Recent Publications

Recent publications by the Department of General Practice and Primary Care.

Journal Articles

Bellhouse, C., Temple-Smith, M., Bilardi, J., & Newman, L. (2024). Adaptation and Reflection in the Transition to Parenthood for Women With Risk Factors for Early Parenting Difficulties Who Participated in the STAR Mums Program. Womens Reproductive Health, 11(3), 449-470. doi:10.1080/23293691.2023.2274351

Bibb, J., Robins-Browne, K., Brophy, L., Harvey, C., Fletcher, J., Morrisroe, E., Hamilton, B., Ennals, P., Hayes, L., Fossey, E., & Palmer, V. J. (2025). Staff Perspectives on the Meaning of Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Care and its Implementation in Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) Services in Victoria. Community Mental Health Journal. doi:10.1007/s10597-025-01571-9

Bourchier, L., Bittleston, H., Temple-Smith, M., Malta, S., & Hocking, J. S. (2026). What sexual health information do older adults want? Findings from the Australian SHAPE2 survey. Sexual Health, 23(1). doi:10.1071/sh25069

Bulford, E., & Hegarty, K. (2025). What does trauma-informed care mean in general practice? A qualitative study of general practitioners' perspectives. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(12), 874-878.

Chapman, J. J., Massey-Swindle, T., Arnautovska, U., Hickman, I. J., Wheeler, A. J., Siskind, D., Deenik, J., Ware, R. S., Roberts, J. A., Lee, Y. Y., Milton, A., Marx, W., Wood, S. J., Rutherford, Z., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Trott, M., Iyer, R., Design, C. O., Res Translation Alliance Mental Hlth Co, R. M., Implementat, A. N. C. M. H. R. T., & Translat, N. (2025). Could master protocols be adapted for effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies? Bmc Medical Research Methodology, 25(1). doi:10.1186/s12874-025-02684-1

Coe, A., London, J., Martin, A.-M., van Ree, A., Lembke, K., Johnson, C., Bassilios, B., & Kaylor-Hughes, C. (2026). Developing the Link-me+ EMPHN Mental Health Model of Care to Improve General Practitioner Capacity for Mental Health Care in Australian Primary Care: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Formative Study. Jmir Research Protocols, 15(1), e79560.

Coe, A., London, J., Martin, A. M., Van Ree, A., Lembke, K., Johnson, C., Bassilios, B., & Kaylor-Hughes, C. (2026). Developing the Link-me+EMPHN Mental Health Model of Care to Improve General Practitioner Capacity for Mental Health Care in Australian Primary Care: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Formative Study. Jmir Research Protocols, 15. doi:10.2196/79560

Curran, E., Southam, J., Mageean, L., Chong, T. W. H., Rego, T., Lai, R. D., Zeng, A., Baulch, B., Abraham, C., Ellis, K., Palmer, V., & Lautenschlager, N. (2025). Real world cognitive health: co-designing dementia risk reduction with people experiencing depression. The ENGAGED Study. International Psychogeriatrics, 37(5).

Davine, E. C., Busby, P. A., Peters, S., Harris, D., Timmer, B. H., Sanci, L. A., & Sarant, J. Z. (2025). Co-designing interventions to increase referrals from general practice to audiology in Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Audiology, 1-14.

De Mendonça, L., Onwuka, S., York, S., Martinez-Gutierrez, J., Emery, J., Paul, C., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., & Rankin, N. M. (2026). Identifying eligible patients for the Australian national lung cancer screening program in primary care: A cross-sectional study using clinical decision support systems and evaluating PLCOm2012 data quality. Lung Cancer, 211. doi:10.1016/j.lungcan.2025.108880

Donald, A., Ellis, N., Chen, E., Violette, R., Nissen, L., & Spinks, J. (2026). Clinical indicator prioritisation for the ACTMed trial: a modified nominal group technique approach for primary care research in the electronic age. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 32(1). doi:10.1071/py25064

Donoso, F. S., Archer, S., Walter, F. M., Morris, S., Emery, J., Broome, J., Carver, T., Dennis, J., Ficorella, L., Lafont, A., Stokes, A. E., Stylianou, L., Wilson, C., Easton, D. F., Tischkowitz, M., Antoniou, A. C., & Usher-Smith, J. A. (2025). CanRisk-GP protocol: A feasibility study of incorporating proactive multifactorial breast cancer risk assessment into general practice. Plos One, 20(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0336902

