NISAN - Current Projects
Current Projects
Auckland Regional Community Stroke Study (ARCOS IV)
Contacts:
- Dr Rita Krishnamurthi rita.krishnamurthi@aut.ac.nz
- Dr Amy Jones, +64 (0) 921 9999 ext 7588, amy.jones@aut.ac.nz
Timeline: The study commenced in March 2010 and run for five years.
The Auckland Regional Community Stroke (ARCOS) IV; Measuring and Reducing the stroke burden in New Zealand, is a five year programme (2010-15) with five inter-linked objectives and three distinct study designs, providing a multi-perspective evidence-base to assess and reduce stroke burden in New Zealand.
The study has been awarded funding by the Health Research Council, and is led by Professor Valery Feigin as the Principle Investigator, and Professor Kathryn McPherson and Dr Suzanne Barker-Collo as Co-Principle Investigators.
Stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide and a frequent cause of adult disability in developed countries. The aim of the ARCOS study is to measure and reduce stroke burden in New Zealand. This unique population-based approach will allow examination of trends in stroke incidence, prevalence and outcomes for a fourth decade (flowing on from previous ARCOS I, II and III studies); examination of effectiveness of primary and secondary prevention strategies adopted over the last 30 years; and to evaluate a novel, potentially widely applicable behavioural intervention to reduce stroke recurrence.
In addition, a third, qualitative component of the study lead by Professor Kathryn McPherson, will examine the long-term impact of stroke.
BiONiC (Brain Injury Outcomes New Zealand In the Community)
Contact:- Karenza Paine: karenza.paine@aut.ac.nz
- Dr Kelly Jones: kelly.jones@aut.ac.nz
V Feigin (AUT University), S Barker-Collo (Auckland University), K McPherson (AUT University), R Kydd, A Barber, V Parag, P Brown (Auckland University), N Starkey (Waikato University), A Dowell (Otago University), M Kahan (Waikato Occupational Services Ltd).
This is a prospective population-based study that aims to register all cases of traumatic brain injury that occur in the Hamilton and Waikato districts (a general population representative of New Zealand) between 1st March 2010 and 28th Feb 2011 (173,208 rural and urban residents). All new cases of TBI will be ascertained over a 12 month period using prospective and retrospective surveillance, and all participants will be followed up over 12 months.
Complete case ascertainment will be assured by multiple overlapping sources of information for all new hospitalised and non-hospitalised TBI cases (fatal and non-fatal). Capture-recapture analysis will be conducted.
Exploring the symptom experience for people with fibromyalgia syndrome
Contact:
- Dr Alice Theadom alice.theadom@aut.ac.nz
Forty participants diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome will be interviewed using the Structured Clinical Interview Schedule. The type and frequency of symptoms experienced by participants will be compared to healthy population norms to identify the full range of symptoms that need to be addressed in rehabilitation.
Timeline: This project commenced in November 2009.
Global Burden of Disease
Contact:
- Dr Rita Krishnamurthi rita.krishnamurthi@aut.ac.nz
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study aims to generate comparable information on disease burden in 21 regions of the world. The new round of the GBD study will conduct systemic reviews of studies from 1980 to 2007 to estimate incidence, prevalence, case fatality and cause specific mortality for each disease, injury and risk factor. NRC-SANN contributes to the GBD study as part of the Stroke Expert panel, which aims to collate the most comprehensive database of all epidemiological data on stroke. We invite researchers to submit relevant data on stroke incidence, prevalence and outcome
