Journal article
A multifaceted intervention to improve mental health literacy in students of a multicampus university: a cluster randomised trial
NJ Reavley, TV McCann, S Cvetkovski, AF Jorm
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Published : 2014
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of the current study was to assess whether a multifaceted intervention could improve mental health literacy, facilitate help seeking and reduce psychological distress and alcohol misuse in students of a multicampus university in Melbourne, Australia.Methods: In this cluster randomized trial, nine university campuses were paired (some pairs included more than one campus), with one of each pair randomly assigned to either the intervention or control condition. The interventions were designed to be whole-of-campus and to run over 2 academic years with their effectiveness assessed through recruitment of a monitoring sample of students from each campus. Interventions included ema..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Funding for the study was provided by beyondblue and by the NHMRC Australia Fellowship awarded to AFJ. We would particularly like to acknowledge Fiona Blee for her work on implementing the MindWise interventions. We would also like to thank Prof John McCallum for championing the trial at Victoria University, Dr Darko Hajzler for his assistance in implementing the interventions and Prof Dan Lubman for his advice on the assessment of alcohol misuse and the implementation of interventions to address this.