Harley Hiscock
Biographic Data
| ID | 759782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harley Hiscock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harley |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiscock |
| SIGNATURE | HISCOCK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Children's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3017-2770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Qualitative insights from patient/caregivers, and clinicians on routine use of the EQ-5D-Y-5L in clinical paediatric care—results from a pilot feasibility and acceptability trial
ISRCTN16030620, https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN16030620
Pilot evaluation of an innovative school-based mental health literacy program for teachers and students: The Decode Mental Health and Wellbeing Program
Mental health literacy interventions in school settings are growing in number and scope, yet challenges in user engagement and real-world implementation persist. The Decode Mental Health and Wellbeing Program (Decode) is a novel and innovative mental health literacy program for teachers and students that harnesses the power of social media platform-style content delivery and lived experience influencers to engage young people. Using a multi-site,…
Reterritorialising paediatric care in general practice clinics through a GP-paediatrician integrated care model
Evidence is building exploring the efficacy of general practitioner (GP)-paediatrician integrated care models in improving the quality of paediatric primary care and reducing GP referrals to outpatient clinics and emergency departments. However, contemporary research has not adequately explored the mechanisms of change within these models to best support their sustainability and scalability. Our analysis involved interviews and focus groups with …
Foundations of the Alive National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation: Impact evaluation protocol
The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation was established in 2021. Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's Special Initiative in Mental Health, the Centre aims to foster innovation in mental health care. Central to this aim is embedding the voices of those with lived experience into all Centre structures and activities including leadership and co-design of research priorities for mental healt…
Use of a generic Paediatric Patient Reported Outcome Measure (P-PROM) in Routine hospital Outpatient Care for Kids (Rock): A qualitative exploration of adolescent, caregiver and service provider persp…
Perspectives gathered from this study highlight that generic P-PROMs, such as EQ-5D-Y-5L, may have potential for use in paediatric outpatient care. However, to have a meaningful impact, careful consideration is needed regarding implementation. Results have informed co-design of the P-PROM ROCK Program
If we ask, we must act”: Co-designing the implementation of the EQ-5D-Y-5L as a Paediatric Patient Reported Outcome Measure in Routine hospital Outpatient Care for Kids to meaningfully impact clinical…
Consumer engagement produced important insights that would've otherwise been missed, ensuring the P-PROM ROCK Program empowers patients. For generic P-PROMs to meaningfully impact patient-clinician visits, supports and resources are required to ensure clinical review and action
Impact of an integrated general practitioner(GP)- paediatrician model on GP hospital referrals and GP paediatric care: A stepped wedge trial
Introduction: Like many countries, Australia’s hospital system is under pressure with pre-school children comprising the largest proportion of all primary care-type emergency department presentations. General practitioners (GPs) must refer patients to specialists and waiting times to see specialists in paediatric hospital clinics are up to 12 months. We therefore aimed to see if a new model of care, Strengthening Care for Children (SC4C), could r…
Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Wellbeing Coordination Program in an Integrated Health and Social Care Hub: A Mixed Methods Study
The WBC program appears acceptable and feasible. Future research should establish program effectiveness with larger and more diverse caregiver samples
Health Justice Partnership: An Opportunity to Respond to Childhood Adversity
These HJPs improved access to legal support for families experiencing adversity and enabled early intervention. Improved outcomes from HJP depends upon the level of investment from each partner and the level of assistance the HJP can provide
Unveiling the path to integrated paediatric care in general practices: A provider and family perspective
Background: There has been an exponential rise in the demand for hospital-based care for children. In Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), children can now wait up to 12 months to receive care at a hospital outpatient medical clinic. High-quality care provided closer to home at primary level could alleviate some of the hospital burden. Therefore, there is a need to adapt the health system to improve the management and support of children in primar…
What is an integrated Child and Family Hub, and how do you set one up and run it
Supporting the first 2,000 days of a child’s life from pregnancy to five years is a national policy and research priority to ensure all Australian children flourish. Unfortunately, across Australia, up to one in three preschool-aged children from disadvantaged communities are ‘developmentally vulnerable’, making them at increased risk of poor long-term health, educational and social outcomes. Integrated Child and Family Hubs provide a ‘one stop s…
Child and Family Hub: Designing an integrated model of care to support children and families experiencing adversity
