Helen Skouteris
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 220146 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Helen Skouteris |
| PRENOMES | Helen |
| SOBRENOME | Skouteris |
| ASSINATURA | SKOUTERIS H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9959-5750 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 147 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 162 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 28 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Australian Early Childhood Professionals
Amid ongoing workforce challenges in early childhood education, little is known about factors contributing to educator wellbeing, particularly in the context of supporting trauma-impacted children. This exploratory study aims to identify factors associated with compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, as defined by burnout and secondary traumatic stress, among Australian early childhood educators. One hundred and thirty-five educators comp…
Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies
Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience intergenerational trauma as a legacy of the impacts of colonisation. Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies. This paper describes the protocol for developmental evaluation o…
Implementation Determinants of Transition Planning in Residential Out-of-Home Care for Young People with Disability and from Multicultural and Multifaith Backgrounds
Transition planning is mandated to support young people (YP) in residential out-of-home care (OoHC) to prepare them for independent living by age 18. Yet, it often falls short of meeting YP’s developmental and material needs, particularly for overrepresented cohorts with additional and intersecting needs. Two such cohorts are those living with disability and those from multicultural and multifaith (MCMF) backgrounds. The overall aim of this study…
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration to Promote Trauma-Informed Practices in Early Childhood and Primary Education
Educational contexts play a critical role in identifying and responding to children impacted by trauma. However, with the multifaceted challenges experienced by teachers, this responsibility should not reside solely with them. This systematic scoping review examines the integration of cross-disciplinary collaboration in existing trauma-informed initiatives in early childhood and primary school settings. A systematic search of five online database…
Preconception Perceptions, Knowledge and Behaviours of Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
BACKGROUND: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common pregnancy complications. While considerable attention has been paid to the management of GDM during pregnancy, women's perceptions of GDM, knowledge of associated risk factors and health behaviours before and between pregnancies are less well understood, despite their importance for informing diabetes prevention programmes. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: To explore women's knowledge of G…
Assessing the Quality of Transition Plans in Out‐of‐Home Care
Despite transition planning practices for young people (YP) in out‐of‐home care (OoHC), many continue to experience inequities after care, suggesting that intended outcomes are not being achieved. In Victoria, Australia, a Care and Transition Plan (transition plan(s)) document is the primary mandated tool to capture YP's transition goals, actions and supports for leaving care. The quality of the transition plans may play a critical role in shapin…
Australian population norms for paid work productivity and exploratory estimates for unpaid work productivity
The productivity-adjusted life years metric was developed to quantify the impact of disease on work productivity. To establish baseline distributions for comparing disease burdens across health conditions and populations, this study estimated Australian population norms for the paid work productivity index and productivity-adjusted life expectancy (PALE) including exploratory estimates for unpaid work. This study primarily used data from the Hous…
Pedagogical strategies for supporting young children’s technical and social understandings of the internet as a basis for online safety education in the early years
Change and Stability in the Family Physician Service System
The family physician plays an important role in the primary care system in many countries and regions; however, it is still in its infancy in China for many reasons. To help develop the family physician service, we investigated the behaviors of physicians and community residents in the context of signing the service contract with an evolutionary game model and explored the impact of some factors on the equilibrium. The result shows that the profe…
Exploring the Implementation of Transition Planning in Residential Out-of-Home Care
Using Intervention Mapping to co-design a psychosocial service with youth experiencing mental illness
Descriptions of service development processes in the youth mental health sector are lacking. Further, youth with lived experience of mental illness are rarely involved in service design. Intervention Mapping (IM) is a well-established framework for program development, implementation and evaluation, yet its applicability in the youth mental health sector is unknown. This paper describes the use of IM methodology to co-design and develop a psychos…
Long Covid Symptom Clusters, Correlates and Predictors in a Highly Vaccinated Australian Population in 2023
BACKGROUND: Limited data exists regarding long Covid burden following Omicron infection in highly vaccinated populations. OBJECTIVE: To (1) characterise long Covid prevalence and predictors and (2) identify key symptom clusters and their correlates among long Covid patients, during an Omicron-predominant period in a highly vaccinated population. DESIGN: Anonymous, online, cross-sectional survey. SETTING: January 2023, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: Res…
Lost in translation?“
