Elizabeth Eakin
Biographic Data
| ID | 789361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Eakin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Eakin |
| SIGNATURE | EAKIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8835-9995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Complexities and Context of Scaling Up
Background: Scaling up population health interventions is a context-orientated, dynamic and multi-stakeholder process; understanding its influences is essential to enhance future scaling efforts. Using physical activity and nutrition interventions in Australia as case examples, the aim of this paper is to identify core influences involved in scaling up physical activity and nutrition interventions, and how these may differ by context and stakehol…
Precision Public Health for Non-communicable Diseases
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remain the largest global public health threat. The emerging field of precision public health (PPH) offers a transformative opportunity to capitalize on digital health data to create an agile, responsive and data-driven public health system to actively prevent NCDs. Using learnings from digital health, our aim is to propose a vision toward PPH for NCDs across three horizons of digital health transformation: Horizo…
Previde
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including obesity, remain a significant global public health challenge. Prevention and public health innovation are needed to effectively address NCDs; however, understanding of how healthcare organisations make prevention decisions is immature. This study aimed to (1) explore how healthcare organisations make decisions for NCD prevention in Queensland, Australia (2) develop a contemporary decision-making framewor…
Sitting less and moving more for improved metabolic and brain health in type 2 diabetes
ANZCTRN12618001159246
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Tailored Exercise Prescription for Women with Breast Cancer with 8-Year Follow-Up
Studies show conflicting results on whether exercise interventions to improve outcomes for women with breast cancer are cost-effective. We modelled the long-term cost-effectiveness of the Exercise for Health intervention compared with usual care. A lifetime Markov cohort model for women with early breast cancer was constructed taking a societal perspective. Data were obtained from trial, epidemiological, quality of life, and healthcare cost repor…
Feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of a text message-enhanced clinical exercise rehabilitation intervention for increasing ‘whole-of-day’ activity in people living with and beyond cancer
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12616000641493 ; date registered 17/5/16)
Get Healthy, Stay Healthy’
ACTRN12613000949785
Addressing physical inactivity in Omani adults
Objective To explore barriers and solutions to addressing physical inactivity and prolonged sitting in the adult population of Oman. Design Qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews that took place from October 2011 to January 2012. Participants were recruited through purposive sampling. Data collection and analysis was an iterative process; later interviews explored emerging themes. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed and…
Objectively Measured Activity Patterns among Adults in Residential Aged Care
Older adults in residential aged care were consistently highly sedentary. Feasibility considerations for objective activity monitoring identified for this population include poor diary completion and lost monitors
Effectiveness of Australia’s Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®
This study provides preliminary evidence that the GHS has potential to contribute to substantial improvements in the chronic disease risk factor profile of program completers and facilitates sustained maintenance six months after completing the coaching program
Design of a randomized controlled trial for multiple cancer risk behaviors among Spanish-speaking Mexican-origin smokers
National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials Registry # NCT01504919
Reducing office workers’ sitting time
ACTRN1211000742976
Correlates of Omani adults’ physical inactivity and sitting time
Objective To inform public health approaches for chronic disease prevention, the present study identified sociodemographic, anthropometric and behavioural correlates of work, transport and leisure physical inactivity and sitting time among adults in Oman. Design Cross-sectional study using the WHO STEPwise study methodology. Setting Sur City, Oman. Subjects Men and women aged 20 years and older ( n 1335) in the Sur City Healthy Lifestyle Study wh…
Relationships of Sun-Protection Habit Strength with Sunscreen Use During Outdoor Sport and Physical Activity
The objective of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to assess associations of a self-report index of sun protection habit strength with sunscreen use in sporting environments and outdoor physical activity. Participants (n = 234) in field hockey, soccer, tennis and surf sports in Queensland, Australia, completed a self-administered survey on sun protection during organized sport, and during general outdoor physical activity during 2005/2…
Adults' Sedentary Behavior
Characteristics of control group participants who increased their physical activity in a cluster-randomized lifestyle intervention trial
This is the first study to examine differences in predictors of physical activity improvement between intervention group and control group participants enrolled in a physical activity intervention trial. While further empirical research is necessary to confirm findings, results suggest that participants with certain socio-demographic characteristics may respond favourably to minimal intensity interventions akin to the treatment delivered to parti…
Living Well with Diabetes
ACTRN12608000203358
Older Persons’ Perception of Risk of Falling
