Lesley Barclay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 192364 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lesley Barclay |
| PRENOMES | Lesley |
| SOBRENOME | Barclay |
| ASSINATURA | BARCLAY L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Charles Darwin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9345-3468 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Demographics, health literacy and health locus of control beliefs of Australian women who take complementary medicine products during pregnancy and breastfeeding
BACKGROUND: Pregnant and breastfeeding women's use of complementary medicine products (CMPs) is common, and possibly associated with autonomous health care behaviours. However, the health literacy levels and health locus of control (HLOC) beliefs of women who use CMPs in pregnancy and lactation have not been previously assessed in a large Australian sample. AIM: The aim of this study is to determine the health literacy levels and HLOC beliefs of …
Stigmatized for standing up for my child
Non-vaccinating Australian parents feel stigmatized for defending their child from perceived risk of harm, reporting a range of social and psychological effects, as well as financial effects from policies which disadvantaged their children through differential financial treatment, and diminished early childhood educational opportunities. While it might be argued that social stigma and exclusionary policies directed a small minority for the greate…
Women’s health literacy and the complex decision‐making process to use complementary medicine products in pregnancy and lactation
BACKGROUND: Little is known about women's decision-making processes regarding using complementary medicine products (CMPs) during pregnancy or lactation. OBJECTIVES: To explore the decision-making processes of women choosing to use CMPs in pregnancy and lactation; and to investigate how women's health literacy influences their decisions. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were held with twenty-five p…
Hitting the white ceiling
This article reports on a study that explored what it means to be a mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduate in the context of age, life-stage, history, culture, socioeconomic status, race and place. Using narrative interview data and fieldwork observation, we focus on the graduates’ workplace experiences and take a case study approach to amplify their voices. We argue that the data challenges the ideological construct…
Improving knowledge and behaviours related to the cause, transmission and prevention of Tuberculosis and early case detection
This small project demonstrated that an asset-based intervention can result in positive changes in community's knowledge and behaviour in relation to TB and early case detection. A continuing education process is like to be required to maintain this outcome and to reach a wider community. Promoting community involvement and local initiatives and engaging health care providers were important elements in the community-based TB program implemented
Multi-Purpose Services
Introduction:Of the 762 public hospitals in Australia, 71% have less than fifty beds.These smaller hospitals, in most cases, were built decades ago and little or no attempt has been made to redesign them.There is little, if any, research or studies into their operation, mostly no plans for their future and how they could become hubs for integrated care.There is however an exception to this.This presentation describes this exception and how this k…
Implementing a national approach to universal child and family health services in Australia
Australia has a well-accepted system of universal child and family health (CFH) services. However, government reports and research indicate that these services vary across states and territories, and many children and families do not receive these services. The aim of this paper was to explore professionals' perceptions of the challenges and opportunities in implementing a national approach to universal CFH services across Australia. Qualitative …
Exploring the Process of Women's Infant Feeding Decisions in the Early Postbirth Period
Research indicates that multiple factors are associated with decisions women make about infant feeding, yet few studies have explored the decision-making process. In this article, we present the analysis that produced the core category "deconstructing best," previously reported as part of a grounded theory exploring 37 Australian women's infant feeding experiences and decisions in the first 6 weeks postbirth. We expand on the previous article by …
Give us the full story
How participatory action research supported improvements to the postnatal discharge summary system used for remote dwelling Aboriginal mothers and infants in the Top End of Australia
This article describes and analyses the participatory action research (PAR) process used by researchers working with policy leaders and clinicians to facilitate health service improvement around postnatal discharge planning processes for remote-dwelling Aboriginal women and their newborn infants. The research presented here was a sub-study of a larger health system improvement investigation. Stringer’s (2007) working principles of PAR – participa…
Challenges to maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a resource-poor region of Sichuan Province, China
We present a simple descriptive study of maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a remote region of China. Factors that affect women obtaining care and their decision-making are explored. Results show that utilization of maternal health care services is associated with a range of social, economic, cultural and geographic factors as well as the policies of the state and the delivery of services. Utilization is not necessari…
Birth choices in Timor-Leste
Barriers to increasing hospital birth rates in rural Shanxi Province, China
