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Neuropsychological Functioning and Ghrelin Secretion in Women with Binge Eating

Taylor, Kathryn Jan (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Aims: Binge eating disorders have a substantial impact on the lives of those affected, both psychologically and physically. The trend towards using a transdiagnostic model to understand binge eating disorders highlights ...
Personality Associations with Mood, Hoarding, Health and Well-being

Spittlehouse, Janet Katherine (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Background: Personality has been of interest since ancient times. Hippocrates, also known as ‘The father of Western Medicine’ was possibly the first to document the association between personality and mental and physical ...
Alcohol-related psychiatric comorbidity

Foulds, James (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Background Alcohol problems and common mental disorders, particularly depression, contribute greatly to the global burden of disease and they often coexist. However, many aspects of the relationship between these two ...
The Experience of Alcohol Use amongst Individuals with an Intellectual Disability in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Gee, Grahame (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2016)

Background: There is little research literature on alcohol use among those with intellectual and Developmental disability and no New Zealand based studies of such alcohol use prior to this study. Based upon overseas research, ...
A Discourse Analysis of Self-management for Bipolar Disorder

Wilson, Lynere Deborah (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

In line with a movement across all areas of health concerned with chronic illness, self-management practices have become an important part of what it means to provide contemporary mental health care to people with the ...
New Zealand’s emergent opioid trends - the influences and impacts: Consumer and clinician understanding of New Zealand’s changing patterns of opioid use, availability and impacts

Braye, Klare (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2015)

This thesis explores opioid users and addiction service providers’ understandings of the changing patterns, availability and impacts of opioids and opioid use in New Zealand with a particular focus on the last two ...
Critical Success Factors in Kaupapa Māori AOD Residential Treatment: Māori Youth Perspectives

Kapuaahiwalani-Fitzsimmons, Mino’aka (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2015)

There is a significant gap in the research literature regarding issues related to Māori rangatahi (Māori indigenous youth) alcohol and other drug (AOD) residential treatment. Historically, the majority of residential AOD ...
Attitudes to Ageing: Relationships with Health and Health Behaviours in Midlife

Thorpe, Anna Marie (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

There is growing pressure to understand and protect the health of the world’s ageing population. Despite projected rapid population ageing in New Zealand, limited attention has been given to attitudes towards ageing. ...
Registered Nurses' Perceptions and Experiences of Nursing Adolescents in an Adult Mental Health Unit.

Hollins, Joanne Elizabeth (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2014)

In this study the perceptions and experiences of Registered Nurses (RNs) nursing adolescents in an adult mental health (MH) unit were explored with the aim of identifying any nursing concerns regarding such admissions. The ...
The Role of Alliance in Treatment Outcome for People with Alcohol Dependence and Depression

Richardson, Deirdre (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

Introduction: The pantheoretical variable of alliance has consistently been reported to have a moderate yet robust effect on treatment outcome. However, the relationship is less clear in the addiction field where research ...
Factors that influence the uptake and continuing practice of Interpersonal Psychotherapy by frontline mental health clinicians following formal training

Nolan, Dawn (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2014)

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) was initially developed by Gerald Klerman and colleagues in 1968 as a time limited treatment for depression in a research setting. Since then international empirical studies have proved ...
The Impact Of Childhood Adversity On Outcomes In Adult Depression

Johnstone, Jeanette (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

OBJECTIVES This thesis examined three types of childhood adversity, low parental care, overprotection and abuse, as predictors of response to two types of depression treatment: antidepressant medication and psychotherapy. ...
Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry in New Zealand: A survey of psychiatrists in New Zealand

Butcher, Wyatt Hillary (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)

The literature on spirituality, religion and health identifies spirituality and religious belief as being important components in the recovery from mental illness (May, Muir-Cochrane, & Clare, 2005; Swinton, 2001; Turbott, ...
Exploring undergraduate nursing students’ experiences of their first clinical placement in an acute adult mental health inpatient service

Lienert-Brown, Melanie Faye (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)

Mental health nurses are vital to the mental health and addiction workforce. However, there are significant workforce challenges facing mental health nursing. With an aging workforce, increasing demand for mental health ...
The Relationships Between Empathy and Burnout in Nurses

Kennedy, Barry (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)

Empathy is essential in nursing, yet it remains difficult to define and measure and many nurses do not display empathy even if they possess it. Studies linking empathy and burnout are few, but the results generally favour ...
Mental Health Nurses' Experiences of Patient Assaults

Baby, Maria (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2013)

With the advancements in technology, there has been a significant reduction in the classical risk factors at the workplace like biological, chemical and physical harms. But with the turn of the era, much attention has ...
"Sick unto death" barriers and facilitators to primary healthcare for Māori

Reid, Jennifer Mary (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

This qualitative study examined the barriers and facilitators that influenced access to and engagement with primary healthcare amongst a purposively selected Maori sub-sample from the Christchurch, New Zealand, cohort of ...
Personality in Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder

Rowe, Sarah (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)

Background: Axis I and II disorders are not independent. Understanding the relationship between these groups of disorders requires further exploration. This thesis will explore whether personality disorders, assessed by ...
Conceptualising the Foundation of an Effective Clinical Supervision Cycle in Mental Health Nursing

Cowie, Craig (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2011)

Clinical supervision is an activity that is interpreted widely in terms of its definition, purpose and its practical application to the practice of mental health nursing. Despite methodological limitations in research, in ...
An examination of the Feasibility and Acceptance of Process Mapping in the Canterbury District Health Board

Morice, Sonya Ruth (Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2011)

Process mapping is used across the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) to record a variety of processes. Process mapping refers to the systematic approach of documenting the steps, activities and time required to ...