Allied Health is one of the Cross-cutting Platforms at Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research.
The South West Sydney Allied Health Research Collaboration leads research to extend the evidence base for high-quality allied healthcare for the community of South Western Sydney. By extension, it’s contributing to improved health interventions across the globe.
We aim to guide allied health clinicians in their research endeavours and in their use of research in clinical decision-making.
The South West Sydney Allied Health Research Collaboration publishes high quality research across the whole lifespan. Our research publications as a whole have an average field-weighted citation index of 1.38.
This means that they’re cited 38% more than similar papers in the field and they’re viewed 67% more than similar papers in their field. Our researchers have extensive national and international collaborations.
Professor Sarah Dennis
Associate Professor Elise Baker
The South West Sydney Allied Health Research Collaboration supports a growing network of clinician researchers who are embedded in the local health district and lead the translation of research findings into clinical practice to benefit the community of South Western Sydney.
The project looks at stuttering and its impact on wellbeing in children and their caregivers.
The mental health and wellbeing of children who stutter and their caregivers will be evaluated pre-treatment, mid-treatment and post-treatment to evaluate changes in response to stuttering treatment. We will determine the impact that stuttering has on mental wellbeing from the outset, as well as the factors that determine an optimal and faster treatment response.
The investigators on this project include:
SWS Allied Health Research Collaboration is a key member of the Injury and Rehabilitation Stream with the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Unit and the Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre.
In 2022, Dr Bernadette Brady launched a large cluster randomised control trial called Natural Helper. This district-wide project matches Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) patients attending for chronic disease management with a trained volunteer peer mentor who has experience with a chronic condition and identifies with a similar CALD community.
Implementing a peer mentor model of care was feasible and acceptable to CALD patients.
Culture-specific mentors appeared to empower patients to adopt the self-management behaviours considered important for effective pain management.
The findings of improved patient activation, satisfaction and attendance may have implications for other chronic disease settings where active self-management is critical.
Funded by grants from NSW Health and MRFF
Improving bone health through use of the Codesigned OsteoPorosis Toolkit for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
Maridulu Budyari Gumal (Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise — SPHERE).
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