This study investigated the reasons for continued high rates of home births in rural Shanxi Province, northern China, despite a national programme designed to encourage hospital deliveries. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 home-birthing women in five rural counties and drew on hospital audit data, observations and interviews with local health workers from a larger study. Multiple barriers were identified, including economic and geo…
A retrospective analysis of a community-based health program in Papua New Guinea
The Women and Children's Health Project was a large Australian funded aid Project that sought to improve the health of women and children in Papua New Guinea between 1998 and 2004. Community development and health promotion interventions aimed to increase community support for attended birth and children's health. Green and Kreuter's [Green, L. W. and Kreuter, M. W. (2005) Health Program Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 4th editi…
Women's experiences of infant feeding support in the first 6 weeks post‐birth
Research suggests women find the first 2 to 6 weeks to be the most difficult time for breastfeeding. It has been identified that women need and seek support with breastfeeding during this time. Support is a difficult concept to define. When discussed by professionals, support for breastfeeding is generally viewed in terms of providing information and educational interventions. There is little understanding of the different elements of breastfeedi…
Participative research in a remote Australian Aboriginal setting
This article describes the research process used to develop and evaluate an Internet-based resource aimed at improving access by health professionals to Australian Aboriginal cultural knowledge specific to pregnancy and childbirth. As a result of the research, women's stories from Maningrida were recorded and presented on the `Birthing Business in the Bush Website' which provided a platform for Aboriginal Australian women from Maningrida to prese…
Implementation of a new birth record in three hospitals in Jordan
This study tested the introduction of a new integrated clinical record in Jordan where currently no clinical report links antenatal, birth and postnatal care for women. As a result, no continuity of information is provided to clinicians nor are there national statistics on trends, or performance of hospitals around birth. Our study was conducted in the Jordanian Ministry of Health, the maternity wards and registration departments of three hospita…
Practice—research engagement (PRE)
This article describes the practice—research engagement (PRE) that occurred during an action research project conducted in three hospitals in Jordan. The project aimed to develop and test the feasibility of an improved clinical record-keeping system. This article focuses on how relationships were built and evolved over time with national and local leaders and practitioners to facilitate the study, and how this led to a process of health system im…
Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
This paper comments on the provision of birthing services in Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces in China within a policy context. The goal was to understand possible unintended and harmful health outcomes for women in the light of international evidence, to better inform practice and policy development. Data were collected from October 2005 to April 2007 in 25 hospitals across 13 counties and one city. Normal and caesarean birth records were audited, o…
In Our Own Right
IN OUR OWN RIGHT: BLACK AUSTRALIAN NURSES' STORIES Sally Goold and Kerrynne Uddle (eds) Maleny, Queensland: eContent Management 2005, PB, AUD 29.95 ISBN 0-9750436-3-3This was supposed to be a simple task: a book review for a journal. I was asked, I believe, because I share a small part of these stories. I was a nurse and a contemporary of some of these authors in the 1960s and early 70s. However, reading the stories I was struck by the enormity o…
None of Them Were Satisfactory
Seventy-two women, aged between 18 and 50 years, participated in focus groups to talk about their experiences with using contraception. There were both continuities and differences between women in each of the age groups. Younger women appeared to be more accepting of medical opinion, while many older women rejected medical interference in contraceptive decisions. Patterns of use were similar with the pill having been the contraceptive of first c…
Defining Social Support in Context
A substantial body of work on the concept of social support has resulted in many definitions, but none have been accepted as definitive. The lack of consensus about the definition of social support has resulted in a lack of consistency and comparability among studies. More important, the validity of any study attempting to measure or influence social support is undermined by the use of generic definitions, which lack contextual sensitivity. In th…
She has made me feel human again’
This paper provides a description and phenomenological interpretation of the Sutherland Family Network, a volunteer home visiting project in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia. Home visitation is undergoing a revival in health and welfare systems. Research and experience has shown home visitation to be an effective strategy in attempts to prevent child abuse and neglect, in all its forms. Programmes utilizing volunteers are just one form of …
Constructing Fatherhood
Constructing Fatherhood
Theorizing Fatherhood Poststructuralist Perspectives 'Expert' Discourses and the Construction of Fatherhood Fatherhood in the Popular Media Biographies of Fatherhood Negotiating Fatherhood Discourses and Experiences
Defining Social Support in Context