Donoso, F. S., Usher-Smith, J. A., Ficorella, L., Antoniou, A. C., Emery, J., Tischkowitz, M., Carver, T., Easton, D. F., Walter, F. M., & Archer, S. (2025). Primary care online training on multifactorial breast cancer risk: pre-post evaluation study. BJGP Open, 9(3). doi:10.3399/bjgpo.2024.0305

Ee, C., Kandagor, B., Paterson, C., & Vuong, K. (2025). The Role of General Practitioners Across the Cancer Continuum Using the Caring Life-Course Theory. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 41(6). doi:10.1016/j.soncn.2025.152022

Ekawati, F. M., Vidiawati, D., Lestari, P., Kusnanto, H., Sanci, L. A., & Widyahening, I. S. (2025). STRengthening adolescent and young adult friendly primary care service within university clinics in INDOnesia (STRAYA INDO Project): A study protocol for a multicenter study aiming for improving university health services. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 14(11), 4513-4520. doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1792_24

Flehr, A., Dowrick, C., Kaylor-Hughes, C., & Gunn, J. (2025). Uniting depression care through generalism. A primary care response to the Lancet-World Psychiatric Commission's call for united action on depression: a review informed by a realist synthesis approach. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 31(4).

Flehr, A., Lapadula, M. C., Hallinan, C. M., Ng, A. P. P., Mason, K., Chan, L., Heald, A., Wong, W. C., Zhang, D., & Sunjaya, A. P. (2025). International health data trends in anxiety-related and depression-related visits to primary care before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study by INTRePID. The Lancet Primary Care.

Gartland, D., Dashti, S. G., Fitzpatrick, K. M., Carlin, J., Moreno-Betancur, M., Fogarty, A., Macmillan, H., Hegarty, K., Herrman, H., & Brown, S. J. (2025). Preventing mental health problems in mothers with a history of childhood abuse through reducing their risk of intimate partner violence: A causal mediation analysis in an Australian pregnancy cohort. Child Abuse & Neglect, 170. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107703

Giles, F., McKenzie, M., McLindon, E., Tarzia, L., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Women's preferences for how health practitioners respond to coercive control by a partner: Open-ended survey qualitative analysis. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(12), 867-873. doi:10.31128/ajgp-02-25-7571

Hiscock, H., Moore, C., Khano, S., Sanci, L. A., Dalziel, K. M., Freed, G., Boyle, D. I., Meyers Morris, T., Liaw, S. T., & Le, J. (2025). Strengthening Care for Children (SC4C), an Integrated Paediatrician–General Practitioner Model for Reducing Hospital Referral Rates: A Stepped‐Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. Medical Journal of Australia.

Hudson, K., Burton, B., Worthy, P., Isaacs, M., Shrubsole, K., Palmer, V. J., Ng, Z. Y., Copland, D. A., Angwin, A., Wiles, J., Timmer, B., Gullo, M. J., Hill, A. J., & Wallace, S. J. (2025). Experience-based co-design of a smartphone app for post-stroke aphasia self-management: a process evaluation. Brain Impairment, 26(4). doi:10.1071/ib24127

Jeyasingham, E., Lau, P., & Canaway, R. (2026). Perspectives of general practitioners and practice nurses on integration of traditional and complementary medicine with Australia's healthcare system. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 32(1). doi:10.1071/py25042

Johnston, E. A., Bourdaniotis, X. E., Ayre, S. K., Fung, H., Craig, N., Crawford-Williams, F., Bergin, R. J., Emery, J. D., Chan, R. J., & Goodwin, B. C. (2025). What are the Facilitators and Barriers to Improving the Delivery of Survivorship Care Information to Rural Cancer Survivors? A Qualitative Study Using an Implementation Science Framework. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 33(6). doi:10.1111/ajr.70125

