ARDC Research Link Australia

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $727,611.00
Summary: Despite high rates of problem drinking in Australia, few seek help due to stigma and a range of other barriers. In this project, we will conduct a randomised controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of a standalone telephone-delivered intervention, incorporating low-cost, structured, and integrated psychosocial support, to reduce harmful alcohol use and associated psychological morbidity in non-treatment-seeking problem drinkers.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $1,141,189.00
Summary: Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in people with severe mental illness (SMI). Although smokers with SMI want to quit, tailored interventions are rarely delivered in practice. Quitlines are well placed but underutilised by this group. “Quitlink” will utilise peer workers within mental health services to engage smokers with SMI in a tailored Quitline intervention. We will also qualitatively examine facilitators and barriers to cessation in order to improve future interventions.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $2,379,427.00
Summary: The proposed research will examine the impact of the mobile phone counselling on child feeding practices, & undernutrition & cognitive development in a rural setting in India. The study aims to collect high-level evidence of whether mobile phone counselling about nutrition in pregnancy, and child feeding, directed at pregnant women and mothers in rural India will i) reduce low birthweight, ii) improve infant & child feeding, and iii) reduce child undernutrition at 24 months.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $851,345.00
Summary: Bangladesh still faces high levels of inappropriate infant feeding leading to child undernutrition and delayed development. Effective programs are urgently needed to help reduce undernutrition and improve child development. This study in poor urban communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh will see if long-term counseling provided by local women to mothers about appropriate infant feeding can improve child’s nutritional status, growth and cognitive function in their children at 5 years.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $850,069.00
Summary: Depression in recent mothers are very common; more than 53,000 new mothers in Australia are affected by this each year. The condition can lead to serious adverse consequences for a mother’s health and the health of her infant and family. Effective strategies to prevent and reduce maternal depression are therefore needed. We will test whether support by telephone from other mothers (peer volunteers) helps in women at increased risk at 4 weeks postpartum.

Funded Activity

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $1,184,630.00
Summary: This study is to test the effectiveness of a nurse-led psychosocial intervention with peer support to reduce psychological distress, psychosocial needs, psychosexual difficulties and symptom distress and to improve quality of life and preparation for treatment of women receiving radiotherapy with curative intent for gynaecological cancer (GC) using a randomised controlled trial (RCT).

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $876,609.00
Summary: This will be the first Australian trial and one of a few internationally to evaluate a weight loss intervention, delivered via telephone, for overweight women following treatment for breast cancer. We will recruit 160 women from South-East QLD to assess weight loss outcomes, as well as improvements in quality of life, risk factors for other chronic diseases and cost-effectiveness. Results will inform the integration of weight management as part of follow-up care for women with breast cancer.

Funded Activity

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $1,291,950.00
Summary: This cluster randomised controlled trial will establish the impact on physical activity and falls of an intervention program that targets both physical activity and falls using assessment, advice and health coaching. The trial will involve 60 established groups of older people, recruited from local chapters of community organisations including Probus, the Older Women’s Network, registered clubs and church groups (estimated average group size of 10; total n = 600).

Funded Activity

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $1,112,985.00
Summary: Inherited mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 confer a very high risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Importantly, once carriers are identified, effective strategies are available that can dramatically reduce the risk of cancer. We will perform genetic testing of a healthy western population to identify breast/ovarian cancer genes before the women develop cancer. Population-based screening could significantly reduce the incidence of these diseases.

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Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount: $515,493.00
Summary: Genomic information about unborn children can now be provided using chromosomal microarrays which have the potential to revolutionize maternal care in Australia, but are currently only used in high risk pregnancies. Soon all pregnant women, the vast majority who currently have prenatal screening, will be able to access this and other genomic technologies. We will examine the psychological impact of fetal genomic testing and, in doing so, assess the need for service planning, as well as potential ....
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