescribing is a systematic approach connecting the health, social and community sectors to better address social needs and improve health and wellbe…
Medicine (17 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Public health (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)