Research Findings

A community rugby league program has been found to improve mental health and behavioural outcomes in young men, according to new research supported by Australian Rotary Health (ARH). Professor Allison Waters and a team of youth mental health experts at Griffith University developed a [...]

ARH Scholar Dr Natasha Krishnadas has recently completed a PhD, revealing new insights that could prevent neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s, from emerging. In 2022, over a quarter of a million Australians were estimated to be suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Accounting for about two thirds of [...]

International Childhood Cancer Day is a global collaborative campaign aimed to raise awareness about childhood cancer and to mark a day of support for all millions whose lives are impacted by cancer. There are an estimated 750 children aged 0-14 being diagnosed with cancer each [...]

A recent study funded by Australian Rotary Health (ARH) have discovered how new digital parenting programs are able to improve the mental health of families. Half of all cases of mental health disorders develop before the age of 14, and many of them are preventable. [...]

Results from a research study funded by the Australian Rotary Health (ARH) examined around 1,000 families to understand the origins of childhood mental health disorders. The study took place before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing how the mental health of children was affected. Associate [...]

A recent project funded by the Australian Rotary Health has explored how to better provide online interventions to parents of children with behaviour problems. Only a third of parents experiencing child behaviour problems will engage in interventions to support their child, and of those who [...]

New research funded by Australian Rotary Health (ARH) shows how exercise is proven to better alleviate the symptoms of women suffering from perinatal depression than commonly prescribed antidepressant drugs. One in five pregnant Australian women is diagnosed with depression during their pregnancy or 24 months [...]

Without the support from Australian Rotary Health (ARH), the Australian site for an international study investigating the effectiveness of a treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients would not have been possible. The study was conducted across 5 countries and 15 different treatment centres, treating [...]

Australian Rotary Health PhD Scholar, Zhenyu Zhang, has published her work on developing a nonpharmacological digital intervention for treating patients suffering from dementia. Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia, with nearly half a million Australians living with dementia in 2022. The [...]

Dr Michelle Tye A new smartphone app has been found to reduce the severity of suicidal thoughts in young people, following a research study funded by Australian Rotary Health (ARH). The LifeBuoy app is the first smartphone app that uses dialectical behavioural therapy [...]

A new study funded by Australian Rotary Health has found an agent that could potentially be used to treat bowel cancer patients who have had the tumour spread to their liver. The liver is the most common site for colorectal cancer metastases, which occurs in [...]

Funding from Australian Rotary Health has supported the development and validation of a new screening tool to help professionals identify psychosocial risk during the perinatal period. The Antenatal Risk Questionnaire-Revised (ANRQ-R) was developed by ARH Geoffrey Betts Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient [...]