Dr Deepa Sriram

Senior Research Officer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow

UQ Centre for Clinical Research

+61 7 334 65538

d.sriram@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

I am a post doctoral researcher at the Dementia & Neuro Mental Health Research Unit (DNMHRU), University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR). I have a background in health services research including healthcare, implementation and evaluation utilising co-design and qualitative methods in Australia. For my PhD on early detection of bowel disease in community pharmacy, I was a recipient of fellowship from Jodi Lee Foundation. My research interests seeks to enhance the mental health, emotional well-being, quality of life, and care experiences of older Australians affected by progressive neurological conditions—such as dementia and Parkinson's disease—as well as their family care partners, through the development of innovative and high-quality research approaches.My co-design research aims to actively involve consumers/stakeholders for developing study methods and implementation strategies for research projects in residential aged care, cognition in people living with Parkinson's and development of technology platform for use by clinical stakeholders and people with Parkinson's.

I am the co-ordinator of the Community and Consumer Involvement group for the Dementia & Neuro Mental Health Research Unit. I am also a member of UQCCR Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI) Sub-Committee and Australian Association of Gerontology group.

Publications

Journal Articles (20)

Conference Papers (3)

Journal Articles

Brooks, Deborah, Sriram, Deepa, Burley, Claire V., Brimelow, Rachel and Dissanayaka, Nadeeka N. (2025). "We have a behaviour support plan, let's have a mental health support plan": Perspectives of staff, residents and family carers on understanding, responding to and promoting the mental health of residents within long-term care. Dementia 14713012251334170, 1-19. doi: 10.1177/14713012251334170

MacAndrew, Margaret, Sriram, Deepa, Chambers, Shirley, Spooner, Amy, Schnitker, Linda, Jack, Leanne, Yates, Patsy, Beattie, Elizabeth and Parker, Christina (2025). Detection of Acute Deterioration in Care Home Residents: A Multicenter Qualitative Exploration of Barriers and Enablers. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. doi: 10.1111/jnu.70005

Burton, Rob, Kellett, Ursula, Mansah, Martha and Sriram, Deepa (2024). A systematic review of online team based learning approaches in health professional education. Nurse Education Today, 138 106156, 138. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106156

Brimelow, Rachel, Brooks, Deborah, Sriram, Deepa, Burley, Claire, Beattie, Elizabeth, Byrne, Gerard and Dissanayaka, Nadeeka (2024). Prototype development of the Mental Health benchmarking Industry Tool for residential aged Care (MHICare Tool): a protocol paper of a two-stage sequential and mixed methods codesign study. BMJ Open, 14 (2) e078493, 1-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078493

Lion, Katarzyna M., Murfield, Jenny, Sriram, Deepa, Sung, Billy, Cook, Glenda, Estai, Mohamed, Jones, Cindy, Klein, Barbara, Liddle, Jacki, Pu, Lihui, Moyle, Wendy and Collaborative, The AACT (2023). Technology in aged care: a qualitative survey of academic, research, and technology industry professionals. Contemporary Nurse, 59 (4-5), 311-322. doi: 10.1080/10376178.2023.2242978

Broadhurst, Daphne, Cooke, Marie, Sriram, Deepa, Barber, Lauren, Caccialanza, Riccardo, Danielsen, Mathias Brix, Ebersold, Stacie Lynne, Gorski, Lisa, Hirsch, David, Lynch, Gerardine, Neo, Shirlyn Hui-Shan, Roubaud-Baudron, Claire and Gray, Brenda (2023). International Consensus Recommendation Guidelines for Subcutaneous Infusions of Hydration and Medication in Adults An e-Delphi Consensus Study. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 46 (4), 199-209. doi: 10.1097/nan.0000000000000511

Craswell, Alison, Coates, Kaye, Johnston-Devin, Colleen, Sriram, Deepa, Broadbent, Marc and Wallis, Marianne (2023). Developing a nurse practitioner to work in residential aged care: A qualitative evaluative study. Collegian, 30 (3), 457-464. doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2022.12.006

Craswell, Alison, Massey, Debbie, Sriram, Deepa, Wallis, Marianne, Polkinghorne, Kevan, Talaulikar, Girish, Cass, Alan, Gallagher, Martin, Gray, Nicholas, Kotwal, Sradha and on behalf of the REDUCCTION investigators (2023). A Process Evaluation of the National Implementation of a Bundle for Central Venous Catheter Care for Hemodialysis. Kidney360, 4 (4), E496-E504. doi: 10.34067/kid.0000000000000076

