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.
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.
Can Allied Health Assistants assist with dysphagia services (PDF, 139.25 KB) Can children experiencing issues eating and drinking be assess via telepractice (PDF, 138.18 KB) Communication skills training for health professionals working in cancer care (PDF, 136.85 KB) Developing a prioritised agenda to drive speech-language pathology research within health in Queensland (PDF, 136.88 KB) Dysphagia care in the community context (PDF, 139.13 KB) Embedding high quality, sustainable, patient-centric telehealth services within Allied Health: A guide for optimised practice beyond COVID-19 (PDF, 236.26 KB) Enhancing the understanding of, and access to, speech pathology head and neck cancer services in rural areas (PDF, 133.89 KB) Experiences of people with cancer who have participated in a hospital-based exercise program (PDF, 145.18 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 patient with head/neck cancer during (chemo) radiotherapy (PDF, 172.26 KB) Implementation of a speech-language therapy-led referring model for VFSS: An evaluation of service outcomes (PDF, 150.65 KB) 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) In-bed cycling with critically ill patients in Intensive Care (PDF, 138.83 KB) Investigating dysphagia, dysphonia and laryngeal hypersensitivity in Whiplash Associated Disorder (PDF, 130.55 KB) Mask anxiety in patients with head and neck cancer requiring immobilisation for radiotherapy treatment (PDF, 179.55 KB) Meeting unmet needs following minor stroke (PDF, 137.41 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) Speech-language therapists perceptions of an eLearning program to support training in videofluoroscopic swallow studies (PDF, 124.93 KB) Speech Pathology dysphagia management practice in Australian Emergency Departments (PDF, 136.1 KB) Speech Pathology led prescribing models (PDF, 134.3 KB) Use of simulation to reduce speech pathology clinical placement time (PDF, 138.69 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)
