Article
Nursing
Kathleen Markey, Brid O' Brien, Claire O' Donnell, Catherine Martin, Jill Murphy
Summary: With the aging global community and increasing socio-cultural diversity, nurse educators are facing challenges in aligning undergraduate nursing curricula with rapidly changing healthcare environments. To educate nurses in providing culturally competent person-centered care, it is important to critically examine and adapt undergraduate curricula.
NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Thomas Pearson, Kate Obst, Clemence Due
Summary: This study aims to explore the experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse men in seeking support after perinatal death, including the barriers and facilitators to support and how healthcare providers, systems, and policies can best support families.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
(2023)
Review
Nursing
Christy Cabote, Yenna Salamonson, Suza Trajkovski, Della Maneze, Jed Montayre
Summary: This integrative review aimed to synthesise information about the needs of older people with dementia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living in residential aged care. The review identified culture-specific needs and dementia-specific care needs as the main concerns. Meeting these needs will improve quality care delivery and satisfaction among residents, families, and care staff, as well as enhance the management of dementia-related behaviours.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
(2023)
Review
Nursing
Elizabeth Lambert, Karen Strickland, Jo Gibson
Summary: The purpose of this study is to establish cultural considerations for people from diverse cultural or linguistic backgrounds at the end-of-life in Australia. The research found that many people from these backgrounds do not practice the palliative care approaches developed and practiced in Australia. Therefore, healthcare workers need to increase their education and cultural competency to provide effective end-of-life care.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Barbara C. Schouten, Linn Manthey, Claudio Scarvaglieri
Summary: The article provides three main recommendations for healthcare providers' training in intercultural communication skills. It discusses the essential skills that healthcare providers should be trained in, the delivery methods of such training, and the importance of considering within-group differences to prevent stereotyping. Good practices and interventions are provided to illustrate these recommendations.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Fatemeh Rezania, Christopher J. A. Neil, Tissa Wijeratne
Summary: Language barriers are associated with delayed thrombolysis and poorer clinical outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Patients with language barriers had a longer onset to needle time and higher discharge rates to residential aged care facilities.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kanchan Marcus, Madhan Balasubramanian, Stephanie D. Short, Woosung Sohn
Summary: This study investigated the oral healthcare experiences, attitudes, and barriers in CALD mothers. The findings revealed that cost, confidence, confusion, competing priorities, and complacency were the main barriers to accessing timely dental care for CALD mothers. Multisectoral collaboration, universal health coverage, and primary sector support are needed to address dental hesitancy in this population.
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Ashokkumar Manoharan, Janice Jones, Zhou Jiang, Manisha Singal
Summary: The study focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on culturally and linguistically diverse hotel workers, revealing a temporal aspect of career optimism specific to this group. By identifying individual and contextual factors influencing career optimism, the study offers practical implications to help these workers stay positive during crisis events like the pandemic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Yanghee Kim, Sherry Marx, Hung Viet Pham, Tung Nguyen
Summary: This qualitative study focused on a humanoid social robot that mediated collaborative interactions among culturally and linguistically diverse kindergarten children in a US school, with theoretical support for practical implementation.
ETR&D-EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rachael A. A. Cody, Gregory T. T. Boldt, Elizabeth J. J. Canavan, E. Jean E. Gubbins, Stacy M. M. Hayden, Aarti P. P. Bellara, Kelly L. L. Kearney
Summary: The purpose of this research was to assess the impact of professional learning on teachers' beliefs about 2e and CLED students. The results indicated that professional learning did not significantly influence teachers' beliefs about these populations.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Lara Whitehead, Jason Talevski, Farhad Fatehi, Alison Beauchamp
Summary: This study conducted a systematic review and thematic synthesis to identify the barriers to and facilitators of interacting with digital health technologies (DHTs) among culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) populations. It found that cultural factors influenced all aspects of access to and uptake of DHTs. Therefore, cultural and linguistic perspectives should be considered in the design and delivery of DHTs, and involvement of target communities should be promoted at all stages of development.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Brighid Scanlon, Mark Brough, David Wyld, Jo Durham
Summary: International evidence suggests that migrants face inequitable access, outcomes, and treatment quality in cancer care. Limited research has been done on equity in cancer care for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants in Australia, indicating a need to identify disparities and institutional barriers to improve care for diverse cancer populations.
GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Eline Wiese, Guri A. Nortvedt
Summary: This study examined inclusive teacher assessment practices in Norwegian lower secondary schools, and explored the tensions and potential of teacher assessment literacy. The data collected through interviews with 21 teachers from five schools showed that the development of teacher assessment literacy was enhanced through collective and shared whole-school practices, but there were challenges in targeting cultural diversity in assessments.
TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Resham B. Khatri, Yibeltal Assefa
Summary: This study aimed to explore issues and challenges in accessing health services among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations in Australia. The study found that individuals from CALD backgrounds face multiple social factors and diseases, leading to low access to health services. To address these challenges, culturally appropriate health interventions should focus on treating multimorbidity, and existing health services could be strengthened by providing multilingual health resources and onsite interpreters.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samuel Cornell, Julie Ayre, Olivia Mac, Raveena Kapoor, Kristen Pickles, Carys Batcup, Hankiz Dolan, Carissa Bonner, Erin Cvejic, Dana Mouwad, Dipti Zacharia, Una Tularic, Yvonne Santalucia, Ting Ting Chen, Gordana Basic, Kirsten McCaffery, Danielle Muscat
Summary: This study investigated whether culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Western Sydney experienced any positive effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that only 23% of the participants reported positive impacts, and significant differences were found based on demographic variables. The reported positive effects were primarily related to family time, improved self-care, and greater connection with others.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Valerie J. O'Keeffe, Michelle R. Tuckey, Anjum Naweed
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Valerie O'Keeffe
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Rachael E. Potter, Maureen F. Dollard, Mikaela S. Owen, Valerie O'Keeffe, Tessa Bailey, Stavroula Leka
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Rachael Potter, Valerie O'Keeffe, Stavroula Leka, Mardi Webber, Maureen Dollard
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Valerie O'Keeffe, Carolyn Boyd, Craig Phillips, Michelle Oppert
Summary: Student nurses are more likely to seek help and wait when managing high-risk patient aggression scenarios, placing the utmost importance on their own safety and the patient's condition in decision-making. Gender also plays a significant role in how student nurses interact with resource risk, with male nurses more likely to seek help when risks are high.
APPLIED ERGONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Anjum Naweed, Jana Stahlut, Valerie O'Keeffe
Summary: The study investigated how personal care attendants adapted to challenges in delivering quality care, revealing that individualized adaptive strategies were used to maintain emotional resilience in stressful and ambiguous work scenarios.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Michelle L. Oppert, Maureen F. Dollard, Vignesh R. Murugavel, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Alexander Reardon, David H. Cropley, Valerie O'Keeffe
Summary: The future of work requires individuals to adapt to a new paradigm where creative problem-solving skills are highly sought after. This study explores how engineers understand and utilize creative problem-solving, and finds significant associations between engineers' implicit knowledge, exemplified problem-solving abilities, and the perceived value of creativity. The work environment is identified as a potential facilitator of creative problem-solving. The study proposes a new theoretical framework that integrates various elements to foster a creative environment and suggests organizations provide a psychosocially safe climate for engineers to develop and utilize their sought-after skills.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Philip Taylor, Eyal Gringart, Eileen O. Webb, Phillippa Carnemolla, Deirdre Drake, Michelle Oppert, Robin Harvey
Summary: This article examines the antecedents and characteristics of early retirement schemes implemented by Australian universities between 2010 and 2020. The study identifies common justifications for these schemes, but also highlights the diverse work-retirement pathways across institutions. The findings suggest that ageist biases and the reorganization of labour processes in universities may contradict market-oriented objectives and public policy responses to workforce ageing.
