Jannine Bailey

Western Sydney University · Bathurst Rural Clinical School

Introduction: The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented social and economic disruption, accompanied by the enactment of a multitude of public health measures to restrain disease transmission. These public health and social measures have had a considerable impact on lifestyle and mental wellbeing, which has been well studied with...

Background: The global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 placed immediate pressure on health services. Undergraduate medical education was consequently impacted with decreased availability of health professionals for teaching and supervising hospital placements. At a time when more Doctors were needed, universities across the globe were required t...

Introduction Current research demonstrates higher prevalence of mental health related emergency department (ED) presentations in rural areas, despite similar overall prevalence of these conditions in rural and metropolitan contexts. This stems from shortages in availability of specialised mental health professionals, greater stigma against mental i...

Objective Growing a strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce is key to closing the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This study sought to explore barriers and enablers to career development for Aboriginal health staff and potential strategies to enhance career pathways. Design Qualitativ...

Background: Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of death. The mainstay method for diagnosing arrhythmias (eg, atrial fibrillation) and cardiac conduction disorders (eg, prolonged corrected QT interval [QTc]) is by using 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG). Handheld 12-lead ECG devices are emerging in the market. In tandem with emerging technolog...

Background Clinical practice is increasingly being digitalised. Little is known about how medical students learn and were exposed to telehealth during COVID-19. This is particularly important if we wish to further improve healthcare access and equity in rural areas and vulnerable populations. This formative study sought to explore the exposure and...

Human papillomavirus self-sampling is part of the revised Australian National Cervical Screening Program for eligible under- or never-screened women. Although research demonstrates self-sampling as an acceptable method from the perspective of women, little is known about GP experiences and perspectives of this new screening alternative. This study...

Background Rates of skin cancer in Australia are amongst the highest in the world, with Western New South Wales (NSW) exhibiting very high prevalence. There is a large proportion of outdoor workers, including farmers, in Western NSW who have high levels of sun exposure and hence are at greater risk of developing skin cancer. Aims To characterise t...

While preparation for professional practice is conceived as placeless, it is enacted in place. Consequently, many professionals find themselves working in conditions significantly different than those they were educated in and for. This is especially relevant for new professionals arriving in rural settings after preparation in urban programs, wher...

Objective Western Sydney University has implemented a rural interprofessional learning programme to promote collaborative care approaches to enhance cross‐discipline communications, improve knowledge and clarity of roles and improve patient care and outcomes. Design Rural interprofessinal learning is an interprofessional educational approach, cons...

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrhythmias are a leading cause of death. Twelve-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the mainstay for diagnosing arrhythmias e.g. atrial fibrillation (AF) and cardiac conduction disorders e.g. long QTc (LQTc). Handheld 12-lead ECG devices are emerging in the market. With emerging technology options to acquire an ECG in various clinic...

Background In Australia, there are approximately 165,000 healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) per year. Improving patient knowledge on HAIs and actively involving them in infection prevention is essential. This study assessed patient knowledge on types of and risk factors for HAIs and their perceptions of HAI information provision and hospital i...

Background: There is some anecdotal evidence that anxiety about the responsibility of an intern influences rural future intentions. Additionally, research has shown that urban interns have reported that they are worried about being 'forced' to work in non-metropolitan hospitals in their first year after graduation. This study sought to explore rur...

Background: Aboriginal women experience disproportionately higher rates of cervical cancer mortality yet are less likely to participate in screening for early detection. This study sought to determine whether a community-based HPV self-sampling service model can effectively recruit never-screened and under-screened Aboriginal women to participate...

Expanding and strengthening the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health professional workforce is recognised as crucial for improving the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The Career Pathways Project is an Aboriginal-led research project funded by the Lowitja Institute. Its purpose is to provide insight...

Background Aboriginal women experience disproportionately higher rates of cervical cancer mortality yet are less likely to participate in screening for early detection. This study sought to determine whether a community-based HPV self-sampling service model can effectively recruit never-screened and under-screened Aboriginal women to participate in...

Background: Aboriginal women experience disproportionately higher rates of cervical cancer mortality yet are less likely to participate in screening for early detection. This study sought to determine whether a community-based HPV self-sampling service model can effectively recruit never-screened and under-screened Aboriginal women to participate i...

Background Medication charting errors occur often and can be harmful for patients. Interventions to improve charting errors have demonstrated some success particularly if the intervention uses multiple approaches including an education component. The aim of this pilot study was to determine whether a multi-faceted intervention, including education...

INTRODUCTION: Advance care planning (ACP) and advance care directives (ACDs) play a vital role in preparing for end-of-life care. However, current literature suggests that uptake of ACP and ACDs in rural Australia is low, which may contribute to lower quality care for the older rural population, as patients' end-of-life wishes may not be recognised...

Purpose: Young adult males (YAMs) are understudied with respect to lifestyle interventions to address overweight and obesity in this group. This study reports on the participatory design of the structure and delivery of the Fit4YAMs text message-based lifestyle intervention for 18- to 25-year-old rural YAMs in Australia. Methods: Two semi-struct...

Background After hours general practice clinics provide medical attention for clients with non-emergency situations but are seeking immediate treatment and unable to wait for a general practitioner during routine opening hours. Evidence on the impact that after hours clinics have on emergency department presentations is equivocal. This study explor...

Objective: There is some evidence to suggest that safety on small area farms may not be high priority due to economic constraints and lack of knowledge. This has important ramifications for injury and economic burden. The objective of this research was to conduct a pilot study to investigate whether small to medium area farms implement fewer safet...

Objective: To assess if language used by Australian print media has changed in accordance with the 2011 Diabetes Australia position statement: a new language for diabetes. Methods: Five prominent Australian newspapers were reviewed to retrieve articles from 2010 and 2014 that focused on diabetes or discussed diabetes in detail. Individual terms...

Introduction: One parameter of the operational framework of the Australian Rural Clinical Training&Support Program (RCTS) is rural health research, yet there are no published reports of the research outcomes generated by these hallmarks of Australian rural medical education. To assess the contribution of RCTS to rural health research, their MEDLINE...

Introduction: The Rural Clinical Training and Support (RCTS) program is an Australian Government initiative to address the shortage of medical practitioners within rural and remote Australia. There is a large amount of published information about the RCTS program and rural medical student cohorts who have undertaken short- and long-term rotations....

To assess Australian health and medical research (HMR) investment returns by measuring the trends in HMR expenditure and PubMed publications by Australian authors. Bibliometric analysis collating Australian HMR expenditure reported by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australian HMR publications indexed in PubMed. Similar methods w...

The context of antibiotic resistance genes can provide valuable information about the epidemiology of mobile genetic elements. This study examined the distribution of the closely related blaTEM transposons Tn1, Tn2 and Tn3, or blaTEM-containing fragments of them, in ampicillin-resistant human commensal Escherichia coli isolates. A PCR mapping proto...

This study examined in detail the population structure of Escherichia coli from healthy adults with respect to the prevalence of antibiotic resistance and specific resistance determinants. E. coli isolated from the faeces of 20 healthy adults not recently exposed to antibiotics was tested for resistance to ten antibiotics and for carriage of integr...

Most Escherichia coli infections other than gastrointestinal infections are believed to originate from human fecal flora, and the term “extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli” (ExPEC) was introduced to describe these E. coli strains (13). However, there is an enormous diversity of strains within the species E. coli, making it difficult to clea...