Objectives. We examined older people’s attitudes about falls and implications for the design of fall-prevention awareness campaigns. Methods. We assessed data from (1) computer-assisted telephone surveys conducted in 2002 with Australians 60 years and older in Northern Rivers, New South Wales (site of a previous fall-prevention program; n=1601), and Wide Bay, Queensland (comparison community; n=1601), and (2) 8 focus groups (n=73). Results. Parti…
Resources for Health
There is a pressing need for practical interventions to support self-management of chronic illness that can be integrated with primary care, and that take into account the patient's social environment. This pilot study was conducted with low-income clients of a community health center and focused on enhancing use of social-environmental resources supportive of self-management. Twenty-eight patients having at least one chronic illness, randomized …
The Patients' Perspective on the Self-management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Little attention has been paid to the many behavioral issues involved in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Using a patient- centered approach and drawing upon similar work in the area of diabetes self-management, this study evaluates factors related to the self-management behaviors of 65 patients with COPD. The primary focus was on patients' perceptions of the importance of COPD self-care activities, their recall of …
Dental office practices for tobacco users
Surveys of independent dental practitioners and health maintenance organization (HMO) dentists and their adult male patients in Oregon found that cessation information and advice was being given to tobacco-using patients, especially smokeless tobacco users, and that the tobacco users surveyed expressed interest in obtaining help to quit. Oral health providers expressed an interest in further training in how to help their tobacco-using patients to…
Your Castle in Spain-A Guide to the Study of Spanish
Older Persons’ Perception of Risk of Falling
Objectives. We examined older people’s attitudes about falls and implications for the design of fall-prevention awareness campaigns. Methods. We assessed data from (1) computer-assisted telephone surveys conducted in 2002 with Australians 60 years and older in Northern Rivers, New South Wales (site of a previous fall-prevention program; n=1601), and Wide Bay, Queensland (comparison community; n=1601), and (2) 8 focus groups (n=73). Results. Parti…
Resources for Health
There is a pressing need for practical interventions to support self-management of chronic illness that can be integrated with primary care, and that take into account the patient's social environment. This pilot study was conducted with low-income clients of a community health center and focused on enhancing use of social-environmental resources supportive of self-management. Twenty-eight patients having at least one chronic illness, randomized …
Dental office practices for tobacco users
Surveys of independent dental practitioners and health maintenance organization (HMO) dentists and their adult male patients in Oregon found that cessation information and advice was being given to tobacco-using patients, especially smokeless tobacco users, and that the tobacco users surveyed expressed interest in obtaining help to quit. Oral health providers expressed an interest in further training in how to help their tobacco-using patients to…
The Patients' Perspective on the Self-management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Little attention has been paid to the many behavioral issues involved in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Using a patient- centered approach and drawing upon similar work in the area of diabetes self-management, this study evaluates factors related to the self-management behaviors of 65 patients with COPD. The primary focus was on patients' perceptions of the importance of COPD self-care activities, their recall of …
Your Castle in Spain-A Guide to the Study of Spanish
Dental office practices for tobacco users
Surveys of independent dental practitioners and health maintenance organization (HMO) dentists and their adult male patients in Oregon found that cessation information and advice was being given to tobacco-using patients, especially smokeless tobacco users, and that the tobacco users surveyed expressed interest in obtaining help to quit. Oral health providers expressed an interest in further training in how to help their tobacco-using patients to…
The Patients' Perspective on the Self-management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Little attention has been paid to the many behavioral issues involved in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Using a patient- centered approach and drawing upon similar work in the area of diabetes self-management, this study evaluates factors related to the self-management behaviors of 65 patients with COPD. The primary focus was on patients' perceptions of the importance of COPD self-care activities, their recall of …
Resources for Health
There is a pressing need for practical interventions to support self-management of chronic illness that can be integrated with primary care, and that take into account the patient's social environment. This pilot study was conducted with low-income clients of a community health center and focused on enhancing use of social-environmental resources supportive of self-management. Twenty-eight patients having at least one chronic illness, randomized …
Older Persons’ Perception of Risk of Falling
Objectives. We examined older people’s attitudes about falls and implications for the design of fall-prevention awareness campaigns. Methods. We assessed data from (1) computer-assisted telephone surveys conducted in 2002 with Australians 60 years and older in Northern Rivers, New South Wales (site of a previous fall-prevention program; n=1601), and Wide Bay, Queensland (comparison community; n=1601), and (2) 8 focus groups (n=73). Results. Parti…