ECONOMIC AND LABOUR RELATIONS REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Michelle Leanne Oppert, Melissa Ngo, Gun A. Lee, Mark Billinghurst, Siobhan Banks, Laura Tolson
Summary: This pilot study investigated how independent-living older adults experience social isolation and loneliness, and whether virtual tour digital technology can improve social connectedness (N = 10). By triangulating interviews, experiences, and feedback, this study contributes to the knowledge base on the well-being of ageing populations and the potential of digital technologies, specifically virtual tourism, to facilitate social connection. The findings suggest that participants were moderately lonely but open to embracing more digital technology, recognizing its role in enhancing social connection and life administration. Participating in virtual tour experiences was well accepted, generating enjoyment, nostalgia, and interest in future use. However, the contribution of virtual tours to increasing social connections requires further investigation.
Article
Industrial Relations & Labor
Elizabeth Bluff, Valerie O'Keeffe
LABOUR & INDUSTRY-A JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF WORK
(2020)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Rachael Elise Potter, Valerie O'Keeffe, Stavroula Leka, Maureen Dollard
POLICY AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH AND SAFETY
(2019)
Article
Nursing
Valerie Jean O'Keeffe, Kirrilly Rebecca Thompson, Michelle Rae Tuckey, Verna Lesley Blewett
GLOBAL QUALITATIVE NURSING RESEARCH
(2015)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yuchi Young, Wan-Hsiang Hsu, Ashley Shayya, Virgile Barnes, Taylor Perre, Thomas O. ' Grady
Summary: This study compares the case and mortality rates of COVID-19 in Green Houses (GHs) and traditional nursing homes (NHs) during the pandemic. The study found that, after adjusting for age, gender, and ADL disability, GHs demonstrated lower COVID-19 case and mortality rates than traditional NHs.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Eunae Ju, Candace Burton, Julie Kim, Yuqing Guo, Jung In Park, Annie Qu, Lisa Gibbs, Jung-Ah Lee
Summary: This study investigates the sleep quality in dyadic interrelationships between Korean American persons with dementia (PWD) and their family caregivers. The findings reveal bidirectional influences in the sleep disturbances of these dyads, where caregiving impacts PWD sleep as part of an interactional unit. Communication barriers and limited community resources pose challenges for these dyads, highlighting the importance of culturally competent interventions.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Dukyoo Jung, Hyesoon Lee, Eunju Choi, Jisung Park, Leeho Yoo
Summary: This study analyzed mealtime structure in long-term care facilities for older adults with dementia. Video observations were conducted at two facilities, involving 10 residents and 24 staff members. The findings showed that the average mealtime duration was 12.21 minutes, with an average time of 0.21 minutes for a single intake and a median eating interval of 0.17 minutes. It was also observed that residents failed to eat properly an average of 5 times during mealtime. The study emphasized the importance of implementing a patient-centered mealtime assistance program.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jeongha Sim, Chanam Shin
Summary: This study tested the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of two stroke education programs and found that both programs showed similar and significant improvements in stroke knowledge and first action knowledge.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yu Peng, Yang Liu, Zhongxian Guo, Yuhan Zhang, Liyan Sha, Xiaorun Wang, Yang He
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of doll therapy on behavior, psychology, and cognition among older nursing home residents with dementia. The findings revealed that doll therapy significantly improved behavioral and psychological disturbances, but did not show a significant difference in cognition. The use of empathy dolls and coordination with caregivers was found to be the most effective approach.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yaolin Pei, Xiang Qi, Zheng Zhu, Wei Zhang, Ruey-Ming Tsay, Bei Wu
Summary: This study aimed to compare the associations between education, social media use, and advance care planning discussion among Chinese older adults. The findings showed positive associations between education and ACP discussion in Taiwan and Honolulu, as well as positive associations between social media use and ACP discussion in Wuhan and Honolulu. Social media use attenuated the association between education and ACP discussion in Honolulu.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Fanny Buckinx, Marvin Rezoulat, Esar Lefranc, Jean-Yves Reginster, Olivier Bruyere
