Population Mental Health Unit

ScreenED Project

Developing culturally appropriate mental health first aid training for China, Chile and Argentina

This project aims to develop and trial culturally appropriate training for China, Chile and Argentina, involving re-development of the Delphi expert consensus guidelines, cultural adaptation and randomised controlled trials of the courses.

Transforming the evidence base supporting mental health first aid training

This project aims to generate high-quality evidence on the effectiveness of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) programs.

Evaluation of the Conversations about Suicide course in Australian Men’s Sheds

MHFA Australia's mental health first aid course will be evaluated in Men’s Sheds across Australia with the aim of reaching older men, who have the highest suicide rate.

ALIVE: A national mental health research translation centre: Prevention across the Life Course

Researchers at the Population Mental Health Unit undertake several research projects in partnership with the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation.

Catching up with the crew

This study looked at the experiences of Live4Life program 'Crew' alumni in Victoria, Australia, to understand how participation in the program influenced their health, wellbeing, education, employment, and skill development.

Promoting healthy adolescent romantic relationships in the Global South

This project focuses on adolescent romantic relationships in the Global South, where adolescents face unique challenges in relationships due to gender roles, familial expectations, income inequality, and limited access to education and technology.

Co-design in preventive mental health research

This project focuses on the role of co-design (actively involving individuals with lived experience in designing services or interventions) in mental health prevention, specifically with young people, an area that has been underexplored in research and policy.

Anne Deveson Research Collaborative

The Anne Deveson Research Centre (ADRC) promotes the wellbeing of Australians affected by complex mental health issues, with a focus on multidisciplinary research exploring the social impacts of these conditions and addressing stigma and discrimination.

A national survey of community attitudes to prevention, promotion and wellbeing

The aim of the project is to understand Australian adults' attitudes towards prevention of depression and anxiety and their intentions to take actions for selective prevention, indicated prevention and treatment of depression and anxiety.

Setting Australian research priorities for child mental health clinical trials

To inform the function of Growing Minds Australia, there is a need to identify which clinical trials are the highest priority for future research. This study aims to identify the Australian research priorities for clinical trials in child mental health (0-12 years).

Mitigating the impact of the media on stigmatising attitudes towards people with complex mental illness

This program aims to advance world-first interventions to shift media practice for reporting on mental illness in the context of crime, which is critical to reducing stigma towards people with complex mental illness, and generate new knowledge on how to improve media reporting of mental illness.

Suicide prevention in youth custodial settings

The key objective of this project is to increase the skills and capacity of youth justice custodial staff in the prevention of, and response to, suicide and suicide-related behaviours in youth custody.

Empowering culturally and linguistically diverse parents to support primary school-aged children

This project will assess how well the Supporting Child Mental Health (SCMH) program works and how suitable it is for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) parents.

Evaluation of the impact of The Push-Up Challenge

This evaluation aims to assess the impact of The Push-Up Challenge on participants’ mental health literacy, help-seeking behaviours, and supportive actions; exploring whether participation improves mental health knowledge, intentions to seek help or support others, exercise participation, social connection, and resilience, and whether these changes are influenced by the level of participation.

Improving consensus processes in health sciences

This project aims to find the best methods for health scientists and practitioners to come to an expert consensus, and expects to generate new knowledge in this area using the findings of research on optimal group decision making and the aggregated judgements of experts on scientific consensus.

Characteristics of mentally healthy nations

This project aims to find characteristics of nations that are associated with better mental health. It combines international datasets to investigate associations of national characteristics with prevalence of mental symptoms and mental disorders.