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DR LENA SANCI



Contact Details

Organization: General Practice
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.gp.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/academic_details.asp?ID=9
Work: 8344 7276
Fax: 9347 6136
Building: 200 Berkeley St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Primary care and general practice young people's health, health risk behaviours, mental health and interventions Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Canada University of Calgary Research
United States University of California Research
United Kingdom King's College London Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2000
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1988
Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 31-Dec-1996
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 31-Dec-1993

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Public Health (Australia) Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Public Health Fellowship (Australia) 01/01/2004
HEALTH RISK SCREENING OF ADOLESCENTS IN PRIMARY CARE: A CLUSTER RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL Chief Investigator NHMRC Priority Driven Research Grants (AHMAC PDR) (AUST HEALTH MINISTER CONFERENCE) 01/01/2005
HEALTH RISK SCREENING AND COUNSELLING OF ADOLESCENTS IN PRIMARY CARE: A CLUSTER RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL Chief Investigator AUST PRIMARY HEALTH CARE RESEARCH INST Stream 3: Primary Health Care Policy and Practice 01/07/2005
Re-orienting general practice toward preventative mental health care for adolescents, utilising the practice nurse: a pilot study. Chief Investigator BEYONDBLUE Victorian Centre of Excellence in Depression and Related Disorders Grants 01/01/2006
Development and testing of a tool to identify youth at risk of sexually transmitted infections in primary care Chief Investigator DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES Victorian Department of Human Services Public Health Research Projects 01/05/2006
Re-orientating general practice systems toward youth friendly care Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A mobile phone program to track young people's experiences of mood, stress and coping


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 501-507
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  • Investigating the utility of mobile phones for collecting data about adolescent alcohol use and related mood, stress and coping behaviours: Lessons and recommendations
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Review
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 25-30
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  • Text message a communicaiton in parimary care research: a randomized controlled trial
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Family Practice
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 325-330
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  • The experience of providing young people attending general practice with an online risk assessment tool to assess their own sexual health risk
    Year: 2009
    Journal: BMC Infectious Diseases
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 29
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  • The identification of young people's emotional distress: a study in primary care
    Year: 2009
    Journal: British Journal of General Practice
    Volume: 1
    Issue: March
    Page numbers: e61-e70
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders in females
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
    Volume: 162
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 261-267
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  • Do Young People's Illness Beliefs Affect Healthcare? A systematic Review
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 436 - 449
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  • Prognosis of adolescent partial syndromes of eating disorders
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 192
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 294 - 299
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  • What do GPs get out of participating in research? Experience of the LEAP trial
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 372 - 376
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A training agenda in adolescent medicine and health
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 305-315
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  • Outcome data from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) trial: A randomized controlled trial of a primary care intervention for childhood overweight/mild obesity.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Journal of Obesity
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 630-636
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  • Screening for chlamydia trachomatis: barriers for homeless young people.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 8-13
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  • Toward Youth Friendly Services: A Survey of Young People in Primary Care
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of General Internal Medicine
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 775-781
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  • Youth-friendly primary-care services: how are we doing and what more needs to be done?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 369
    Page numbers: 1565-1573
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Common mental health problems in adolescence.
    Year: 2006
    Book: General Practice Psychiatry
    Publisher: McGraw Hill Australia(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • R U OK 2 TXT 4 Research
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 175-176
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Barriers to delivering asthma care: a qualitative study of general practitioners
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 183
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 457-460
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Confidential health care for adolescents: reconciling clinical evidence with family values
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 183
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 410-414
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Improving adolescents' access to primary health care
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 183
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 416-417
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Practical evidence in favour of mature-minor consent in primary care research
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 183
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 439
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Sustainability of change with quality general practitioner education in adolescent health: a 5-year follow-up
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Education
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 557-560
    Publisher: Blackwell Science
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Forging Partnerships and Building Communities: Drama at the heart of innovative learning partnerships between school and students of Medicine and Education
    Year: 2004
    Journal: ADEM (Australian Drama Education Magazine)
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 11-15
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  • Youth health research ethics: time for a mature-minor clause?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 180
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 336-338
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Adolescent health education programmes: theoretical principles in design and delivery.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Academy of Medicine, Singapore - Annals
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 78-85
    Publisher: Academy of Medicine Singapore
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  • Adolescent health education programs: Theoretical principles in design and delivery.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Academy of Medicine, Singapore - Annals
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 78-85
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Adolescent Medicine


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 176
    Issue: 3
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  • Cannabis dependence in young adults: an Australian population study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 97
    Page numbers: 187-194
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstroke)
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  • Simulations in evaluation of training: a medical example using standardised patients
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Evaluation and Program Planning
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 35-46
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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