2025 Publications
Below is a selection of publications from members of the SHeLL team, across all projects.
Publications relating to individual projects are listed under current projects.
| Title | Journal | Authors | Article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Influence of Anecdotes of IVF Success on Treatment Decision Making: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial. | Medical Decision Making | Chadwick, V. et al | https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989x251367783 |
| Switch It Off! Carbon, Financial and Health Service Impacts of Switching Off a Computed Tomography Scanner: A Quality Improvement Study | Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences | Marks, N. et al | http://doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.896 |
| Are bullet points the silver bullet to accessible health information? Cross-sectional analysis of community health information preferences | Patient Education and Counseling | Ayre, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109336 |
| Interventions to support patient decision making about taking part in health research: A systematic review | Patient Education and Counseling | Hersch, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109339 |
| Greenhouse gas emissions associated with anaesthetic gases in Australia, 2002–2022: a retrospective descriptive analysis | The Medical Journal of Australia | Verlis, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.70046 |
| Using Medication Management Technologies in Swiss Primary Care: Mixed Methods Study | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Wildisen, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/68857 |
| ‘It's Putting All the Burden on the Patient’: A Qualitative Study of Health Literacy and Shared Decision‐Making in Rural Australian Communities | Australian Journal of Rural Health | Gray, H. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.70084 |
| Development of a Deprescribing Intervention for Proton Pump Inhibitors in Primary Care: A Co‐Design Approach With General Practitioners and Patients | Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology | Weir, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/bcpt.70091 |
| The Heart Health Yarning Tool: Co‐Designing a Shared Decision‐Making Tool With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Management | Health Expectations | McKinn, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70387 |
| Reducing plastic in single-use central line insertion packs: A mixed methods observational study. | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care | Seville, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.1177/0310057x251358276 |
| Gloves off!: Environmental and financial impacts of an educational intervention to improve hand hygiene. A quality improvement study | Infection Disease & Health | Wilkie-Miskin, T. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2025.07.003 |
| Doing community involvement care-fully: using an ethic of care to guide involvement in research on women’s health after pregnancy complications and loss | Research Involvement and Engagement | Jenkinson, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-025-00771-7 |
| Understanding Medicine Preferences of Older Adults: The Role of Messaging in a Multi‐Methods Experimental Survey | Health Expectations | Chaitoff, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70366 |
| False premises, false promises: celebrity endorsement of non-evidence-based anticancer interventions on social media | Health Promotion International | Gram, E. et al | https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf116 |
| One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care | JAMA Network Open | Longtin, C. et al | http://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.23352 |
| Decision Support Tools in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation: An Environmental Scan and Appraisal of Online Resources. | Transplantation | White, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000005473 |
| Quality of Available Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge Tools: A Systematic Review | Global Heart | Fajardo, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1446 |
| Navigating treatment options: a qualitative study exploring Australian women’s decision-making experiences and satisfaction with treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding | BMC Women's Health | Ramsay, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-025-03884-z |
| Exploring the experiences and perceptions of cancer care treatment decision making for older people with cancer: A qualitative study | Journal of Geriatric Oncology | He, Sharon; Shepherd, Heather L; Agar, Meera; Laidsaar-Powell, Rebekah; Shaw, Joanne | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2025.102313 |
| Sleep practices and association between supine sleep position and stillbirth in a rural sample of pregnant women in Bangladesh | Women and Birth | Harris, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101934 |
| Informed Consent for Newborn Genomic Screening: Interest-Holder Perspectives on Dynamic Consent in an Evolving Landscape | International Journal of Neonatal Screening | Okamura, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns11020041 |
| Reducing pathology testing in emergency departments: A scoping review | Australasian Emergency Care | Kazda, L. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2025.05.006 |
| Spatio-temporal patterns of prostate-specific antigen testing in asymptomatic men: a population-based cohort study, Australia, 2002–2018 | Public Health | Kohar, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105769 |
| Co-designing an online educational resource to help adolescents improve their digital health literacy | BMC Public Health | Aloi, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22949-0 |
| Exploring Values Clarification and Health-Literate Design in Patient Decision Aids: A Qualitative Interview Study | Medical Decision Making | Ayre, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989x251334356 |
| Psychosocial impacts of, and barriers to, lung cancer screening: An international qualitative study of multidisciplinary health professionals’ perspectives | Patient Education and Counseling | McFadden, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109172 |
