The effect of testosterone in the prevention of type-2 diabetes
Effects of androgens on glucose metabolism. Umapathysivam M, Grossmann M, Wittert GA. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Mar 31:101654. doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2022.101654.
Contact: Gary Wittert
Inaugural FCMHW Early Career Research Fellow at Flinders University - Jasmine Petersen
The Centre is pleased to formally announce the appointment of Jasmine Petersen to the position of the inaugural Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing Early Career Research Fellow at Flinders University. Jasmine has started her 2-year post-doctoral training and research position in the area of young males, sport and mental health, funded by the Centre through generous support of Masonic Charities and Flinders Foundation.
Jasmine recently completed her PhD in Psychology at Flinders University in the area of behaviour change and exercise.
Jasmine will be based at the Sport, Health, Physical Activity and Exercise (SHAPE) Research Centre in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work and working closely with program leads Professor Murray Drummond and Associate Professor Ben Wadham.
Jasmine will be working directly with young males and their sporting clubs to establish how young males social and emotional development ies are created, maintained and perpetuated within their sporting clubs, and promote the importance of mental health and wellbeing as a key element of sporting club culture.
Jasmine and her research team aim to assist traditional sporting clubs partnering with the Program to become inviting and nurturing spaces for young males through traditional and contemporary education initiatives developed as an outcome of this program.
Jasmine will be working with a broad range of sporting codes that have signed up to be involved in the program. These include:
o South Australian National Football League
o South Australian Cricket Association
o Indigenous Sport and Health Department, NT
o The Australian Football League, NT
along with partners
o Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing
o Sports SA
o Mental Health Commission, and the
o Breakthrough Mental Health Foundation
o NT Mental Health Coalition
o Darwin Indigenous Men’s Service.
Level playing field: young males, masculinity and mental wellbeing through sport
Level playing field: young males, masculinity and mental wellbeing through sport.
Drummond, M., Wadham, B., Prichard, I. et al. BMC Public Health 22, 756 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13200-1.
Contact: Murray Drummond
Validation of a short form Male Depression Risk Scale
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
Adherence to secondary prevention for patients with cardiovascular disease and mental health disorders
Understandings and experiences of adherence to secondary prevention for patients with cardiovascular disease and comorbid depression or anxiety. Cosh SM, Pinto R, Denson L, Tully PJ Psychol Health Med. 2022 Mar 31:1-8. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2022.2060515. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35356823.
Contact: Phillip Tully
A review on Web-Based Interventions to Help Australian Adults Address Mental Well-being.
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
Digitally driven pathways to optimise use and outcomes of primary care for men
This research aims to translate the Centre’s research into an impactful health service integration program targeting the patient-GP interface, arming men with the knowledge, motivation, and agency to recognize symptoms and health behaviours as prompts to engage with primary health care services, and providing men and GPs with tools that optimise the outcomes of that engagement.
Contact: Professor Gary Wittert
Improving uptake of prostate cancer screening in men from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
We will partner with researchers and community outreach officers at Cancer Council SA (lead by Dr Jess Loyer), the Multicultural Communities of South Australia Men’s Group who are investigating barriers to engagement with cancer control programs among CALD communities.
This program aims to adapt the current RACGP prostate cancer screening decision-making tool to be culturally sensitive and meet the needs of men from CALD backgrounds and improve the uptake of PSA screening which will facilitate early detection and treatment/monitoring of prostate cancer.
Contact: Dr Norma Bulamu
Troubles-telling an important self-help tool for anxiety
“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
Extending the Male Depression Risk Scale for use with older men
Extending the Male Depression Risk Scale for use with older men: the effect of age on factor structure and associations with psychological distress and history of depression.
Herreen D, Rice S, Ward L, Zajac I. Aging & Mental Health 2021. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2021.1947966
Contact: Danielle Herreen
What farmers want from mental health and wellbeing-focused websites and online interventions
What farmers want from mental health and wellbeing-focused websites and online interventions,. Gunn KM, Barrett A, Hughes-Barton D, Turnbull D, Short CE, Brumby S, Skaczkowski G, Dollman J. Journal of Rural Studies, 2021, ISSN 0743-0167, doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.06.016.
Contact: Kate Gunn
MindtheHeart Canadian Collaboration: mental health care pathways for male cardiac patients
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/
Psychological distress in drought-affected farmers
Why are some drought-affected farmers less distressed than others? The association between stress, psychological distress, acceptance, behavioral disengagement and neuroticism
Gunn KM, Turnbull DA, Dollman J, Kettler L, Bamford L, Vincent AD. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 2021 Feb 15. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12695.
Contact: Kate Gunn
Screening and referral is not enough: Cardiovascular disease and mental health
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