A substantial body of work on the concept of social support has resulted in many definitions, but none have been accepted as definitive. The lack of consensus about the definition of social support has resulted in a lack of consistency and comparability among studies. More important, the validity of any study attempting to measure or influence social support is undermined by the use of generic definitions, which lack contextual sensitivity. In th…
She has made me feel human again’
This paper provides a description and phenomenological interpretation of the Sutherland Family Network, a volunteer home visiting project in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia. Home visitation is undergoing a revival in health and welfare systems. Research and experience has shown home visitation to be an effective strategy in attempts to prevent child abuse and neglect, in all its forms. Programmes utilizing volunteers are just one form of …
Birth choices in Timor-Leste
Challenges to maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a resource-poor region of Sichuan Province, China
We present a simple descriptive study of maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a remote region of China. Factors that affect women obtaining care and their decision-making are explored. Results show that utilization of maternal health care services is associated with a range of social, economic, cultural and geographic factors as well as the policies of the state and the delivery of services. Utilization is not necessari…
Practice—research engagement (PRE)
This article describes the practice—research engagement (PRE) that occurred during an action research project conducted in three hospitals in Jordan. The project aimed to develop and test the feasibility of an improved clinical record-keeping system. This article focuses on how relationships were built and evolved over time with national and local leaders and practitioners to facilitate the study, and how this led to a process of health system im…
Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
This paper comments on the provision of birthing services in Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces in China within a policy context. The goal was to understand possible unintended and harmful health outcomes for women in the light of international evidence, to better inform practice and policy development. Data were collected from October 2005 to April 2007 in 25 hospitals across 13 counties and one city. Normal and caesarean birth records were audited, o…
Hitting the white ceiling
This article reports on a study that explored what it means to be a mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduate in the context of age, life-stage, history, culture, socioeconomic status, race and place. Using narrative interview data and fieldwork observation, we focus on the graduates’ workplace experiences and take a case study approach to amplify their voices. We argue that the data challenges the ideological construct…
Exploring the Process of Women's Infant Feeding Decisions in the Early Postbirth Period
Research indicates that multiple factors are associated with decisions women make about infant feeding, yet few studies have explored the decision-making process. In this article, we present the analysis that produced the core category "deconstructing best," previously reported as part of a grounded theory exploring 37 Australian women's infant feeding experiences and decisions in the first 6 weeks postbirth. We expand on the previous article by …
Implementing a national approach to universal child and family health services in Australia
Australia has a well-accepted system of universal child and family health (CFH) services. However, government reports and research indicate that these services vary across states and territories, and many children and families do not receive these services. The aim of this paper was to explore professionals' perceptions of the challenges and opportunities in implementing a national approach to universal CFH services across Australia. Qualitative …
Give us the full story
Barriers to increasing hospital birth rates in rural Shanxi Province, China
This study investigated the reasons for continued high rates of home births in rural Shanxi Province, northern China, despite a national programme designed to encourage hospital deliveries. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 home-birthing women in five rural counties and drew on hospital audit data, observations and interviews with local health workers from a larger study. Multiple barriers were identified, including economic and geo…
How participatory action research supported improvements to the postnatal discharge summary system used for remote dwelling Aboriginal mothers and infants in the Top End of Australia
This article describes and analyses the participatory action research (PAR) process used by researchers working with policy leaders and clinicians to facilitate health service improvement around postnatal discharge planning processes for remote-dwelling Aboriginal women and their newborn infants. The research presented here was a sub-study of a larger health system improvement investigation. Stringer’s (2007) working principles of PAR – participa…
Participative research in a remote Australian Aboriginal setting
This article describes the research process used to develop and evaluate an Internet-based resource aimed at improving access by health professionals to Australian Aboriginal cultural knowledge specific to pregnancy and childbirth. As a result of the research, women's stories from Maningrida were recorded and presented on the `Birthing Business in the Bush Website' which provided a platform for Aboriginal Australian women from Maningrida to prese…
Implementation of a new birth record in three hospitals in Jordan
This study tested the introduction of a new integrated clinical record in Jordan where currently no clinical report links antenatal, birth and postnatal care for women. As a result, no continuity of information is provided to clinicians nor are there national statistics on trends, or performance of hospitals around birth. Our study was conducted in the Jordanian Ministry of Health, the maternity wards and registration departments of three hospita…