Moyle, Wendy, Pu, Lihui, Murfield, Jenny, Sung, Billy, Sriram, Deepa, Liddle, Jacki, Estai, Mohamed, Lion, Katarzyna and The AACT Collaborative (2022). Consumer and provider perspectives on technologies used within aged care: an Australian qualitative needs assessment survey. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41 (12), 2557-2565. doi: 10.1177/07334648221120082

James, Steven, Perry, Lin, Palmer, Christine, Harris, Margaret, Siram, Deepa and Lowe, Julia (2022). Web-Based Questionnaire for Healthcare Professionals on Psychosocial Support for Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Therapy, 13 (2), 355-365. doi: 10.1007/s13300-022-01202-6

Broadhurst, Daphne, Cooke, Marie, Sriram, Deepa and Gray, Brenda (2020). Subcutaneous hydration and medications infusions (effectiveness, safety, acceptability): A systematic review of systematic reviews. PLoS One, 15 (8) e0237572, 1-31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237572

Craswell, Alison, Massey, Debbie, Wallis, Marianne, Sriram, Deepa, Gray, Nicholas A. and Kotwal, Sradha (2019). Current practice in dialysis central venous catheter management: multi-disciplinary renal team perspectives. Nephrology, 25 (5) nep.13626, 406-412. doi: 10.1111/nep.13626

Sriram, Deepa, McManus, Alexandra, Emmerton, Lynne M., Parsons, Richard W. and Jiwa, Moyez (2016). A model for assessment and referral of clients with bowel symptoms in community pharmacies. Current Medical Research and Opinion, 32 (4), 661-667. doi: 10.1185/03007995.2015.1135113

Sriram, Deepa, McManus, Alexandra, Emmerton, Lynne and Jiwa, Moyez (2015). Will Australians pay for health care advice from a community pharmacist? A video vignette study. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 11 (4), 579-583. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2014.10.010

Sriram, Deepa, McManus, Alexandra, Emmerton, Lynne, Parsons, Richard and Jiwa, Moyez (2014). Development and validation of a clinical decision-making aid for screening bowel symptoms in community pharmacies. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 20 (3), 260-266. doi: 10.1111/jep.12120

Jiwa, Moyez, Longman, Glenys, Sriram, Deepa, Sherriff, Jill, Briffa, Kathy and Musiello, Toni (2013). Cancer care coordinator: Promoting multidisciplinary care-A pilot study in Australian general practice. Collegian, 20 (1), 67-73. doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2012.03.007

Jiwa, Moyez, Hughes, Jeff, Sriram, Deepa, Birring, Surinder, Meng, Xingqiong, Cecchele, Gia, Cooke, John and Ng, Nicolas (2012). Piloting and validating an innovation to triage patients presenting with cough to community pharmacies in Western Australia. Quality in Primary Care, 20 (2), 83-91.

Ngune, Irene, Jiwa, Moyez, Dadich, Ann, Lotriet, Jaco and Sriram, Deepa (2012). Effective recruitment strategies in primary care research: A systematic review. Quality in Primary Care, 20 (2), 115-123.

Jiwa, M., Meng, X., Sriram, D., Hughes, J., Colagiuri, S., Twigg, S. M., Skinner, T. and Shaw, T. (2012). The management of Type 2 diabetes: A survey of Australian general practitioners. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 95 (3), 326-332. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2011.11.004

Jiwa, Moyez, Sriram, Deepa, Khadaroo, Zaminah and Ping-Delfos, Wendy Chan She (2011). Could community pharmacies offer an opportunity to improve outcomes for patients with bowel cancer?. Quality in Primary Care, 19 (2), 105-108.

Conference Papers

Brooks, D., Burley, C., Sriram, D., Brimelow, R. and Dissanayaka, N. (2024). “It’s really important that we do have a voice.” Residents’ perspectives on the factors that promote and support mental health within aged care homes. Australian Dementia Research Forum 2024, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 3-5 June 2024.

Brooks, D., Sriram, D., Brimelow, R., Burley, C. and Dissanayaka, N. (2023). Towards better mental health of people living with dementia in residential aged care: Co-design of the Mental Health Care Indicator (MHICare) tool. Australian Dementia Research Forum 2023, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 29-31 May 2023.

Craswell, Alison, Massey, Debbie, Wallis, Marianne, Sriram, Deepa, Gray, Nicholas and Kotwal, Sradha (2021). Clinical staff perspectives on the implementation of a national care bundle for care of Central venous catheters for haemodialysis. 9th International Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC), Online, 7-10 November 2021. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.idh.2021.09.029