Congratulations to the Centre’s 2022 Honours students on their scholarship awards and we wish them all the best for their research and training
Validation of the Male Depression Risk Scale short form in a cross-sectional study of Australian men. Herreen D, Rice S, Zajac I. Brief assessment of male depression in clinical care:BMJ Open. 2022 Mar 28;12(3):e053650. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053650.
Contact: Dr Ian Zajac
To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Centre is highlighting some of the fantastic women of men’s health that have been supported by the Centre and are achieving great work in the field. FCMHW encourages and commends the involvement of women in men’s health and hopes to further support it in the future.
Skaczkowski G, van der Kruk S, Loxton S, Hughes-Barton D, Howell C, Turnbull D, Jensen N, Smout M, Gunn K. JMIR Ment Health. 2022 Feb 8;9(2):e31018. doi: 10.2196/31018. PMID: 35133281.
Contact: Kate Gunn
“My skill is putting on a mask and convincing people not to look closer”: Silence, secrecy and self-reliance in men’s accounts of troubles-telling in an online discussion forum for anxiety.
Drioli-Phillips PG, Oxlad M, Scholz B, Lecouteur A, Feo R. The Journal of Men’s Studies. November 2021. doi:10.1177/10608265211052065
Contact: Phoebe Drioli-Phillips
Implications of critical race theory for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men's health.
Merlino A, Canuto K, Smith JA. Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Jun;9(6):e756. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00100-5.
PMID: 34019832
Contact: Kootsy Canuto
Sleep macroarchitecture but not obstructive sleep apnea is independently associated with cognitive function in only older men of a population-based cohort. Parker JL, Appleton SL, Melaku YA, Stevens D, Wittert GA, Martin S, Adams RJ, Vakulin A. J Sleep Res. 2021 Apr 22:e13370. doi: 10.1111/jsr.13370.
Contact: David Stevens
'I know you shouldn't compare to other people, but I can't do anything most people can': Age, family and occupation categorisations in men's reasoning about their anxiety in an online discussion forum. Drioli-Phillips PG, Le Couteur A, Oxlad M, Feo R, Scholz B.Sociol Health Illn. 2021 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13247.
Contact: Phoebe Drioli-Phillips
Dr. Phillip Tully’s, Vascular & Brain Health group have commenced their working collaboration with Dr. Jalila Jbilou, MD, MSc, Ph.D, (pictured above) who is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada) on men’s mental health in cardiac populations. Dr Jbilou’s fields of expertise are: health psycholog and community medicine, integrated care models and differentiated analysis according to gender / sex in the prevention of chronic diseases.
Dr. Jbilou has completed data collection for the MindTheHeart project, a world first on several fronts: being a psychological intervention focussed specifically on male cardiac patients with depression, anxiety and PTSD; being a stepped-care and transdiagnostic intervention, and collating a rich qualitative dataset on patient and healthcare workers pre and post the intervention.
Dr. Jalila Jbilou was awarded a scholarship to spend several months with the Freemasons Centre for Male Healh & Wellbeing while on sabbatical in early 2021 and unfortunately border closures from COVID-19 has restricted her travel plans and the Centre’s opportunity to learn from her expertise. Nonetheless, the burgeoning collaboration and forthcoming results of MindTheHeart will undoubtedly provide unique answers to help improve mental healthcare for males with comorbid cardiac disease in Canada, Australia, and other countries.
Further details about MindTheHeart are available as open-access “Understanding men's psychological reactions and experience following a cardiac event: a qualitative study from the MindTheHeart project” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31562150/
Screening and referral is not enough: a qualitative exploration of barriers to access and uptake of mental health services in patients with cardiovascular diseases
Collopy CM, Cosh SM, Tully PJ. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Jan 8;21(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-06030-7.
Contact: Phil Tully
The Effect of Multimorbidity Patterns and the Impact of Comorbid Anxiety and Depression on Primary Health Service Use: The Men Androgen Inflammation Lifestyle Environment and Stress (MAILES) Study
Ng SK, Martin SA, Adams RJ, O'Loughlin P, Wittert GA. Am J Mens Health. 2020 Sep-Oct;14(5):1557988320959993. doi: 10.1177/1557988320959993.
Contact: Gary Wittert
"I Feel Abused by My Own Mind": Themes of Control in Men's Online Accounts of Living With Anxiety.
Drioli-Phillips PG, Oxlad M, Feo R, Scholz B, LeCouteur A.Qual Health Res. 2020 Jul 24:1049732320942147. doi: 10.1177/1049732320942147.
Contact: Phoebe Drioli-Phillips
