Western Health Partnership

The study will establish fundamental and new data to inform a program that aims to develop best practice interventions and health policies for women with T1DM and T2DM to optimise breastfeeding uptake and continuation up to 6 months.

Further, this study will identify facilitators and barriers for new mothers to balancing competing commitments from caring for a baby, work, family and leisure that result in neglecting their health and unstable diabetes, which in-turn can result in short and long term complications and unnecessary use of healthcare resources and costs.

This study aims to examine nurses' and midwives’ attitudes, perceptions, acceptance, and use of a new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system at Western Health. The system will be introduced to nurses and midwives at Western Health in June 2018.

An in-depth understanding of nurses' and midwives’ attitudes, perceptions, acceptance and use of EMR is critical to inform the implementation of EMR as well as to facilitate the evaluation of its success and subsequent use. A mixed­ methods approach including surveys and focus groups will be used to examine nurses' and midwives’ attitudes, perceptions, acceptance, and use of the system and how they interact with it at the pre- and post-implementation stages.

The study aims to educationally prepare diabetes educators to guide young people with type 1 diabetes through Guided Self-Determination (GSD) program delivered online.

The GSD method is an educational intervention to improve personal, social, cognitive and physical skills of young people with diabetes. Participants are prompted to systematically explore and express their experiences with diabetes through worksheets shared with diabetes educators to empower them to better manage diabetes.