The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre recently hosted two webinars with NDARC academics, Dr Veronica Boland and Dr Sara Farnbach.
Dr Boland’s webinar titled, ‘Smoking among disadvantaged and vulnerable groups’ aims to inform healthcare workers and researchers about key barriers to quitting and future directions for quit smoking support.
In the webinar, Dr. Boland discusses:
- How disparity in smoking prevalence between the most and least advantaged Australians contributes to health inequalities.
- The experiences of quitting smoking from the perspectives of smokers from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- The key insights into the factors that inhibit and promote quitting behaviours.
- Research findings conducted with socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers from a national randomised controlled trial (RCT) and a feasibility study into the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation.
You can view the webinar on the AOD Knowledge Centre website here.
Dr Farnbach’s webinar titled, ‘The experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in primary healthcare when speaking about substance use and depression’ aims to provide information for healthcare workers who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and researchers working in the areas of depression and wellbeing.
In this webinar, Dr Farnbach discusses:
- Concerns primary healthcare workers may have speaking about depression and mood with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- The perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences of depression.
- Findings from a national research project and the Getting it Right Study.
You can view the webinar on the AOD Knowledge Centre website here.