Digital platforms such as websites play an increasingly important role in supporting perinatal mental health, yet their reach, cultural responsiveness, and effectiveness among women of migrant backgrounds remain under-explored. This study aimed to understand how women from diverse migrant communities engage with five digital perinatal mental health resources and to identify factors influencing their access, engagement, and overall experiences. We…
Realising the Power of Academic-Voluntary Sector Partnerships to Integrated Care Research
Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisations (VCSEs) bring valuable knowledge of local health and care needs and have skills in engaging underserved communities. This makes them ideal partners for integrated health and care researchers. Yet, they are often excluded from research. This paper reflects on the benefits and challenges of VCSE-researcher collaborations and shares examples from Australia and the UK of how these have been over…
What are youth refuge practice models and how effective are they in improving outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness? A systematic narrative review
Are recessions bad for loneliness
Loneliness is a pressing public health concern with significant economic, health and social consequences. This paper examines the impact of economic downturns, particularly unemployment and job loss perception, on loneliness in Australia. Using a fixed-effects panel regression applied to 19 waves of data, we find that unemployment is significantly linked to an increased likelihood of experiencing loneliness and other dimensions of social health, …
Father trait anger and associations with father–infant bonding and caregiving
Trait anger reflects a tendency to feel irritation, annoyance, and rage, and involves a narrowing of cognition and attention. This narrowed scope may impact the capacity to understand the mental states of oneself and others (mentalizing), which for fathers of infants may compromise bonding and caregiving involvement. Here, we investigated the extent to which mentalizing mediated the relationship between father trait anger and both father–infant b…
Trauma-informed Interventions in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
Trauma in early childhood is a significant public health concern. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services are uniquely positioned to buffer the negative impact of early childhood trauma on children. This scoping review synthesized studies evaluating trauma-informed interventions in ECEC settings through a systematic search of four relevant online databases (PsycINFO, Medline, ERIC, A+ Education). Fourteen studies met the inclusion crit…
The Right to Rehabilitation for People With Dementia
INTRODUCTION: People with dementia of all ages have a human right to equal access to quality health care. Despite evidence regarding its effectiveness, many people living with dementia are unable to access rehabilitation for promoting function and quality of life. Conducted in Australia, this study was designed to (1) explore barriers to access to dementia rehabilitation and (2) identify solutions that improve access to rehabilitation. METHODS: P…
Attitudes and Behaviours Regarding Covid‐19 Mitigation Strategies in Australians With an Underlying Health Condition
BACKGROUND: Public health strategies have focused on preventing and slowing the transmission of COVID-19 by promoting the uptake of mitigation strategies. However, little is known about the uptake of these strategies in the presence of underlying health conditions. OBJECTIVES: To describe the attitudes and behaviours of a sample of Australians towards COVID-19 mitigation strategies, and determine if uptake of these strategies differed across diff…
Co‐designing a community lifestyle intervention program to reduce postpartum weight retention
BACKGROUND: Postpartum weight retention is a major contributor to obesity in later life resulting in long-term health consequences in women. Postpartum lifestyle interventions are known to be effective in reducing postpartum weight retention and improving the overall health and wellbeing of mothers but have poor reach and engagement. This study describes the engagement of mothers with young children in the development of a theory- and evidence-ba…
A Controlled Evaluation of a Psychosocial Outreach Support Program for Adults with Severe Mental Illness
Objective: Serious mental illness (SMI) remains a leading cause of disability worldwide. However, there is limited Australian evidence of community-based programs to enhance the psychosocial wellbeing of adults experiencing SMI. Foundations is a long-term community-based psychosocial outreach support program delivered in Tasmania, Australia. A longitudinal non-randomised controlled trial was conducted to examine the effectiveness of the Foundatio…
Assessment of foods for infants and toddlers in Australia against the World Health Organization’s Nutrient and Promotion Profile Model for food products for infants and young children
Objective: Global public health agencies have recommended stronger regulation of food marketing to protect children’s diets. This study assessed commercial foods for infants and toddlers available in Australian supermarkets for compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe’s Nutrient and Promotion Profile Model: supporting appropriate promotion of food products for infants and young children 6–36 months in the WHO…
A Scoping Review on Attitudes towards Sexuality in Residential Aged Care
Objectives . Sexuality in residential aged care is a complex and often overlooked aspect of aged care. The attitudes of both staff and residents significantly influence how sexuality is perceived and addressed in these settings. This scoping review aims to compile, analyse, and identify gaps in the existing research concerning the attitudes of residents and staff towards sexuality within the context of residential aged care. Methods . The scoping…
Involvement of Lay Assessors in the Inspection and Regulation of Public Services