| Do migrant women have equity of access to midwife continuity of care? | Women and Birth | Melov, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101918 |
| Building capacity for genomics in primary care: a scoping review of practitioner attitudes, education needs, and enablers | Frontiers in Medicine | Dunlop, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1577958 |
| Beyond bereavement: Women’s healthcare experiences and cardiovascular disease risk in the years after stillbirth and recurrent early pregnancy loss | Women and Birth | Jenkinson, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2025.101915 |
| Perspectives of people with chronic illness about plain language summaries: a qualitative analysis | Health Promotion International | Gainey, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf044 |
| Supporting wellness after cancer treatment for women from Chinese, Vietnamese, and Arabic backgrounds: a qualitative study of healthcare provider views | Supportive Care in Cancer | Grant, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-025-09417-6 |
| Radiation oncology patients’ perceptions of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cancer care: A multi-centre cross-sectional study | Radiotherapy and Oncology | Chan, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2025.110891 |
| Appropriateness of Web-Based Resources for Home Blood Pressure Measurement and Their Alignment With Guideline Recommendations, Readability, and End User Involvement: Environmental Scan of Web-Based Resources | JMIR Infodemiology | Clapham, E. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/55248 |
| Cost-effectiveness of intrapartum azithromycin to prevent maternal infection, sepsis, or death in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling analysis of data from a randomised, multicentre, placebo-controlled trial | The Lancet Global Health | Patterson, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00517-5 |
| Effectiveness of intrapartum azithromycin to prevent infections in planned vaginal births in low-income and middle-income countries: a post-hoc analysis of data from a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial | The Lancet Global Health | Waldemar A C. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00562-x |
| Australian healthcare professionals' experiences and perception of management of older adults with cancer: A qualitative study | Journal of Geriatric Oncology | He, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2025.102234 |
| Evaluation of how US women react to a decision aid informing them of the harms and benefits of mammography: a qualitative study | BMJ Open | Morse, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087997 |
| Co‐Designing a Framework for Social Media Health Communication to Young People: A Participatory Research Study | Health Expectations | Taba, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70203 |
| Effect of virtual care in type 2 diabetes management – a systematic umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis | BMC Health Services Research | Ravi, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-12496-0 |
| Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis | JAMA Network Open | Nickel, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.61940 |
| Participant recruitment and retention in randomised controlled trials of melanoma surveillance: A scoping review | Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications | Ackermann, D. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101461 |
| Women’s health and healthcare experiences in the years after gestational diabetes or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | Jenkinson, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-025-07296-7 |
| Development of a decision aid for Australian carers of children with cerebral palsy and their community clinicians, about selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery | Disability and Rehabilitation | Lewis, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2463637 |
| Trust in the healthcare system declines after exposure to information about the harms and benefits of breast cancer screening. | Journal of Health Psychology | Parmet, T. et al | https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053251315383 |
| Older Adults’ Attitudes Toward Deprescribing in 14 Countries | JAMA Network Open | Lüthold, R. et al | https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.57498 |
| Australia's National Lung Cancer Screening Program—It's Time to Address the Stigma in the Room | Health Promotion Journal of Australia | Rose, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.70011 |
| How have interventions targeting pregnant women from refugee, migrant and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living in high-income countries been developed or tailored to meet community needs? A systematic scoping review of stillbirth-related literature | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | Sharma, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-07091-w |
| Women who experience heavy menstrual bleeding: prevalence and characteristics from young adulthood to midlife, Australia, 2000–2021: a longitudinal cohort survey study | The Medical Journal of Australia | Wilson, L. et al | https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52596 |
| “Your Life, Your Health: Tips and Information for Health and Well-Being”: Development of a World Health Organization Digital Resource to Support Universal Access to Trustworthy Health Information | JMIR Formative Research | Muscat, D. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/57881 |
| Are AI chatbots concordant with evidence-based cancer screening recommendations? | Patient Education and Counseling | Nickel, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108677 |
| DepRescribing inapprOpriate Proton Pump InhibiTors (DROPIT): study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Swiss primary care | BMJ Open | Schulthess-Lisibach, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-094495 |
| Latent Class Analysis Identifies Four Distinct Patient Deprescribing Typologies Among Older Adults in Four Countries | Innovation in Aging | Weir, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaf002 |
| Effects of warning information at medication initiation on deprescribing intentions in older adults: A hypothetical vignette | Patient Education and Counseling | Vordenberg, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108654 |
