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Patricia Weerakoon, MBBS, MS, MHPEd:
Publications

 

Recent articles and conference presentations by Patricia Weerakoon

   1.  Jiao C, Turman B, Weerakoon P, Knight P (2006). Alterations in grip strength during male sexual arousal. International Journal of Impotence Research 18, 2, 206-209.
   2. Jones, M.K, Weerakoon, P., & Pynor, R. (2005). Survey of occupational therapy students' attitudes towards sexual issues in clinical practice, Occupational Therapy International, 12, 95-106.
   3. Rosemary Pynor, Patricia Weerakoon and Mairwen Kathleen Jones (2005). A preliminary investigation of physiotherapy students? attitudes towards issues of sexuality in clinical practice. Physiotherapy, 91 (1) 42-48.
   4. Weerakoon, P, Jones, M & Pynor R (2004). Allied health professional students' perceived level of comfort in clinical situations that have sexual connotations. Journal of Allied Health, 33, 3, 189-193.
   5. Weerakoon P. (2004). The Biology and Theology of Gender, CASE: The Quarterly magazine for Apologetic Scholarship and Education at New College, University of New South Wales. Summer 3:5-7.
   6. Weerakoon, P (2003). E-Learning in Sexuality Education. Medical Teacher, 25 (1): 9-13.
     Weerakoon P & Wong M (2003, May 6). Sexuality Education On-Line for Health Professionals Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality. Vol. 6. [WWW document] URL http://www.ejhs.org/volume6/SexEd.html
   7. Jones M, Pynor R, Weerakoon P, and Sullivan G (2002).  A study of attitudes towards sexuality issues among health care students in Australia. The Journal of Lesbian Studies, 6, 3/4: 73-86.
   8. Johnson HM, Weerakoon P & Stricker PD (2002). The Incidence, Aetiology, and Presentation of Peyronie's Disease in Sydney, Australia. Sexuality and Disability, 20 (2): 109-116.
   9. Weerakoon P & Wong M (2002). Maximising Opportunities for Learning: Sexuality Education On-line. Research and Development in Higher Education, Volume 25, 721-729. Papers from Quality Conversations - Annual International HERDSA Conference, 7-10th July.
  10. Lee G and Weerakoon P (2001).  The role of computer assessment in health professional education: A comparison of student performance in computer-based and paper-and-pen multiple-choice tests. Medical Teacher, 23 (2) 152-163.
  11. Weerakoon P (2001). Female Sexual Dysfunction: Definitions and Classification. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 27 (2) 245.
     Weerakoon P (2001).  Patient sexuality and the stoma therapy nurse. Journal of Stomal Therapy Australia, 21 (1) 23-27.
  12. Weerakoon P (2001). Sexuality and the Patient with a Stoma.  Sexuality and Disability, 19 (2) 121-129.
  13. Weerakoon P  (2000). Meeting participants' needs: Description of a sexuality workshop for stomal therapy nurses.  World Council of Enterostomal Therapists Journal, 20 (4) 15-21.
  14. O'Sullivan V & Weerakoon P (1999). Inappropriate sexual behaviours of patients towards practicing physiotherapists: A study using qualitative methods. Physiotherapy Research International, 4 (1): 28-42.
  15. Schneider J, Weerakoon P. and Heard R (1999). Inappropriate client sexual behaviour in occupational therapy practice.  Occupational Therapy International, 6 (3): 176 -194.
  16. Weerakoon P, Steirnborg M and Wong M (1999).  Computer-Assisted Learning in Sexuality Education: Development of a program on Male Sexual Function. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 24 (3): 176 -182.
  17. Weerakoon P and O'Sullivan V (1998). Inappropriate Patient Sexual Behaviour in Physiotherapy Practice.  Physiotherapy, 84 (10): 491-499.
  18. Weerakoon, P &, Stiernborg, M (1996). Sexuality education for health care professionals: A critical review of the literature.  Annual Review of Sex Research. 7:181-217.
  19. Weerakoon, P (1993). Sex Education for Allied Health Professionals: A Program to Meet Individual Student Needs. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 20(1): 41-46
  20. Weerakoon P (1992).  Sex Education for Health Professionals: A Review of Programs. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 18: 242-256.
  21. Weerakoon PK. Fernando DN. (1991). Self-evaluation of skills as a method of assessing learning needs for continuing education.  Medical Teacher. 13(1):103-6, 1991.
  22. Weerakoon PK. Fernando DN. (1990). Observer evaluation as a tool for field level evaluation of performance. Medical Teacher. 12(3-4):311-4.
  23. Weerakoon P. Jiffry TM (1989). New training for new roles. World Health Forum. 10(3-4) :381-3.



 Books

   1. de Munck VC, Weerakoon P. [comments] (2004). Sri Lanka (The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) In: The Continuum Complete Encyclopedia of Sexuality. Robert T Francoeur and Raymend J Noonan (eds). Continuum International Publishing Group, USA. pp 972- 983.



