CHAP TEAM NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2022
CHAP NEWS
Thank you Ben Karnon
We would like to thank Ben for working with our team this year as a Research Assistant on various tasks, especially assisting our Clinical Pharmacy Research Fellow with the PREMS project. We wish you all the best Ben on your future in Canada.
HTSA Flagship Program
CHAP are pleased to be one of the Health Translation SA (HTSA) Flagship Projects. As part of this role, we were recently consulted to contribute to the development of a training course focussed on key aspects of research translation that will build research translation skills of individuals and teams.
Introducing Clayton Bester
We would like to introduce you to Clayton Bester, the Consumer Representative on our Governance Committee and broadcaster / producer for Flow FM (broadcasting to regional SA, VIC & NSW). To hear Clayton's story about his cardiac experience after hospital discharge, please listen to his interview from the CHAP Showcase in June (commencing at 8min 40sec).
PRESENTATIONS
20 - 21 July 2022 | TAAHC Women's Health Forum | Cairns & Online
Dr Alline Beleigoli presented her protocol on Cardiac Rehabilitation Especially for Women (CREW) "a person-centred co-designed model of care embedded within an existing web-based cardiac rehabilitation program to improve attendance and clinical outcomes for Australian women with CVD living in rural and remote areas" as part of the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC) Women's Health Forum on 21 July on behalf of the CREW Team.
21 - 25 July 2022 | International Nursing Research Congress | Edinburgh, Scotland
Congratulations Prof Jeroen Hendriks who received his award whilst being inducted into the Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in Scotland at the end of July. Prof Hendriks also presented on 'integrated care for patients with atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular conditions' at the Congress.
UPCOMING CPD SESSION
Our monthly Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions are now open to anyone with an interest in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to be involved. Previously these sessions were only advertised to CR services working in rural and remote South Australia to participate. For a list of upcoming sessions for the remainder of the year and recording of previous sessions, please visit our website.
Wednesday 17 August 2022 | 1pm ACST | Zoom
The August CPD session will be with Associate Professor Margaret Arstall presenting on Girl Talk: managing CVD in women during pregnancy, menopause and beyond along with Sanchia Shute from our Service of the Month: Southern Adelaide LHN at FMC. To register for this session, click here.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PUBLICATIONS
Our Systematic Review Club meets to assist with the development of 10 systematic review publications before the end 2022. A number of protocols have been published during July including:
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
Champion, S., R.A. Clark, R. Tirimacco, P. Tideman, L. Gebremichael and A. Beleigoli. "The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Rapid Adoption of Telehealth on the Uptake of Cardiac Rehabilitation in Rural Australia: A Multi-Design Study", Heart, Lung and Circulation (2022).
Pinero de Plaza, Maria Alejandra. "PROLIFERATE: An adaptable framework with tools to evaluate different processes, outputs, and products via participatory research". figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20374005.v2 (2022).
ACCEPTED CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Pinero de Plaza, M. A. "Holding the suspension bridge of ongoing high-quality care". Abstract from 55th Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) Conference, Adelaide, South Australia. https://aag.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/55th-aag-conference/program/Agenda/AgendaItemDetail?id=0909d4c8-a9aa-4a5d-833e-1afbd1b02f66 (2022).
UPCOMING EVENTS
8 - 10 August 2022 | ACRA 2022
Gold Coast
Dr Joyce Ramos will provide an oral presentation on "Inter-individual responses to a change in heart-rate variability triangular-index following different exercise volumes in people with metabolic syndrome: a randomised study".
Our PhD candidate Ms Katie Nesbitt will also be presenting a poster at ACRA 2022 on "development and implementation of a co-designed, web based cardiac rehabilitation program for cardiac patients living in rural and remote areas" and Dr Carolyn Astley will be presenting a poster on "assessing the quality of cardiac rehabilitation programs by measuring adherence to the Australian quality indicators". Prof Robyn Clark and Prof Jeroen Hendriks will also be attending.
11 - 14 August 2022 | CSANZ 2022
Gold Coast
Ms Katie Nesbitt will provide an oral presentation for the Cardiovascular Nursing Prize Finalist session on "evaluating the usability of a co-designed interactive web application for cardiac rehabilitation". Prof Jeroen Hendriks will chair and present in the pre-conference workshop.
27 - 28 August 2022 | RDASA Masterclass
Adelaide
Dr Norma Bulamu will be hosting a stand at the Rural Doctors Association of SA (RDASA) event and presenting on "the value proposition for primary care to implement hybrid models of cardiac rehabilitation".
