Share some data that relates to your research topic. by Lucy Andrew

Caroline and Mel (Teaching Team)

2025-05-06 23:35:40 UTC

Hi wonderful students! We're looking forward to seeing what you've found. Share some data and tell us what it means :)

Imogen Rae

2025-08-04 02:04:14 UTC

Comorbid chronic health conditions are highly prevalent in Australia, with 21.9% of the population having two or more chronic illnesses (ABS 2022).

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2022). National Health Survey (Table 15, Number of chronic conditions, by population characteristics, by age) [Data Set] ABS. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/health-conditions-and-risks/national-health-survey/2022.

Ricki Harrison

2025-08-04 09:32:47 UTC

Persons 65-74 years old are over 1.5 times more likely to meet the Australian physical activity guidelines than those aged 15-44 (ABS 2022).

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2022). Physical activity. (Table 11.3, Physical activity, by age - Persons aged 15 years and over, Proportion. ABS. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/health-conditions-and-risks/physical-activity/2022.

Sarah Telfer

2025-08-05 23:42:48 UTC

In 2017, 87.5% of pregnant Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander women attended 5 or more antenatal appointments compared to 87.8% in 2022. (AGPC 2022).

Australian Government Productivity Commission. (2022). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are born healthy and strong [Review of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are born healthy and strong]. Proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who gave birth at 32 weeks or more gestation and who attended five or more antenatal visits. https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/dashboard/se/outcome-area2/use-of-antenatal-care

Paris Welsh

2025-08-08 05:34:46 UTC

Apple Watch users experienced a significant increase in physical activity levels over one year of use - up to a 51% increase in Physical activity levels (Rand Health Quarterly, 2020)

Marco Hafner, Jack Pollard, Chris Van Stolk. Rand Health Quarterly.

Incentives and Physical Activity: An Assessment of the Association Between Vitality's Active Rewards with Apple Watch Benefit and Sustained Physical Activity Improvements. (2020).

PMID: 32742746

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7371354/

Ebony Strange

2025-08-08 14:06:29 UTC

An average of 1.5 hours of physical activity was undertaken by women at 3 months postpartum and an increase to 1.6 hours at 12 months postpartum (NIH, 2009)

Evenson KR, Aytur SA, Borodulin K. Physical activity beliefs, barriers, and enablers among postpartum women. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2009 Dec;18(12):1925-34. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2008.1309. PMID: 20044854; PMCID: PMC2828187.

Lisa Beaven

2025-08-09 12:32:38 UTC

2022 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers found a 1.54% increase in Australians with living with psychosocial disability from 2018 to 2022. (ABS, 2022)

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2025, June 18). Psychosocial disability in Australia, 2022. ABS. https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/psychosocial-disability-australia-2022.

ACL injury rates - Steff Hanson

2025-08-10 03:10:57 UTC

The annual ACL injury incidence reported rates for professional athletes (ranging from 0.15% to 3.67% in studies of at least moderate sample size) are substantially higher than national population rates (median rate of 0.03%).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15438627.2012.680633?scroll=top&needAccess=true#d1e428