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This paper discusses various areas for increased involvement by Indigenous men in future FASD research, prevention, care and support.
- Date:
- September 2023
- Journal name:
- Drug and Alcohol Review
- Authors:
- Michael F. Doyle, Jimmy Perry, Carol Bower, Katherine M. Conigrave, Sharynne Hamilton
This policy document provides a comprehensive overview of the significant and varied harms associated with alcohol, while making recommendations for addressing these harms. It highlights that a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to reducing alcohol-related harm is required.
- Date:
- February 2016
- Authors:
- The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Underpinned by an Indigenist research methodology, this article presents findings from a collaboration of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to develop an Australian Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Indigenous Framework during 2021 to 2023. The FASD Indigenous Framework unfolds the changes that non-Aboriginal clinicians and Aboriginal peoples each need to make in their respective ways of knowing, being and doing in order to facilitate access to healing-informed, strengths-based and culturally responsive FASD knowledge, assessment, diagnosis and support services among Aboriginal peoples. These knowledges were mapped against Aboriginal cultural responsiveness and wellbeing frameworks and collaboratively and iteratively reflected upon throughout. This article brings together Aboriginal wisdom (strengths-based, healing-informed approaches grounded in holistic and integrated support) and Western wisdom (biomedicine and therapeutic models) in relation to FASD.
- Date:
- March 2023
- Journal name:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Authors:
- Nicole Hewlett, Lorian Hayes, Robyn Williams, Sharynne Hamilton, Lorelle Holland, Alana Gall, Michael Doyle, Sarah Goldsbury, Nirosha Boaden, Natasha Reid.
This book chapter gives an overview of the past two decades of Australian FASD research, from fiction to fact to challenges of the future.
- Date:
- September 2022
- Book name:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Chapter title:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia: From Fiction to Fact and to the Future
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Elliott, Carol Bower
This study evaluated the use of the Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively (MECC) to guide the Jandu Yani U (For All Families) project, in which the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program was collaboratively adapted for use in very remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.
- Date:
- October 2022
- Journal name:
- International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studie
- Authors:
- Cari Dawn McIlduff, Karen Turner, Jadnah Davies, Emily Carter, Sue Thomas, Ellaina Andersson, Marmingee Hand, Stewart Einfeld, Elizabeth Elliott.
As part of the Yapatjarrathati project, 47 remote health providers and community members attended a two-day workshop presenting a prototype of a culturally-safe, tiered neurodevelopmental assessment that can identify FASD in primary healthcare. Narrative analysis of the workshop transcript highlighted a collective sense of compassion for those who use alcohol to cope with intergenerational trauma, but exhaustion at the cyclical nature of FASD. There was a strong desire for a shared responsibility for First Nations children and families and a more prominent role for Aboriginal Health Workers in the assessment process. This study emphasised the benefit of continued co-design to ensure health implementation strategies match the needs of the community.
- Date:
- September 2022
- Journal name:
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Authors:
- Luke Miller, Dianne C Shanley, Marjad Page, Heidi Webster, Wei Liu, Natasha Reid, Doug Shelton, Karen West, Joan Marshall, Erinn Hawkins.
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), including cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, are characterised by impaired development of the early central nervous system, impacting cognitive and/or physical function. Early detection of NDD enables infants to be fast-tracked to early intervention services, optimising outcomes. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants may experience early life factors increasing their risk of neurodevelopmental vulnerability, which persist into later childhood, further compounding the health inequities experienced by First Nations peoples in Australia. The LEAP-CP prospective cohort study will investigate the efficacy of early screening programmes, implemented in Queensland, Australia to earlier identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants who are 'at risk' of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes (NDO) or NDD.
- Date:
- January 2022
- Journal name:
- BMJ Open
- Authors:
- Carly R Luke, Katherine Benfer, Leeann Mick-Ramsamy, Robert S Ware, Natasha Reid, Arend F Bos, Margot Bosanquet, Roslyn N Boyd.
This study aims to integrate cultural considerations and developmental screening into a First Nations child health check. The ‘Share and Care Check,’ an optimised child health check, was co-designed with a remote Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and led by Aboriginal Health Practitioners/Workers. Data obtained from questions regarding cultural and developmental aspects of health can assist health providers regarding the best pathway of support for a child and their family. This could ultimately contribute to closing the gap through the provision of holistic culturally appropriate services. This paper was published in 2022.
- Date:
- March 2022
- Journal name:
- Australian Journal of Primary Health
- Authors:
- Natasha Reid, Marjad Page, Theresa McDonald, Erinn Hawkins , Wei Liu, Heidi Webster, Codi White, Doug Shelton, Mary Katsikitis , Andrew Wood, Bronwyn Draper, Karen Moritz and Dianne C. Shanley.
This research investigated the communication skills of adolescents in youth detention in Western Australia, a context in which FASD is highly prevalent and Aboriginal young peoples are over-represented.
- Date:
- April 2021
- Authors:
- Kippin, Natalie Ruth
Prevention approaches specific to prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have been identified as urgently needed in Australia, including in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. However, very little work has aimed to describe and evaluate health promotion initiatives, especially those developed in rural and remote areas. The results of the work in Alice Springs was published in 2021.
- Date:
- October 2021
- Journal name:
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- Authors:
- Donna Lemon, Justine Swan-Castine, Elizabeth Connor, Fleur van Dooren, Jenna Pauli, John Boffa, James Fitzpatrick, Rebecca Anne Pedruzzi