Rebecca Abbott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Abbott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4165-4484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Are the Experiences, Views and Perceptions of Patients, Carers and Clinicians of Glucagon‐like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists (GLP‐1 RAs)? A Scoping Review
Historical Mob Violence and the 2016 Presidential Election
As a 2016 presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump invoked racially charged rhetoric to galvanize conservative white voters who felt left behind in the "new economy." In this article, we ask whether Trump's ability to attract electoral support in that way was linked to local histories of racist mob violence. We use county-level data on threatened and completed lynchings of Black people to predict support for Trump in the 2016 Republican presidenti…
The nutritional care of people living with dementia at home
There are an increasing number of people with dementia living in their own home for longer, often supported by a family member. The symptoms of dementia can affect an individual's nutritional status, which can lead to a reduced quality of life for the person with dementia and their family members. A scoping review was conducted from July 2016 until September 2016, using a recognised framework, to explore what is currently known, and identify any …
Active kids active minds
This study assessed the feasibility and impact of introducing a programme of an additional 30 minutes per day of moderate physical activity within curriculum time on learning and readiness to learn in a large elementary school in south-east Queensland, Australia. The programme, Active Kids Active Minds (AKAM), involved Year 5 students (n = 107), their classroom teachers (n = 6) and an AKAM physical education specialist, and took place across one …
Screen-based media use clusters are related to other activity behaviours and health indicators in adolescents
SBM use by adolescents did cluster and these clusters related differently to activity/sedentary behaviours and both physical and psychosocial health indicators. It is clear that SBM use is not a single construct and future research needs to take consideration of this if it intends to understand the impact SBM has on health
A risky business? Health and physical activity from the perspectives of urban Australian Indigenous young people
Being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in contemporary Australia is often discursively constructed in health literature as equating with risks of many kinds. This article explores the ways in which a group of urban Australian Indigenous young people perceive, navigate and articulate the so-called ‘risks' pertaining to issues surrounding their health and physical activity. Eight girls and six boys aged 11–13 years were recruited from an urban …
Challenging stereotypes
Often labelled as ‘problematic’ within health and physical education (HPE) and sporting literature, young Muslim women's participation is frequently understood through both cultural and religious limitations seen to be placed upon them. Although these factors are negotiated by many young Muslim women, and contribute to the way in which some will understand and participate in physical activity, it would be misleading of those working within the fi…
Rationale, design and methods for a staggered-entry, waitlist controlled clinical trial of the impact of a community-based, family-centred, multidisciplinary program focussed on activity, food and att…
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12611001187932
Physical Activity of Remote Indigenous Australian Women
In the context of rising chronic diseases amongst Indigenous peoples, there are calls for the adoption of more healthy "lifestyles." In this context, this paper explores thoughts about physical activity from 21 Indigenous families through the voices of women and girls living in remote rural communities in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area, Australia. Speaking back to physical activity as a lifestyle "choice," three consistent themes e…
Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and controlled trial of the impact of virtual reality games on motor competence, physical activity, and mental health in children with developmental coor…
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12611000400965
School, community, and family working together to address childhood obesity
Epidemiological data on childhood obesity has prompted a significant response from both governments and academics seeking to recommend solutions to the reported ‘crisis’. The ‘Kinder Overweight Active Living Action’ (KOALA) healthy lifestyle programme is a randomized obesity prevention and intervention study designed to provide an understanding of how school, family, and community can work in partnership to holistically address childhood obesity.…
Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and controlled trial to investigate whether home access to electronic games decreases children's physical activity
This trial is registered in the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN 12609000279224)
Environmental correlates of children's active transportation
Physical activity and rural young people's sense of place
This is an article from the journal, Children's Geographies [© Taylor and Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733280902798894
Taking exercise
Taking exercise', whether it be recreational walking, participating in club sport, or joining in a physical education (PE) lesson, is a culturally loaded behaviour. We all see, do and talk about physical activity differently, yet, there has been relatively little research or theorising around difference in race, ethnicity, cultural diversity and physical activity from an educational perspective. This paper presents snapshots of data from three re…
Comparison of perceived support for physical activity and physical activity related practices of children and young adolescents in Hong Kong and Australia
This study compared the self-reported physical activity, perceived social support for, and perceived barriers to, physical activity of primary and secondary school children from Hong Kong and Australia. Hong Kong boys and girls reported spending significantly less time, outside of school hours, on physical activity than their Australian contemporaries ( p < .05). There was significantly higher perceived support for activity from Australian parent…
Validity of BMI as a measure of obesity in Australian white Caucasian and Australian Sri Lankan children
