Devon Indig
Biographic Data
| ID | 5560370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devon Indig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devon |
| FAMILY NAME | Indig |
| SIGNATURE | INDIG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6741-5062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Evaluation of Get Healthy at Work, a state-wide workplace health promotion program in Australia
Evaluation of program factors is important to improve program delivery and uptake and to ensure greater scalability. GHaW has the potential to improve workplace health culture, which may lead to better health promoting work environments. These results imply that government can play a central role in enabling prioritisation and incentivising health promotion in the workplace
Nanny or canny? Community perceptions of government intervention for preventive health
Critics of government intervention for the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic disease often conceptualise such efforts as ‘nanny state’, reflecting a neoliberal perspective and derailing wider debate. However, it is unknown how the community perceives such interventions. Given the importance of public opinion to government willingness to implement population-level system change, we aimed to better understand Australian community attitudes to…
Aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian former prisoners’ patterns of morbidity and risk of hospitalisation
Despite poorer health among Aboriginal people, there were broadly similar patterns of reasons for admission to hospital among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal former prisoners. There may be a number of explanations for this. The cohort was not a representative sample of the NSW prison population. There was an overrepresentation of individuals with cognitive disability (intellectual disability, acquired brain injury, dementia, fetal alcohol spectrum …
Heroin use impairs smoking cessation among Australian prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry 12606000229572
Implementation of a smoke-free policy in a high secure mental health inpatient facility
The staff surveyed supported the smoke-free workplace policy; most agreed that patient care was easier and that the policy did not lead to an increase in patient aggression. Implementation of a total smoking ban can result in positive health outcomes for patients and staff, and may influence some staff to quit. Staff who smoke have a less positive experience of the policy and require additional support
Opiate substitution treatment to reduce in-prison drug injection
A cross-sectional survey of prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among prisoners in New South Wales, Australia
Suicidal ideation and attempts are highly prevalent among prisoners compared to the general community. Assessment of suicide risk is a critical task for mental health clinicians in prisons. Attention should be given to ensuring assessments are gender- and culturally sensitive. Indicators of mental illness may not be accurate predictors of suicide attempt. Indicators of childhood trauma appear to be particularly relevant to risk of suicide attempt…
Cardiovascular risk among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal smoking male prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN#12606000229572
The effects of alcohol consumption, psychological distress and smoking status on emergency department presentations in New South Wales, Australia
The combination of being a high-risk consumer of alcohol, having high psychological distress, and being a current smoker are associated with increased presentations to emergency departments, independent of age and sex. Further research is needed to enhance recognition of and intervention for these symptoms in an emergency department setting in order to improve patient health and reduce future re-presentations to emergency departments
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The effects of alcohol consumption, psychological distress and smoking status on emergency department presentations in New South Wales, Australia
The combination of being a high-risk consumer of alcohol, having high psychological distress, and being a current smoker are associated with increased presentations to emergency departments, independent of age and sex. Further research is needed to enhance recognition of and intervention for these symptoms in an emergency department setting in order to improve patient health and reduce future re-presentations to emergency departments
Cardiovascular risk among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal smoking male prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN#12606000229572
A cross-sectional survey of prevalence and correlates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among prisoners in New South Wales, Australia
Suicidal ideation and attempts are highly prevalent among prisoners compared to the general community. Assessment of suicide risk is a critical task for mental health clinicians in prisons. Attention should be given to ensuring assessments are gender- and culturally sensitive. Indicators of mental illness may not be accurate predictors of suicide attempt. Indicators of childhood trauma appear to be particularly relevant to risk of suicide attempt…
Heroin use impairs smoking cessation among Australian prisoners
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry 12606000229572
Implementation of a smoke-free policy in a high secure mental health inpatient facility
The staff surveyed supported the smoke-free workplace policy; most agreed that patient care was easier and that the policy did not lead to an increase in patient aggression. Implementation of a total smoking ban can result in positive health outcomes for patients and staff, and may influence some staff to quit. Staff who smoke have a less positive experience of the policy and require additional support
Opiate substitution treatment to reduce in-prison drug injection
Aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australian former prisoners’ patterns of morbidity and risk of hospitalisation
Despite poorer health among Aboriginal people, there were broadly similar patterns of reasons for admission to hospital among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal former prisoners. There may be a number of explanations for this. The cohort was not a representative sample of the NSW prison population. There was an overrepresentation of individuals with cognitive disability (intellectual disability, acquired brain injury, dementia, fetal alcohol spectrum …
Nanny or canny? Community perceptions of government intervention for preventive health
Critics of government intervention for the prevention of lifestyle-related chronic disease often conceptualise such efforts as ‘nanny state’, reflecting a neoliberal perspective and derailing wider debate. However, it is unknown how the community perceives such interventions. Given the importance of public opinion to government willingness to implement population-level system change, we aimed to better understand Australian community attitudes to…
Evaluation of Get Healthy at Work, a state-wide workplace health promotion program in Australia
Evaluation of program factors is important to improve program delivery and uptake and to ensure greater scalability. GHaW has the potential to improve workplace health culture, which may lead to better health promoting work environments. These results imply that government can play a central role in enabling prioritisation and incentivising health promotion in the workplace
Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Biostatistics (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Population (4 works)