Background: There is a growing body of evidence on the significant association between childhood exposure to adversity and increased risk of mental and physical ill health across the life-span. Integrating health and social care in Child and Family Hubs is a possible solution to earlier identification and support for adversity, however there is limited evidence on the most effective approach to designing integrated models of care in the child and…
Lessons Learned From the Implementation of an Integrated Health and Social Care Child and Family Hub – a Case Study
Maintaining and developing practice change during implementation requires time and access to a broad range of data to enable iteration and the development of solutions
Learnings from how a wellbeing coordination program can meet the needs of families facing adversity
Background: Families facing adversity often need additional support to achieve engagement in services. The Wellbeing Coordinator (WBC) program was designed to facilitate engagement to services via a combination of care navigation and social prescribing within an integrated Child & Family Hub (CFH). There is currently a dearth of research specifically evaluating this type of program for children and families. Who it is for: The WBC program was co-…
Identifying and responding to family adversity in Australian community and primary health settings: A multi-site cross sectional study
Background: Unaddressed family adversity has potentially modifiable, negative biopsychosocial impacts across the life course. Little is known about how Australian health and social practitioners identify and respond to family adversity in community and primary health settings. Objective: To describe, in two Australian community health services: (1) the number of adversities experienced by caregivers, (2) practitioner identification of caregivers …
Variation in sleep profiles in children with ADHD and associated clinical characteristics
BACKGROUND: Sleep difficulties are common in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, sleep problems are multifaceted and little is known about the variation in sleep difficulties across children with ADHD. We examined the profiles of sleep difficulties in children with ADHD and associated clinical factors (e.g. co-occurring mental health conditions, stimulant use and parent mental health). METHODS: Data from two ha…
‘No one's ever said anything about sleep’: A qualitative investigation into mothers' experiences of sleep in children with epilepsy
INTRODUCTION: Sleep problems in children with epilepsy (CWE) are common. However, little is known about parental experiences and feelings about managing sleep in their CWE. To provide the most appropriate services' provision, it is essential that the lived experience of parents of this patient group and the issues and problems that they face in managing their child's sleep is understood. METHOD: In 2018, nine mothers of CWE (aged 5-15 years) were…
Collecting Paediatric Health-Related Quality of Life Data: Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of the Australian Paediatric Multi-Instrument Comparison (P-MIC) Study
The Australian P-MIC study was able to collect good-quality data using both online panel and hospital recruitment pathways. All instruments were acceptable and feasible to children and their caregivers
Co-designing an Integrated Health and Social Care Hub With and for Families Experiencing Adversity
Co-design research with families experiencing adversity should attend to language, engagement methods, team composition and resourcing decisions
Sleeping Sound Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A randomised controlled trial of a brief behavioural sleep intervention in primary school‐aged autistic children
BACKGROUND: Behavioural sleep problems are common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, evidence for the efficacy of behavioural sleep interventions is limited. This study examined the efficacy of a brief behavioural sleep intervention in autistic children. It was hypothesised that the intervention would reduce overall child sleep problems (primary outcome), in addition to improvements in children's social, emotional, cognitiv…
Follow‐up of the Cool Little Kids translational trial into middle childhood
BACKGROUND: Public health advocates have highlighted internalising problems as a leading cause of global burden of disease. Internalising problems (anxiety/depression) affect up to 20% of school-age children and can impact peer relations, school engagement and later employment and mortality. This translational trial aimed to determine whether a selective/indicated parenting group programme to prevent internalising distress in shy/inhibited presch…
The relationship between physical and mental health multimorbidity and children’s health-related quality of life
Findings highlight the importance of identifying and addressing mental health symptoms in children of all ages, even if these problems do not meet formal clinical criteria. Particular attention should be paid to the mental health and HRQoL of children with physical-mental multimorbidity, who are at risk of disproportionately poorer HRQoL
Co-designing a Child and Family Hub for family adversity in Australia: Lessons learned
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Timeliness and extent of health service use by Victorian (Australian) children within first year after entry to out-of-home care: Retrospective data linkage cohort study
Psychometric Performance of HRQoL Measures: An Australian Paediatric Multi-Instrument Comparison Study Protocol (P-MIC)
This paper describes the methodology of the planned P-MIC study, including benefits, limitations, and likely challenges. Evidence from this study will guide the choice of HRQoL measures used in clinical trials, economic evaluation, and other applications
Foster and kinship carer experiences of accessing healthcare: A qualitative study of barriers, enablers and potential solutions
Born equal? The distribution of government Medicare spending for children