BMI is a poor indicator of percentage fat and the commonly used cut-off values were not sensitive enough to detect cases of childhood obesity in this study. In order to improve the diagnosis of obesity, either BMI cut-off values should be revised to increase the sensitivity or the possibility of using other indirect methods of estimating the %FM should be explored
I could do with a pair of wings’
There is little research that reports children's perspectives on physical activity, bodies and health. This paper, drawn from a larger multi-method study on physical activity in the lives of seven- and eight-year-old Australian children, attempts to ‘give a voice’ to 13 children's views. Interviews focused on children's activity preferences and related decision making and motivations pertaining to these activities, as well as how they thought abo…
Correcting physical activity energy expenditure for body size in children
Being able to compare the energy cost of physical activity across and between populations is important. However, energy expenditure is related to body size, so it is necessary to appropriately adjust for differences in body size when comparisons are made. This study examined the relationship between the daily energy cost of activity and body weight in 47 children aged 6-10 years. Log-log regression showed weight1.0 to be an inappropriate adjustme…
The use of body mass index to predict body composition in children
We have shown that the use of BMI to predict fat mass/height(2), and consequently percentage body fat, is superior to the use of BMI to predict percentage body fat based directly upon the R(2) values of the above analysis
Taking exercise
Taking exercise', whether it be recreational walking, participating in club sport, or joining in a physical education (PE) lesson, is a culturally loaded behaviour. We all see, do and talk about physical activity differently, yet, there has been relatively little research or theorising around difference in race, ethnicity, cultural diversity and physical activity from an educational perspective. This paper presents snapshots of data from three re…
I could do with a pair of wings’
There is little research that reports children's perspectives on physical activity, bodies and health. This paper, drawn from a larger multi-method study on physical activity in the lives of seven- and eight-year-old Australian children, attempts to ‘give a voice’ to 13 children's views. Interviews focused on children's activity preferences and related decision making and motivations pertaining to these activities, as well as how they thought abo…
Physical activity and rural young people's sense of place
This is an article from the journal, Children's Geographies [© Taylor and Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733280902798894
Historical Mob Violence and the 2016 Presidential Election
As a 2016 presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump invoked racially charged rhetoric to galvanize conservative white voters who felt left behind in the "new economy." In this article, we ask whether Trump's ability to attract electoral support in that way was linked to local histories of racist mob violence. We use county-level data on threatened and completed lynchings of Black people to predict support for Trump in the 2016 Republican presidenti…
Physical Activity of Remote Indigenous Australian Women
In the context of rising chronic diseases amongst Indigenous peoples, there are calls for the adoption of more healthy "lifestyles." In this context, this paper explores thoughts about physical activity from 21 Indigenous families through the voices of women and girls living in remote rural communities in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area, Australia. Speaking back to physical activity as a lifestyle "choice," three consistent themes e…
School, community, and family working together to address childhood obesity
Epidemiological data on childhood obesity has prompted a significant response from both governments and academics seeking to recommend solutions to the reported ‘crisis’. The ‘Kinder Overweight Active Living Action’ (KOALA) healthy lifestyle programme is a randomized obesity prevention and intervention study designed to provide an understanding of how school, family, and community can work in partnership to holistically address childhood obesity.…
Comparison of perceived support for physical activity and physical activity related practices of children and young adolescents in Hong Kong and Australia
This study compared the self-reported physical activity, perceived social support for, and perceived barriers to, physical activity of primary and secondary school children from Hong Kong and Australia. Hong Kong boys and girls reported spending significantly less time, outside of school hours, on physical activity than their Australian contemporaries ( p < .05). There was significantly higher perceived support for activity from Australian parent…
The use of body mass index to predict body composition in children
We have shown that the use of BMI to predict fat mass/height(2), and consequently percentage body fat, is superior to the use of BMI to predict percentage body fat based directly upon the R(2) values of the above analysis
Correcting physical activity energy expenditure for body size in children
Being able to compare the energy cost of physical activity across and between populations is important. However, energy expenditure is related to body size, so it is necessary to appropriately adjust for differences in body size when comparisons are made. This study examined the relationship between the daily energy cost of activity and body weight in 47 children aged 6-10 years. Log-log regression showed weight1.0 to be an inappropriate adjustme…
Validity of BMI as a measure of obesity in Australian white Caucasian and Australian Sri Lankan children
BMI is a poor indicator of percentage fat and the commonly used cut-off values were not sensitive enough to detect cases of childhood obesity in this study. In order to improve the diagnosis of obesity, either BMI cut-off values should be revised to increase the sensitivity or the possibility of using other indirect methods of estimating the %FM should be explored
I could do with a pair of wings’
There is little research that reports children's perspectives on physical activity, bodies and health. This paper, drawn from a larger multi-method study on physical activity in the lives of seven- and eight-year-old Australian children, attempts to ‘give a voice’ to 13 children's views. Interviews focused on children's activity preferences and related decision making and motivations pertaining to these activities, as well as how they thought abo…
Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and controlled trial to investigate whether home access to electronic games decreases children's physical activity
This trial is registered in the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN 12609000279224)
Environmental correlates of children's active transportation
Physical activity and rural young people's sense of place
This is an article from the journal, Children's Geographies [© Taylor and Francis] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733280902798894
Taking exercise
Taking exercise', whether it be recreational walking, participating in club sport, or joining in a physical education (PE) lesson, is a culturally loaded behaviour. We all see, do and talk about physical activity differently, yet, there has been relatively little research or theorising around difference in race, ethnicity, cultural diversity and physical activity from an educational perspective. This paper presents snapshots of data from three re…
Comparison of perceived support for physical activity and physical activity related practices of children and young adolescents in Hong Kong and Australia
This study compared the self-reported physical activity, perceived social support for, and perceived barriers to, physical activity of primary and secondary school children from Hong Kong and Australia. Hong Kong boys and girls reported spending significantly less time, outside of school hours, on physical activity than their Australian contemporaries ( p < .05). There was significantly higher perceived support for activity from Australian parent…
School, community, and family working together to address childhood obesity
Epidemiological data on childhood obesity has prompted a significant response from both governments and academics seeking to recommend solutions to the reported ‘crisis’. The ‘Kinder Overweight Active Living Action’ (KOALA) healthy lifestyle programme is a randomized obesity prevention and intervention study designed to provide an understanding of how school, family, and community can work in partnership to holistically address childhood obesity.…
Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and controlled trial of the impact of virtual reality games on motor competence, physical activity, and mental health in children with developmental coor…
Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register (ANZCTR): ACTRN12611000400965
A risky business? Health and physical activity from the perspectives of urban Australian Indigenous young people
Being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in contemporary Australia is often discursively constructed in health literature as equating with risks of many kinds. This article explores the ways in which a group of urban Australian Indigenous young people perceive, navigate and articulate the so-called ‘risks' pertaining to issues surrounding their health and physical activity. Eight girls and six boys aged 11–13 years were recruited from an urban …
Challenging stereotypes
Often labelled as ‘problematic’ within health and physical education (HPE) and sporting literature, young Muslim women's participation is frequently understood through both cultural and religious limitations seen to be placed upon them. Although these factors are negotiated by many young Muslim women, and contribute to the way in which some will understand and participate in physical activity, it would be misleading of those working within the fi…
Rationale, design and methods for a staggered-entry, waitlist controlled clinical trial of the impact of a community-based, family-centred, multidisciplinary program focussed on activity, food and att…
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12611001187932
Physical Activity of Remote Indigenous Australian Women
In the context of rising chronic diseases amongst Indigenous peoples, there are calls for the adoption of more healthy "lifestyles." In this context, this paper explores thoughts about physical activity from 21 Indigenous families through the voices of women and girls living in remote rural communities in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area, Australia. Speaking back to physical activity as a lifestyle "choice," three consistent themes e…
Screen-based media use clusters are related to other activity behaviours and health indicators in adolescents
SBM use by adolescents did cluster and these clusters related differently to activity/sedentary behaviours and both physical and psychosocial health indicators. It is clear that SBM use is not a single construct and future research needs to take consideration of this if it intends to understand the impact SBM has on health
Active kids active minds
This study assessed the feasibility and impact of introducing a programme of an additional 30 minutes per day of moderate physical activity within curriculum time on learning and readiness to learn in a large elementary school in south-east Queensland, Australia. The programme, Active Kids Active Minds (AKAM), involved Year 5 students (n = 107), their classroom teachers (n = 6) and an AKAM physical education specialist, and took place across one …
The nutritional care of people living with dementia at home
There are an increasing number of people with dementia living in their own home for longer, often supported by a family member. The symptoms of dementia can affect an individual's nutritional status, which can lead to a reduced quality of life for the person with dementia and their family members. A scoping review was conducted from July 2016 until September 2016, using a recognised framework, to explore what is currently known, and identify any …
Historical Mob Violence and the 2016 Presidential Election
As a 2016 presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump invoked racially charged rhetoric to galvanize conservative white voters who felt left behind in the "new economy." In this article, we ask whether Trump's ability to attract electoral support in that way was linked to local histories of racist mob violence. We use county-level data on threatened and completed lynchings of Black people to predict support for Trump in the 2016 Republican presidenti…
What Are the Experiences, Views and Perceptions of Patients, Carers and Clinicians of Glucagon‐like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists (GLP‐1 RAs)? A Scoping Review
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Physical activity (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (8 works) · Children's Physical and Motor Development (7 works) · Physical therapy (7 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)