Sue Malta

Sexual behaviour during COVID-19: a repeated cross-sectional survey in Victoria, Australia

Jane L Goller, Helen Bittleston, Fabian Yuh Shiong Kong, Louise Bourchier, Henrietta Williams, Sue Malta, Alaina Vaisey, Andrew Lau, Jane S Hocking, Jacqueline Coombe

Journal article  |  2022  |  SEXUAL HEALTH

Background: During 2020, the State of Victoria (Australia) experienced two COVID-19 waves. Both resulted in community lockdowns fo..

Co-designing a dementia-specific education and training program for home care workers: The 'Promoting Independence Through quality dementia Care at Home' project

Anita MY Goh, Colleen Doyle, Ellen Gaffy, Frances Batchelor, Meg Polacsek, Steven Savvas, Sue Malta, David Ames, Margaret Winbolt, Anita Panayiotou, Samantha M Loi, Claudia Cooper, Gill Livingston, Lee-Fay Low, Anne Fairhall, Jason Burton, Briony Dow

Journal article  |  2022  |  DEMENTIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Undertaking co-design with the end users of services has rapidly evolved as the best-practice approach to program design, developm..

What constitutes 'good' home care for people with dementia? An investigation of the views of home care service recipients and providers

Anita MY Goh, Meg Polacsek, Sue Malta, Colleen Doyle, Brendan Hallam, Luke Gahan, Lee Fay Low, Claudia Cooper, Gill Livingston, Anita Panayiotou, Samantha M Loi, Maho Omori, Steven Savvas, Jason Burton, David Ames, Samuel C Scherer, Nadia Chau, Stefanie Roberts, Margaret Winbolt, Frances Batchelor, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMC GERIATRICS

BACKGROUND: Our objective was to explore what people receiving and providing care consider to be 'good' in-home care for people li..

Opposite-sex twins in medical research

L Calais-Ferreira, S Malta, JL Hopper

Book Chapter  |  2022

Studying sex or gender differences for any human trait or condition by comparing males and females from opposite-sex twin pairs is..

Promoting Independence Through quality dementia Care at Home (PITCH): a research protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised controlled trial

Steven Savvas, Anita MY Goh, Frances Batchelor, Colleen Doyle, Erica Wise, Esther Tan, Anita Panayiotou, Sue Malta, Margaret Winbolt, Phillip Clarke, Jason Burton, Lee-Fay Low, Samantha M Loi, Anne Fairhall, Meg Polacsek, Jay Stiles, Fenny Muliadi, Nadia Chau, Samuel Scherer, David Ames, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRIALS

BACKGROUND: Home care service providers are increasingly supporting clients living with dementia. Targeted and comprehensive demen..

Love during lockdown: findings from an online survey examining the impact of COVID-19 on the sexual health of people living in Australia

Jacqueline Coombe, Fabian Yuh Shiong Kong, Helen Bittleston, Henrietta Williams, Jane Tomnay, Alaina Vaisey, Sue Malta, Jane L Goller, Meredith Temple-Smith, Louise Bourchier, Andrew Lau, Eric PF Chow, Jane S Hocking

Journal article  |  2021  |  SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

INTRODUCTION: Australia recorded its first case of COVID-19 in late January 2020. On 22P March 2020, amid increasing daily case nu..

IMPACT OF COVID-19 HARD LOCKDOWN MEASURES ON SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA: FINDINGS FROM A NATIONAL ONLINE SURVEY

J Coombe, J Goller, H Bittleston, F Yuh Shiong Kong, H Williams, J Tomnay, A Vaisey, S Malta, M Temple-Smith, L Bourchier, A Lau, E Chow, J Hocking

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

Contraceptive use and pregnancy plans among women of reproductive age during the first Australian COVID-19 lockdown: findings from an online survey

Jacqueline Coombe, Fabian Kong, Helen Bittleston, Hennie Williams, Jane Tomnay, Alaina Vaisey, Sue Malta, Jane Goller, Meredith Temple-Smith, Louise Bourchier, Andrew Lau, Jane S Hocking

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CONTRACEPTION AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE

PURPOSE: Australia introduced 'lockdown' measures to control COVID-19 on 22 March 2020 which continued for a period of two months...

Do we need to worry about sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in older women in Australia? An investigation of STI trends between 2000 and 2018

Louise Bourchier, Sue Malta, Meredith Temple-Smith, Jane Hocking

Journal article  |  2020  |  SEXUAL HEALTH

UNLABELLED: Background This study examined trends in chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnosis, and chlamydia testing and posit..

Talking about sex with friends: perspectives of older adults from theSex, Age & Mestudy in Australia

Sharron Hinchliff, Bianca Fileborn, Beatrice Alba, Anthony Lyons, Victor Minichiello, Catherine Barrett, Graham Brown, Sue Malta, Briony Dow

Journal article  |  2020  |  CULTURE HEALTH & SEXUALITY

This qualitative study explored the barriers and facilitators to sexual communication between older adults and friends. Fifty-thre..