A Large-scale Clinical Effectiveness (health Services) Trial To Determine Whether Personalised Health Care Packages, Combined With Digitally-supported Measurement-based Care, Improve Functional Outcomes In Young People With Mood Disorders
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,434,588.00
Summary
One of our greatest current health challenges is to develop highly-personalised interventions for teenagers and young adults with emerging mood disorders. This research will combine our national expertise to develop and implement care packages utilising digital technologies, personalised assessment techniques, targeted treatment choices, and long-term outcome tracking. In a clinical trial we will assess the clinical effectiveness of these innovative healthcare packages.
From The Laboratory To The Classroom: Validation Of An Innovative Laboratory Model Of Adolescent Impulsivity And Alcohol Use Using A School-based Randomised Controlled Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$399,267.00
Summary
I am a psychologist focused on understanding how different psychosocial approaches to reducing adolescent alcohol use actually work. I will achieve this using a new laboratory model I have developed to determine the “active ingredients” of different interventions. Using a randomised controlled trial, I will then test whether combining these ingredients produces better outcomes in the prevention of teenage drinking.
How Can We Influence The Ways That Research And Other Information Are Used In Health Policy And Program Organisations?
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$57,140.00
Summary
My research aims to improve methods for getting research into health policy decision-making. My PhD will investigate aspects of design, implementation and evaluation of research utilisation interventions. It will: 1. Increase understanding of the factors that mediate these interventions; 2. Increase empirical understanding of what strategies are most effective in improving research utilisation in different contexts, and 3. Provide concrete guidance for how to design, implement and evaluate such
Meaningful Engagement Of Adolescents In Health Programming And Evaluation
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$128,224.00
Summary
Adolescence is a critical developmental period of immense potential where health behaviours can be established that affect the lifecourse, and indeed the next generation. The Jharkhand Initiative for Adolescent Health trial set in rural India is exploring how meaningful engagement and participation of adolescents in their own peer-led community health intervention groups can lead to better health in marginalised adolescent girls, assisting us to better help vulnerable adolescents everywhere.