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Overview

Lena Sanci is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in health professions, particularly within the fields of general health professions and clinical psychology. Their academic work spans areas such as child and adolescent health, primary care and health outcomes, and adolescent and pediatric healthcare.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology

Frequent publication venues for Lena Sanci's work consist of:

  • Australian Journal of General Practice
  • BMJ Open
  • Australian Journal of Primary Health
  • International Journal of Integrated Care
  • BMC Public Health

Collaborations are common in their research, with frequent coauthors including Harriet Hiscock, Jane S. Hocking, Meredith Temple-Smith, Douglas Boyle, and Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • "Towards a health promoting university: descriptive findings on health, wellbeing and academic performance amongst university students in Australia," 2022, published in BMC Public Health
  • "Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences in Children: A Systematic Review," 2022, published in PEDIATRICS
  • "The mental health of international university students from China during the COVID-19 pandemic and the protective effect of social support: A longitudinal study," 2023, published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Qualitative exploration of intentions, concerns and information needs of vaccine-hesitant adults initially prioritised to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Australia," 2021, published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • "Technology-facilitated abuse in relationships: Victimisation patterns and impact in young people," 2021, published in Computers in Human Behavior

Lena Sanci's body of work involves a significant number of publications, largely focused on health professions with 98 publications, including 80 specifically in general health professions and 23 in clinical psychology. Work in economics and econometrics, health, and public health, environmental and occupational health also feature as subfields in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Youth-friendly primary-care services: how are we doing and what more needs to be done?

    Andre Tylee;Dagmar M Haller;Tanya Graham;Rachel Churchill

  • Self-monitoring Using Mobile Phones in the Early Stages of Adolescent Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial

    Sylvia Deidre Kauer;Sophie Caroline Reid;Alexander Hew Dale Crooke;Angela Khor

  • Assessment of youth-friendly health care: a systematic review of indicators drawn from young people's perspectives.

    Anne-Emmanuelle Ambresin;Kristina Bennett;George C. Patton;George C. Patton;Lena A. Sanci;Lena A. Sanci

  • Do online mental health services improve help-seeking for young people? A systematic review.

    Sylvia Deidre Kauer;Cheryl Mangan;Lena Sanci

  • Sexting: young women's and men's views on its nature and origins

    Shelley Walker;Lena Sanci;Meredith Temple-Smith

  • Outcome data from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) trial: a randomized controlled trial of a primary care intervention for childhood overweight/mild obesity

    Zoe McCallum;Melissa Wake;Bibi Gerner;Louise Baur

  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of an educational intervention for general practitioners in adolescent health care: randomised controlled trial.

    L A Sanci;C M M Coffey;F C M Veit;M Carr-Gregg

  • Outcomes and costs of primary care surveillance and intervention for overweight or obese children: the LEAP 2 randomised controlled trial

    Melissa Wake;Louise A Baur;Bibi Gerner;Kay Gibbons

  • Cannabis dependence in young adults: an Australian population study

    Carolyn Coffey;John B. Carlin;Louisa Degenhardt;Michael Lynskey

  • A mobile phone application for the assessment and management of youth mental health problems in primary care: a randomised controlled trial

    Sophie C Reid;Sylvia D Kauer;Stephen J C Hearps;Alexander H D Crooke

  • Multimorbidity: Technical Series on Safer Primary Care

    Stewart Mercer;John Furler;Keith Moffat;Denis Fischbacher-Smith

  • Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders in Females: Findings From the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study

    Lena Sanci;Carolyn Coffey;Craig Olsson;Sophie Reid

  • A mobile phone program to track young people's experiences of mood, stress and coping. Development and testing of the mobiletype program.

    Sophie C Reid;Sylvia D Kauer;Paul Dudgeon;Lena A Sanci

  • How Marginalized Young People Access, Engage With, and Navigate Health-Care Systems in the Digital Age: Systematic Review.

    Fiona Robards;Melissa Kang;Melissa Kang;Tim Usherwood;Tim Usherwood;Lena Sanci

  • The quality of life of adolescents with menstrual problems.

    Abdul Ghani Nur Azurah;Lena Sanci;Elya Moore;Sonia Grover;Sonia Grover

  • Urinary tract infections in children: an overview of diagnosis and management.

    Jonathan Kaufman;Meredith Temple-Smith;Lena Sanci

  • Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences in Children: A Systematic Review.

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  • Youth health research ethics: Time for a mature-minor clause?

    Lena A Sanci;Susan M Sawyer;Penelope June Weller;Lyndal Bond

  • Why do men go to the doctor? Socio-demographic and lifestyle factors associated with healthcare utilisation among a cohort of Australian men

    Marisa Schlichthorst;Lena A. Sanci;Jane Pirkis;Matthew J. Spittal

  • Health care equity and access for marginalised young people: a longitudinal qualitative study exploring health system navigation in Australia

    Fiona Robards;Melissa Kang;Melissa Kang;Katharine Steinbeck;Catherine Hawke

  • Childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders in females

    Lena Sanci;Carolyn Coffey;Grad Dip Epi;Craig Olsson

  • PEDIATRIC HIGHLIGHT Outcome data from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) trial: a randomized controlled trial of a primary care intervention for childhood overweight/mild obesity

    Z McCallum;M Wake;B Gerner;LA Baur

  • The Prevention of Substance Use, Risk and Harm in Australia: A Review of the Evidence: (677772010-001)

    Wendy Loxley;John W. Toumbourou;Tim Stockwell;Ben Haines

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Pirkis
Jane Pirkis University of Melbourne
Kelsey Hegarty
Kelsey Hegarty University of Melbourne
Georgina Luscombe
Georgina Luscombe University of Sydney
Stephen Jan
Stephen Jan George Institute for Global Health
Matthew J Spittal
Matthew J Spittal University of Melbourne
Fiona McNicholas
Fiona McNicholas University College Dublin
Julie Leask
Julie Leask University of Sydney
Alan Shiell
Alan Shiell La Trobe University
Louise A. Baur
Louise A. Baur University of Sydney
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales

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