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New resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
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Cracks in the Ice has launched the first national website providing resources about crystal methamphetamine ('ice') for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The development of the website was led by an expert advisory group including Aboriginal elders, researchers, and health workers together with input from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members from across Australia. Click here to take a look at the new website or read more about its development.
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PREMISE Update
Deakin University Health Economics collaborators
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Since its inception in 2018, researchers from Deakin Health Economics have been active contributors to the research being generated by the PREMISE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence. The Deakin Health Economics PREMISE team includes Prof Cathy Mihalopoulos (Chief Investigator), Dr Long Le, Dr Yong Yi Lee, Ms Jo Perez, Mr Jan Faller, and Dr Mary Lou Chatterton. The team has been leading innovative research to develop evidence on the economics of preventing alcohol use, substance use, and mental disorders among Australian adolescents. The team's four main areas of research include:
- Conducting reviews of existing literature to establish the cost-effectiveness credentials of interventions to prevent and treat substance use disorders.
- Performing an economic evaluation alongside the Matilda Centre’s Climate and Preventure (CAP) trial.
- Developing an epidemiologic model describing the long-term effects of substance use and mental health disorders from adolescence to adulthood.
- Conducting an economic evaluation of the cost effectiveness of universal interventions to prevent alcohol use and substance use, and improve mental health.
The Deakin Health Economics team has recently presented preliminary findings from a cost-utility analysis of the Climate Schools Combined trial at the 2021 Congress for the International Health Economic Association. They will also be presenting the results of a systematic review of economic evaluations to prevent drug use at the 2021 Australian Health Economics Society Conference. Two systematic reviews of previous economic evaluations of interventions to prevent alcohol and substance use are currently near finalisation.
Additional research currently underway includes: systematic reviews of pharmacologic and psychological interventions for alcohol/substance use disorders, the development of algorithms to translate scores on the K6/SDQ to corresponding utility scores on the CHU9D in youth, and the development of an economic model evaluating the short- and long-term health impacts of universal preventive interventions for substance use and mental health. This research is led by the Deakin Health Economics team in collaboration with PREMISE prevention and epidemiology researchers at the Matilda Centre.
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Our Research: Latest News
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Lauren Gardner is a Research Fellow working across two large-scale, school-based randomised controlled trials aiming to improve student wellbeing. Read more.
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Student Spotlight: PhD student Samantha Lynch is finding new ways to optimise mental health interventions by looking at the way we classify and predict mental disorders. Read more.
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Interested in Postgraduate study? The Matilda Centre's Professor Katherine Mills and PhD candidate Samantha Lynch hosted an information session for individuals interested in doing a PhD in mental health or substance use.
Watch the webinar recording or read more about doing postgraduate research at the Matilda Centre.
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Professor Hayden McRobbie presents the latest Positive Choices webinar on e-cigarettes and vaping, reviewing vaping trends among adolescents and providing strategies for schools, parents, and policy to prevent vaping among youth. Watch the webinar.
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The Comorbidity Project recently held two webinars on evidence-based practices in alcohol and other drug settings. Watch Associate Professor Julia Lappin present on psychosis and substance use here, and Dr Suzie Hudson on implementing best practice in alcohol and other drug services here.
Join Dr Robby Fullerton from 12-1pm AEST on Monday 30th August for an evidence-based webinar on motivational interviewing here.
All previous and upcoming Comorbidity Project webinars are available via the Comorbidity Project website.
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Get Involved
A number of projects at the Matilda Centre are recruiting. See details below and please share within your networks!
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ADDAPT: Depression and risky alcohol use decision-making tool
For clinicians and people managing depression and at-risk alcohol use, deciding on the best treatments is difficult. We know many people want to be more informed and better supported to make treatment decisions.
If you, or someone you know, experiences depression and alcohol use problems and would like to provide feedback on a new online resource to help make treatment decisions, please complete the ADDAPT online survey
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Inroads: Anxiety and Alcohol Online Program
Inroads is an evidence-based online program, co-designed with young people, to address the inter-relationship between anxiety and alcohol use. The 5-module program supports young people to develop cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) coping skills to manage anxiety symptoms and gain control over their alcohol use.
The Inroads program is now available to young people (aged 17-30 years) as part of a free trial. If you or a young person you know might find this program beneficial please visit the Inroads website to find out more and register for the trial.
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Re-Train Your Brain: Away from Anxiety and Alcohol
Re-Train Your Brain is a new online brain training program for people who drink to cope with anxiety. It involves targeting unconscious mental habits associated with drinking and anxiety through cognitive bias modification. This program is designed as an adjunct for people currently receiving in-clinic treatment.
Researchers at the Matilda Centre are currently recruiting people aged 18-30 for a free trial of the Re-Train Your Brain program. The study aims to investigate whether the brain training program can successfully reduce unconscious negative mental habits, anxiety and alcohol use, when added as a supplement to standard treatments. If you or a young person you know might find this program beneficial, please visit the Re-Train Your Brain website.
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Upcoming Conferences
Researchers from the Matilda Centre will be presenting at these upcoming conferences.
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Acknowledgement of Country
The Matilda Centre acknowledges the tradition of custodianship and law of the Country on which the University of Sydney campuses stand. We pay our respects to those who have cared and continue to care for Country.
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