Public services have increasingly sought to use lay assessors (often known as “experts by experience”) as members of inspection teams in health, social care, and education settings. This involvement has been credited as giving more influence to users over how services ought to run. Yet, little is known about the process or outcome of engaging with lay assessors. We conducted a systematic review to understand the benefits and challenges of involvi…
The Relationship between Depression and Body Dissatisfaction across Pregnancy and the Postpartum
The overall aim of this study was to examine the relationship between depression and body dissatisfaction across pregnancy and the first 12 months postpartum. During pregnancy, women's ( N = 116) perceived attractiveness and strength/fitness remained stable, while feeling fat and salience of weight/shape decreased in late pregnancy. During the postpartum, feeling fat and salience of weight/shape increased. Depression and body dissatisfaction scor…
Resistance to Assimilation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are integrated into child protection and out-of-home care (OOHC) systems via the connection element of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP). This article focuses on cultural connection in Australian child protection and OOHC systems over time, from its inception to its contemporary use to improve health and wellbeing and ameliorate cultural disconnection. An e…
Maternal negative affect is associated with emotional feeding practices and emotional eating in young children
Do maternal body dissatisfaction and dietary restraint predict weight gain in young pre-school children? A 1-year follow-up study
Body satisfaction among adolescents in eight different countries
The current study examined body satisfaction and the value of body size among adolescents in Australia, Fiji, Malaysia, Tonga, Tongans in New Zealand, China, Chile and Greece. In total, 2489 adolescent females and 2152 males participated in the study. The results demonstrated that males were more satisfied with their body than females. Males generally had a lower BMI than females, except for males in China and Malaysia. Attitudes towards large bo…
How Well Do Women Adapt to Changes in Their Body Size and Shape across the Course of Pregnancy
This study examined body image across pregnancy. Pregnant women ( N = 158) completed measures of general attractiveness, feeling fat, fitness and strength, salience of weight and shape, and ideal and current body size at pre-pregnancy (retrospective), and in early, middle and late pregnancy. Body image was found to be fairly stable across pregnancy such that women who started with greater body concerns maintained them over time. Although women we…
When does behavior follow intent? Relationships between trait level dietary restraint and daily eating behaviors
Child temperament and maternal predictors of preschool children’s eating and body mass index. A prospective study
An Examination of the Contextual Determinants of Self-Objectification
The authors used a discrete choice conjoint design to examine the relative contributions of previously identified contextual factors (clothing, looks, company, and comments) for eliciting instances of appearance-related self-consciousness in a sample of 250 female undergraduates. The findings revealed that individuals differed in their relative weighting of each of the four contextual factors. Latent class analysis identified two distinct respons…
Nurturing children's development through healthy eating and active living
Fostering the growth, development, health, and wellbeing of children is a global priority. The early childhood period presents a critical window to influence lifelong trajectories, however urgent multisectoral action is needed to ensure that families are adequately supported to nurture their children's growth and development. With a shared vision to give every child the best start in life, thus helping them reach their full developmental potentia…
Understanding problematic eating in out-of-home care
Mutually Responsive Orientation
Playgroups as sites for parental education
There is widespread international interest in parental education as a means of promoting educational equality through improving educational outcomes for young children. The research in this area suggests an association between the home learning environment and children’s educational outcomes and highlights the importance of parental education for supporting young children’s learning through play. This article reviews the international literature …
Problematic Eating and Food-related Behaviours and Excessive Weight Gain
Emerging evidence suggests that abuse and neglect in childhood may play a role in subsequent development of obesity. One population group particularly at risk is children and young people living in out-of-home care (OOHC). Given this population is already a vulnerable group, identifying potential mechanisms by which childhood abuse and neglect increases risk for obesity is essential. A possible explanation is that problematic eating and food-rela…
Implementing a healthy lifestyle program in residential out‐of‐home care
The Healthy Eating, Active Living Matters (HEALing Matters) program is being scaled up across residential out-of-home care (OOHC) in Victoria, Australia and is providing young people with the knowledge, skills and resources to promote better health through healthy eating and activity. HEALing Matters was piloted as the HEAL program, a dual-intervention program that aimed to provide young people living in residential care with education and opport…
Barriers and enablers to consumer and community involvement in research and healthcare improvement
Partnering with consumers and patients and the community and public is a research and healthcare improvement imperative. Consumer and community involvement (CCI) requires behaviour change at the individual (researcher, health professional, manager), organisational (health service, university, medical research institute) and system level (funding policies, collaboration between organisations). To understand the barriers and enablers to meaningful …
Attitudes towards trauma-informed care in residential out-of-home care
Problematic Eating Interventions in Out-of-Home Care
