Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100200749

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP100200749

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A mental health "thermometer" to monitor and prevent adverse treatment outcomes and self-harm among psychiatric inpatients. Our project stands to prevent adverse outcomes in psychiatric patients. An estimated 660 000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals each year; 99 000 of these people are worse off following treatment (assuming a deterioration rate of 15 per cent). Since monitoring can halve that rate, if this project can halve the deterioration rate again, then 24 750 inpatients across the nation would not be worse off after treatment representing an annual saving of nearly $19.2 million per annum and reduce the number of patients who fall into a cycle of admission and readmission. Further, although suicide occurs in less than one per cent of admissions, if this research is able to predict and then reduce the suicide rate by as little as 10 per cent, then 660 lives can be saved each year.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-09-2010

End Date: 01-04-2016

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $177,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Preventive Medicine | Mental Health | Public Health and Health Services

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Preventive Medicine | Mental Health |

Other Keywords

Mental Health | Preventive Medicine | Public Health and Health Services

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