Joshua TriggFlinders University · Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute
Joshua Trigg
BPsychSci (Hons), PhD (Psychology)
Designing risk and behaviour research for better health and policy outcomes
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Introduction
Dr Joshua Trigg is a public health researcher with training and experience in psychological and population health research. His work focuses on behavioural health risk factors, risk attitudes and motivators of risk behaviours. He has researched tobacco and alcohol use attitudes and behaviours, as well as community perceptions of culturally focused tobacco cessation messaging. He has also examined motivators and inhibitors of emergency risk taking behaviour, and quality of life.
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October 2018 - present
Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin
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- Editor
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Publications (51)
Digital technologies promise to overcome some of the major challenges of cancer care today, including enabling continuity of care in a complex and high-risk setting, rapid information access and analysis, and facilitation of patient’s self-management. With digital technologies increasingly adopted across all aspects of cancer care, there is a need...
Work-related injuries and musculoskeletal disorders are a workplace problem within and across organisations, particularly in rail, where they tend to be treated as non-significant and localised health issues. While physical ergonomics and interface-design issues invariably contribute to the incidence of such injuries, contemporary socio-technical s...
Issue addressed
Digital health technologies can potentially reduce health disparities in cancer care. However, benefits of digital health technology depend partly on users’ digital health literacy, that is, ‘capabilities and resources required for individuals to use and benefit from digital health resources’, which combines health and digital liter...
Adequate nutrition and physical activity are integral to health across the life course, with adolescence a crucial time for establishing health behaviours. This report describes self-reported dietary and physical activity behaviours of South Australian adolescents aged 12–17 years (N = 1324) surveyed in 2017. Healthy lifestyle behaviour engagement...
Purpose
Australian cancer survivors have multiple wellbeing support needs, and Australians frequently keep pets, a practice associated with physical and mental health benefits. This mixed-methods study explores the influence of relationships of PERMA (positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment) wellbeing domains and pe...
Nicotine vaping products (NVPs) pose health risks associated with nicotine dependence and increased likelihood of tobacco consumption. Despite having a secondary role in smoking cessation, recreational NVP use is increasing among younger people. Vaping prevention campaigns aim to influence views on the health risks of vaping. This study examined pe...
The vaping industry has been found to employ similar tactics to tobacco industry actors to seek credibility and distort the scientific evidence base around the health harms of nicotine vaping products. As vaping industry interests undermine vaping control efforts, safeguards are necessary to protect against this influence. We aimed to examine healt...
Introduction
Tobacco endgame strategies aim to drive down population smoking rates, the success of which can be improved with public buy-in, including from populations with high smoking rates such as alcohol and other drug (AOD) service clients. This study aimed to explore acceptability of tobacco retail and nicotine reduction, and subsidised nicot...
Issues addressed:
Tobacco product availability is higher in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas, which can further widen tobacco-related health and disease burden inequities. This study aimed to describe retail availability of tobacco products in South Australia and examine the association between tobacco vendor location, population's socioecono...
The World Health Organisation recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months after childbirth. However, since breastfeeding is influenced by cultural practice, it differs between migrant mothers and nonmigrant mothers. This systematic review examined migrant mothers' perceptions and experiences impacting achievement of exclusive breastfe...
Background
Effective delivery of psycho-oncological support requires understanding of client perceptions of counselling service effectiveness, psychosocial outcomes, and meeting of client support needs and expectations.
Objective
This study aimed to describe perceptions of clients accessing psycho-oncological counselling for people directly or ind...
Introduction:
Tobacco smoking rates in high-income countries are greater in rural, regional, and remote (RRR) areas compared to cities. Yet, there is limited knowledge about interventions targeted to RRR smokers. This review describes the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for RRR smokers in supporting smoking abstinence.
Methods:...
This Evidence Check sought to find effective interventions for tobacco screening and cessation in CALD communities. It focused on Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic speakers, as they are the largest CALD populations in Australia and have high rates of smoking and low rates of screening adherence. A total of 68 studies dating from 2013 were included; ho...
Background
Smoking is disproportionately prevalent among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian peoples, with 39% of Indigenous Australians aged over 15 years smoking daily. Efforts to reduce the prevalence include culturally focused media campaigns, designed through community consultation, that highlight the need to determine how such he...
Tram driving is a safety critical task where work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) and injuries are associated with interacting occupational design factors over time. These interactions then carry implications for workforce retention, public safety, workplace relations and supports. To better understand such interactions, this study used...
