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iAx: Fast-tracking assessment to help clinicians treat patients with substance-use disorders.

Despite a strong evidence-base for standardised assessment instruments when treating patients with substance-use disorders, translation into clinical practice is challenging due to time constraints and the administrative burden associated with paper-based assessments.  The iAx was developed by health practitioners for health practitioners to improve the assessment and treatment of substance-use disorders quickly and effectively ‘on-the-ground.’

iAx is a simple and easy-to-use software that digitally collects patient responses to evidence-based questionnaires to inform clinical pathways to treatment.  These responses can be collected on a tablet or PC using any operating system.  Patient data is de-identified, with a unique patient identifying code used to link the patient data to the patient’s file on a clinic’s system.

Key features:

  • Removes the time barrier for scoring and interpretation in a clinical setting
  • Instantly scores responses, benchmarks against clinical averages, and visualises results for immediate use by practitioner
  • Easily modified/interchanged for different validated measures, eg cannabis, alcohol, opioid use questionnaires etc
  • Data capture includes severity of symptoms, frequency of cravings, patient confidence in controlling addiction
  • Progress can be tracked over time and treatment adjusted where necessary
  • Assessment can be easily administered on a tablet using any operating system.


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Bullying & Cyberbullying Scale for Adolescents

The Bullying and Cyberbullying Scale for Adolescents (BCS-A) is a self-report survey tool that measures bullying behaviour among adolescents.

Teenage bullying is a very real problem in schools.  It includes physical, verbal, emotional bullying and cyberbullying.  The effects of bullying may manifest as physical problems and injuries, depression (even suicide), drug use, stunted social development and, in severe cases, it can affect a person well into adulthood.

Intervention on adolescent bullying is reliant on the valid and reliable measurement of victimisation and perpetration experiences, however existing self-report scales are restricted to unidimensional models or victimisation experiences only. The measurement of both victimisation (experiences of being bullied) and perpetration (experiences of bullying others), and the different forms of bullying behaviour (e.g. face-to-face and online) is critical for effective intervention.

The BCS-A is a validated multi-factor measurement model comprised of a 13-item scale including physical, verbal, relational, cyber forms of bullying, and possesses robust psychometric dependability. To date, it has been used for clinical intervention/treatment, distribution to high school students (aged 12-17 years), and in academic presentations and conferences.

To find out more or to licence the scale, visit the website here.


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Parent Cough Specific Quality of Life

The Parent Cough Specific Quality of Life (PC-QoL) questionnaires measure the impact of a child’s cough on parental wellbeing and daily life while mirroring the changes in acute cough severity.

A chronic or acute cough can be very distressing and have a significant effect on children and their families. Young children can have difficulty verbally expressing themselves adequately, so it is common practice for parents to be proxy assessors of their young child’s medical condition. Parents are affected by their child’s medical condition and thus their own quality of life is also relevant. Quality of Life measures are now considered essential for high-quality clinical research and intervention and help healthcare professionals reliably measure and evaluate the efficacy of their proposed intervention.

The PC-QoL questionnaires are the first fully validated children’s cough-specific quality of life questionnaires designed for paediatricians and parents. Strong empirical research has proven them to be reliable and valid for assessing the effect of a child’s chronic cough and demonstrated sensitivity to change. The questionnaires align with the World Health Organisation domains of psychological, physical, and social functioning, and their length and psychometric properties have enhanced uptake and routine use in clinical practice and research.

Available questionnaires

  • PC-QoL-27: the full-scale questionnaire for parents of children with chronic cough
  • PC-QoL-8: the short-form version of PC-QOL-27 (8-item questionnaire)
  • PAC-QoL: the Parent-proxy Children’s Acute Cough-specific QoL questionnaire.

To find out more or to licence a questionnaire, visit the website here.


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Geriatric Anxiety Inventory

The Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI) is a simple self-reporting scale for quickly screening older people for anxiety disorders. 

Anxiety is very prevalent in older people, but with dementia also presenting as a common illness in this group, mood disorders such as anxiety and depression can be overlooked because the symptoms are similar. This is made more problematic by the lack of research on diagnosing anxiety in adults aged 65 and over.

The GAI has been developed to specifically fill this gap and reflects years of collaborative research led by academics from The University of Queensland’s Schools of Medicine and Psychology. The scale is the first clinically validated anxiety screening tool that can be used with normal older people and older people with mental health problems. It’s easily administered and scored by a range of clinical staff across a variety of health care settings, enabling easier and more accurate screening of anxiety.

The GAI has been translated into 20+ languages and used in at least 20 countries across the world. To date, users include pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials who require screening of older people for anxiety; public and private sector healthcare providers; and aged care facilities.

Key features

  • Simple, straightforward design: a simple 20 item questionnaire
  • Quick and easy to use by a range of health professionals
  • Can even be self-administered
  • Older adult specific – the GAI has been designed specifically for those aged 65 and over
  • Extensively tested and backed by years of research and evidence base.

Visit the GAI website.


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