Public survey on promotion of mental health & wellbeing in sporting clubs

https://qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_0p2oOwg614f80js

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. 

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/