Edel O'Hagan

Developing a codesigned text message-based digital oral health education resource (TOOTH) - Shalinie King, Lauren Adriel Church, Edel O’Hagan, Dion Candelaria, Aboli Pawar, Ashley Cooper, Rebecca Chen... Objective Digital health technologies offer a more equitable way of providing access to health education. This study engaged consumers and clinicians from two A...

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Identifying and counteracting fraudulent responses in online recruitment for health research: a scoping review Objectives This study aimed to describe how health researchers identify and counteract fraudulent responses when recruiting participants online. Design Scoping review. Eligibility criteria Peer-revi...

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people ≥70 years and smokers were less likely to return.

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cardiovascular risk factor.

It seemed like these stations are useful for self- monitoring because people with high BP were more likely to return for repeat BP checks.

But greater education or promotion is needed for some groups and in some areas because people from very remote areas, older

SISU Health have health check stations in every state and territory of Australia. We analysed data from almost 1 million checks to understand who uses these stations, and where are they useful.

We found that 22% were probably hypertensive, with about half these having one or more additional

Self-Guided Blood Pressure Screening in the Community: Opportunities, and Challenges | Hypertension BACKGROUND: Community-based health check kiosks provide opportunities to improve the detection and long-term monitoring of hypertension. We describe the sociodemographic and cardiovascular characteris...

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Blood pressure control in Australia lags behind international counterparts.

Community screening could improve BP control by identifying people with high BP and/or providing an option to self-monitor BP