 Abstracts

   1. Weigel M, Leiblum SR, Weerakoon P (2004). Sexual Attitudes of Australian Health Students: Descriptive and Predictive Factors. Presentation at "Sexual Science and Politics: Mutual Interactions" Annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Orlando, Florida, November 4-7.
   2. Meyer M & Weerakoon P (2002). An exploration of intimate aspects of personal care assistance, and the impact this experience has on the body image and sexuality of the recipient. the inaugural conference of the NSW Primary Health Care Research Capacity Building Program 'Research From The Ground Up', The University of New South Wales, Sydney from 20-21 September 2002.
   3. Weerakoon P (2002). Development and evaluation of an on-line sexuality education program for allied health professionals. the inaugural conference of the NSW Primary Health Care Research Capacity Building Program 'Research From The Ground Up', The University of New South Wales, Sydney from 20-21 September 2002.
   4. Weerakoon P, Jones M & Pynor R (2002). 'Allied Health Professional students' perceived level of comfort in Clinical situations that have sexual connotations.  The inaugural conference of the NSW Primary Health Care Research Capacity Building Program 'Research From The Ground Up', The University of New South Wales, Sydney. 20-21 September 2002.
   5. Lee G & Weerakoon P (2002). The role of computer aided assessment in health professional education: A comparison of student performance in computer based and paper and pen multiple choice tests. Poster presentation at Quality Conversations - Annual International HERDSA Conference, 7-10 July. Perth, Australia.
   6. Weerakoon, P & Wong, M (1999). Sexuality Education: Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) in Sexuality Education.   Sexualities: The Australian Kaleidoscope An Australian Conference on Sexology; sponsored by the National Council of ASSERT, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, October.
   7. Weerakoon, P (1999). Sexuality Education for Health Professionals - Web-Based Learning in Sexual Health Care. 14th World Congress of Sexology - Conference organised by the World Association of Sexology - Hong Kong China 22nd -27th August.
   8. Weerakoon, P (1998). Male Sexual Dysfunction: Computer-Based Learning in Sexual Health Care at The Use Of The Internet & Intranets In Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Education. The University of Sydney 21- 22 April.



 Conference Preceedings

   1. Weerakoon P and Lee G (2004). Sex on line in the 21st century: Facilitating participation in Innovation. Presented at "Maintaining Momentum: Anticipating, Innovating, Facilitating, Participating, Evaluating ..." ANZAME annual conference, Adelaide, South Australia 24-27th June.
   2. Weerakoon P Lee G (2004). Sex-on-line in the 21st Century: Facilitating Participation in Innovation. Proceedings of the ANZAME annual conference, Adelaide, Australia, 24-27th June, p160.
   3. Weerakoon P (2003). On-line learning and studentsí perception of workload. Annual International HERDSA conference, 6-10th July, 2003.
   4. Lee G, Weerakoon P and Lingard J (2003). A case study of flexible delivery: observations on student choice, approaches to learning and performance.  Annual International HERDSA conference, 6-10th July, 2003.
   5. Jones, M. K., Pynor, R. A., Sullivan, G. & Weerakoon, P. (2002) An investigation of health care students' attitudes toward sexual issues 2002 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences June 11th - 15th.  The CD ROM (ISSN #1539-7300)
   6. Jones, M. K., Pynor, R. A., Sullivan, G. & Weerakoon, P. (2002) An investigation of Health Science student's degree of comfort towards lesbian and gay male clients. Building a lesbian health research agenda- 2002 conference of the Australian Lesbian Medical Association, Sydney, 8th November.
   7. Weerakoon P, Wong M,  West R and  Atkinson S (2002). On line sexuality education. Teaching and Learning for the next generation.  Web CT Asia Pacific Conference. 25-27th March, Melbourne, Australia.
   8. Kilburn-Watt E , Weerakoon P & Pynor R (2001). Medical Radiation Science (MRS) Students' anticipated level of comfort in clinical interactions which have sexual implications. "Exploring New Frontiers" Conference of the Australian & New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine. Hobart, Australia May 18-22, 2001.  Delegates handbook p107.
   9. Weerakoon P, Lingard J and Lee G (2001).   An evaluation of alternate modes of course delivery:  The relationships between learning approaches, student preferences and performance. The Vice-Chancellor's Showcase of Scholarly Inquiry into Teaching and Learning.  The University of Sydney. p62.
  10. Johnson H, Weerakoon P, Stricker PD, McMahon CG, Lowy M. (2000). A retrospective study of 672 patients with penile induration, seen at the Australian Centre for Sexual Health (ACSH) from 1992-1999. Presentation at the 9th World Meeting on Impotence Research, 26-30th November 2000. International Journal of Impotence.  Research - Basic and Clinical Studies - November, 2000. p 54.
  11. Weerakoon P, & Wong M (2000).  "Web Based Learning in Sexuality" Apple University Consortium annual conference 2000 - "New Millenium, New Technology, New Ways of Learning", 25-28th April 2000, pp18-1 to 18-6.