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INTRODUCTION. Animals’ place in disaster planning was tested during Australia’s 2019-20 bushfire season, with the unprecedented loss of animal life emphasising connections between human and animal welfare. The National Planning Principles for Animals in Disasters are a publicly accessible tool des...
Multiple benefits of freight rail activity have been shown for commercial agribusiness, yet the effects of freight rail-related noise and vibration on domestic livestock health and welfare has so far received little research attention. This scoping review examines peer reviewed and grey literature addressing associations between freight rail noise,...
Background: Smoking is disproportionately prevalent among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian peoples, with 39% of Indigenous Australians aged over 15 years smoking daily. Efforts to reduce this high prevalence include culturally focused media campaigns, designed using community consultation, highlighting the need to determine how such...
Citizen science connects academic researchers with the public through combined efforts in scientific inquiry. The importance of involving impacted populations in health research is well established. However, how to achieve meaningful participation and the methodological impact of citizen science needs further examination. We examined the feasibilit...
Australia’s summer bushfires of 2019-20 were a reminder that animals are increasingly exposed to risks from changing climate conditions. In Australia, differing organisational approaches to managing owned animals in disasters can lead to different welfare and safety outcomes for animals and the people responsible for them. The need for consistency...
Background
In 2014 the Australian National Advisory Committee for Animals in Emergencies released the National Planning Principles for Animals in Disasters (NPPAD) which were subsequently endorsed by the Australia-New Zealand Emergency Management Committee. The NPPAD was designed as a non-prescriptive tool aimed at promoting best practice for inte...
Background
Age of alcohol initiation (AOI) is associated with alcohol consumption issues in later life,
such as increased quantity of drinking. Research suggests social marketing and educational
initiatives targeting alcohol norms may help increase AOI in adolescents. Population level
data describing AOI can inform the design of harm reduction init...
Gender, age and cancer type are important predictors of cancer information and support-seeking behaviours. For example, research has found that women more actively seek cancer information and utilise information services, such as cancer helplines. Males tend to gather information more passively and prefer to access anonymous online information and...
High Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking prevalence can be combated by culturally targeted anti-smoking social marketing to improve health outcomes. The ‘Give up Smokes for Good’ campaign promotes smoking harm awareness and quit attempts in metropolitan Adelaide via digital/physical media. Quit reasons, presented under the message ‘Think....
Considerable attention has been given by researchers to householders’ material, or physical, preparedness for impact of a severe natural hazard. Somewhat less attention has been paid to psychological preparedness for such an event. This paper first reviews conceptual formulations of psychological preparedness for disasters, and self-report measures...
Effective preparedness is often communicated as physical actions such as having a survival plan and an emergency kit or reinforcing, moving and clearing property. However, the physiological responses to an overwhelming threat can disrupt the best-laid preparations and plans. Psychological and emotional preparedness during the response phase of a di...
Australian train drivers undergo periodic health assessments as part of a nationally standardised approach to reducing sudden incapacitation risk, given the demonstrated potential for occupational and public harm. These assessments occur pre-placement, then every 5 years to age 50, then every 2 years to age 60, and then every year. Despite some rep...
The rail driver workplace is full of challenges for effective health management, posing a significant threat to the sustainability of the industry. In Australia, train drivers undergo periodic health assessment as part of a nationally standardised approach to reducing sudden incapacitation risk; however, studies suggest that the current assessment...
This study sought direct estimates of incidence, preventative costs, and reactive costs associated with the occurrence of low risk (‘typical’) Signal Passed at Danger (SPAD) events in Australasian rail. In a cross-sectional multiple-case design, a descriptive questionnaire was sent to eight operators, and completed by managerial personnel with resp...
Psychological preparedness – the ability to manage the body’s stress response during a disaster experience – can help people make better decisions in rapidly changing conditions. Without it, even the best physical plans and preparations can go awry. Despite its importance, there is little consensus on the best terms, formats and content for enhanci...
Pets factor into the daily decision making of many people. Importantly, various characteristics of these human-animal relationships are known to strongly influence pet owners’ risk behavior and, consequently, their animals’ welfare during disasters. Yet, few studies have examined a range of such characteristics concurrently in order to describe ris...
Purpose
The rail driver workplace is full of challenges for effective health management. This study investigated how known barriers in rail driving may be overcome by seeking enablers of positive health status and lifestyle.
Design/methodology/approach
Five focus groups were conducted with 29 rail drivers from four rail organisations across thre...