Joseph, R., Crawford-Williams, F., Ramsey, I., Han, C. Y., Agbejule, O. A., Ee, C., Jefford, M., Elshaug, A. G., Emery, J., Koczwara, B., Leigh, L., Milch, V., & Chan, R. J. (2025). Advancing implementation of shared care for cancer survivors using a systems thinking approach (the SEAMLESS study). Journal of Cancer Survivorship. doi:10.1007/s11764-025-01911-4

Kalimuddin, S., Waickman, A. T., Avirutnan, P., Alam, M. S., Chiu, C., Young, B. E., Woods, C. W., Fay, P. C., Pakir, S. K., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., Bolte, C., Pengilley, A., Cavaleri, M., Lim, J. C. W., Thomas, S. J., Ko, A. I., & Ooi, E. E. (2026). Proceedings of the inaugural symposium on dengue human challenge studies "Challenging the norm: Accelerating dengue countermeasures through human studies". Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, 20(1). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0013889

Kyei-Nimakoh, M., Bert, C., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Embedding Technological Tools Into Screening for Family Violence in Antenatal Care: Views of Australian Midwives. Violence against Women. doi:10.1177/10778012251401898

Lam, T. N. B., Shahab, Y., & Lau, P. (2025). General Practitioners (GP) experiences in managing patients in clinical trials conducted by non-GP specialists: An exploratory qualitative study. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 9(1). doi:10.1017/cts.2025.10217

Lei, S., Venning, B., Pearce, A., Lee, A., & Emery, J. (2025). Patterns of diagnostic testing for oesophagogastric cancer-related symptoms in Australian primary care: a retrospective cohort study. British Journal of General Practice, 75(759), 686-694. doi:10.3399/bjgp.2024.0621

Lingam, R., Hiscock, H., Khano, S., Murphy, J. B., Wheeler, K., Tuttle, A., Forrester, B., Preddy, J., McMillan, F., Bullock, S., Hodgins, M., Crespo, C., Hu, N., Forrester, M., Tickell, D., Hibbert, P., Brydon, M., Dalziel, K., Pierce, K., Sawrikar, V., Chondros, P., & Sanci, L. (2025). Strengthening Care for Rural Children (SC4RC): study protocol for a stepped-wedge translational trial of an integrated general practitioner-paediatrician model of primary care in regional Victoria and New South Wales. Trials, 27(1). doi:10.1186/s13063-025-09307-6

Lynch, J. M., Klieve-Longman, J., McLindon, E., Cullen, P., Giles, F., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Coercive control: Recognising relational patterns that affect patient wellbeing. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(12), 855-859. doi:10.31128/ajgp-02-25-7576

Martinez-Gutierrez, J., Chima, S., De Mendonca, L., Lee, A. L., Hunter, B., Manski-Nankervis, J. A., Fishman, D., Huckvale, K., Lim, F. S., Wang, B. Y., Nelson, C., Nicholson, B., & Emery, J. (2025). Evaluating a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Cancer Risk Assessment in Primary Care: Simulation Study of Unintended Weight Loss. Jmir Formative Research, 9. doi:10.2196/79208

McBride, C., Hunter, B., Davis, E., McMorrow, R., & Manski-Nankervis, J. A. (2025). MenoPROMPT: co-design of a digital menopause pre-consultation tool for Australian general practice. Climacteric. doi:10.1080/13697137.2025.2576471

Meyers Morris, T., Hiscock, H., Wheeler, K., Miller, C., Hu, N., Hassan Shire, S., Crespo-Gonzalez, C., Bullock, S., Taylor, N., Boyle, D., Sanci, L., Lawson, K., Adams, L., Peacock, K., Hodgins, M., Christie, A., & Lingam, R. (2026). Strengthening Care for Children Using a Virtual Integrated General Practitioner-Pediatrician Model of Primary Care (SUSTAIN): Protocol for a Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Jmir Research Protocols, 15, e69728-e69728. doi:10.2196/69728

Neil, J., Dai, L., Su, W.-M., & Hegarty, K. (2025). Issues in the identification of all members of a family affected by intimate partner violence in primary care. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(12), 848-853. doi:10.31128/ajgp-02-25-7562

Neil, J., Giles, F., & Hegarty, K. (2025). What do I do when they disclose? Responding to intimate partner violence and coercive control in primary care. Australian Journal of General Practice, 54(12), 860-866.