| The Deadly Details: How Clear and Complete Are Publicly Available Sources of Human Rabies Information? | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease | Patane, N. et al | https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed10010016 |
| Older Adults’ Experiences With an Online Survey | JMIR Human Factors | Weir, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/65684 |
| Skeptical Reactions to Breast Cancer Screening Benefits and Harms: Antecedents, Consequences, and Implications for Screening Communication | Health Psychology | Scherer, L. et al | https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001442 |
| Standardising the measurement of child health indicators within global climate adaptation | The Lancet Planetary Health | Cerna-Turoff, I. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101320 |
| Measuring and monitoring child health and well-being - an integral part of the climate change agenda | Health Policy and Planning | Requejo, J. et al | http://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaf070 |
| Correction: Co-designing an online educational resource to help adolescents improve their digital health literacy | BMC Public Health | Aloi, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-24455-9 |
| Medication delivery and dispensing interval preferences of people who use antihypertensive medications in Australia: a survey study | The Medical Journal of Australia | Bonner, C. et al | https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.70034 |
| Broadening the Lens on Reporting to Include Older Adults' Emotional Responses During Deprescribing Trials | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | Weir, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.70023 |
| Mammography Screening Preferences Among Screening-Eligible Women in Their 40s. | Annals of Internal Medicine | Scherer, L. et al | https://doi.org/10.7326/annals-25-01110 |
| Examining the layered health literacy demands in low-value care contexts | BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine | Muscat, D. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113443 |
| Estimated carbon emissions for PBS‐subsidised prescription respiratory inhalers, Australia, 2019–2023: a descriptive analysis | The Medical Journal of Australia | Kazda, L. et al | https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52715 |
| Preparing the Future of Research on Deprescribing: Results From a Survey of Early Career Researchers at the 2nd International Conference on Deprescribing | Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology | Nguyen‐Soenen, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1111/bcpt.70049 |
| Countries should strengthen their health information systems. | The BMJ | Strong, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r791 |
| Corrigendum to “Exploring the factors contributing to increase in facility child births in Bangladesh between 2004 and 2017–2018” [Heliyon Volume 9, Issue 5, MAY 2023, Article e15875] | Heliyon | Rana, M S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43134 |
| Fundamentally flawed or functional and feasible? The use of readability metrics in healthcare | Patient Education and Counseling | Mac, O. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108741 |
| Authors’ Reply: “Adolescent Cocreation in Digital Health: From Passive Subjects to Active Stakeholders” | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Lewis, C. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/71897 |
| Education About Breast Density Does Not Improve Screening Adherence Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Women | Journal of Women's Health | Nickel, B. & Houssami, N. | https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2024.1049 |
| Authors’ Reply: Enhancing the Clinical Relevance of Al Research for Medication Decision-Making | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Vordenberg, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/72007 |
| Use of ChatGPT to obtain health information in Australia, 2024: insights from a nationally representative survey | The Medical Journal of Australia | Ayre, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52598 |
| 093 The impact of social media on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) self-diagnosis: an online randomized trial | Jansen, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.93 | |
| 071 The carbon footprint of imaging should be considered to ensure an effective and sustainable supplementary breast screening strategy for women with dense breasts | Isautier, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.71 | |
| 061 How under-recognition, ‘femtech’ and social media are leading to inappropriate medicalisation of women’s health | Copp, T. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.61 | |
| 042 Virtual fracture clinics to improve healthcare sustainability: the clinician experience | Charteris, R. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.42 | |
| 041 Older women’s decision-making after contemplating messaging about breast cancer screening cessation | Smith, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.41 | |
| 036 Das health care kapital: a critique of how for-profit corporations contribute to overdiagnosis and overtreatment | Docking, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.36 | |
| 033 Multi-component support interventions for deprescribing potentially inappropriate medications in older adults: a systematic review | Sharma, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.33 | |
| 119 Impact of new diagnostic labels for a low-risk prostate ‘cancer’ in Australian men: an online factorial randomised experiment | Bell, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.119 | |
| 118 Impact of new diagnostic labels for a low-risk prostate ‘cancer’ in Australian women with male partners: an online factorial randomised experiment | Bell, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.118 | |
| 113 Exploring the potential impact of new diagnostic labels for melanoma in-situ: an online randomised experiment | Bell, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.113 | |
| 011 Social media posts about medical tests with potential for overdiagnosis and/or overuse | Nickel, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.11 | |
