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    Australian Journal of Rural Health: Volume 33, Issue 2

    April 2025
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Issue Information

  • First Published: 27 February 2025

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

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Community Rehabilitation for Rural and Remote Australia: Measuring What Matters Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): A Scoping Review

Alice Cairns,  Ruth Barker, 
  • First Published: 27 February 2025

SHORT REPORT

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Patient Experience of a Student-Led Rural Indigenous Outplacement Dental Clinic

Sandra March,  Clare Mangoyana,  Ratilal Lalloo,  Laurence J. Walsh, 
  • First Published: 03 March 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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Supporting Rurally Dwelling Adults With Disabilities: The Experiences of Staff From Two Organisations in Western Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zoe Lawrence-Haughey,  Monica Moran,  Rohan Rasiah,  Barbara Nattabi, 
  • First Published: 03 March 2025

PRACTICE INSIGHTS

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Learnings From the Front Line: Early Implementation Experiences of the Central Queensland Foot Hub Virtual Multidisciplinary Team Model-of-Care

Shanal Kumar,  Amy Walker,  Caitlin Leech,  Emma Powell,  Ruth Varrall,  Siobhan Ramsay,  Rebecca Searle,  Sarah Jensen, 
  • First Published: 05 March 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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What Makes for Healthy Ageing in the Torres Strait?

Chenoa Wapau,  Malcolm McDonald,  Fintan Thompson,  Rachel Quigley,  Sarah G. Russell,  Betty Sagigi,  Gavin Miller,  Tania Korinihona,  Edward Strivens, 
  • First Published: 07 March 2025
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The Community's Role in Rural Youth Suicide Prevention: Perspectives From the Field

Laura Grattidge,  Ha Hoang,  Jonathan Mond,  Denis Visentin,  David Lees,  Stuart Auckland, 
  • First Published: 10 March 2025
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Connections Reduce Rheumatic Heart Disease-Related Mortality in Western Australia: A Mixed Methods Study

Virginia DeCourcy,  Daniel Hunt,  Ingrid Stacey,  Emma Haynes,  Beverley Paterson,  Clare Huppatz,  Marisa Gilles,  Judith Katzenellenbogen, 
  • First Published: 10 March 2025
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Retrospective Cohort Study to Determine the Effect of Socioeconomic Status and Distance to Hospital on Negative Appendicectomy Rates in a Rural Setting

Roy Huynh,  Kevin Tree,  Matthew Smith,  Lily Builth-Snoad,  Faisal Syed,  Dean Fisher, 
  • First Published: 11 March 2025
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Diagnosing and Preventing Q Fever in Regional New South Wales, Australia—A Qualitative Exploration of Perspectives of General Practitioners

Sachith Maduranga,  Lok Bahadur Shrestha,  Braulio Mark Valencia,  Graeme Horton,  Michelle Guppy,  Heather F. Gidding,  Stephen Graves,  John Stenos,  William Rawlinson,  Andrew R. Lloyd,  Chaturaka Rodrigo, 
  • First Published: 14 March 2025
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Employment Models to Attract and Sustain Rural Generalist Doctors: Barriers and Enablers

Belinda O'Sullivan,  Shane Boyer,  Angela Stratton,  Jacque Philips, 
  • First Published: 14 March 2025
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Recognising and Managing Distress Among Farming Clients: An Evaluation of Brief Training for Rural Financial Counsellors and Other Non-Clinical Rural Support Workers

Gemma Skaczkowski,  Donna Hughes-Barton,  Sophie Loxton,  Kate Gunn, 
  • First Published: 17 March 2025
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Examining Differences Among Opioid Agonist Treatment Clients in Regional and Metropolitan Settings of New South Wales, Australia

Daniel T. Winter,  Lauren A. Monds,  Nicholas Lintzeris,  Paul S. Haber,  Carolyn A. Day, 
  • First Published: 19 March 2025

SHORT REPORT

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A Human-Centred Co-Design Framework for Developing a Web-Based Platform to Engage With Rural Australian Communities: Addressing the Complex Issue of Healthy Food Access

Cindy Needham,  Jane Jacobs,  Christina Zorbas,  Laura Alston,  Tracy Schumacher,  Penny Fraser,  Ana Horta,  Michael Johnstone,  Douglas Creighton,  Alison Koschel,  Leanne J. Brown,  Annabelle Williams,  Judy Coates,  Gina Vereker,  Carmen Vargas,  Claudia Strugnell,  Tari Forrester-Bowling,  Kristy A Bolton,  Steven Allender, 
  • First Published: 20 March 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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Implementation of A New, Mobile Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Model Incorporating Artificial Intelligence in Remote Western Australia

Qiang Li,  Jocelyn J. Drinkwater,  Kerry Woods,  Emma Douglas,  Alex Ramirez,  Angus W. Turner, 
  • First Published: 20 March 2025
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Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes for Patients of a Digital Psychology Service in Regional and Remote Parts of Australia