Human sleeping arrangements have evolved over time and differ across cultures. The majority of adults share their bed at one time or another with a partner or child, and many also sleep with pets. In fact, around half of dog and cat owners report sharing a bed or bedroom with their pet(s). However, interspecies co-sleeping has been trivialized in t...
Objective:
This study aimed to examine the impacts of key barriers to improving the occupational health status of Australian train drivers.
Methods:
From May to June, 2015, five semi-structured qualitative focus groups were conducted with 29 train drivers from South Australian, Victorian, and New South Wales-based rail organizations in Australia...
This review examines the perceptual and behavioural influences that pet-attachment has on the ways in which owners view risk, appraise threat, and respond to environmental hazards. Understanding how human-companion animal relationships function in this context has profound implications for the welfare of both people and their animals. Despite origi...
This article examines how human-animal connections influence risk perception and behaviour in companion animal guardians exposed to bushfire threat in Australia. Although the objective role of psychological bonds with companion animals is well accepted by researchers, subjective interpretations of these bonds by animal guardians are relatively unde...
Context:
Few studies have examined the prevalence of animal ownership among populations likely to be at greater risk from disaster events within a bushfire context.
Objective:
To investigate the proportion of vulnerable community members keeping animals and the types of animals kept, as well as perceived risk of harm to pets, and their inclusion...
This presentation targeted horse owners and those associated with equine emergency management. It considered topics relating to how people identify themselves with horses and other animals and as such, their willingness to consider their own safety in the event of an emergency or disaster.
The widespread tendency of modern-day pet owners to self-identify with their companion animals psychologically, symbolically and relationally demonstrates how the constructed identities of animal and owner are strongly linked. This becomes particularly apparent during natural disasters. In this review, the new concept of the pet-owning self is disc...
In this study we examined associations between pet ownership and presence and indicators of psychological wellbeing in older Australians, using an innovative, experience sampling methodology and a community-living sample of 68 adults, including 41 pet owners, all aged over 65 years. In response to randomized prompts the participants provided inform...
During disasters, companion animals are an identified risk for evacuation failure or premature return. Australian fire services encourage householders to develop a written bushfire action plan that includes pets and animals. The advice given to horse guardians is preemptive relocation at least the day before a forecast catastrophic fire day. The ai...
Background
Humanitarian migrants experience higher rates of mental illness than the resident population, limiting their social and economic opportunities and contributions. Effective interventions are thus critical to improve the settlement outcomes. Many therapists employ narrative and expressive therapies because of their holistic approach to bot...
The influence of human–animal relationships upon owners' perceptions and behaviours can lead to situations that place owners and animals at risk of harm. Pet ownership particularly is considered a risk factor for unsafe responses to natural hazards, though conversely, it can also be viewed as a protective factor that motivates disaster preparedness...
As pet ownership influences responses to the threat of bushfire, current preparedness communication acknowledges the pet-owner relationship as a key reason for including pets in emergency plans. However, not all pet-owner relationships are the same. Some people are physically and emotionally ‘closer’ to their pets than are others, a difference that...
Lightning strikes in January 2014 caused a number of significant bushfire events in South Australia that continued into February. Fires in and around Eden Valley, Bangor and Rockleigh provided an opportunity to conduct research into the bushfire risk perceptions, decision‐making processes and behaviour of residents across three very different fire...
An untapped resource: Using archetypes of the human-animal bond to increase the disaster resilience of animal owners and responders
Increased vulnerability to natural disasters has been associated with particular groups in the community. This includes:
1. Indigenous Australians living in remote communities
2. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities
3. Children and youth
4. Older people
5. People with disabilities
6. People experiencing homelessness
7. People with men...
Questions
Questions (3)
I've got a bunch of Twitter data to code, and want to know what researchers feel are the most effective qualitative data analysis apps/programs. The data are in xlsx format.
NVivo looks not so great, and looks to work better if using NCapture from the outset.
Any other good alternatives out there?
Many thanks,
Josh
I'm looking for a guide to policy analysis, and can find a few, but wanted to know what the hive mind feels is a good entry/guide to the topic.
Hi all,
I'm currently canvassing the literature for widely used theory-based models of Quality of Life, and was wondering which ones the community generally feels have the best practical utility and empiricial evidence base. I have also been looking at domain-based frameworks such as the PERMA+ model, but would like to cast a wider net. Global, health specific, population specific--I'm Interested in them all :)
Cheers everyone!