Midwifery in Australia and surrounding reions
This paper discusses the professional issues currently facing midwives and maternity services in Australia and the Pacific region, which are influenced by midwifery being predominantly a women's profession and by working in health systems that are dominated by medicine and nurses. In Australia, the educational preparation of midwives has recently shifted from hospitals to universities, and only nurses can train to be midwives, even though urban m…
Constructing Fatherhood
Theorizing Fatherhood Poststructuralist Perspectives 'Expert' Discourses and the Construction of Fatherhood Fatherhood in the Popular Media Biographies of Fatherhood Negotiating Fatherhood Discourses and Experiences
Midwifery in Australia and surrounding reions
This paper discusses the professional issues currently facing midwives and maternity services in Australia and the Pacific region, which are influenced by midwifery being predominantly a women's profession and by working in health systems that are dominated by medicine and nurses. In Australia, the educational preparation of midwives has recently shifted from hospitals to universities, and only nurses can train to be midwives, even though urban m…
Constructing Fatherhood
She has made me feel human again’
This paper provides a description and phenomenological interpretation of the Sutherland Family Network, a volunteer home visiting project in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia. Home visitation is undergoing a revival in health and welfare systems. Research and experience has shown home visitation to be an effective strategy in attempts to prevent child abuse and neglect, in all its forms. Programmes utilizing volunteers are just one form of …
Defining Social Support in Context
A substantial body of work on the concept of social support has resulted in many definitions, but none have been accepted as definitive. The lack of consensus about the definition of social support has resulted in a lack of consistency and comparability among studies. More important, the validity of any study attempting to measure or influence social support is undermined by the use of generic definitions, which lack contextual sensitivity. In th…
None of Them Were Satisfactory
Seventy-two women, aged between 18 and 50 years, participated in focus groups to talk about their experiences with using contraception. There were both continuities and differences between women in each of the age groups. Younger women appeared to be more accepting of medical opinion, while many older women rejected medical interference in contraceptive decisions. Patterns of use were similar with the pill having been the contraceptive of first c…
Implementation of a new birth record in three hospitals in Jordan
This study tested the introduction of a new integrated clinical record in Jordan where currently no clinical report links antenatal, birth and postnatal care for women. As a result, no continuity of information is provided to clinicians nor are there national statistics on trends, or performance of hospitals around birth. Our study was conducted in the Jordanian Ministry of Health, the maternity wards and registration departments of three hospita…
Practice—research engagement (PRE)
This article describes the practice—research engagement (PRE) that occurred during an action research project conducted in three hospitals in Jordan. The project aimed to develop and test the feasibility of an improved clinical record-keeping system. This article focuses on how relationships were built and evolved over time with national and local leaders and practitioners to facilitate the study, and how this led to a process of health system im…
Consequences of Birth Policies and Practices in Post-Reform China
This paper comments on the provision of birthing services in Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces in China within a policy context. The goal was to understand possible unintended and harmful health outcomes for women in the light of international evidence, to better inform practice and policy development. Data were collected from October 2005 to April 2007 in 25 hospitals across 13 counties and one city. Normal and caesarean birth records were audited, o…
In Our Own Right
IN OUR OWN RIGHT: BLACK AUSTRALIAN NURSES' STORIES Sally Goold and Kerrynne Uddle (eds) Maleny, Queensland: eContent Management 2005, PB, AUD 29.95 ISBN 0-9750436-3-3This was supposed to be a simple task: a book review for a journal. I was asked, I believe, because I share a small part of these stories. I was a nurse and a contemporary of some of these authors in the 1960s and early 70s. However, reading the stories I was struck by the enormity o…
A retrospective analysis of a community-based health program in Papua New Guinea
The Women and Children's Health Project was a large Australian funded aid Project that sought to improve the health of women and children in Papua New Guinea between 1998 and 2004. Community development and health promotion interventions aimed to increase community support for attended birth and children's health. Green and Kreuter's [Green, L. W. and Kreuter, M. W. (2005) Health Program Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 4th editi…
Women's experiences of infant feeding support in the first 6 weeks post‐birth
Research suggests women find the first 2 to 6 weeks to be the most difficult time for breastfeeding. It has been identified that women need and seek support with breastfeeding during this time. Support is a difficult concept to define. When discussed by professionals, support for breastfeeding is generally viewed in terms of providing information and educational interventions. There is little understanding of the different elements of breastfeedi…