Living Well with Diabetes
ACTRN12608000203358
Adults' Sedentary Behavior
Characteristics of control group participants who increased their physical activity in a cluster-randomized lifestyle intervention trial
This is the first study to examine differences in predictors of physical activity improvement between intervention group and control group participants enrolled in a physical activity intervention trial. While further empirical research is necessary to confirm findings, results suggest that participants with certain socio-demographic characteristics may respond favourably to minimal intensity interventions akin to the treatment delivered to parti…
Relationships of Sun-Protection Habit Strength with Sunscreen Use During Outdoor Sport and Physical Activity
The objective of this cross-sectional questionnaire study was to assess associations of a self-report index of sun protection habit strength with sunscreen use in sporting environments and outdoor physical activity. Participants (n = 234) in field hockey, soccer, tennis and surf sports in Queensland, Australia, completed a self-administered survey on sun protection during organized sport, and during general outdoor physical activity during 2005/2…
Objectively Measured Activity Patterns among Adults in Residential Aged Care
Older adults in residential aged care were consistently highly sedentary. Feasibility considerations for objective activity monitoring identified for this population include poor diary completion and lost monitors
Effectiveness of Australia’s Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®
This study provides preliminary evidence that the GHS has potential to contribute to substantial improvements in the chronic disease risk factor profile of program completers and facilitates sustained maintenance six months after completing the coaching program
Design of a randomized controlled trial for multiple cancer risk behaviors among Spanish-speaking Mexican-origin smokers
National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials Registry # NCT01504919
Reducing office workers’ sitting time
ACTRN1211000742976
Correlates of Omani adults’ physical inactivity and sitting time
Objective To inform public health approaches for chronic disease prevention, the present study identified sociodemographic, anthropometric and behavioural correlates of work, transport and leisure physical inactivity and sitting time among adults in Oman. Design Cross-sectional study using the WHO STEPwise study methodology. Setting Sur City, Oman. Subjects Men and women aged 20 years and older ( n 1335) in the Sur City Healthy Lifestyle Study wh…
Get Healthy, Stay Healthy’
ACTRN12613000949785
Addressing physical inactivity in Omani adults
Objective To explore barriers and solutions to addressing physical inactivity and prolonged sitting in the adult population of Oman. Design Qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews that took place from October 2011 to January 2012. Participants were recruited through purposive sampling. Data collection and analysis was an iterative process; later interviews explored emerging themes. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed and…
Feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of a text message-enhanced clinical exercise rehabilitation intervention for increasing ‘whole-of-day’ activity in people living with and beyond cancer
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12616000641493 ; date registered 17/5/16)
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Tailored Exercise Prescription for Women with Breast Cancer with 8-Year Follow-Up
Studies show conflicting results on whether exercise interventions to improve outcomes for women with breast cancer are cost-effective. We modelled the long-term cost-effectiveness of the Exercise for Health intervention compared with usual care. A lifetime Markov cohort model for women with early breast cancer was constructed taking a societal perspective. Data were obtained from trial, epidemiological, quality of life, and healthcare cost repor…
Complexities and Context of Scaling Up
Background: Scaling up population health interventions is a context-orientated, dynamic and multi-stakeholder process; understanding its influences is essential to enhance future scaling efforts. Using physical activity and nutrition interventions in Australia as case examples, the aim of this paper is to identify core influences involved in scaling up physical activity and nutrition interventions, and how these may differ by context and stakehol…
Precision Public Health for Non-communicable Diseases
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remain the largest global public health threat. The emerging field of precision public health (PPH) offers a transformative opportunity to capitalize on digital health data to create an agile, responsive and data-driven public health system to actively prevent NCDs. Using learnings from digital health, our aim is to propose a vision toward PPH for NCDs across three horizons of digital health transformation: Horizo…
Previde
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including obesity, remain a significant global public health challenge. Prevention and public health innovation are needed to effectively address NCDs; however, understanding of how healthcare organisations make prevention decisions is immature. This study aimed to (1) explore how healthcare organisations make decisions for NCD prevention in Queensland, Australia (2) develop a contemporary decision-making framewor…
Sitting less and moving more for improved metabolic and brain health in type 2 diabetes
ANZCTRN12618001159246
Medicine (21 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Physical Activity and Health (11 works) · Public health (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gerontology (9 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 works) · Physical therapy (9 works) · Psychological intervention (9 works)