Angela Ratsch

Biographic Data

ID5144405
NAMEAngela Ratsch
GIVEN NAMESAngela
FAMILY NAMERatsch
SIGNATURERATSCH A
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0003-0806-6293
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Sexual knowledge of Queensland forensic mental health patients

    Open AccessElnike Brand, Ching Tham et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    Forensic patients with serious mental illnesses (SMI) encounter significant challenges including active symptomatology, associated social and interpersonal impairments, psychotropic medication side effects and institutionalization, all of which negatively affect sexual functioning and possibly their acquirement of sexual knowledge. Evidence shows an increased prevalence of high-risk sexual behavior by this group however, there is an absence of li…

  • A Qualitative Study on Sexuality and Sexual Experiences in Community Forensic Mental Health Patients in Queensland, Australia

    Open AccessElnike Brand, Dinesh Nagaraj et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    This qualitative study reports on the sexuality and sexual experiences of community-based forensic mental health participants. The findings indicate that these participants feel the need for intimacy and want to engage in sexual activity more often than their neurotypical Australian peers. Participants identified their mental health and the side effects of compliance with prescribed psychotropic medications were barriers to achieving their desire…

  • Higher blood nicotine concentrations following smokeless tobacco (pituri) and cigarette use linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes for Central Australian Aboriginal pregnancies

    Open AccessAngela Ratsch, Fiona Bogossian et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    In this research, the central Australian Aboriginal women chose the term 'Aboriginal' to refer to themselves, and 'Indigenous' to refer to the broader group of Australian First Peoples. That choice has been maintained in the reporting of the research findings

  • The Sexual Development, Sexual Health, Sexual Experiences, and Sexual Knowledge of Forensic Mental Health Patients

    Open AccessElnike Brand, Angela Ratsch et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Introduction: There is substantial evidence that severe mental illness (SMI) can have significant impacts on general development, knowledge acquisition, and quality of life including sexual function. However, whilst the sexual development, sexual health, sexual experiences and sexual knowledge of the broader Australian community and the Australian prisoner population have been well-described, these concepts have been less explored in people with …

  • Case Report

    Open AccessElnike Brand, Angela Ratsch et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    The recovery-based approach to forensic mental health rehabilitation is to support the patient to achieve a fulfilling life-a principle which should include achieving a fulfilling sexual life. This paper presents four vignettes from forensic mental health patients. The four cases demonstrate the omission, avoidance and then judgement by forensic mental health clinicians around the intimate and sensitive, yet important domain of the patient's sexu…

  • Central Australian Aboriginal women’s pregnancy, labour and birth outcomes following maternal smokeless tobacco (pituri) use, cigarette use or no-tobacco use

    Open AccessAngela Ratsch, Fiona Bogossian et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    In this research, the central Australian Aboriginal women chose the term 'Aboriginal' to refer to themselves, and 'Indigenous' to refer to the broader First Peoples. That choice has been maintained in the reporting of the research findings

  • Development, Implementation, and Outcomes of Post-stroke Mood Assessment Pathways

    Open AccessPeta McLean, Rebecca Torkington et al.ARTICLEAustralian Social Work2019References: 3

    Depression and anxiety are prevalent in the stroke population and can have a significant impact on the patient and their family's long-term outcomes, however the screening for these conditions does not meet best practice recommendations. To address this deficit, this study developed "Post-Stroke Mood Assessment Pathways" and embedded them into practice by utilising the PARiHS framework (for the implementation of evidence-based practice), in conju…

  • The pituri story

    Open AccessAngela Ratsch, Kathryn J Steadman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology and…2010

    The harmful outcomes of nicotine self administration have been the focus of sustained global health education campaigns that have targeted tobacco smoking and to a lesser extent, smokeless tobacco use. 'Smokeless tobacco' infers that the nicotine is not burnt, and administration can be through a range of methods including chewing. The chewing of wild tobacco plants ( Nicotiana spp.) is practiced across a broad inland area of Central Australia by …