Leonie Rutherford interview with Kelly Higgins-Devine on Children's Entertainment

This program covered issues associated with children's entertainment, including the importance of Australian content for audience engagement, Australian children's media habits and preferences, and the science behind paediatricians calls for limits to children's screen media time.

Analysis of operating environments: A diagnostic model for linking science, society and policy for sustainability

Through analysis of the dynamics between science and decision-making, we argue that diagnosing fit-for purpose approaches to linking science and decision-making may be possible. Such diagnosis should enable identification of appropriate processes, institutions, objects (e.g. tools, information products) and relationships that can facilitate outcomes. We begin the paper by unsettling the traditional constructions that science must distance itself from debates about values and what is at stake, and so from policy making. Then, drawing from mixed methods case studies in coastal South-eastern Australia, we describe how scientific research has had a bearing on decisions affecting society and the environment. These analyses suggest that the willingness and capacity of research organisations, programmes or projects to actively reflect on and participate in the evolution of the 'operating environment' for their research is integral to their ability to inform outcomes through science. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Symptom screening scales for detecting major depressive disorder in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of reliability, validity and diagnostic utility.

Depression symptom screening scales are often used to determine a clinical diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) in prevention research. The aim of this review is to systematically examine the reliability, validity and diagnostic utility of commonly used screening scales in depression prevention research among children and adolescents.

Validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 to screen for depression in patients with coronary artery disease.

Depression is common but frequently undetected in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Self-report screening instruments for assessing depression such as the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) are available but their validity is typically determined in depressed patients without comorbid somatic illness. We investigated the validity of these instruments relative to a referent diagnostic standard in recently hospitalized patients with CAD.

The effects of e-simulation interview training on teachers' use of open-ended questions.

Teachers in many parts of the world are mandated reporters of child abuse and maltreatment but very little is known concerning how they question children in suspicious circumstances. Teachers (n=36), who had previously participated in a mock interview scenario designed to characterize their baseline use of various question-types when attempting to elicit sensitive information from children, were given online training in choosing effective questions. They engaged in simulated interviews with a virtual avatar several times in one week and then participated in a mock interview scenario. The amount and proportion of open-ended questions they used increased dramatically after training. The overall number of questions, and amount and proportions of specific and leading questions decreased. In particular, large decreases were observed in more risky yes-no and other forced-choice questions. Given that most teachers may feel the need to ask a child about an ambiguous situation at some point during their careers it is worthwhile to incorporate practice asking effective questions into their training, and the present research suggests that an e-learning format is effective. Additionally, effective questions encourage the development of narrative competence, and we discuss how teachers might include open-ended questions during regular classroom learning.

Validation of patient health questionnaire (PHQ) for major depression in Chinese outpatients with multiple somatic symptoms: A multicenter cross-sectional study

Background: Despite the high co-morbidity of depressive symptoms in patients with multiple somatic symptoms, the validity of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) has not yet been investigated in Chinese patients with multiple somatic symptoms. Methods: The multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted in ten outpatient departments located in four cities in China. The psychometric properties of the PHQ-9 were examined by confirmative factor analysis (CFA). Criterion validation was undertaken by comparing results with depression diagnoses obtained from the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) as the gold standard. Results: Overall, 491 patients were recruited of whom 237 had multiple somatic symptoms (SOM+ group, PHQ-15 ≥ 10). Cronbach's α of the PHQ-9 was 0.87, 0.87, and 0.90 for SOM+ patients, SOM- patients, and total sample respectively. All items and the total score were moderately correlated. The factor models of PHQ-9 tested by CFA yielded similar diagnostic performance when compared to sum score estimation. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis based on unidimensional model showed similar psychometric properties over the groups with low and high somatic symptom burden. The optimal cut-off point to detect depression in Chinese outpatients was 10 for PHQ-9 (sensitivity=0.77, specificity=0.76) and 3 for PHQ-2 (sensitivity=0.77, specificity=0.74). Limitations: Potential selection bias and nonresponse bias with applied sampling method. Conclusions: PHQ-9 (cut-off point=10) and PHQ-2 (cut-off point=3) were reliable and valid to detect major depression in Chinese patients with multiple somatic symptoms.

