Current Projects
For a listing of the Centre's current projects, please click here.
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Psychosocial
Being diagnosed and experiencing a life-limiting illness, or caring for a loved one in that situation, can have a wide ranging impact on patients and carers’ physical and mental health, their ability to function on a day-to-day basis, and their overall quality of life.
Our Psychosocial Research Program aims to improve the overall quality of life of palliative care patients, and their informal caregivers and family, by developing and testing interventions that address psychological and social needs.
More specifically, this research focuses on:
- anxiety
- depression
- distress
- physical symptom burden (such as pain or breathlessness)
- financial hardship
- poor social support
- existential/spiritual needs.
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Health Services
Our research assesses the current provision of palliative care and develops and rigorously evaluates novel models of palliative care provision, with the aim of improving patient outcomes.
Our multidisciplinary projects include the development of new models of service delivery. The assessment of when and how palliative care services are currently introduced, and the creation of tools to identify those in need of palliative care.
Our researchers measure a wide range of health service outcomes, including those of patients, informal caregivers and health care providers as well as the economics of health care provision.
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Clinical Trials
Our clinical trials research has improved the treatment and care of palliative care patients, and their families.
Our clinical trials research program is driven by physicians and takes a holistic approach to improving evidence-based palliative care practice.
This occurs with treatment and care, and a focus on the management of common symptoms such as nausea, anorexia, pain and breathlessness.
Our trials are run in collaboration with other health care providers and clinical studies collaboratives in Australia and overseas.
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