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The interplay between environmental and genetic risk factors in the etiology of mental health disorders
Mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance use) are the leading cause of global disease burden in the young adult population. Twin and family studies show that both genetic and environmental factors play a large role in the aetiology of these disorders. The Translational Neurogenomics group aims to identify genetic risk factors for a range of mental health and substance use disorders, and investigate the interplay between genetic and environmental risk factors.UK Biobank is a major national and international health …
- Study level
- Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Biomedical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health
International Comparison of Mental Health Advance Directive Legislation
People with mental illness wish to execute advance directives for the treatment for a variety of reasons. These include: refusing unwanted treatment, providing advance consent to treatment, binding themselves to treatment they know to be effective but which they anticipate refusing in a crisis situation, and appointing a trusted person to make decisions on their behalf during a crisis.The aim of this project is to conduct an international comparative analysis of legislation governing advance directives made by people for future …
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Business and Law
- School
- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
The role of childhood social-emotional learning competencies in adolescent health, education, and justice outcomes
This project aims to determine the relationship of childhood social-emotional competencies (particularly those developed by school-based social-emotional learning programs) with adolescent health, education, and justice outcomes. The project uses data from the NSW Child Development Study, a longitudinal study following the development of 91,597 children in NSW from birth.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Psychology and Counselling
CLIN03 - Project MindPharm: understanding and enhancing mental health in pharmacy students
You will be conducting a literature review to assess the mental health challenges faced by undergraduate students at university. The research will be used to develop a questionnaire to assess the specific challenges faced by pharmacy students.You will work with Dr Wendy Thompson, Dr Judith Singleton from the Pharmacy Discipline and Professor Katherine White from the School of Psychology & Counselling.
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Clinical Sciences
How do healthy people sleep? Biomechanics, physiology, and environment - what matters most?
In the Westernized world a person typically spends one third of their life in bed, with more time spent sleeping in a bed than in any other single activity. Sleep amount and quality of sleep have a direct impact on mood, behaviour, motor skills and overall quality of life. Yet, despite how important restful sleep is for the body to maintain good health, there is a comparatively small amount of studies evaluating key multi-factorial and biomechanical determinants of restful sleep …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
SleepBeta: co-designing technology with young adults to promote healthy sleep
The aim of the SleepBeta project is collaborate with young adults to promote healthy sleep. Sleep, together with healthy diet and exercise, is a key pillar for a healthy lifestyle. It is important to feeling well and to performing well at school and in university. However, young adults often have unhealthy sleep habits due to stress caused by exams, leisure activities and work commitments, and digital technologies used at night-time. Over the last few years, we explored different sleep and …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
Understanding and designing for digital self-care
The aim of this project is to better understand self-care practices with digital technologies amongst young adults and to explore opportunities for digital technology design.Self-care is a process of purposeful engagement in practices that promote holistic health and well-being of the self. Holistic health implies overall health and this encompasses more than just physical health but also includes mental, emotional and even spiritual health of a person. For some people, cooking can be a form of self-care to eat healthily …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
Designing a digital health platform to manage health and well-being
An individual's health status is very important to personal well-being and plays a significant role at workplace, home, and school/university. We do not worry or think too much about our health value until we experience bad consequences. Individuals will make an excellent contribution to schools, industries, and workplace provided that they have a good quality of life. With the advances in wearable technology, we can leverage their utility to monitor and manage our health.Emerging smart devices have potential benefits for …
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Computer Science
ENS03 - Exploring participant engagement in a digital responsive feeding intervention for food-insecure families
Digital health and behaviour change programs have expanded drastically over recent years. Digital health programs offer the benefits of scalability and reduced delivery costs; in addition, they may be a suitable option to support hard-to-reach population groups who may not present for traditional health programs or appointments. However, the degree to which participants complete and interact with digital health interventions is a factor that is sometimes overlooked. This VRES project will support the user engagement assessment of the Eat, Learn, …
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scheme
- School
- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
NURS04 - Health professionals care of wounds in rural and regional areas of Queensland
The type of wounds experienced by people living in rural and regional centres can be varied and complex. Acute care wounds in rural and regional health care sectors are often dependent upon employment and recreational pursuits, ranging from machinery injuries to shooting injuries. The propensity for an ageing population (who may struggle to secure a healthy lifestyle) positions this group as one with a greater risk of acquiring chronic conditions frequently leading to wounds with delayed healing outcomes (i.e. chronic …
- Study level
- Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
Targeting a novel adaptive neovascular response of the tumour microenvironment to treat advanced prostate cancer
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a significant healthcare burden in Australia. Androgen signalling inhibition using androgen receptor (AR) antagonists is the principal systemic therapy for advanced PCa. Androgen receptors (AR) are an attractive therapeutic target due to their elevated expression in tumour epithelial cells and the retention of androgen signalling throughout the disease continuum.However, patients eventually develop resistance to treatment, and PCa cells metastasise to distant bone and visceral organs, representing an incurable stage of the disease. Understanding mechanisms that contribute …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Biomedical Sciences
TRAP: Translation into practice of tools for risk assessment for healing and prevention of venous leg ulcers
Approximately 30% of venous leg ulcers (VLUs) fail to respond to evidence-based treatments and remain unhealed; while after healing, 60–70% of ulcers recur. Currently most clinicians use only their experience to identify patients with VLUs at high risk of failure to heal or recurrence after healing.To address this problem objectively, this project team has developed and validated two risk assessment tools to identify patients at high risk of failure to heal or ulcer recurrence. A prospective, multi-site study has demonstrated …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
- School
- School of Nursing
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