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Hamilton, Kyra; Warner, Lisa M.; Schwarzer, Ralf – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Objectives: Physical activity, including some form of vigorous activity, is a key component of a healthy lifestyle in young people. Self-efficacy and social support have been identified as key determinants of physical activity; however, the mechanism that reflects the interplay of these two factors is not well understood. The aim of the current…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Friendship, Self Efficacy, Peer Influence
Wheldall, Kevin; Wheldall, Robyn; Madelaine, Alison; Reynolds, Meree; Arakelian, Sarah – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2017
An earlier series of pilot studies and small-scale experimental studies had previously provided some evidence for the efficacy of a small group early literacy intervention program for young struggling readers. The present paper provides further evidence for efficacy based on a much larger sample of young, socially disadvantaged, at-risk readers.…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Intervention, Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties
Leslie, Ellen M.; Smirnov, Andrew; Cherney, Adrian; Wells, Helene; Kemp, Robert; Legosz, Margot; Najman, Jake M. – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Aims: Little is known about the possible influence of different social settings on changes in patterns of ecstasy use over time. This study explores the relationship between engagement with different types of nightlife venues and subsequent frequent ecstasy use in an Australian young adult population sample. Methods: Longitudinal data are from a…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Leisure Time, Young Adults, Social Life
Smith, Hayley C.; Batten, Rachel; McDonald, Helen; Taylor, Myra F. – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
A broad range of initiatives including early intervention programmes have been implemented in Australia to assist disadvantaged and at-risk Indigenous parents and children. This qualitative exemplar case study details the perspectives of caregivers and service providers of one such early learning intervention programme situated within the remote…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Child Caregivers, Preschool Education, School Readiness
Fish, Tim – Ethnography and Education, 2017
The identification of disengaged early school leavers as young people "at risk" can lead to a deficit-based framing of how educational institutions respond to them. A rural secondary school in Victoria, Australia established an alternative education programme to cater for local disengaged young people. A critical ethnographic study was…
Descriptors: Therapy, Nontraditional Education, Dropouts, At Risk Persons
Wheeler, Amanda; Crozier, Michelle; Robinson, Gail; Pawlow, Natale; Mihala, Gabor – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2014
Introduction: Comorbidity of mental illness and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) raises workforce challenges in terms of appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes required for delivering best care.Aim: (1) To assess the knowledge, skills and attitudes of mental health staff in relation to AOD use and (2) to inform development of training to provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Mental Health Workers
Vichie, Krystle – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
Equitable access and participation in higher education from regional youth is a major concern in Australia (National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE), 2015). Currently 0.9% of all university students in Australia come from a regional or remote area (NCSEHE, 2015). This statistic is alarming in the context of the ever-rising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Enrollment Trends
Pettigrew, Simone; Jongenelis, Michelle I.; Glance, David; Chikritzhs, Tanya; Pratt, Iain S.; Slevin, Terry; Liang, Wenbin; Wakefield, Melanie – Health Education Research, 2016
In response to increasing calls to introduce warning labels on alcoholic beverages, this study investigated the potential effectiveness of alcohol warning statements designed to increase awareness of the alcohol-cancer link. A national online survey was administered to a diverse sample of Australian adult drinkers (n = 1,680). Along with…
Descriptors: Cancer, Drinking, Health Behavior, Foreign Countries
Lea, Toby; Bryant, Joanne; Treloar, Carla – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2016
Aim: Young people who are socially engaged with people who inject drugs are at higher risk of transitioning to injecting drug use. We aimed to examine rates of exposure to injecting among young people in an online survey, and whether exposure to injecting was related to hepatitis C(HCV) knowledge. Methods: A cross-sectional, online survey was…
Descriptors: Drug Use, At Risk Persons, Online Surveys, Case Studies
Hodgson, David – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
From 2004 to 2008, the Western Australian State Government embarked on a period of policy and legislative change to increase the compulsory school-leaving age from 15 to 17. This article adopts a governmental conceptualisation of "ethics" to explore the policy discourses and practices. Drawing on interview and documental data, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Compulsory Education, Educational Policy
Jones, Tiffany – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
To date, people with intersex variations have been mainly studied via small-scale clinical research, with only a small amount of reflective commentary contributed by sociocultural scholars. This paper reports on findings from a 2015 online Australian survey of 272 people with intersex variations, which aimed to redress the gap in research on this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Adolescents, Adults
Harris, Anne; Farrington, David – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
Using collaborative performance ethnography in community- and school-based settings, sex education has the potential to challenge at-risk narratives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) youth. This paper problematises the youth-led drama project "Epic Queer" to test the "queer" potential of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Homosexuality, Sex Education, Social Networks
Webber, Lynne S.; Richardson, Ben; Lambrick, Frank – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2014
Background: Seclusion is a restrictive intervention that results in some form of containment and social isolation of a person from others. Little is known about the relationships between individual and organisation factors and the use of seclusion in disability services. Method: The reported use of seclusion in disability services in Victoria,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Human Services, Social Isolation
Pini, Barbara; Mills, Martin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The majority of the still limited literature on education in non-metropolitan areas adopts an understanding of rurality as a fixed and known geographic entity. This paper departs from such a functionalist perspective to explore how rurality is constructed in a programme for at-risk teenagers in remote Australia. Drawing on a range of texts about…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons, Correlation
Pidd, Ken; Roche, Ann; Fischer, Jane – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Aims: Workforce entry is a key transition period. It offers an ideal, but under-utilised opportunity to implement intervention strategies to prevent mental health and substance use problems among young people. A brief psychological wellbeing and substance use intervention targeting a high-risk group--apprentice chefs--was undertaken to explore…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Substance Abuse, Drug Use