CFAHR researchers are committed to conducting and supporting high-quality research and clinical innovation activities across Metro South Allied Health. The evidence briefs below provide information about recently completed projects.

CFHAR Evidence Briefs (2018-2020)

These evidence briefs provide short summaries of research undertaken by the CFAHR team from 2018 - 2020, including discussion of the practice issue that prompted the research project, evidence provided by the research project and practice change as a result of research outcomes.

• Implementing telepractice services for adult dysphagia: service outcomes, costs and consumer satisfaction (PDF, 137.78 KB)
• Improving communication between health practitioners, students and people with aphasia (PDF, 140.48 KB)
• Improving the uptake of telepractice at Allied Health: Development and implementation of a training package to support multi-disciplinary clinicians in the use of videoconferencing for outpatient services (PDF, 138.56 KB)
• Communication skills training for health professionals working in cancer care (PDF, 136.85 KB)
• Mask anxiety in patients with head and neck cancer requiring immobilisation for radiotherapy treatment (PDF, 179.55 KB)
• Extended scope of Speech Pathology practice - Impacts and outcomes of a Speech Pathology Allied Health Practitioner led dysphagia and dysphonia service within an Integrated Specialist ENT service (PDF, 139.44 KB)
• Factors influencing access to paediatric feeding services (PDF, 182.53 KB)
• Finding new ways to provide intensive therapy: A randomised trial of a telepractice app “SwallowIT” for the delivery of intensive prophylactic swallowing therapy to patients with head/neck cancer during (chemo) radiotherapy (PDF, 172.26 KB)
• Use of simulation to reduce speech pathology clinical placement time (PDF, 138.69 KB)
• Meeting unmet needs following minor stroke (PDF, 137.41 KB)
• In-bed cycling with critically ill patients in Intensive Care (PDF, 138.83 KB)
• Physiotherapy ICU Clinical Support (PICS): supporting the management of patients at risk of respiratory deterioration (PDF, 138.16 KB)
• Risk factors and incidence for lower limb lymphoedema following endometrial cancer (PDF, 138.51 KB)
• Can children experiencing issues eating and drinking be assessed via telepractice? (PDF, 138.18 KB)
• Can Allied Health Assistants (AHAs) assist with dysphagia services? (PDF, 139.25 KB)
• Dysphagia care in the community context (PDF, 139.13 KB)
• Speech Pathology dysphagia management practice in Australian Emergency Departments (PDF, 136.1 KB)
• Experiences of people with cancer who have participated in a hospital-based exercise program (PDF, 145.18 KB)
• Using dosimetric information to enhance the clinical management of dysphagia in patients undergoing (chemo) radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (PDF, 167.9 KB)