School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies
The School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies research institutes and centres play an important role in specialist teaching and research conducted by academic staff and postgraduate students. This places AUT students at the forefront of much of the ground-breaking research undertaken in New Zealand in the field of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Public Health.
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Parent and Teacher-reported Child Outcomes Seven Years After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Nested Case Control Study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Background: Increasing evidence suggests potential lifetime effects following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood. Few studies have examined medium-term outcomes among hospitalized and non-hospitalized samples. ... -
The Burden of Neurological Disorders Across the States of India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2019
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Summary Background A systematic understanding of the burden of neurological disorders at the subnational level is not readily available for India. We present a comprehensive analysis of the disease burden and trends of ... -
Re-thinking Public Health Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Factory Model to Personalized Learning
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Key drivers of change in the 21st century—pandemic, technology advance, social disparity—are shaping the public health industry, including employment and education. In 2020, COVID-19 brought rapid change to the teaching ... -
Knowledge About Osteoarthritis: Development of the Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Knowledge Scales and Protocol for Testing Their Measurement Properties
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Objectives 1) Develop unidimensional instruments to measure osteoarthritis (OA) knowledge among people with hip or knee OA, and 2) assess the structural validity, internal consistency, cross-cultural validity/measurement ... -
Metabolic Phenotypes and Step by Step Evolution of Type 2 Diabetes: A New Paradigm
Unlike bolus insulin secretion mechanisms, basal insulin secretion is poorly understood. It is essential to elucidate these mechanisms in non-hyperinsulinaemia healthy persons. This establishes a baseline for investigation ... -
Healthy Cities South Auckland: A Focus on Youth Leadership and Sustainability in the Post-COVID World
(Child and Youth Health Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Introduction: This paper draws on a presentation given at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Philadelphia in 2019 (Drs. Conn and Field). It is based on an innovative public health initiative ... -
Ranked Importance of Childhood Obesity Determinants: Parents' Views Across Ethnicities in New Zealand
(MDPI AG, 2019)Māori, Pacific, Indian, and New Zealand European pre-school children's caregivers' views on determinants of childhood obesity are needed to inform strategies that will reduce disparities in prevalence. Nineteen focus groups ... -
Perceptions of Pacific Children's Academic Performance at Age 6 Years: A Multi-informant Agreement Study
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)Purpose In New Zealand, Pacific immigrants are among the fastest growing ethnic minorities but, as a group, they are also at most risk of not realising their literacy and educational aspirations critical for achieving ... -
A Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity in New Zealand
(Nature Publishing Group, 2021)Several early childhood obesity prediction models have been developed, but none for New Zealand's diverse population. We aimed to develop and validate a model for predicting obesity in 4-5-year-old New Zealand children, ... -
Fucoidan Extracted From Sporophyll of Undaria Pinnatifida Grown in Weihai, China – Chemical Composition and Comparison of Antioxidant Activity of Different Molecular Weight Fractions
(Frontiers Media, 2021)Fucoidan is a multifunctional marine carbohydrate polymer that differs in its chemical composition and bioactivity both between seaweed species and within species from different locations across the globe. In this study, ... -
Creating an Indigenous Māori‐centred Model of Relational Health: A Literature Review of Māori Models of Health
Aims and objectives Identify the key concepts, principles and values embedded within Indigenous Māori models of health and wellbeing; and determine how these could inform the development of a Māori-centred relational model ... -
Heeding the Call of Covid-19
(WellBeing International Publications, 2021)We are grateful to all of our commentators. They have provided a wide range of valuable perspectives and insights from many fields, revealing a broad interest in the subject matter. Nearly all the commentaries have helped ... -
New Zealand National Gambling Study: Correspondence Between Changes in Gambling and Gambling Risk Levels and Health, Quality of Life, and Health and Social Inequalities
(Gambling and Addictions Research Centre, AUT University, 2020)Summary This study provides a statistical analysis of the four data collection years (2012 to 2015) of the National Gambling Study in order to assess how changes in gambling risk levels are associated with changes over ... -
Critical Assessment of Three Decades of Breast Cancer Research in Yemen: Systematic Review
Objective: The aim of this review is to critically assess three decades (1989 to 2019) of breast cancer research in Yemen and to identify the gaps in, and need for, breast cancer research in Yemen. Methodology: A search ... -
Atlas of the Global Burden of Stroke (1990-2013): The GBD 2013 Study
(Karger, 2015)Background World mapping is an important tool to visualize stroke burden and its trends in various regions and countries. Objectives To show geographic patterns of incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability-adjusted ... -
Stroke Prevalence, Mortality and Disability-adjusted Life Years in Children and Youth Aged 0-19 Years: Data From the Global and Regional Burden of Stroke Study 2013
(Karger, 2015)Background: There is increasing recognition of stroke as an important contributor to childhood morbidity and mortality. Current estimates of global childhood stroke burden and its temporal trends are sparse. Accurate and ... -
Sex Differences in Stroke Incidence, Prevalence, Mortality and Disability-adjusted Life Years: Results From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
(Karger, 2015)BACKGROUND:Accurate information on stroke burden in men and women are important for evidence-based healthcare planning and resource allocation. Previously, limited research suggested that the absolute number of deaths from ... -
Global Burden of Stroke and Risk Factors in 188 Countries, During 1990–2013: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
(Elsevier, 2016)Summary Background The contribution of modifi able risk factors to the increasing global and regional burden of stroke is unclear, but knowledge about this contribution is crucial for informing stroke prevention strategies. ... -
Methodology of the Fatigue After STroke Educational Recovery (FASTER) Group Randomised Controlled Trial
(SAGE Publications, 2021)RATIONALE: Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) affects up to 92% of stroke survivors, causing significant burden. Educational Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) fatigue groups show positive results in other health conditions. AIMS: ...