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Health and Social Sciences
Annette Huntington
Case study: The Nurses and Midwives E-cohort study.
Annette Huntington School of Health Sciences Massey University
A.D.Huntington@massey.ac.nz
The Nurses and Midwives E-cohort study is a collaborative project run in conjunction with Massey University, University of Queensland, and a UK academic (currently changing institutions), with Singapore likely to join the collaboration and Thailand undertaking the same project in paper-based format. The only NZ collaborating institution was the University of Auckland.
The Nurses and Midwives E-cohort Study uses a longitudinal design to collect information on New Zealand nurses’ health status, work-life balance and patterns of workforce participation. This will result in high quality data not currently available, to inform effective workforce policy and development strategies. New Zealand’s difficulty in attracting and retaining nurses has significant implications for maintaining an effective health and disability support sector, and there is a well-documented lack of the information needed to develop robust, evidence-based strategies to counter this. This project is a world-first, using an innovative web-based design developed by an Australian team of highly experienced nursing and epidemiology researchers, which is being implemented on an unprecedented scale: all New Zealand nurses will be invited to participate in the project. The study is the New Zealand branch of an international project, and this will facilitate comparative analysis of relevant nursing workforce issues.
This research is supported by a range of eResearch tools including a web based online survey, communication tools such as teleconferencing and email. Data is collated, stored and analysed using a range of relevant software applications.
Case study: The Graduate E-Cohort study. Annette Huntington.
School of Health Sciences Massey University.
A.D.Huntington@massey.ac.nz
The Graduate e-cohort study is a development arising from the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort study. This study uses the same methodology and web interface as the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort study. This is a survey of newly graduated and registered nurses from Massey University, University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology and The University of Queensland. The study is longitudinal and undertakes to survey graduates on initial registration then annually over a period of at least five years. The survey focuses mainly on workforce data and tracks where the graduates are working, areas of specialty, post graduate study and hours of work. The study uses the same web-based methodology as the main e-cohort study – the students log onto the e-cohort site and have a specific ‘portal’ for their survey. This exists alongside the existing e-cohort studies. The aim is to provide consistent workforce data on cohorts of new graduates from the three Universities offering Bachelor of Nursing programmes in New Zealand. eResearch technology includes the web and well as collaborative communication tools such as teleconferencing and email. Relevant software applications are used to assist with the storage, collating and analysis of data.
Riz Firestone
Case Study: Life-course Epidemiology of early childhood diseases: a feasibility study.
Dr Ridvan Firestone and Associate Professor Jeroen Doewes. Centre for Public Health Research Massey University.
r.t.firestone@massey.ac.nz
This project investigates the associations between a wide range of pre-natal and early life exposures, events, lifestyle factors and a broad range of diseases in early childhood. The study involves developing an internet-based birth cohort study using online questionnaires. The relationship of early life exposures and the development of diseases later in life is explored by contacting pregnant women and new mothers. Very little is known about which specific factors during pregnancy or in early life play a role in the development of disease later in life. The data gathered is used to identify the relationship between pre-natal, early life exposures and lifestyle factors with a range of diseases developed later in life such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, allergies, sleep disorders, and congenital malformations. The aim is to identify which factors can protect people from developing these diseases, and which factors can increase the risk of developing these diseases. A range of eResearch tools are used to gather, store and analyze data including the creation and development of a website linked to an online survey questionnaire, and software to collate and analyze data. Part of the research process involves building collaborative relationships with community health care groups in order to facilitate participant involvement. This is done primarily through the Pregnancy Bounty pack distributed to women by their primary health care givers. Other methods of recruitment are explored including the internet (for example creating links to the research website on internet sites pregnant women and new mothers are likely to visit).