Providing equitable care is an objective of many national healthcare systems. Using the birth cohort of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children linked with the Medicare Benefits Scheme billing data who were recruited in 2004 at ages 0-1 years and assessed biennially for six waves, we assessed the distribution of out-of-hospital government Medicare spending by household income. 4853 children followed over 11 years w…
Co-designing an Integrated Health and Social Care Hub With and for Families Experiencing Adversity
Co-design research with families experiencing adversity should attend to language, engagement methods, team composition and resourcing decisions
Early high school engagement in students with attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder
BackgroundStudents with attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continue to languish behind their peers with regard to academic achievement and education attainment. School engagement is potentially modifiable, and targeting engagement may be a means to improve education outcomes.AimsTo investigate school engagement for students with ADHD during the crucial high school transition period and to identify factors associated with low school e…
Fitzpatrick's Typology: An Australian Replication
This paper describes an Australian replication of Fitzpatrick's marital typology. One hundred and ninety couples were administered the Relational Dimensions Instrument (RDI) (Fitzpatrick, 1977, 1984). Eight factors were found, six of which were highly similar to those found by Fitzpatrick - sharing, ideology of traditionalism, temporal regularity, spatial differentiation, autonomy and conflict avoidance. The factor previously labelled 'assertiven…
Fitzpatrick's Typology: An Australian Replication
This paper describes an Australian replication of Fitzpatrick's marital typology. One hundred and ninety couples were administered the Relational Dimensions Instrument (RDI) (Fitzpatrick, 1977, 1984). Eight factors were found, six of which were highly similar to those found by Fitzpatrick - sharing, ideology of traditionalism, temporal regularity, spatial differentiation, autonomy and conflict avoidance. The factor previously labelled 'assertiven…
The Cool Little Kids randomised controlled trial: Population-level early prevention for anxiety disorders
This trial addresses gaps for internalising problems identified in the 2004 World Health Organization Prevention of Mental Disorders report. If effective and cost-effective, the intervention could readily be applied at a population level. Governments consider mental health to be a priority, enhancing the likelihood that an effective early prevention program would be adopted in Australia and internationally. RCH HUMAN RESEARCH ETHICS APPROVAL: 301…
Preventing mental health problems in children: The Families in Mind population-based cluster randomised controlled trial
ISRCTN61137690
Longitudinal Associations Between Internalizing and Externalizing Comorbidities and Functional Outcomes for Children with ADHD
Exploring Integration of Care for Children Living with Complex Care Needs across the European Union and European Economic Area
The study has the potential to make a wide contribution to individual countries of the EU/EEA to understand their own integration of services mapped against responses from other member states. Early results are expected in Spring 2017
Early high school engagement in students with attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder
BackgroundStudents with attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continue to languish behind their peers with regard to academic achievement and education attainment. School engagement is potentially modifiable, and targeting engagement may be a means to improve education outcomes.AimsTo investigate school engagement for students with ADHD during the crucial high school transition period and to identify factors associated with low school e…
Gender-informed psycho-educational programme to promote respectful relationships and reduce postpartum common mental disorders among primiparous women: Long-term follow-up of participants in a communi…
The WWWT programme has a significant sustained beneficial impact on postnatal generalised anxiety among primiparous women compared with usual care. The in-person seminar is the most influential component of the intervention. Psycho-educational programmes integrated into primary care appear promising as a strategy to reduce postpartum common mental disorders
Born equal? The distribution of government Medicare spending for children
Providing equitable care is an objective of many national healthcare systems. Using the birth cohort of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children linked with the Medicare Benefits Scheme billing data who were recruited in 2004 at ages 0-1 years and assessed biennially for six waves, we assessed the distribution of out-of-hospital government Medicare spending by household income. 4853 children followed over 11 years w…
Strenthening care for children: Pilot of a novel, integrated general practitioner-paediatrician model
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Longitudinal sleep problem trajectories are associated with multiple impairments in child well‐being
BACKGROUND: This study examined whether distinct sleep problem trajectories from infancy through middle childhood were associated with multiple aspects of child well-being at ages 10-11 years. METHODS: Data were from the first six waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children - Birth Cohort (5,107 children recruited at birth). Caregivers reported on child sleep problems at each time point. A combination of caregiver-reported, teacher-rep…
Foster and kinship carer experiences of accessing healthcare: A qualitative study of barriers, enablers and potential solutions
Psychometric Performance of HRQoL Measures: An Australian Paediatric Multi-Instrument Comparison Study Protocol (P-MIC)
