Susie Fletcher

Deprescribing intervention activities mapped to guiding principles for use in general practice: a scoping review.

Amy Coe, Catherine Kaylor-Hughes, Susan Fletcher, Elizabeth Murray, Jane Gunn

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ Open

OBJECTIVE: To identify and characterise activities for deprescribing used in general practice and to map the identified activities..

FACT effectiveness in primary care; a single visit RCT for depressive symptoms.

B Arroll, H Frischtak, R Roskvist, V Mount, F Sundram, S Fletcher, DW Kingsford, L Buttrick, J Bricker, B van der Werf

Journal article  |  2021  |  Int J Psychiatry Med

BACKGROUND: Patients with depressive symptoms are common in primary care. Brief, simple therapies are needed. AIM: Is a focussed a..

Moving from "let's fix them" to "actually listen": the development of a primary care intervention for mental-physical multimorbidity

Kylie J McKenzie, Susan L Fletcher, David Pierce, Jane M Gunn

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: Effective person-centred interventions are needed to support people living with mental-physical multimorbidity to achi..

Matching depression management to severity prognosis in primary care: results of the Target-D randomised controlled trial

Susan Fletcher, Patty Chondros, Konstancja Densley, Elizabeth Murray, Christopher Dowrick, Amy Coe, Kelsey Hegarty, Sandra Davidson, Caroline Wachtler, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Yong Yi Lee, Mary Lou Chatterton, Victoria J Palmer, Jane Gunn

Journal article  |  2021  |  BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE

BACKGROUND: Mental health treatment rates are increasing, but the burden of disease has not reduced. Tools to support efficient re..

A Web-Based Mental Health Intervention to Improve Social and Occupational Functioning in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes (The Springboard Trial): 12-Month Outcomes of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Peter Andrew Baldwin, Samineh Sanatkar, Janine Clarke, Susan Fletcher, Jane Gunn, Kay Wilhelm, Lesley Campbell, Nicholas Zwar, Mark Harris, Helen Lapsley, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic, Helen Christensen, Judy Proudfoot

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) often experience mental health symptoms that exacerbate illness and increa..

The Role of the General Practitioner in Managing Age-Related Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review

Rebecca J Bennett, Nicole Conway, Susan Fletcher, Caitlin Barr

Journal article  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY

Purpose The purpose of this review was to examine the research activity relating to the role of the general practitioner (GP) in m..

The role of the general practitioner in managing age-related hearing loss: perspectives of general practitioners, patients and practice staff

Rebecca J Bennett, Susan Fletcher, Nicole Conway, Caitlin Barr

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC FAMILY PRACTICE

BACKGROUND: For people with hearing loss, the General Practitioner (GP) can play an instrumental role in early detection of hearin..

Antidepressant treatment for primary care patients with depressive symptoms: Data from the diamond longitudinal cohort study

Sandra K Davidson, Helena Romaniuk, Patty Chondros, Christopher Dowrick, Jane Pirkis, Helen Herrman, Susan Fletcher, Jane Gunn

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

BACKGROUND: In light of emerging evidence questioning the safety of antidepressants, it is timely to investigate the appropriatene..

A Mobile Phone App to Improve the Mental Health of Taxi Drivers: Single-Arm Feasibility Trial

Sandra Davidson, Susan Fletcher, Greg Wadley, Nicola Reavley, Jane Gunn, Darryl Wade

Journal article  |  2020  |  JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Background: Psychological distress among taxi drivers is 5 times higher than that in the general population, and more than half of..

Primary Health Network mental health reform lead site project. Link-me: First report

Susan Fletcher, Mathew Spittal, Victoria Palmer, Mary Lou Chatterton, Panagiota Chondros, Bridget Bassilios, Meredith Harris, Philip BURGESS, Cathrine Mihalopolous, Jane Pirkis, Jane Gunn

Report  |  2019