Lauren G. Staples,  Blake F. Dear,  Olav Nielssen,  Nickolai Titov, 
  • First Published: 20 March 2025
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Changes in Mental and Physical Health Outcomes Following One Day a Week Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation in Regional New South Wales

Nnamdi Mgbemena,  Jane Thompson,  Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu, 
  • First Published: 24 March 2025
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Barriers and Facilitators of Digital Mental Health Use in Regional, Rural, and Remote Australia: A Comparison of Clinician and Consumer Perspectives

Jenny T. Le,  Alison E. J. Mahoney,  Jay L. Court,  Christine T. Shiner, 
  • First Published: 25 March 2025

SHORT REPORT

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Allied Health Student-Led Clinics: An Opportunity for Workforce Development

Taegen Pascoe,  Asmita Mudholkar,  Stephanie Burke,  Kehinde Obamiro,  Ines Zuchowski, 
  • First Published: 26 March 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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Community Warriors: Development and Validation of a Social and Emotional Well-Being Tool for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Youth

Gustavo Hermes Soares,  Pedro Henrique Ribeiro Santiago,  Brianna Poirier,  Sneha Sethi,  Dandara Haag,  Madison Cachagee,  Emma Flanagan,  Yvonne Cadet-James,  Joanne Hedges,  Lisa Jamieson, 
  • First Published: 27 March 2025

COMMENTARY

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Reducing Health Inequity for Children and Young People in Rural Australia: Are Digital Interventions a Panacea? A Rural Generalist's Commentary

Corin Miller,  Hayley Smithers-Sheedy,  Nan Hu,  David Schmidt,  Annemarie Christie,  Tammy Morris,  Lena Sanci,  Raghu Lingam, 
  • First Published: 28 March 2025
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Telehealth and Collaboratively Delivered Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: An Opportunity for Increasing Access to Effective Treatment for People With Borderline Personality Disorder Living in Rural Areas

Carla J. Walton,  Sharleen Gonzalez,  Anna Dunbar,  Katie McGill, 
  • First Published: 03 April 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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Investigating the Prevalence and Level of Pain Experienced by Australian Farmers

Indika Koralegedera,  Gemma Skaczkowski,  G. Lorimer Moseley,  Kate M. Gunn, 
  • First Published: 04 April 2025
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Reframing Nurse Education in Rural Australia: Implications for Advancing Longitudinal Integrated Placements

Debra Jones,  Giti Haddadan,  Moira Dunsmore,  Anna Williams,  Danielle White,  Jackie Hanniver,  Corey Sclater,  Tracy Robinson,  Sue Randall, 
  • First Published: 08 April 2025

EDITORIAL

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Why Settle for Equity?

Timothy A. Carey, 
  • First Published: 09 April 2025

NARRATIVE REVIEW

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Factors That Influence Digital Health Implementation in Rural, Regional, and Remote Australia: An Overview of Reviews and Recommended Strategies

Michelle A. Krahe,  Stephanie Baker,  Leeanna Woods,  Sarah L. Larkins, 
  • First Published: 09 April 2025

EDITORIAL

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Implementation of the NDIS in Rural, Regional and Remote Areas

Pim Kuipers,  Jo Spong, 
  • First Published: 09 April 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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Distribution of Specialist Orthodontic Service Provision Across South Australia According to Socio-Economic Status and Remoteness

Andrew Wang,  Maurice J. Meade,  Gustavo H. Soares,  Pedro H. R. Santiago,  Dandara G. Haag,  Lisa M. Jamieson, 
  • First Published: 11 April 2025
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Medical Students' and Supervisors' Experiences of Extracurricular Research at a Rural Clinical School: A Mixed-Methods Study

Jordan L. Fox,  William MacAskill,  Matthew McGrail,  Diann Eley,  Srinivas Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan,  Priya Martin, 
  • First Published: 11 April 2025

Gestational Weight Monitoring in Rural and Regional Populations: Women's Knowledge, Experience and Recommendations for Models of Care

Berneice Fitzpatrick,  Susan de Jersey,  Shelley Wilkinson,  Nicole Ward, 
  • First Published: 16 April 2025

SHORT REPORT

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‘I Hadn't Ever Really Thought It Was Something That I Could Do’: Rural Background Medical Graduates' Pathways to Medicine

Jessica Beattie,  Marley Binder,  Hannah Beks,  Lara Fuller, 
  • First Published: 18 April 2025

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

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Preferences of Non-Metropolitan Youth Towards Accessing Mental Health Services: A Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis

Edwin Paul Mseke,  Belinda Jessup,  Tony Barnett, 
  • First Published: 24 April 2025
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Retrospective Cohort Study of Low-Value Hysterectomy Before and After Publication of the National Heavy Bleeding Clinical Care Standard in Regional Victoria

Natasha Daureen Frawley,  Madison Phung,  Benjamin Harrap, 
  • First Published: 25 April 2025