Problematic eating interventions targeting young people living in out-of-home care (OoHC) have been neglected. Therefore, the aim of this narrative literature review was threefold: (1) to identify the state of the literature regarding interventions that address subclinical and clinical problematic eating behaviours among young people in OoHC; (2) to evaluate problematic eating interventions that have been developed for young people in the general…
Guidelines for teachers to elicit detailed and accurate narrative accounts from children
This paper provides interview strategies for teachers who talk to children about serious events, including bullying, truancy, and suspected maltreatment. With regard to the latter, teachers are among the largest group of professionals reporting child abuse, but also tend to evince low substantiation rates. We review research on best practice interviewing, with a focus on its application in school settings. Interview phases are described chronolog…
Profiles of Permanent Supportive Housing Residents Related to Their Quality of Life and Community Integration
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is the main approach advocated in Western countries for eradicating homelessness. Considering that PSH residents are not a homogeneous group and that their quality of life (QoL) and community integration (CI) might differ in this setting, improving our understanding of these residents’ profiles may help stakeholders formulate informed recommendations to improve PSH. This study identified PSH resident profiles ba…
Understanding and Improving Black Social Worker and Student Experiences in England
This article explores the experiences of Black newly qualified social workers and student social workers in England. Drawing on related studies that have begun to outline the challenges faced by Global Ethnic Majority social workers in the UK, the article highlights that this is both an important and under‐researched area. The article provides a much‐needed contribution to understanding the unique experiences of Black social workers through a the…
Social Participation of People with Chronic Mental Health Needs
Social participation is positively related to mental health recovery and wellbeing, yet people with mental health problems are often socially isolated. This article investigates how social participation was incorporated into an Australian‐integrated program that aimed to improve the wellbeing of people with chronic mental health needs. The data are from a longitudinal evaluation of the integrated program, including data linkage (5533 participants…
Non-Take-Up of Benefits and Rights
The present study adds valuable perspective to the ongoing theoretical and practical universality-selectivity debate in the context of (non-) take-up of benefits by delving into the online information angle. People with a digital divide may be affected by such differences since they are more likely to need selective benefits. Almost all researchers agree that knowledge is a crucial barrier to benefits take-up. However, most researchers place the …
Theorising in the social care sector
Purpose The aim of this paper is to discuss how theories and practitioner-led theorising allow frontline workers to iteratively co-construct solutions that work in the real world. Design/methodology/approach This paper addresses the authors’ aim by proposing a social care theorising model Findings This study adopts a socio-ecological and epistemological lens when describing theorising and unpacks what this means when frontline workers adapt their…
Healthy Lifestyle Programs in Out-of-Home Care
From 2012 to 2014, we developed and subsequently evaluated the Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) intervention—an obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle program designed for young people living in residential out-of-home care (OoHC). Based on quantitative (i.e., a randomised trial) and qualitative (i.e., semi-structured interviews) data and an iterative process of redevelopment, the program has evolved from taking a behavioural obesity preven…
Assessing Sleep During Pregnancy
How Well Do Women Adapt to Changes in Their Body Size and Shape across the Course of Pregnancy
This study examined body image across pregnancy. Pregnant women ( N = 158) completed measures of general attractiveness, feeling fat, fitness and strength, salience of weight and shape, and ideal and current body size at pre-pregnancy (retrospective), and in early, middle and late pregnancy. Body image was found to be fairly stable across pregnancy such that women who started with greater body concerns maintained them over time. Although women we…
Television Viewing Habits and Time Use in Australian Preschool Children
The overall aim in this study was to investigate time use in Australian preschool children, paying close attention to the types of television programs and videos/DVDs they watch. Ninety‐two mothers of preschool children completed five activity diaries, for three typical weekdays and two weekend days. On average, children spent around just over 1 hour per weekday watching television and 30 minutes watching videos/DVDs; on weekends they spent on av…
The Relationship between Depression and Body Dissatisfaction across Pregnancy and the Postpartum
The overall aim of this study was to examine the relationship between depression and body dissatisfaction across pregnancy and the first 12 months postpartum. During pregnancy, women's ( N = 116) perceived attractiveness and strength/fitness remained stable, while feeling fat and salience of weight/shape decreased in late pregnancy. During the postpartum, feeling fat and salience of weight/shape increased. Depression and body dissatisfaction scor…
Healthy eating and obesity prevention for preschoolers
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12610000200088
Continuity of midwifery care and gestational weight gain in obese women
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12610001078044
Obesity in Children in Out-of-home Care