Interview with Mustakim Adipradja

Mustakim Adipradja is an Indonesian who studied Architecture in Australia at the University of Melbourne in the 1960s. He married an Australian, has travelled the world and worked in Australia, Singapore and Indonesia. The interview is conducted in Indonesian by Dr Ahmad Suaedy from the Abdurrahman Wahid Center for Interfaith Dialogue and Peace at Universitas Indonesia and was recorded on 2 January 2014. This set comprises: An interview recording in two parts, a transcript of the interview in Indonesian, a transcript of the interview translated into English.

Interview with Kosasih (Kos) Atmawidjaja (Atma)

Kos Atma is an Indonesian who studied Technology in Australia at the University of Adelaide in 1956 under the Colombo Plan. He survived World War II and the Japanese occupation and experienced the nationalist insurgency against the Dutch colonial power as a child and teenager. The interview was conducted in English by Dr Jemma Purdey of Deakin University and was recorded on 15 January 2014. This set comprises: an interview recording, a photograph, and a transcript of the interview.

Interview with Sumbangan Baja

Dr Sumbangan Baja is an Indonesian who studied for a PhD in Australia at Sydney University on an Australian Development Scholarship, 1998-2001. He completed a Masters degree at Massey University in New Zealand, on a New Zealand Government scholarship. He met his wife in New Zealand - she was also an Indonesian student. The interview is conducted in English on 24 October 2014 by Dr Jemma Purdey of Deakin University and Dr Ahmad Suaedy of the Abdurrahman Wahid Centre for Inter-faith Dialogue and Peace at Universitas Indonesia. This set comprises: an interview recording, a photograph, and a timed summary.

Interview with Ikrar Nusa Bakti

Ikrar Bakti is an Indonesian who studied in Australia at Griffith University in 1986. The interview is conducted in Indonesian by Dr. Laely of the Abdurrahman Wahid Centre for Inter-faith Dialogue and Peace at Universitas Indonesia. The interview was recorded on 16 July 2014. This set comprises: an interview recording in Indonesian, a transcript in Indonesian and a photograph.

Interview with Sergie Bang

Dr Sergie Bang is a Papua New Guinean who studied in Australia at the University of Western Australia in 1988-1993. He studied on an AIDAB Scholarship and completed a PhD in Agriculture. The interview is conducted in English by Dr Jonathan Ritchie of Deakin University, and Dr Musawe Sinebare of the Pacific Adventist University. This set comprises: an interview recording, a timed summary, and a photograph.

Interview with Boediono, former Vice President of Indonesia

Boediono studied and worked in Australia on several occasions. He studied at the University of Western Australia in the 1960s on a Colombo Plan scholarship, completing a degree in economics in 1967. He then went on to complete a Masters degree at Monash University. He later obtained a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s and also worked at the Australian National University as a research assistant. Boediono was a Bank of Indonesia deputy governor from 1997 to 1998 and served as State Minister of National Planning and Development from 1998 to October 1999. He served as Vice President of Indonesia 2009-2014 and has worked as an academic, teaching economics at Gadjah Mada University. The interview was conducted in English on 23 April 2014 by Professor David Lowe and Dr Jemma Purdey of Deakin University. This set comprises: an interview recording, a photograph, and a transcript of the interview.

Interview with Dr Fitra Roman Cahaya

Dr Roman Cahaya is an Indonesian university lecturer who studied at Curtin University in Australia on two occasions, one in 2005-2006 when he completed a Masters degree, and one in 2008-2012 when he obtained a PhD. Both periods of study in Australia were on Australian Development Scholarships. The interview was conducted in English by Dr Jemma Purdey of Deakin University and was recorded on 28 May 2014. This set comprises: an interview recording, a timed summary, and a photograph.