Participative research in a remote Australian Aboriginal setting
This article describes the research process used to develop and evaluate an Internet-based resource aimed at improving access by health professionals to Australian Aboriginal cultural knowledge specific to pregnancy and childbirth. As a result of the research, women's stories from Maningrida were recorded and presented on the `Birthing Business in the Bush Website' which provided a platform for Aboriginal Australian women from Maningrida to prese…
Challenges to maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a resource-poor region of Sichuan Province, China
We present a simple descriptive study of maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a remote region of China. Factors that affect women obtaining care and their decision-making are explored. Results show that utilization of maternal health care services is associated with a range of social, economic, cultural and geographic factors as well as the policies of the state and the delivery of services. Utilization is not necessari…
Birth choices in Timor-Leste
Barriers to increasing hospital birth rates in rural Shanxi Province, China
This study investigated the reasons for continued high rates of home births in rural Shanxi Province, northern China, despite a national programme designed to encourage hospital deliveries. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 home-birthing women in five rural counties and drew on hospital audit data, observations and interviews with local health workers from a larger study. Multiple barriers were identified, including economic and geo…
How participatory action research supported improvements to the postnatal discharge summary system used for remote dwelling Aboriginal mothers and infants in the Top End of Australia
This article describes and analyses the participatory action research (PAR) process used by researchers working with policy leaders and clinicians to facilitate health service improvement around postnatal discharge planning processes for remote-dwelling Aboriginal women and their newborn infants. The research presented here was a sub-study of a larger health system improvement investigation. Stringer’s (2007) working principles of PAR – participa…
Exploring the Process of Women's Infant Feeding Decisions in the Early Postbirth Period
Research indicates that multiple factors are associated with decisions women make about infant feeding, yet few studies have explored the decision-making process. In this article, we present the analysis that produced the core category "deconstructing best," previously reported as part of a grounded theory exploring 37 Australian women's infant feeding experiences and decisions in the first 6 weeks postbirth. We expand on the previous article by …
Give us the full story
Implementing a national approach to universal child and family health services in Australia
Australia has a well-accepted system of universal child and family health (CFH) services. However, government reports and research indicate that these services vary across states and territories, and many children and families do not receive these services. The aim of this paper was to explore professionals' perceptions of the challenges and opportunities in implementing a national approach to universal CFH services across Australia. Qualitative …
Multi-Purpose Services
Introduction:Of the 762 public hospitals in Australia, 71% have less than fifty beds.These smaller hospitals, in most cases, were built decades ago and little or no attempt has been made to redesign them.There is little, if any, research or studies into their operation, mostly no plans for their future and how they could become hubs for integrated care.There is however an exception to this.This presentation describes this exception and how this k…
Improving knowledge and behaviours related to the cause, transmission and prevention of Tuberculosis and early case detection
This small project demonstrated that an asset-based intervention can result in positive changes in community's knowledge and behaviour in relation to TB and early case detection. A continuing education process is like to be required to maintain this outcome and to reach a wider community. Promoting community involvement and local initiatives and engaging health care providers were important elements in the community-based TB program implemented
Women’s health literacy and the complex decision‐making process to use complementary medicine products in pregnancy and lactation
BACKGROUND: Little is known about women's decision-making processes regarding using complementary medicine products (CMPs) during pregnancy or lactation. OBJECTIVES: To explore the decision-making processes of women choosing to use CMPs in pregnancy and lactation; and to investigate how women's health literacy influences their decisions. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were held with twenty-five p…
Hitting the white ceiling
This article reports on a study that explored what it means to be a mature-age Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university graduate in the context of age, life-stage, history, culture, socioeconomic status, race and place. Using narrative interview data and fieldwork observation, we focus on the graduates’ workplace experiences and take a case study approach to amplify their voices. We argue that the data challenges the ideological construct…
Stigmatized for standing up for my child
Non-vaccinating Australian parents feel stigmatized for defending their child from perceived risk of harm, reporting a range of social and psychological effects, as well as financial effects from policies which disadvantaged their children through differential financial treatment, and diminished early childhood educational opportunities. While it might be argued that social stigma and exclusionary policies directed a small minority for the greate…
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