Presentations from the 2008 COMPASS Short Course:

Day 1 – MONDAY 28 April        ‘DESIGN'

Dr Rhonda Small, Why complex interventions? Course overview  

A/Prof Stephanie Brown, Designing public health interventions in the 1990s

Prof Christine MacArthur, Redesigning postnatal care: a cluster randomised trial in the UK

Dr Rhonda Small, Designing a community randomised trial to reduce depression and improve maternal physical health after birth: PRISM (Program of Resources, Information and Support)

Prof Carl May,  Complex Interventions: Innovation, Implementation, and Embedding

Day 2 – 29 April                   ‘IMPLEMENTATION’

Prof Jane Gunn, Using complexity theory to inform implementation of complex interventions

Prof Christine MacArthur, Effect of anti-smoking health education on infant size at birth: a randomised controlled trial

A/Prof Robin Bell, A randomised controlled trial of a smoking cessation intervention during pregnancy (RWH 1994-6)

A/Prof Nick Zwar, QUIT in general practice: a cluster randomised trial of enhanced in-practice support for smoking cessation

Dr Tony Worsley, Public health nutrition and children

Rowe, Presentation

Day 3 – 30 April                   ‘EVALUATION

Stephanie Brown and Rhonda Small, Knowing what we know about process, impact and outcomes: the case of early postnatal discharge

WORKSHOPS

Della Forster, A NEW Way of Supporting Women in Pregnancy

Simon French, Evaluating the fidelity of a complex intervention in the context of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Ines Rio, Developing a Community Group Based Psychosocial Intervention for Women With
Antenatal Depression

Emma Hughes and Maarten Post, Implementing a community building project:
allowing for flexibility in implementation, and capturing the complexities in the evaluation

Jo-Anne Rayner, Cosmetic Endocrinology: (Re)constructing femininity in ‘tall’ girls

Denise O'Connor, Using theory to inform/design interventions to change health professional behaviour: thee implement and align experience

Heather Rowe and Jane Fisher, Evaluating an innovative postpartum mental health promotion intervention: Dilemmas in trial design and implementation