Nicola C Newton

May 5, 2024 | mja.com.au | Siobhan O'Dean |Matthew Sunderland |Nicola C Newton |Lauren Gardner

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (8): 417-424.

Apr 10, 2024 | thenantwichnews.co.uk | Nicola C Newton

Cheshire East Council must ensure bus routes are provided to Leighton Hospitals when it reviews the services it supports, councillors have said. The council currently spends £2.5 million a year supporting bus services which are not commercially viable but are deemed important and socially necessary. The highways and transport committee agreed a review of the supported bus network should begin this month, as existing contracts end next year.

Dec 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jennifer Debenham |Louise Birrell |Katrina E Champion |Nicola C Newton

Drug literacy (knowledge) A drug literacy knowledge score was measured through summing responses from a 20-item true or false knowledge scale measuring knowledge of how different substances affect the body, adapted from the School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project [43]. Participants responded to items such as ‘you can do things like take a shower or eat food to sober up more quickly’. The scale demonstrates acceptable internal consistency (knowledge scale α = 0.73).

Oct 2, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Emily Stockings |Lauren Gardner |Nicola C Newton

Many Australians—including teachers, parents, clinicians, public health researchers and members of the general community—will welcome Minister Butler and the Albanese Government's recent announcement to ban disposable electronic cigarettes (also known as e-cigarettes or vapes) and the accompanying $737 M investment in measures to protect Australian's from the harms caused by tobacco and vaping products [1].

Apr 7, 2023 | thelancet.com | S List |Katrina E Champion |Nicola C Newton |Lauren Gardner

SummaryBackgroundLifestyle risk behaviours are prevalent among adolescents and commonly co-occur, but current intervention approaches tend to focus on single risk behaviours. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the eHealth intervention Health4Life in modifying six key lifestyle risk behaviours (ie, alcohol use, tobacco smoking, recreational screen time, physical inactivity, poor diet, and poor sleep, known as the Big 6) among adolescents.