Palmer, V. J., Bibb, J., Tjung, C., Dettmann, E., Moorhouse, J., Orcher, P., Jazayeri, D., Hermeston, W., Eades, S., Coe, A., Maybery, D., Wheeler, A. J., Hegarty, K., Neil, A., Banfield, M., On behalf of the, A. N. C. f. M. H. R., & Translation Investigator, G. (2025). An architecture of feeling: a participatory design blueprint for a co-designed roadmap for the regeneration of mental health care ecosystems using emotion mapping. Design for Health, 1-20. doi:10.1080/24735132.2025.2597687

Priede, A., Lau, P., Mariño, R., & Darby, I. (2025). Enhancing Diabetes Screening Among Oral Healthcare Professionals: A COM-B Model and a Theoretical Domains Framework Approach. Diabetology, 6(10). doi:10.3390/diabetology6100113

Priede, A., Mariño, R., Darby, I., & Lau, P. (2025). A Qualitative Analysis of First-Year Dental Students' Opinions on Diabetes Screening in the Dental Setting. Diabetology, 6(11). doi:10.3390/diabetology6110134

Ramsay, G., Brooks, R., Wade, C., Liew, J. J. M., Alphonse, P., McIntosh, J., Forrest, L. E., Emery, J., & Saya, S. (2026). GP perspectives on genomics in primary care: a qualitative study on using polygenic risk scores to evaluate cancer risk. British Journal of General Practice. doi:10.3399/bjgp.2025.0159

Rioseco, A., Puschel, K., Soto, G., Vescovi, Z., Fuentes, I., Dibiase, F., Ulloa, G., Goic, C., Emery, J., Thompson, B., & Martinez-Gutierrez, J. (2025). National cancer plans and primary care a systematic analysis comparing Latin American and non-Latin American countries. Journal of Cancer Policy, 46. doi:10.1016/j.jcpo.2025.100659

Sandler, C. X., Goldstein, D., Ee, C., Vuong, K., Jones, M., Clifford, B., Serafimovska, A., Polykarpou, N., Khair, R., & Lloyd, A. (2025). IGNITE: Development and Evaluation of Patient, General Practitioner and Allied Health Professional eLearning to Facilitate Care for Post-Cancer Fatigue. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 21.

Schillok, H., Gensichen, J., Panagioti, M., Gunn, J., Junker, L., Lukaschek, K., Jung-Sievers, C., Sterner, P., Kaupe, L., Dreischulte, T., Ali, M. K., Aragonès, E., Bekelman, D. B., Belnap, B. H., Carney, R. M., Chwastiak, L. A., Coventry, P. A., Davidson, K. W., Ekstrand, M. L., Flehr, A., Fletcher, S., Hölzel, L. P., Huijbregts, K., Mohan, V., Patel, V., Richards, D. A., Rollman, B. L., Salisbury, C., Simon, G. E., Srinivasan, K., Unützer, J., Wells, K. B., Zimmermann, T., Bühner, M., & Grp, P. (2025). Effective Components of Collaborative Care for Depression in Primary Care: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Jama Psychiatry, 82(9), 868-876. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.0183

See, J. S., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Johnson, C., & Coe, A. (2026). Understanding how culture shapes Chinese patients’ mental health decision-making in Australian general practice. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 32(1). doi:10.1071/py25189

Sim-Devadas, A., Soon, S. B. S., Lakshmanan, E. M., Jain, R., Chotirmall, S. H., & Manski-Nankervis, J. A. (2025). OPENing the door for patient and public involvement in medical research in Singapore. Research Involvement and Engagement, 11(1). doi:10.1186/s40900-025-00789-x

Stam, N. C., Bonomo, Y., Furler, J., Drummer, O. H., & Schumann, J. L. (2026). Drug toxicity deaths associated with opioid agonist treatment: An analysis of methadone and buprenorphine-related fatalities in Victoria, Australia1. Forensic Science International, 379. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2025.112772

Tan, Y. Y., Tasnim, S., Fadzil, M. F. B., Ng, X. R., Wong, S. K. W., Manski-Nankervis, J. A. E., Sung, J. J. Y., & Ngeow, J. (2025). Risk-based screening programmes for cancer diagnosis: A systematic review with narrative synthesis. Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore, 54(10), 644-663. doi:10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.202598

