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Neuropsychological profiles of people receiving cognitive behaviour therapy for co-occurring depression and alcohol misuse Open
The co-occurrence of depression and alcohol misuse happens at rates greater than chance and results in a clinical presentation that is more difficult, time consuming, and costly to treat than when either condition occurs in isolation. Trad…
Use of e-Mental Health Tools for Suicide Prevention in Clinical Practice by Mental Health Professionals in NSW, Australia: Cross-Sectional Survey Open
Background Suicide is a significant global health concern. In the context of increased demand for mental health services and workforce shortages, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, electronic mental health (eMH) tools represent a promis…
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation may benefit from the addition of N-acetylcysteine to facilitate motor learning in infants of diabetic mothers failing oral feeds Open
Objective: This study aims to determine if pretreating with enteral N-acetylcysteine (NAC) improves CNS oxidative stress and facilitates improvement in oromotor skills during transcutaneous auricular nerve stimulation (taVNS) paired with o…
View article: Development and Validation of the Maternal Drinking Motives Scale (M-DMS)
Development and Validation of the Maternal Drinking Motives Scale (M-DMS) Open
The first tailored Maternal Drinking Motives Scale (M-DMS) provides a more valid research tool for assessing psychological mechanisms of alcohol use in mothers.
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation may benefit from the addition of N-acetylcysteine to facilitate motor learning in infants of diabetic mothers failing oral feeds Open
Objective This study aims to determine if pretreating with enteral N-acetylcysteine (NAC) improves CNS oxidative stress and facilitates improvement in oromotor skills during transcutaneous auricular nerve stimulation (taVNS) paired with or…
Psychologically Traumatic Birth: Associations with Increased Drinking and Delayed Risk of Alcohol Harm in Mothers Open
Background Experience of trauma is a risk factor for increased alcohol use. Childbirth can be psychologically traumatic but there is minimal research investigating whether psychological birth trauma (PBT) is a risk factor for increased mat…
A naturalistic evaluation of parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) and PCIT with trauma-directed interaction (PCIT with TDI) in Australian children exposed to abuse and neglect Open
Background: To optimize PCIT treatment with children exposed to abuse and neglect, PCIT with Trauma-Directed Interaction (PCIT with TDI) was created. Objective: The current study was a quasi-experimental cohort study (PCIT and PCIT with TD…
Development and validation of the Maternal Drinking Motives Scale (M-DMS) Open
Background: Alcohol use is a gendered behaviour and motherhood is a life stage which may influence drinking motives. However, there are no drinking motive scales uniquely tailored to maternal populations. This work developed a new maternal…
View article: Implementation of health and wellbeing policies and programs for students: Views of <scp>Australian</scp> universities
Implementation of health and wellbeing policies and programs for students: Views of <span>Australian</span> universities Open
Issue Addressed Universities are a crucial setting to address and promote optimal mental health of young Australians. However, there is a lack of knowledge of universities' views of current implementation of health and wellbeing initiative…
View article: Cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural and personalized exercise interventions for reducing fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases
Cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural and personalized exercise interventions for reducing fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases Open
Objectives To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a cognitive behavioural approach (CBA) or a personalized exercise programme (PEP), alongside usual care (UC), in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases who report chronic, moderate to…
View article: Motherhood and drinking: The relative importance of mental health and psychosocial factors on maternal alcohol misuse during the postpartum period
Motherhood and drinking: The relative importance of mental health and psychosocial factors on maternal alcohol misuse during the postpartum period Open
BACKGROUND: Being a mother of a young child may be protective against alcohol misuse for some, but not all, women. This is the first paper to identify the mental health and psychosocial correlates of alcohol misuse among postpartum mothers…
An Association Between Psychological Childbirth Trauma and Hazardous Alcohol Use Open
Hazardous alcohol use is increasing amongst some groups of women, yet little is known about the underlying reasons or gender-specific influences. The purpose of this study was to explore the association between psychological childbirth tra…
Self-Assured and Sober: The Relationship Between Maternal Parenting Sense of Competence, Stress, and Alcohol Use Open
Alcohol misuse is widespread, creating serious health and parenting harms. It is important to explore the motivations behind why people drink and the modifiable factors determining severity of the behavior. While alcohol-related research h…
A Systematic Literature Review and Narrative Synthesis of Effective Interventions for Family and Caregivers of People who use Methamphetamine Open
Background: Methamphetamine is a highly addictive central nervous stimulant associated with numerous adverse health, psychological, and social impacts. Family and friends of people who use methamphetamine often take on a crucial caregiving…
View article: Remotely delivered cognitive-behavioural and personalized exercise interventions to lessen the impact of fatigue: a qualitative evaluation
Remotely delivered cognitive-behavioural and personalized exercise interventions to lessen the impact of fatigue: a qualitative evaluation Open
Objectives Fatigue can be a disabling symptom of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. LIFT (Lessening the Impact of Fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a randomized Trial) is a randomized trial of remotely delivered cognitive-behaviour…
Factors Predicting Trial Engagement, Treatment Satisfaction, and Health-Related Quality of Life During a Web-Based Treatment and Social Networking Trial for Binge Drinking and Depression in Young Adults: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial Open
Background Mental health and alcohol use problems are among the most common causes of disease burden in young Australians, frequently co-occur (comorbidity), and lead to significant lifetime burden. However, comorbidities remain significan…
Factors Predicting Trial Engagement, Treatment Satisfaction, and Health-Related Quality of Life During a Web-Based Treatment and Social Networking Trial for Binge Drinking and Depression in Young Adults: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Mental health and alcohol use problems are among the most common causes of disease burden in young Australians, frequently co-occur (comorbidity), and lead to significant lifetime burden. However, comorbidities remain significan…
View article: YouTube as a resource for evaluating the unmet needs of caregivers of stroke survivors
YouTube as a resource for evaluating the unmet needs of caregivers of stroke survivors Open
Content produced by caregivers of stroke survivors on the online video-sharing platform YouTube may be a good source of knowledge regarding caregivers’ unmet needs. We aimed to examine the content, quantity and quality of YouTube videos th…
The unmet needs of caregivers of stroke survivors: A review of the content of YouTube videos (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Content produced by caregivers of stroke survivors on online video sharing platforms such as YouTube may be a good source of knowledge regarding caregivers’ unmet needs and caregiving experiences. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine c…
Recruiting for health, medical or psychosocial research using Facebook: Systematic review Open
Recruiting participants is a challenge for many health, medical and psychosocial research projects. One tool more frequently being used to improve recruitment is the social networking website Facebook. A systematic review was conducted to …