A new trial called SToP (See, Treat and Prevent) aims to improve skin health in Indigenous children living in remote Australian communities who experience disproportionately high rates of skin infections. Researchers are working with local communities to promote healthy skin practices through activities, artwork, and educational resources.
Indigenous children living in remote communities have some of the highest rates of skin infections in the world.The trial followed 915 children and conducted 3,084 skin checks over a four-year period.
The trial's lead investigator and head of the Healthy Skin and Acute Rheumatic Fever Prevention team, Asha Bowen, said children in these remote communities had the world's highest rates of skin infections. "But in fact it really matters to our health and many downstream health complications … with significant impacts on adults and children."When the project began in 2018, the rate of skin infections was close to 40 per cent among the children who took part.Aboriginal clinician Darryle Barnes is no stranger to attending funerals, with his father and grandfather dying in their early 50s. As he approaches the same age, it is an outcome he is driven to change.
"Ultimately these things are associated largely with poverty and chronic housing shortages in remote Australia," he said." not necessarily through research, but as funded, long-term, sustainable programs, given there are multiple determinants of health in , such as housing, education, income, overcrowding."We're living in a developed nation. We shouldn't be seeing these among any population.
The eClinicalMedicine report, which quoted multiple community members, attributed success to "the leadership and guidance of community leaders, families, and regional Kimberley partners".Hannah Thomas, the lead author of both papers and a postdoctoral researcher at ARF, said they had given communities the chance to interpret the results before publication.
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