Publications by authors named "Sally Robinson"

Background: A peer-led self-advocacy group, Our Voice SA, is used as a case study to explore how the social engagement of people with intellectual disability contributed to their self-advocacy about things that are important to them.

Method: Secondary analyses of data (interviews, observations and program data) were thematically analysed using Clifford Simplican's analytical lens of "freedom through encounter".

Results: Social engagement encounters in peer-led self-advocacy led to individual and group agency for freedom.

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Background: Many people with disability experience harm in everyday interactions that can leave them feeling insulted, degraded, silenced, or rejected. We adopt the term "everyday harm" to describe this underexplored form of harm.

Method: The purpose of this scoping review was to assess how the literature on microaggression and emotional and psychological abuse contributes to an understanding of everyday harm and misrecognition.

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Background: Traineeships have been proven to be beneficial vocational pathways for people with intellectual disability however to date the on-the-job training provision associated with traineeships has not been well documented.

Method: This study describes components of on-the-job training provided to eight people, most with intellectual disability undergoing traineeships for 12 months in four aged care services. Sheri et al.

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Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a systemic sequelae from gastrointestinal infection with Shiga toxin (Stx) producing (STEC) that can result in acute kidney injury, lasting renal disease, and death. Despite a window for intervention between hemorrhagic diarrhea and onset of HUS, no specific therapies exist to prevent or treat HUS following STEC infection. Furthermore, there is no way to predict which patients with STEC will develop HUS or any rapid way to determine which Stx variant is present.

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  • - The study examined service usage of children and young individuals with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) who were referred to a Paediatric Psychology Service from 2008 to 2017, highlighting differences in clinical session requirements.
  • - Analysis showed that the MUS group attended significantly more sessions compared to other patients, needing an average of 7.5 inpatient sessions and 10.7 outpatient sessions versus 4.0 and 6.3 for the general group, respectively.
  • - Despite both groups gaining similar benefits from psychological therapy, MUS patients required more total contact time, with the association remaining strong even after adjusting for factors like age and gender.
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Purpose: This paper examines the current state of services and support for children and young people with intellectual disability in Vietnam through the perspectives and experiences of parents and professionals in the education and health systems.

Materials And Methods: We undertook 24 semi-structured interviews with parents and professionals from two Vietnamese central provinces to ask about their experiences and support needs. We draw on the networked model of ecological systems to identify contextual factors in the micro-, meso-, exo- and macro-systems.

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Virulent infectious agents such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and methicillin-resistant (MRSA) induce tissue damage that recruits neutrophils, monocyte, and macrophages, leading to T cell exhaustion, fibrosis, vascular leak, epithelial cell depletion, and fatal organ damage. Neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages recruited to pathogen-infected lungs, including SARS-CoV-2-infected lungs, express phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase gamma (PI3Kγ), a signaling protein that coordinates both granulocyte and monocyte trafficking to diseased tissues and immune-suppressive, profibrotic transcription in myeloid cells. PI3Kγ deletion and inhibition with the clinical PI3Kγ inhibitor eganelisib promoted survival in models of infectious diseases, including SARS-CoV-2 and MRSA, by suppressing inflammation, vascular leak, organ damage, and cytokine storm.

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Purpose: To characterise existing knowledge about the design and learning outcomes of education and training programs for supported or shared decision making.

Materials And Methods: A scoping review was performed to identify academic and grey literature, published between January 2006 and February 2022, that reported on the design and/or learning outcomes of supported or shared decision making education or training programs. Eligible literature was mapped across domains of educational design and Kirkpatrick's hierarchy of learning effectiveness, and then qualitatively synthesised using cross-case analysis.

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Background: This case series highlights the connection between childhood intense imagery movements (IIM) and adult-reported maladaptive daydreaming (MD). Motor stereotypies occur in typically developing children and also with co-occurring neurodevelopmental differences. A subgroup with complex motor stereotypies reports accompanying intense imagery, often enhanced by the movements.

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  • - Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common degenerative heart disease affecting 2-3% of adults, with 5-10% of cases progressing to serious complications like heart failure and sudden death.
  • - Similar to humans, affected dogs show changes in valvular interstitial cells (VICs) that resemble activated myofibroblasts, characterized by increased alpha-smooth muscle actin (αSMA) expression.
  • - Research on VICs and their small extracellular vesicles (sEV) revealed that certain non-coding RNAs are upregulated in MVP, and targeting the interaction between miRNA and KLF4 could serve as a potential therapy for managing MVP abnormalities. *
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Objective: This is the first study to systematically explore the lived experiences of sudden and new onset of severe functional tics from the perspective of the mother's experiences and describes their attempts to access support services in the United Kingdom.

Method: Twenty-One mothers of young people aged between 12 to 17 years with functional tic-like behaviour (FTLB) took part in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews revealed gaps and inconsistencies within the process of gaining access to professional services and a lack of support for the management of tics and functional tic-like movements, in addition to highlighting the impact it had on daily family life.

