Projects
The Institute is producing groundbreaking knowledge into illness prevention, wellness and disease management. This includes the management of cancer treatment related toxicities; improving health of children who are overweight or obese; improving structure and function of the elderly; maintaining quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease; developing integrative therapies for people with cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. This also reflects our underlying philosophy that to improve health, individuals must change behaviours, communities must change their social and physical environment, and industry and governments must change their policies and processes.
Our current research projects are in the following:
- A Phase III clinic trial of exercise modalities on treatment side-effects in men receiving therapy for prostate cancer
- Busselton Health Study linked data project - physical activity and chronic disease
- Efficacy and safety of a modular multi-modal exercise program in prostate cancer patients with bone metastases: a randomized controlled trial
- Efficacy of an exercise program on cancer related fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing radical radiotherapy
- Exercise as medicine for management of Lymphoedema in breast cancer survivors
- Exercise training to improve physical functioning and exercise adoption in lung cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial
- Feasibility and efficacy of resistance exercise in prostate cancer survivors with bone metastases
- Health and lifestyle characteristics and associated health related outcomes in Western Australians between 2003 and 2010
- Impact of the Cancer Council WA Life Now exercise program on quality of life, physical function and body composition in cancer survivors
- Influence of physical activity and sedentary lifestyle on non-communicable disease in Western Australians
- Lucrin exercise support program
- Lucrin exercise trial
- Physical activity behaviours and attitudes in women with breast cancer
- Population based exercise intervention for prostate cancer patients - RADAR
- Promoting physical activity to improve the outcome of depression in later life (Activedep)
- Radar - 6-month telephone and print-material home-based intervention designed to increase physical activity participation for rural prostate cancer survivors
- Randomized controlled trial of vibration therapy administered to breast cancer survivors
- Rev Up! - a pilot church-based healthy lifestyle intervention
- Safety and efficacy of resistance exercise with and without compression garments in women with breast cancer related lymphoedema
- The feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a distance-based physical activity intervention for rural lung survivors
- Whole-body vibration treatment in prostate cancer survivors on androgen suppression therapy