New Research Projects

1

Spiritual Care Practice: trialing a staff training program in rehabilitation

In collaboration with Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research and funded by Community of Christ

2

The nature of readmissions to acute care from inpatient rehabilitation: a retrospective cohort study

In collaboration with the University of Sydney

3

Deteriorating patients in rehabilitation – a Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) student project

In collaboration with the University of Sydney

4

Interviews with healthcare professionals and people with spinal cord injuries to guide the development and rollout of physiotherapy clinical practice guidelines

In collaboration with the University of Sydney and funded by iCare

5

On the spot use of goals to support the biographical work of rehabilitation

In collaboration with the University of Sydney and funded by the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses’ Association

6

Utilisation of the Brannagan Executive Functions Assessment in increasing self awareness in relation to goal of return to work in individuals post traumatic brain injury – a Master of Clinical Rehabilitation: Neurological Occupational Therapy student project

In collaboration with Flinders University

7

Exploring Food and Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours of Spinal Patients in Specialist Rehabilitation – a PhD student project (2nd out of 4 projects)

In collaboration with the University of Wollongong

8

Association between diet quality, lipid profile and body weight in patients with spinal cord injury – a PhD student project (3rd out of 4 projects)

In collaboration with the University of Wollongong.

9

Improving diagnosis of verbosity following traumatic brain injury: A descriptive study

In collaboration with Macquarie University

10

The significance of resilience on the longerterm wellbeing of family caregivers, service utilisation and client community participation: 3-year follow-up

An iCare funded project led by Grahame Simpson (Ingham Institute); data analysis underway.