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Indigenous health Research 3 February 2025 Open Access

Researchers’ self‐reported adherence to ethical principles in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research and views on improving conduct: a mixed methods study

Structural and individual change is required to accommodate community priority setting, governance, consultation, leadership and translation in ethical research

Kade Booth · Jamie Bryant · Felicity Collis (Gomeroi) · Catherine Chamberlain (Palawa) · Jaquelyne Hughes (Wagadagam) · Breanne Hobden · Kalinda E Griffiths (Yawuru) · Mark Wenitong (Kabi Kabi) · Peter O'Mara (Wiradjuri) · Alex Brown (Yuin) · Sandra J Eades (Noongar) · Kelvin M Kong (Worimi) · Raymond W Lovett (Wongaibon Ngiyampaa) · Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri)

Indigenous health Research 3 February 2025 Open Access

Reported processes and practices of researchers applying for human research ethics approval for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research: a mixed methods study

We join calls for the establishment and appropriate resourcing of state-based AHRECs in every jurisdiction

Jamie Bryant · Kade Booth · Felicity Collis (Gomeroi) · Catherine Chamberlain (Palawa) · Jaquelyne Hughes (Wagadagam) · Breanne Hobden · Kalinda E Griffiths (Yawuru) · Mark Wenitong (Kabi Kabi) · Peter O'Mara (Wiradjuri) · Alex Brown (Yuin) · Sandra J Eades (Noongar) · Kelvin M Kong (Worimi) · Raymond W Lovett (Wongaibon Ngiyampaa) · Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri)

Indigenous health Research 3 February 2025 Open Access

Human research ethics committee processes and practices for approving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research: a mixed methods study

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and AHRECs carry an important role in the review of health research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri) · Kade Booth · Jamie Bryant · Felicity Collis (Gomeroi) · Catherine Chamberlain (Palawa) · Jaquelyne Hughes (Wagadagam) · Romany McGuffog · Breanne Hobden · Kalinda E Griffiths (Yawuru) · Mark Wenitong (Kabi Kabi) · Peter O'Mara (Wiradjuri) · Alex Brown (Yuin) · Sandra J Eades (Noongar) · Kelvin M Kong (Worimi) · Raymond W Lovett (Wongaibon Ngiyampaa)

Indigenous health Research 3 February 2025 Open Access

How well are researchers applying ethical principles and practices in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research? A cross‐sectional study

Urgent attention is needed to develop and implement routine evaluations of research practices in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research

Michelle Kennedy (Wiradjuri) · Kade Booth · Jamie Bryant · Felicity Collis (Gomeroi) · Catherine Chamberlain (Palawa) · Jaquelyne Hughes (Wagadagam) · Breanne Hobden · Kalinda E Griffiths (Yawuru) · Mark Wenitong (Kabi Kabi) · Peter O'Mara (Wiradjuri) · Alex Brown (Yuin) · Sandra J Eades (Noongar) · Kelvin M Kong (Worimi) · Raymond W Lovett (Wongaibon Ngiyampaa)

Indigenous health Perspective 25 November 2024 Open Access

Decolonisation, Indigenous health research and Indigenous authorship: sharing our teams’ principles and practices

Two Australian-based Aboriginal-led research teams that facilitate reclamation, reconstitution and restoration of Indigenous Knowledges illustrate nine principles of Indigenous epistemology justice as it relates to Indigenous authorship

Pat Dudgeon (Bardi) · Helen Milroy (Palyku) · Belle Selkirk (Noongar) · Ashleigh Wright (Nunga) · Kahli Regan (Wongi and Noongar) · Shraddha Kashyap · Rama Agung‐Igusti · Joanna Alexi · Abigail Bray · Joan Chan · Ee Pin Chang · Sze Wing Georgiana Cheuk · Jemma Collova · Kate Derry · Chontel Gibson (Gamilaraay)

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Notification of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in hospitalised people in the Midwest region of Western Australia, 2012–2022: retrospective administrative data analysis

Clinician awareness of notification requirements and automated technology that facilitates ARF/RHD notifications are needed

Ingrid Stacey · Yolande Knight · Claire MX Ong · Amy Lee · Suresh Karuppannan · Allison Christou · Judith M Katzenellenbogen

General medicine Perspective 7 October 2024 Open Access

Australia's Remote Vocational Training Scheme: training and supporting general practitioners in rural, remote and First Nations communities

The RVTS grows and sustains doctors already working in rural, remote and First Nations communities for three to four years while they progress towards general practice and rural generalist fellowship

Patrick Giddings · Belinda G O'Sullivan · Matthew R McGrail · Marlene Drysdale · Tony T Trevaskis · Jacki Mein

Infectious diseases Research 30 September 2024 Open Access

Lessons learnt from the first two SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron waves of the COVID‐19 pandemic in six remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective epidemiological review

Co-designed, collaborative partnerships between local councils, community-controlled health services, state health services and public health units likely had a positive impact on the management and outcomes of COVID-19 in Indigenous communities

Allison Hempenstall · Barbara Telfer · Sean Cowley · Shalomie Shadrach · Caroline Taunton · Jay Short · Nicolas Smoll · Roy Rasalam · Oscar Whitehead · Peter Roach · Karen Koko · Josh Stafford · Rittia Matysek · Renarta Whitcombe · Gulam Khandaker · Jason King · Nishila Moodley · Maree Finney · Rica Lacey · Steven Donohue · Richard Gair · Katie Panaretto

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Mental health Research 2 September 2024 Open Access

Sensitivity and specificity of Aboriginal‐developed items to supplement the adapted PHQ‐9 screening measure for depression: results from the Getting it Right study

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-developed depressive symptom screening scale that we studied is reliable and valid, and it performs well across multiple Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary care settings

Timothy Skinner · Alex Brown · Armando Teixeira‐Pinto · Sara F Farnbach · Nicholas Glozier · Deborah A Askew · Graham Gee · Alan Cass · Maree L Hackett

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