| 010 A randomised controlled trial of population-based breast density notification: do the benefits outweigh the harms for women and the health system? | Nickel, B. et al | https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm-2025-pod.10 | |
| Shared decision making for screening | Hersch, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198897804.003.0042 | |
| Multilingual video education for hospitalised patients with Myocardial Infarction (EDUCATE-MI): single-arm implementation study (Preprint) | JMIR Preprints | Zeng, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.82817 |
| Exploring LGBTQ + health literacy in Australia: survey co-design and study protocol for a descriptive cross-sectional study | Health Literacy and Communication Open | Chalouhi, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1080/28355245.2025.2533778 |
| Assessing health literacy and its impacts among people accessing unguided internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for depression and anxiety: a treatment-seeking cohort study | Advances in Mental Health | Fisher, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.1080/18387357.2025.2536801 |
| Science and knowledge translation strategies to the public during health emergencies: systematic review of RCTs | medRxiv | Taba, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.21.25331954 |
| Evaluating a health literacy editing tool to increase plain language: randomised controlled trial | Patient Education and Counseling | Ayre, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108912 |
| Health literacy research priorities for readability assessment: a Delphi consensus study | Patient Education and Counseling | Mac, O. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109004 |
| Informing older women about the cessation of breast cancer screening invitations: a randomized trial | Patient Education and Counseling | Smith, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108902 |
| Evaluating health information written at different grade reading levels: randomised controlled trial | Patient Education and Counseling | Mac, O. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108904 |
| Improving emergency social media health communication for young people via co-design | Patient Education and Counseling | Taba, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108999 |
| COVID-19 vaccine information sources among young Australians: a nationally representative survey | Patient Education and Counseling | Taba, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109002 |
| Co-design and user-testing a health literacy friendly decision aid for patients with sciatica | Patient Education and Counseling | Ayre, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108898 |
| How context can influence statin deprescribing: an experimental vignette study with older adults | Patient Education and Counseling | Weir, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.108948 |
| Multilingual video education for hospitalised patients with Myocardial Infarction (EDUCATE-MI): single-arm implementation study | medRxiv | Zeng, A. et al | https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.01.25330381 |
| P-541 The psychosocial and behavioural consequences of anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) testing on women | Human Reproduction | Peate, M. et al | https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deaf097.847 |
| The Heart Health Yarning Tool: Co-Designing a Shared Decision-Making Tool for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Risk Management | Heart Lung and Circulation | McKinn, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2025.05.023 |
| Association Between Intravenous Fluids During Labor and Primary Postpartum Hemorrhage: A Retrospective Cohort Study | Obstetric Anesthesia Digest | Bruce, BR. et al | https://doi.org/10.1097/01.aoa.0001113084.42719.bd |
| Use of Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: An Umbrella Review | European Journal of Cancer Care | He, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.1155/ecc/7429014 |
| PRIORITY Trial – Prevention of Iron Deficiency Anemia Post-Delivery: A randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of single-dose intravenous iron with oral iron in the treatment of moderate iron deficiency anemia in postpartum women | VeriXiv | Derman, R. et al | https://doi.org/10.12688/verixiv.588.1 |
| Can co-designed educational interventions help consumers think critically about asking ChatGPT health questions? Results from a randomised-controlled trial | medRxiv | Ayre, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.28.25326600 |
| The effects of a short video intervention on digital health literacy skills: Protocol for an online randomised controlled trial | Health Literacy and Communication Open | Vassilenko, D. et al | https://doi.org/10.1080/28355245.2025.2489723 |
| Asking The Right Questions: Co-designing a pre-consultation assessment tool to meet the needs of people with diabetes in Western Sydney | International Journal of Integrated Care | Ravi, S. et al | https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.icic24189 |
| P453: Improving COnsent in cancer GENomic Testing (CoGenT): codesigning a novel dynamic platform | The Breast | Hersch, J. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2025.104261 |
| Psycho-oncology clinicians' perceptions of blended psychological therapy for the treatment of anxiety and depression in patients with cancer: a qualitative interview study | Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice | Nunes-Zlotkowski, K. et al | https://doi.org/10.1097/or9.0000000000000163 |
| Authors’ Reply: “Adolescent Cocreation in Digital Health: From Passive Subjects to Active Stakeholders” (Preprint) | JMIR Preprints | Lewis, C. et al | http://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.71897 |
| Authors’ Reply: Enhancing the Clinical Relevance of Al Research for Medication Decision-Making (Preprint) | JMIR Preprints | Vordenberg, S. et al | http://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.72007 |
| The readability, understandability and actionability of government-provided obstetrics and gynecology patient information sheets | Health Literacy and Communication Open | Miller, Y. et al | https://doi.org/10.1080/28355245.2025.2457747 |
| Chapter 13 Health and medication literacy during pregnancy and breastfeeding | Barnes, L. et al | https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-824407-4.00007-6 |