This paper describes the methodology of the planned P-MIC study, including benefits, limitations, and likely challenges. Evidence from this study will guide the choice of HRQoL measures used in clinical trials, economic evaluation, and other applications
Prioritising interventions for preventing mental health problems for children experiencing adversity: A modified nominal group technique Australian consensus study
Local priorities for preventing mental health problems for children living with adversity emphasized relational approaches to service provision and were shaped by the availability of existing interventions and supports in the locality. The NGT was found to be an effective method for prioritising evidence-based practice interventions in health settings, engaging local stakeholders, and identifying enablers and barriers to implementation
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability: A Pilot Study Exploring Associations between Child Sleep Problems, Child Factors and Parent Factors
Sleep problems are common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, few studies have undertaken group comparisons of sleep profiles and factors associated with poorer sleep between children with ASD without intellectual disability (ID; hereafter referred to as ASD) and ASD with co-occurring ID (hereafter referred to as ASD + ID). This study aimed to (1) compare child (sleep problems and emotional and behavioural problems (EBPs)) a…
Strengthening Primary Care for Children through an integrated paediatrician-GP care model
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Sleeping Sound Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A randomised controlled trial of a brief behavioural sleep intervention in primary school‐aged autistic children
BACKGROUND: Behavioural sleep problems are common in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, evidence for the efficacy of behavioural sleep interventions is limited. This study examined the efficacy of a brief behavioural sleep intervention in autistic children. It was hypothesised that the intervention would reduce overall child sleep problems (primary outcome), in addition to improvements in children's social, emotional, cognitiv…
Follow‐up of the Cool Little Kids translational trial into middle childhood
BACKGROUND: Public health advocates have highlighted internalising problems as a leading cause of global burden of disease. Internalising problems (anxiety/depression) affect up to 20% of school-age children and can impact peer relations, school engagement and later employment and mortality. This translational trial aimed to determine whether a selective/indicated parenting group programme to prevent internalising distress in shy/inhibited presch…
The relationship between physical and mental health multimorbidity and children’s health-related quality of life
Findings highlight the importance of identifying and addressing mental health symptoms in children of all ages, even if these problems do not meet formal clinical criteria. Particular attention should be paid to the mental health and HRQoL of children with physical-mental multimorbidity, who are at risk of disproportionately poorer HRQoL
Co-designing a Child and Family Hub for family adversity in Australia: Lessons learned
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Timeliness and extent of health service use by Victorian (Australian) children within first year after entry to out-of-home care: Retrospective data linkage cohort study
Identifying and responding to family adversity in Australian community and primary health settings: A multi-site cross sectional study
Background: Unaddressed family adversity has potentially modifiable, negative biopsychosocial impacts across the life course. Little is known about how Australian health and social practitioners identify and respond to family adversity in community and primary health settings. Objective: To describe, in two Australian community health services: (1) the number of adversities experienced by caregivers, (2) practitioner identification of caregivers …
Variation in sleep profiles in children with ADHD and associated clinical characteristics
BACKGROUND: Sleep difficulties are common in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, sleep problems are multifaceted and little is known about the variation in sleep difficulties across children with ADHD. We examined the profiles of sleep difficulties in children with ADHD and associated clinical factors (e.g. co-occurring mental health conditions, stimulant use and parent mental health). METHODS: Data from two ha…
‘No one's ever said anything about sleep’: A qualitative investigation into mothers' experiences of sleep in children with epilepsy
INTRODUCTION: Sleep problems in children with epilepsy (CWE) are common. However, little is known about parental experiences and feelings about managing sleep in their CWE. To provide the most appropriate services' provision, it is essential that the lived experience of parents of this patient group and the issues and problems that they face in managing their child's sleep is understood. METHOD: In 2018, nine mothers of CWE (aged 5-15 years) were…
Collecting Paediatric Health-Related Quality of Life Data: Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of the Australian Paediatric Multi-Instrument Comparison (P-MIC) Study
The Australian P-MIC study was able to collect good-quality data using both online panel and hospital recruitment pathways. All instruments were acceptable and feasible to children and their caregivers
Co-designing an Integrated Health and Social Care Hub With and for Families Experiencing Adversity
Co-design research with families experiencing adversity should attend to language, engagement methods, team composition and resourcing decisions
Medicine (28 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Health (11 works) · Mental health (11 works) · Health care (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works)