Publications and Research

Get Healthy Service Evaluation Report 5 years

This evaluation measures the delivery and reach of Get Healthy Services from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018.

Get Healthy Service Evaluation Report 5 years - June 2014 (PDF, 7.6 MB)

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Get Healthy Services Evaluation Report 5 years

This evaluation measures the delivery and reach of Get Healthy Services from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018.

Get Healthy Service Evaluation Report 5 years - June 2014 (PDF) (PDF, 7.6 MB)

Research

Get Healthy in Pregnancy

Rissel C, Kok S, and Jalaludin B. (2019). Get Healthy in Pregnancy: An evaluation pilot of a telephone-based diet and physical activity intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain. ANZJOG 59:1, pp.147-153. (PDF, 870 KB)

Gestational Weight Gain

Effectiveness of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service: Maintenance of self-reported anthropometric and behavioural changes after program completion. BMC Public Health. (2013) Dec 20;13:175 (PDF, 482 KB)

Get Healthy Service

Get Healthy Service Evaluation Report - June 2024 (PDF) (PDF, 772 KB)

Get Healthy evaluation report (PDF) (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Clements A, Chenoweth L, and Dawson A. (2016). A Pragmatic Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Feasibility of Early Referral to a Telephone-Based Weight Management and Healthy Lifestyle Programme for Obese Pregnant Women: A SPIRIT compliant protocol. British Medical Journal Open. Vol 6, Issue 7: e010311. (PDF, 897 KB)

O'Hara BJ, Phongsavan P, King L, Hector D, Chey T, Bauman AE. (2012). Using mass-media communications to increase population usage of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service. BMC Public Health 12(1):762. (PDF, 472 KB)

O'Hara BJ, Phongsavan P, Venugopal K, Bauman AE. (2011). Characteristics of participants in Australia's Get Healthy telephone-based lifestyle information and coaching service: reaching disadvantaged communities and those most at need. Health Education Research, cyr091. (PDF, 117 KB)

O'Hara BJ, Phongsavan P, Venugopal K, Eakin EG, Eggins D, Caterson H, King L, Allman-Farinelli M, Haas M, Bauman AE. (2011). Process evaluation of Australia's Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service. Health Promotion International, dar023. (PDF, 311 KB)

Cancer

Get Healthy after Breast Cancer (PDF) (PDF, 385 KB)

Type 2 Diabetes Risk Reduction

Cranney M, et al. (2019). Evaluation of the Get Healthy Service for people at risk of Type 2 Diabetes (PDF) (PDF, 204 KB)

Chinese Coaching

Cranney M, Phongsavan P, Kariippanon K, Tavener M, Hua M, Rissel C. (2018). Get Healthy Service and Australian-Chinese communities. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 29(2):178-184. (PDF, 156 KB)

Mental Health

Fehily C, Bartlem K, Wiggers J, Wye P, Clancy R, Castle D, Burrows T, Moseley L, van Gelder M, Regan T. (2017). Evaluating the effectiveness of a telephone-based weight gain prevention intervention for people with psychotic disorders in Australia: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1):401. (PDF, 800 KB)

Aboriginal Communities

Quinn E, O'Hara BJ, Ahmed N, Winch S, McGill B, Banovic D, et al. (2017). Enhancing the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service for Aboriginal Adults: Findings from a Pilot Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(6): E578. (PDF, 480 KB)

Winch S, Creedy D, Chaboyer W. (2017). The reach and flow of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants through the Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service. Australian Health Review, 41:64-68. (PDF, 660 KB)

General Practice

O'Hara BJ, Phongsavan P, Eakin EG, et al. (2015). The role of general practice in the uptake of a telephone coaching service for chronic disease prevention. Australian Family Physician, 44(9), 646-650. (PDF, 238 KB)