Anthony Leo Walsh

University of the Sunshine Coast | USC · School of Health and Behavioural Sciences

Introduction Increasing the use of active commuting (walking or cycling to work; AC) is associated with positive health outcomes and has been shown to be a feasible strategy for increasing physical activity. However, intervention studies for increasing AC have been criticised for lacking rigour and poor use of theory. This study was an impact evalu...

Background: Active commuting (AC) has health, financial and environmental benefits. Workplace interventions to increase AC are rare, with very few being theory-based, or using social support as a strategy. This research evaluated the impact of a workplace intervention based on social cognitive theory (SCT), to increase physical activity (PA) during...

The impact evaluation of a workplace-based behavioural and social intervention to increase active commuting

This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as...

Parents play an essential role in the development of children's sexuality, yet often feel uncomfortable and anxious about how best to communicate with their children about sexual matters. This study had three main aims: (1) to examine parental views and confidence in relation to communicating with their child about sexuality; (2) to explore predict...

Focus groups show that young men do not have available to them the same resources to learn about healthy sexual development as do young women. A collaborative project led by a leading provider of sexuality education aimed to reach young men with information about healthy sexual development by using a genre that focus groups showed they favoured - v...

The evaluation of an earlier 10,000 Steps community-based intervention program indicated that men were less likely than women to have used a pedometer or increased their physical activity (PA). This study aimed to explore men's reactions to the 10,000 Steps a Day message, the use of pedometers, and other strategies for increasing PA. Five focus gro...

This article explores the issue of duty of care to students, in the context of a media controversy about a high school essay task.

Purpose – The present study sought to obtain a better understanding of the determinants that influence the adherence to individual walking groups. Design/methodology/approach – The study took place as part of the “Just Walk It” (JWI) programme of the Australian National Heart Foundation. The research model incorporated social environmental, physic...

Inappropriate masturbation frequently presents as a challenging behaviour in people who have intellectual disabilities. Responding to this behaviour requires an approach that considers the individual's reasons for the behaviour, and meets their individual needs. This paper describes a framework for responding to inappropriate masturbation based on...

This paper presents a discourse analysis of fathers' accounts of their communication about sexuality with their young sons. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight Australian men who have six-year-old sons. Participants were asked to describe their experiences of and feelings about how they learned about sexuality and how they teach their son...