Tuteja, A., Sanci, L., Mascarenhas, L., Riggs, E. M., Van-Vliet, D., Sangster, K., McGuinness, K., & Temple-Smith, M. (2022). Negotiating Language in Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Care to Refugees From Burma: Experiences of Service Providers From Australia. Women s Reproductive Health, 9(1), 57-79. doi:10.1080/23293691.2021.1999622

Twycross, M., Temple-Smith, M., Bilardi, J., Thrower, E., & Bellhouse, C. (2025). Where did we go wrong? Recruitment challenges in exploring LGBTIQA+ experiences following miscarriage. Sexual Health, 22(6). doi:10.1071/sh25136

Uebel, K., Yong, F. R., Agaliotis, M., Pathirana, T., Nguyen, J. D. T., Hawkey, C. C. A., Naicker, S., & Vuong, K. (2025). General Practitioners' Trust in Their Patients: A Qualitative Study. Annals of Family Medicine, 23(6), 500-506. doi:10.1370/afm.250038

Venning, B., Lei, S. K., Pearce, A., Lee, A., & Emery, J. D. (2025). Diagnostic testing patterns for lung cancer-related symptoms in primary care: a retrospective cohort study. Bmj Open Respiratory Research, 12(1). doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2025-003337

Vithanage, P. G., Rafiq, M., Drosdowsky, A., Ramsay, G., Smith, C., Lamb, K. E., & Emery, J. (2025). Time to diagnosis and treatment in lymphoma and implications for health-related outcomes: a systematic review. Leukemia & Lymphoma. doi:10.1080/10428194.2025.2598663

Wallace, S. J., Ng, Z. Y., Burton, B., Isaacs, M., Deslandes, R., Sinh, G., Barron, K., Jamieson, P., Shrubsole, K. A., Copland, D. A., Wiles, J., Palmer, V. J., Evans, P., Hudson, K., Angwin, A. J., Hill, A. J., Timmer, B. H. B., Gullo, M. J., Campbell, J. H., & Worthy, P. (2025). Development of an mHealth Application for Self-Management of Post-Stroke Aphasia: Protocol for Experience-Based Co-Design, User Experience Testing, Feasibility Field Test and Process Evaluation. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 60(6). doi:10.1111/1460-6984.70162

Wawryk, O., Collins, I. M., Lee, A., Buzza, M., Neil, S., Freeman, J., Emery, J., & Rafiq, M. (2025). Rural variations in primary care prostate cancer diagnosis and survival: a cohort study using linked Australian primary care electronic medical record data. Bmc Cancer, 25(1). doi:10.1186/s12885-025-15044-5

Wellington, M., Hegarty, K., & Tarzia, L. (2025). Women's Experiences Seeking Health Care in the Context of Reproductive Coercion and Abuse. Womens Reproductive Health. doi:10.1080/23293691.2025.2601862

Wigan, R., Hughes, Y., Waring, L., Chow, E. P. F., Pasricha, S., Ong, J. J., Maisano, M., Fairley, C. K., Temple-Smith, M., Sanci, L., Hocking, J. S., Tomnay, J., Donovan, B., Hewson, D., Diprose, A., Bilardi, J., Williamson, D., Towns, J. M., Ryder, N., Kaldor, J., & Chen, M. Y. (2026). Multiplex PCR testing for Treponema pallidum and herpes simplex virus in primary care to detect primary syphilis in Victoria, Australia: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Primary Care, 100091. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanprc.2025.100091

Conference Proceedings

Deng, D. Y., Flehr, A., Densley, K., Johnson, C., & Chondros, P. (2025). Impact of comorbid depression on myocardial infarction mortality and/or all-cause mortality in adult patients: a scoping review using a systematic approach. Paper presented at the Australian Journal of Primary Health. <Go to ISI>://WOS:001596396700111

Goller, J., Alexiou, Z., Bittleston, H., Munari, S., Temple-Smith, M., Sanci, L., Hocking, J., & Coombe, J. (2025). Strengthening Chlamydia Management in Australian General Practice Using Interventions That Align with Clinic Workflow. Paper presented at the Sexual Health. <Go to ISI>://WOS:001638537200627