David Thomas

Research translation to improve carer smoking cessation support in a paediatric ward of a regional hospital in the Northern Territory

Sukoluhle Moyo, Marita Hefler, Kristin V Carson-Chahhoud, David Thomas

Journal article  |  2023  |  HEALTH PROMOTION JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Health professionals have described barriers to providing carer smoking cessation support in children's wards. Th..

Understanding the Psychological Well-Being of International Arrivals in a Purpose-Designed Australian COVID-19 Quarantine Facility.

David Mitchell, Danielle Esler, Kylie Ann Straube, David P Thomas, Dianne Stephens, Daniel Bressington

Journal article  |  2022  |  Int J Environ Res Public Health

Equivocal evidence suggests that mandatory supervised quarantine can negatively affect psychological well-being in some settings. ..

A qualitative exploration of the provision and prioritisation of smoking cessation support to patient carers in a paediatric ward in Australia

Sukoluhle Moyo, Marita Hefler, Kristin V Carson-Chahhoud, David P Thomas

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC NURSING

BACKGROUND: Hospitalisation of a child is a unique opportunity for health staff to offer smoking cessation support; that is screen..

Questioning the ethics of evidence-based practice for Indigenous health and social settings in Australia

Joanne Luke, Ebony Verbunt, Angela Zhang, Muriel Bamblett, Gabrielle Johnson, Connie Salamone, David Thomas, Sandra Eades, Lina Gubhaju, Margaret Kelaher, Amanda Jones

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH

Australian government planning promotes evidence-based action as the overarching goal to achieving health equality for Aboriginal ..

Closing the gaps in tobacco endgame evidence: a scoping review

Cheneal Puljevic, Kylie Morphett, Marita Hefler, Richard Edwards, Natalie Walker, David P Thomas, Md Arifuzzaman Khan, Andrew Perusco, Michael Le Grande, Katherine Cullerton, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Georgia Carstensen, David Sellars, Janet Hoek, Ron Borland, Billie Bonevski, Tony Blakely, Claire Brolan, Coral E Gartner

Journal article  |  2022  |  TOBACCO CONTROL

OBJECTIVE: Tobacco endgame policies aim to rapidly and permanently reduce smoking to minimal levels. We reviewed evidence synthese..

Impact of three annual tobacco tax rises on tobacco sales in remote Australian Aboriginal community stores

David P Thomas, Emma McMahon, Zhiqiang Wang, Michelle M Scollo, Sarah J Durkin

Journal article  |  2021  |  TOBACCO CONTROL

BACKGROUND: There is strong evidence from many settings that tobacco tax rises which increase prices reduce tobacco consumption, b..

Role of organisational factors on uptake and implementation of the B.strong brief intervention training program in Queensland Indigenous primary health care services

Saji Sebastian, David P Thomas, Julie Brimblecombe, Brian Arley, Frances C Cunningham

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEALTH PROMOTION JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

ISSUE ADDRESSED: The B.strong Program was an Indigenous health worker brief intervention (BI) training program delivered in Queens..

Collaborative Social-Epidemiology: A Co-analysis of the Cultural and Structural Determinants of Health for Aboriginal Youth in Victorian Schools

Joanne Nicole Luke, Alister Thorpe, Carlina Black, Lisa Thorpe, David Thomas, Sandra Eades, Kevin Rowley

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Social-epidemiology that excludes Aboriginal voices often fails to capture the full and complex social worlds of Aboriginal people..

Predictors and reasons for quitting smoking in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

David P Thomas, Kathryn S Panaretto

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEALTH PROMOTION JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

ISSUE ADDRESSED: National smoking prevalence is decreasing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In remote areas, Ab..

Perceived impact of the characteristics of the Indigenous Queensland B.strong brief intervention training program on uptake and implementation

Saji Sebastian, David P Thomas, Julie Brimblecombe, Brian Arley, Frances C Cunningham

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEALTH PROMOTION JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

ISSUE ADDRESSED: Brief interventions (BIs) in primary health care (PHC) settings can be effective in addressing behavioural risk f..