Health Sciences

Researchers from the School of Public Health's Rehabilitation Research and Training Unit (RRTU) led by Associate Professor Gregory Murphy have continued their program of research into the development of a model of factors influencing the post-injury attainment of those suffering a traumatic injury.

Two recent papers describing particular projects within this program of research have appeared in the Australian Journal of Career Development and in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. For details of these and other papers from the research group please contact Greg Murphy: G.Murphy@latrobe.edu.au

 

Self-Management, Disability and Rehabilitation: Self-Employment Following Spinal Cord Injury

Associate Professor Gregory Murphy and colleagues from the School of Public Health's Rehabilitation Research and Training Unit have completed a project into the self-employment achievements of Australians living with a spinal cord injury. Results of the research have been presented at the recent Australasian Conference of the International Spinal Cord Society. Employment, including self-employment, was the focus of a series of papers by local Australian and international researchers invited by Greg Murphy as Guest Editor to contribute to a Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Career Development (published by ACER) on Rehabilitation Counselling (see AJCD, Volume 12, No 1, 2003). For further information please contact Greg Murphy: G.Murphy@latrobe.edu.au

Status of the project: Completed

Research Outputs:

Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Career Development (published by ACER) on Rehabilitation Counselling (see AJCD, Volume 12, No 1, 2003

Areas of Research:Chronic Health & Ageing

Barriers to post-injury employment faced by compensable and non-compensable patients

Researchers:Associate Professor Gregory Murphy, Dr Amanda Young, Dr D. Brown

Funded by: Victorian Trauma Foundation

This project aims to identify the employment barriers encountered by people living with traumatic spinal cord injury. Interviews will be held with approximately 40 patients discharged no less than 12 months, but no more than three years post injury.

Various sub-group comparisons of interviewees' responses will be made, particularly (a) those with compensation entitlement vs those without; (b) those with transport accident insurance vs those with workers' compensation insurance entitlements.

Status of project: Ongoing

 

Return to work following traumatic spinal cord injury

Researchers: Associate Professor Gregory Murphy, Dr Amanda Young

Research Partners: Liberty Mutual Research Institute (Boston, MA.)

All published studies from 1992-2005 reporting relevant rates were located in an attempt to provide an update on the results of a previous review (1976-1991) reported by Murphy and Athanasou (1994) in the Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counselling. Study results were reported separately by geographic region (North America, Australia, Europe, Asia)

Status of project: Ongoing

Research Outputs:

Employment following traumatic spinal cord injury. ANZSCOS National Conference, Melbourne, 2006.

Young, A. and Murphy, G. (2006). Employment following traumatic spinal cord injury. Submitted to International Review of Rehabilitation Research. (Unpublished report).

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Areas of Research:Chronic Health & Ageing

Staff profile: A/Professor Greg Murphy