Children placed in out-of-home care are a particularly disadvantaged group in society, who have often been exposed to trauma and socioeconomic disadvantage. As a result, they experience poorer health outcomes than children in the general population, especially mental health outcomes. One health outcome that has yet to be researched thoroughly is overweight and obesity of children placed in out-of-home care. Hence, the overall goal of this paper w…
Children's Content Regulation and the 'Obesity Epidemic
Some 30 years ago, Australia introduced the Children's Television Standards (CTS) with the twin goals of providing children with high-quality local programs and offering some protection from the perceived harms of television. The most recent review of the CTS occurred in the context of a decade of increasing international concern at rising levels of overweight and obesity, especially in very young children. Overlapping regulatory jurisdictions an…
The Association between Television Viewing and Preschool Child Body Mass Index
This paper is a conceptual and methodological review of the literature on the impact of TV on preschoolers' weight status. A systematic search, of papers published between January 1995 and January 2010, identified twenty-six relevant studies. Fifteen of these were cross-sectional in design and eleven adopted a prospective design; a positive association between hours of TV and child adiposity was found in all but three studies. Although assessed i…
Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a specialized health coaching intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention in women
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12611000331932
An Examination of the Contextual Determinants of Self-Objectification
The authors used a discrete choice conjoint design to examine the relative contributions of previously identified contextual factors (clothing, looks, company, and comments) for eliciting instances of appearance-related self-consciousness in a sample of 250 female undergraduates. The findings revealed that individuals differed in their relative weighting of each of the four contextual factors. Latent class analysis identified two distinct respons…
The associations between TV viewing, food intake, and BMI. A prospective analysis of data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Body satisfaction among adolescents in eight different countries
The current study examined body satisfaction and the value of body size among adolescents in Australia, Fiji, Malaysia, Tonga, Tongans in New Zealand, China, Chile and Greece. In total, 2489 adolescent females and 2152 males participated in the study. The results demonstrated that males were more satisfied with their body than females. Males generally had a lower BMI than females, except for males in China and Malaysia. Attitudes towards large bo…
Maternal feeding practices predict weight gain and obesogenic eating behaviors in young children
Body dissatisfaction during pregnancy
This article systematically reviews the literature pertaining to correlates of body dissatisfaction during pregnancy. A total of 8 electronic databases were searched and 251 papers identified, 56 of which met inclusion criteria. Full text scrutiny of these papers reduced the final list of reviewed papers to 22. Results of the review highlight that psychological factors were associated with body dissatisfaction during pregnancy, and noted the surf…
Addressing risk factors of overweight and obesity among adolescents in out-of-home care
Rates of overweight and obesity increase significantly whilst children and young people are in out-of-home care. This paper provides the protocol for a study, funded by the Australian Research Council (2012–2014), being conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a Healthy Eating and Active Living intervention programme for adolescents who live in out-of-home residential care. This randomised trial will be conducted with 118 adolescents aged 13–17…
A test of the resource security and the body mass index reference point hypotheses of body dissatisfaction amongst adolescents in eight countries
Cultural-level variables may account for the development of adolescent BD
Do maternal body dissatisfaction and dietary restraint predict weight gain in young pre-school children? A 1-year follow-up study
Maternal correlates of maternal child feeding practices
Establishing healthy eating habits early in life is one important strategy to combat childhood obesity. Given that early maternal child feeding practices have been linked to child food intake and weight, identifying the maternal correlates of maternal child feeding practices is important in order to understand the determinants of childhood obesity; this was the overall aim of the current review. Academic databases were searched for studies examin…
Promoting obesity prevention together with environmental sustainability
There is mounting evidence that current food production, transport, land use and urban design negatively impact both climate change and obesity outcomes. Recommendations to prevent climate change provide an opportunity to improve environmental outcomes and alter our food and physical activity environments in favour of a 'healthier' energy balance. Hence, setting goals to achieve a more sustainable society offers a unique opportunity to reduce lev…
The Act of Giving
Promoting healthy eating, active play and sustainability consciousness in early childhood curricula, addressing the Ben10TM problem
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12614000363684: Date registered: 07/04/2014
The act of giving
Twelve pairs of adolescent students were linked to an older adult in aged care in this pilot study on intergenerational interaction. Triads met weekly for eight weeks with the aim of writing a Life Review Book for the older adult. At the conclusion of the study, participants were interviewed to gain an understanding of their experiences and meaning of the programme. Thematic analysis of the interviews revealed four major themes: breaking down the…
Child temperament and maternal predictors of preschool children’s eating and body mass index. A prospective study
Maternal negative affect is associated with emotional feeding practices and emotional eating in young children
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