Felicity Roux

Biographic Data

ID7889404
NAMEFelicity Roux
GIVEN NAMESFelicity
FAMILY NAMERoux
SIGNATUREROUX F
AFFILIATIONSCurtin University
ORCID0000-0003-0982-149X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Enablers and barriers of implementing a whole school approach to ovulatory menstrual health literacy

    Open AccessFelicity Roux, Jan Hendriks et al.ARTICLEThe Australian Educational…2025

    My Vital Cycles® is a holistic ovulatory menstrual health literacy program for adolescent females. A whole school approach was used when trialled in one single-sex secondary school in Perth Australia. This study investigated the enablers and barriers for its future implementation from the perspective of the school’s teachers, nurses and psychologists. The design was a pre-trial survey of ovulatory menstrual health knowledge and attitudes, followe…

  • “What’s going on in my body?”

    Open AccessFelicity Roux, Sharyn Burns et al.ARTICLEThe Australian Educational…2024

    There is a high prevalence of adolescent girls with ovulatory menstrual (OM) dysfunction, which is associated with school absenteeism and mental health challenges. Low menstrual health literacy among this group has evoked calls to review OM health education. This qualitative study sought to explore gaps in current OM health education and to validate a holistic school-based OM health literacy program named My Vital Cycles ® . Findings are based on…

  • Medical students’ experiences of the Senior Citizen Partnership Program

    Open AccessUte Hauck, Felicity Roux et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2024

    PURPOSE: This article reports on an evaluation which explored students' experiences with a Senior Citizen Partnership Program (SCPP). This was implemented in 2017 as part of Curtin Medical School's curriculum to support students' learning about healthy ageing. METHODS: This mixed methods study reports a cross-section of attitudes and content analyses of (i) open-ended responses from 258 students and (ii) transcriptions from seven focus group disc…

  • An ovulatory menstrual health literacy program within a Health Promoting School framework

    Open AccessFelicity Roux, Jan Hendriks et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2023

    Introduction Poor ovulatory menstrual (OM) health experiences and low levels of OM health literacy compromise the future adult health and wellbeing of female adolescents. Methods This qualitative study sought reflections from secondary school staff on an intervention adopting the Health Promoting School (HPS) approach which aimed to enhance wellbeing through improving OM health literacy. Results Twenty female school staff from ten schools partici…

  • Mixed Method Evaluation of My Vital Cycles®

    Open AccessFelicity Roux, Huijun Chih et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    There is a high prevalence of ovulatory menstrual (OM) dysfunctions among adolescents, and their menstrual health literacy is poor. The OM cycle can be used as a personal health monitor provided that the skills to understand it are correctly taught. My Vital Cycles ® , a holistic school-based OM health literacy program, was trialed with a Grade 9 cohort in one single-sex school in Western Australia using the Health Promoting School framework. A v…

  • Influences to HPV completion via a school-based immunisation program

    Sharyn Burns, Linda Selvey et al.ARTICLESex Education2021

    In Australia, school-based immunisation programmes (SBIP) provide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations to secondary school students. However, despite such free programmes, around 20% of girls and 25% of boys do not complete all doses. This formative study identified barriers and enablers to vaccine completion. Online surveys were conducted with senior school administrators and nurses from Western Australian secondary schools across all three s…