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The Australian School Travel Survey 2025
No full textThis report presents the results of the Australian School Travel Survey 2025, a national survey of 4968 families containing data on school and extra-curricular travel for 7880 children in Australia. The report first presents attribute data on families and progresses to analyse children’s school travel behaviour, covering some of the common determinants of mode share such as distance and school sector. In a particularly novel contribution, the report then details children’s participation in out of school activities such as organised sport, tutoring and dance lessons, including mode of access to these activities. The report concludes with some possible avenues for future analyses.</p
Companion Dogs in Vietnam: Exploring Characteristics of Owned and Ideal Dogs
No full textAs the first domesticated species, dogs have been shaped by human needs, values, and social structures, resulting in culturally specific expectations of their behaviour. While much of the existing research on companion animal preferences (referred to as ideal traits) has focused on Western contexts, rapidly increasing companion dog populations in Eastern countries mean that preferences in diverse cultures are important to investigate. Considering owner satisfaction is influenced by the match between dogs’ traits and owners’ culturally specific ideals, understanding ideal dog traits may help minimise welfare concerns, including relinquishment and maltreatment of companion dogs. A sample of 312 Vietnamese adults (M age = 27.31, SD = 6.65) were recruited via convenience sampling through Facebook and Instagram. Participants completed translated versions of the 44-item Ideal Dog Scale. Exploratory factor analysis identified four dimensions of ideal dog traits in Vietnam: ‘Calmness’, ‘Energy/Capability’, ‘Affection/Health’, and ‘Cleanliness’. This differs from Australia, where the ideal dog is ‘calm/compliant’, ‘sociable/healthy’, ‘energetic/faithful/protective’, ‘socially acceptable’, and ‘non-aggressive’, and from Italy, where the ideal dog is ‘calm’, ‘sociable and healthy’, ‘well trained and adaptable’, ‘energetic’, and ‘easy to manage‘. For participants with a current dog, most owned a non-desexed, mixed breed male dog. This study deepens psychological insight into how socioecological contexts may shape perceptions of ideal companion animals. It also allows Vietnamese individuals to understand traits that would lead to the best dog–owner ‘match’, improving dog owner wellbeing and dog welfare.</p
Understanding the cultural, social and political determinants of health and their benefits for BlaQ self-determination
No full textPurpose: BlaQ people1 and communities face intersecting, multiple and compounding discrimination, which impacts BlaQ social and emotional wellbeing, and family, community and Country connections. BlaQ perspectives and lifeworlds are excluded in current cultural, social and political determinants of health domains, understandings and Indigenous wellbeing models. Self-determining rights of BlaQ peoples are limited as there is no treaty or convention that specifically focuses on the rights of BlaQ peoples. A preliminary model has been proposed for understanding and advancing the cultural, social and political determinants of health for BlaQ identifying people and the benefits it may bring for BlaQ self-determination and health and wellbeing.Methods: A Queer Indigenous standpoint theoretical framework was used, and a critical and reflexive literature review and thematic analysis that prioritised BlaQ scholarship was used to create the preliminary BlaQ cultural, social and political determinants domains and their benefits for self-determination.Main findings: A preliminary model for BlaQ cultural, social and political determinants domains has been proposed that centres the concept that BlaQ strong culture and health is enabled when cultural, social and political determinants are interconnected. This review and analysis demonstrated that the model has multiple benefits for BlaQ self-determination and can provide a preliminary model for action for BlaQ health justice, equity, safety and inclusion.Principal conclusions: The model provides a preliminary approach to understanding and addressing health determinants for BlaQ people and communities. Future research is required to further consider the model and its potential application.</p
Information-Seeking Behaviours of CALD Women with Endometriosis in Australia: A Qualitative Study
No full textEndometriosis affects one in seven women in Australia and is a significant public health concern. Access to appropriate health information is essential for informed decision-making and quality of life, especially for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women who may face additional communication and health literacy barriers. This study explored the information-seeking behaviours and experiences of CALD women living with endometriosis using semi-structured interviews. Through convenience and snowball sampling via social media, eleven women were recruited. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. The results showed that although women often did not view their cultural background as influential, taboos and stigma can shape information-seeking behaviours. Women primarily relied on healthcare professionals, online resources, and other women with endometriosis as information resources. Healthcare professionals were appreciated for providing tailored information, but some were perceived to have limited knowledge of endometriosis, reducing their usefulness. Online information was abundant and easily accessible but often overwhelming and difficult to navigate. Information from other women with lived experience provided both practical insights and validation, though participants recognised its limited transferability to their own circumstances. These findings highlight the need for information pathways, including better patient education through healthcare providers, as well as accessible and evidence-based online resources.</p
Identity Affirmation in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Adults
No full textThis thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Rural Australian Young Men’s Health: In the Context of Emergent Masculinities
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
A Narrative-Poetic Account of Teachers’ Lived Experience of Childhood Adversity
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Education, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.</p
Experiences of Somali International Students at Malaysian Higher Education Institutions: Motivations, Hopes and Aspirations
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Exploration of Employer and Student Perspectives on Work Readiness Skills and Needs of Undergraduate Nutrition Students and the Development of the Future Graduate Employability Framework
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
The Impact of Private - Public Partnerships on Healthcare Services to Maximize Accessibility: A Study of Private and Public Hospitals in Sri Lanka
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p