Social disconnectedness and isolation are risk factors for poor mental health. Community-based friendship group interventions have been designed to increase an individual's social capital and consequently their mental wellbeing. Structured and unstructured friendship groups reflect two distinct approaches to friendship group interventions. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• December 2023

LGBQ+ people (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer) are at-risk of discrimination and developing mental health issues within general populations. Limited research has assessed their mental health in emergency services occupations, a population which are known to experience poorer mental health. The current study explores the extent to which sexual orientation is associated with higher rates of mental health issues among emergency personnel. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021

Physical and mental health in mothers of children with Down syndrome. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2008
• September 2008

The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2012
• September 2012

It is critical that health service evaluation frameworks include Aboriginal people and their cultural worldviews from design to implementation. During a large participatory action research study, Elders, service leaders and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers co-designed evaluation tools to test the efficacy of a previously co-designed engagement framework. Through a series of co-design workshops, tools were built using innovative collaborative processes that foregrounded Aboriginal worldviews. ...

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• 2021
• August 2021

This research explored adults' perceptions of how sexualized images typically found on social media might influence adolescent girls' mental health, what support girls might need should they experience mental health difficulties, and how such difficulties could be prevented or reduced. ...

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• 2023
• January 2023

This report regards the health & wellbeing of Australian children & adolescents. Based on a survey conducted in the homes of over 6,300 families with... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Psychotic experiences appear to be particularly associated with depressive symptoms and psychological distress, impaired role functioning and quality of life in help-seeking young people in the medium-term ...

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• 2018
• June 2018

High-rise apartment buildings have long been associated with the poor mental health of their residents ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

The prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents in Australia, and the severity and impact of those mental disorders ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

This paper offers a rare opportunity to longitudinally examine mental health in a population-representative study of children aged 4-5 years to 14-15 years ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

The reciprocal relationship between psychiatric and substance use disorders is well-known, yet it remains largely unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a nationally representative panel dataset from Australia to present robust evidence on the causal impact of mental distress on cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• August 2023