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Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid industrialisation of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England is well documented. During this period, the removal of pauper children from workhouses in cities to work as apprentices in rural mills in the North of England was commonplace.

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Chemotherapy-induced impairment of autophagy is implicated in cardiac toxicity induced by anti-cancer drugs. Imperfect translation from rodent models and lack of in vitro models of toxicity has limited investigation of autophagic flux dysregulation, preventing design of novel cardioprotective strategies based on autophagy control. Development of an adult heart tissue culture technique from a translational model will improve investigation of cardiac toxicity.

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Background: People with intellectual disability are at higher risk of experiencing social isolation in their everyday lives, because of exclusionary practices, discriminatory social policies and structural exclusion. However, less is known about what people with intellectual disability themselves think about loneliness in their lives and what might alleviate it.

Method: In this inclusive research study, 17 people with intellectual disability participated in focus groups or individual interviews and talked about what makes them feel lonely and what helps them to feel included.

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Purpose: The perspectives of children and young people with disability who experience domestic and family violence are under-researched, impeding the development of approaches that meet their needs. Knowledge gaps stem from the layered discursive positioning of disability, childhood/youth, or domestic and family violence in addition to the methodological, ethical and pragmatic complexity of research needed to understand their priorities and be attuned to their lived experience. This article explores methodological, ethical and practical challenges to centring their voices in research about domestic and family violence.

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There has been an increase in the occurrence of sudden onset functional tic-like behaviours in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a significant impact on the affected individual's ability to engage with education. The aim of this article is to generate discussion and inform practice within schools with regard to the management of functional tic-like behaviours. An advice sheet for schools has been produced based on clinical expertise and experience of consulting with schools around the management within education settings.

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Background: Research codesign is generally defined as end-users' involvement in planning, implementation, and evaluation of projects. Recently, there has been a growing interest in codesign to maximise research acceptability, applicability, and impact and to address longstanding issues around power and depth of involvement. Frameworks have been developed to assist in understanding research codesign processes at a project level.

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Shiga toxin-producing (STEC) is a common cause of bloody diarrhea. The pathology of STEC infection derives from two exotoxins-Shiga toxin 1 (Stx1) and Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2)-that are secreted by STEC in the gut, from where they are systemically absorbed, causing severe kidney damage leading to hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Currently, there is no effective treatment for HUS, and only supportive care is recommended.

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Although 'child safety' is now a national policy priority in Australia, there is little research exploring the in schools that contribute to children and young people's felt sense of safety and wellbeing. Drawing on a mixed-method Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project, this article presents findings from interviews with school staff ( = 10), leaders ( = 5) and nine focus groups with students ( = 58), in primary and secondary schools in three Australian states (New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia). We employ relational ethics, recognition theory and the theory of practice architectures to explore practices at school that support student wellbeing and safety.

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There is a need to standardize pathologic endpoints in animal models of SARS-CoV-2 infection to help benchmark study quality, improve cross-institutional comparison of data, and assess therapeutic efficacy so that potential drugs and vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 can rapidly advance. The Syrian hamster model is a tractable small animal model for COVID-19 that models clinical disease in humans. Using the hamster model, the authors used traditional pathologic assessment with quantitative image analysis to assess disease outcomes in hamsters administered polyclonal immune sera from previously challenged rhesus macaques.

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Purpose: This study explored the experiences of people with acquired brain injury and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on how they maintained their communities and sense of belonging, the strategies they found helpful, and advice they have for improving service provision and community connectedness.

Methods: Semi structured interviews with pictorial mapping were conducted with ten adults with ABI and six of their family members. Participants responded to recruitment information circulated by a state-wide ABI peer support network in South Australia.

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Patients with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndromes classically present with variable cardiac defects, parathyroid and thyroid gland hypoplasia, immunodeficiency and velopharyngeal insufficiency, developmental delay, intellectual disability, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric disorders. New technologies including chromosome microarray have identified smaller deletions in the 22q11.

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This paper will review complex motor stereotypies and provide a summary of the current proposed treatment pathway.

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  • - In 2011, the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS) created the first European assessment guidelines for Tourette syndrome (TS), which have now been updated to version 2.0 to include new research and national guidelines.
  • - The updated guidelines address diagnostic changes in TS classifications from DSM-IV to DSM-5, highlighting the importance of distinguishing TS from functional movement disorders and providing recommendations for various assessment tools.
  • - The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) remains the primary method for tic assessment, with the guidelines emphasizing the use of rating scales to evaluate tics, comorbidities, and neuropsychological aspects for clinical practice and research.
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The term 'culture of care' in the context of using animals for scientific purpose describes the culture in organisations that provides support to staff to strive for continuous improvement in:• animal care and welfare;• support and recognition of staff involved in the animal care and use programme;• scientific quality;• openness and transparency.We developed a systematic process for reporting observations and events that have the potential to help with continuous learning, improving animal welfare and supporting staff. The process took learning from the safety, health and environment arena on accident prevention.

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