A5059566044- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Sleep and related disorders
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
The University of Sydney
2016-2025
ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
2022-2025
Australian Research Council
2023-2025
Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology
2022
University College London
2013-2021
Mental Health Research UK
2013-2015
UCL Australia
2013
Newcastle University
2006
Australian National University
2006
The University of Queensland
2006
In response to the mass adoption and extensive usage of Internet-enabled devices across world, a major review published in this journal 2019 examined impact Internet on human cognition, discussing concepts ideas behind "online brain". Since then, online world has become further entwined with fabric society, extent which we use such technologies continued grow. Furthermore, research evidence ways affects mind advanced considerably. paper, sought draw upon latest data from large-scale...
BackgroundHigh resource expenditure on acute care is a challenge for mental health services aiming to focus supporting recovery, and relapse after an crisis episode common. Some evidence supports self-management interventions prevent such relapses, but their effect readmissions following untested. We tested whether intervention facilitated by peer support workers could reduce rates of readmission people discharged from resolution teams, which provide intensive home treatment crisis.MethodsWe...
Background: Each year, many young Australians aged between 16 and 25 years experience a mental health disorder, yet only small proportion access services even fewer receive timely evidence-based treatments. Today, with ever-increasing to the Internet use of technology, potential provide all people (24 hours day, 7 days week) support they require improve their well-being is promising. Objective: The aim this study was participatory design (PD) as research methodologies end users (young youth...
The expanding domain of digital mental health is transitioning beyond traditional telehealth to incorporate smartphone apps, virtual reality, and generative artificial intelligence, including large language models. While industry setbacks methodological critiques have highlighted gaps in evidence challenges scaling these technologies, emerging solutions rooted co‐design, rigorous evaluation, implementation science offer promising pathways forward. This paper underscores the dual necessity...
Approximately 48 million Americans are affected by foodborne illness each year. Evidence suggests that the application of health psychology theory to food safety interventions can increase behaviors reduce incidence such as adequately keeping hands, surfaces and equipment clean. This aim this pilot study was be first explore effectiveness a intervention based on Theory Planned Behavior (TPB).Young adult participants (N = 45) were randomly allocated intervention, general control or mere...
Project Synergy aims to test the potential of new and emerging technologies enhance quality mental health care provided by traditional face-to-face services. Specifically, it seeks ensure that consumers get right care, first time (delivery effective early in course illness). Using co-design with affected individuals, has built, implemented evaluated an online platform assist assessment, feedback, management monitoring people disorders. It also promotes maintenance wellbeing collating social...
Background Web-based self-report surveying has increased in popularity, as it can rapidly yield large samples at a low cost. Despite this increase the area of youth mental health, there is distinct lack research comparing results surveys with more traditional and widely accepted computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). Objective The Second Australian Young Well National Survey 2014 sought to compare differences respondent response patterns using matched items on CATI versus survey....
Globally, there are fundamental shortcomings in mental health care systems, including restricted access, siloed services, interventions that poorly matched to service users' needs, underuse of personal outcome monitoring track progress, exclusion family and carers, suboptimal experiences care. Health information technologies (HITs) hold great potential improve these aspects underpin the enhanced quality care.Project Synergy aimed co-design, implement, evaluate novel HITs, as exemplified by...
Background Supported self-management interventions, which assist individuals in actively understanding and managing their own health conditions, have a robust evidence base for chronic physical illnesses, such as diabetes, but been underused long-term mental conditions. Objective This study aims to co-design user test supported intervention, My Personal Recovery Plan (MyPREP), that could be flexibly delivered via digital traditional paper-based mediums. Methods adopted participatory design,...
Understanding how persons with narcolepsy conceptualize symptoms, daily impact and illness experience is key to facilitating dialogue between patients healthcare professionals. These concepts are usually explored from the perspective of professionals/researchers rarely those narcolepsy. 127 self-reported were recruited an Australian patient support group. A short demographic survey was completed. All agreed participate in a subsequent 1:1 semi-structured interview. Saturation reached after...
Employment is associated with better quality of life and wellbeing in people mental illness. Unemployment greater levels psychological illness viewed as a core part the social exclusion faced by Social Firms offer paid employment to but are under-investigated UK. The aims this phase A Route Recovery (SoFARR) project were describe availability spread across UK, outline range opportunities severe understand extent which they employed within these firms.A UK national survey Firms, other...
Health information technologies (HITs) are becoming increasingly recognized for their potential to provide innovative solutions improve the delivery of mental health services and drive system reforms better outcomes.This paper describes baseline results a study designed systematically monitor evaluate impact implementing an HIT, namely InnoWell Platform, into Australian facilitate iterative refinement HIT service model in which it is embedded meet needs consumers supportive others as well...
Background The recent Australian National Agenda for Eating Disorders highlights the role technology can play in improving accessibility and service development through web-based prevention, early access pathways, self-help, recovery assistance. However, engagement with eating disorders community to co-design, build, evaluate these much-needed solutions participatory design processes has been lacking and, until recently, underresourced. Objective This study aims customize configure a...
Background There is scant research examining evidence-based processes and practices that delineate how to include the voices of children in service design delivery school age care environments such as Outside School Hours Care (OSHC). A possible structure support share leadership their OSHC program have a meaningful voice decision-making co-production, whereby communities opportunity co-plan, co-design, co-deliver, co-evaluate activities. The Connect Promote Protect Program (CP3), social...
Background: Psychiatric Emergency Care Centres do not have a clear treatment model or evidence base. An understanding of the patient population, clinical practice and approaches is needed to develop an evidence-based framework. Objectives: Identify staff perceptions purpose Centres, who should be treated how. Methods: A multidisciplinary sample clinicians administrators currently working in, with administrative oversight of, were interviewed. All New South Wales approached self-selected....
Over the past two decades, digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) have seen a surge in studies with people experiencing ill-health, whether this be via web-based platforms, smartphone applications, text messages or other devices. Although DMHIs already demonstrate evidence of their acceptability and some effectiveness among different populations, information about safety is less clear. This Editorial reflects on Delphi study by Taher colleagues that explored regulation generated ten...
Teacher mental health is an important predictor of student outcomes and teacher workforce retention, has been declining for some years, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The various causes this trend have speculated to include a that younger less experienced, as well increasing work demands. We evaluated trends in between 2005 2022, using 5-item Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) from annual Household Income Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey. tested whether was due changes non-work...
Background: There is limited research investigating how information about a mental health diagnosis discussed and received.Aims: To measure community-based service users' satisfaction preferences toward receiving news of serious to assess the acceptability diagnostic communication protocol (SPIKES: Setting; Perception; Invitation; Knowledge; Empathy; Summarizing).Method: A survey was conducted with 101 participants.Results: Participants rated methods clinicians use facilitate discussions are...
Previous research on body image distress mainly relied samples that were small, generally homogeneous in age or sex, often limited to one geographical region, and characterized by a lack of comprehensive analysis multiple psychosocial domains. The presented this paper extends the international literature using results web-based Global Health Wellbeing Survey 2015. survey included large sample both men women aged ≥16 years from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, States.The main...