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  • The sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of a regional population with chronic disease at an interprofessional student-assisted clinic in Queensland Capricornia Allied Health Partnership

    Author(s)
    Frakes, Kerrie-Anne
    Brownie, Sharon
    Davies, Lauren
    Thomas, Janelle
    Miller, Mary-Ellen
    Tyack, Zephanie
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Brownie, Sharon M.
    Miller, Mary-Ellen
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    Objective: This paper describes the sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of people with chronic disease attending an interprofessional student-assisted clinic in regional Queensland. Design: A retrospective review of data collected during the first 10 months of operation of the clinic was conducted. Setting, participants and outcome measures: Data was collected on up to 378 patients during an intake appointment at the Capricornia Allied Health Partnership (CAHP) community-based clinic and compared with normative reference groups where available. Sociodemographic characteristics included age, gender and education ...
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    Objective: This paper describes the sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of people with chronic disease attending an interprofessional student-assisted clinic in regional Queensland. Design: A retrospective review of data collected during the first 10 months of operation of the clinic was conducted. Setting, participants and outcome measures: Data was collected on up to 378 patients during an intake appointment at the Capricornia Allied Health Partnership (CAHP) community-based clinic and compared with normative reference groups where available. Sociodemographic characteristics included age, gender and education level; health-related characteristics included body mass index and hospitalisations in the previous 12 months; and risk factors included prescribed medications, smoking status and general practitionerdiagnosed medical conditions. Results: Patients attending the CAHP clinic had a mean number of chronic conditions of 4.9 2.1 per patient, and 97% of patients had multimorbidities. A high level of socioeconomic disadvantage was found in comparison with normative comparison groups based on employment, highest level of schooling completed and the index of social disadvantage. Patients predominantly lived in inner regional areas (76.7%). The most common diagnoses of patients attending the clinic for the first time were hypertension, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, diabetes and chronic back pain. Conclusions: The CAHP clinic offers a unique studentassisted service model for interprofessional management of patients who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, have multimorbid chronic disease and live in regional areas. The description of baseline data in this paper is important to refine clinic services, to guide other chronic disease clinics and to inform future research study designs.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12017
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Human society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53462
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