Summary: This study demonstrates that remote physical performance measurements of older adults exhibit consistently high levels of relative reliability compared to face-to-face measurements. Additionally, certain remote evaluations show acceptable absolute reliability.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Junjin Liu, Xuebing Li, Weihua Yu, Bei Liu, Wuhan Yu, Wenbo Zhang, Cheng Hu, Zhangjin Qin, Yu Chen, Yang Lu
Summary: This study evaluated the usefulness of the ADEPT score as a prognostic tool for estimating the 2-year survival rate of persons with advanced dementia in Chongqing, China. The results showed that the optimal threshold of the ADEPT score was 11.2, and it had a certain level of accuracy. However, further studies are needed to explore the nature of this relationship.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Abeer Abd El-Rahman Mohamed, Samia ElHusseini Abd-ElMageed Elkholy, Rasha Salah Eweida, Reham Magdy Mohammed Abdelsalam
Summary: This study aimed to determine the effect of an intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model on climate change management practices among older adults. The results showed that the intervention significantly improved the scores of older adults in information, motivation, actual skills, and practices. However, the improvement declined significantly at the six-week mark, emphasizing the need for reinforcement to maintain positive outcomes in the long term.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Zhaoli Liu, Yong Shan, Yong-Fang Kuo, Sharon H. Giordano
Summary: This study examined racial/ethnic disparities in mammography screening practices among rural Medicare beneficiaries. The study found that rural Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks had lower rates of regular mammography use compared to their urban counterparts. Barriers to routine mammography screening included a lack of primary care provider, frequent hospitalization, and comorbidity.
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Sina Shari, Kimia Babaei Khorzoughi, Mahmoud Rahmati
Summary: This systematic review examines the relationship between cognition and volunteering in older adults, with a focus on domain-specific outcomes. The analysis of 17 studies suggests a potential positive correlation between volunteering and cognitive function among older adults, but further investigation is needed due to limitations and variations across studies.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yeji Hwang, Jayeong Kim
Summary: This study examines the impact of caregivers' psychological well-being on the anxiety and depression of care recipients with dementia. The results show that when caregivers have a negative relationship with care recipients, a lower perception of the positive aspects of caregiving, or anxiety, care recipients are more likely to experience anxiety. Additionally, when caregivers have a greater perception of the negative aspects of caregiving or anxiety, care recipients are more likely to experience depression.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yawei Shan, Haiying Lu, Xiaoyu Liu, Ru Chen, Jing Shang
Summary: This study aimed to identify subgroups of patients before total knee arthroplasty based on the heterogeneous patterns of self-regulation fatigue and analyze the predictors of these subtypes. The results revealed three latent classes: low, medium, and high self-regulation fatigue. Lower levels of hope, social support, self-efficacy, and education were identified as major predictors for the high self-regulation fatigue class. These predictors can help identify vulnerable populations and provide a foundation for targeted interventions.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Hulya Kulakci-Altintas, Sultan Ayaz-Alkaya
Summary: This study investigated fatalism tendency and health beliefs about medication use among older adults. The results showed that the way older adults used medications and the amount of medications used were associated with fatalism tendency and health beliefs about medication use.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
James D. Harrison, Megan Rathfon, Sasha Binford, Jennifer Miranda, Sandra Oreper, Brian Holt, Stephanie E. Rogers
Summary: This study developed a concise nurse-driven workflow aimed at reducing delirium rates and length of stay for hospitalized adults. The workflow included evidence-based interventions during the day and at night, and was evaluated using an interrupted time series study design. The results showed a reduction in delirium rates, but not in the length of stay.
