Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0347702

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0347702

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

An innovative measure of rural health and wellbeing: rapid appraisal via analysis of patterns of calls to Lifeline. Rural Australians are reported to experience poorer health and wellbeing on a wide range of indicators. However, serious problems exist with the validity and reliability of these data. This project will analyse the 85,000 calls to Lifeline made each year by rural Australians. For several reasons, use of telephone counselling services would appear to be a sensitive measure of rural community health. By triangulating primary data (community case studies using the critical incident technique) and secondary data (SEIFA and Jesuit index), this project will develop and test Lifeline calls as an index for rapidly appraising community health and wellbeing.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-02-2003

End Date: 02-02-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $69,099.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Sociological Methodology And Research Methods | Social And Community Psychology | Urban And Regional Studies

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mental health | Health status (e.g. indicators of “well-being”) | Rural health |

Other Keywords

Health status (e.g. indicators of “well-being”) | Mental health | Psychology | Rural health | Social And Community Psychology | Sociological Methodology And Research Methods | Urban And Regional Studies

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