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Mental disorders

Editorial

The association of child protection contact with mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents, and their costs

Paul Hotton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 531-532 Free

Research letter

Medicare‐subsidised mental health service use during the first 15 years of life in New South Wales: a population cohort study

Oliver J Watkeys, Kimberlie Dean, Kristin R Laurens, Vaughan J Carr and Melissa J Green

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 554-557 Free

Guideline

Guidelines for the design and implementation of youth participation initiatives to safeguard mental health and wellbeing

Kailin Guo, Danica Meas, Dominik Mautner, Fulin Yan, Imeelya Al‐Hadaya, Amarina Donohoe‐Bales, Lily Teesson, Stephanie R Partridge, Magenta B Simmons, Mariam Mandoh, Emma L Barrett, Maree R Teesson, Scarlett Smout and Marlee Bower

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): S34-S40 Free

Perspective

Five decades of debate on burnout

Renzo Bianchi and James F Sowden

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): n/a-n/a Free

Narrative review

Current approaches to the identification and management of gambling disorder: a narrative review to inform clinical practice in Australia and New Zealand

Simone N Rodda, Stephanie S Merkouris and Nicki A Dowling

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 495-500 Free

Perspective

Social media: the root cause of rising youth self‐harm or a convenient scapegoat?

Helen Christensen, Aimy Slade and Alexis E Whitton

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (10): 524-526 Free

Research

Sensitivity and specificity of Aboriginal‐developed items to supplement the adapted PHQ‐9 screening measure for depression: results from the Getting it Right study

Timothy Skinner, Alex Brown, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto, Sara F Farnbach, Nicholas Glozier, Deborah A Askew, Graham Gee, Alan Cass and Maree L Hackett

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 258-263 Free

Research

Mental health training for physicians supervising resident physicians: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Aimée Gayed, Jessica Strudwick, Nathasha Kugenthiran, Anthony D LaMontagne, Andrew Mackinnon, Helen Christensen, Nicholas Glozier and Samuel Harvey

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 270-276 Free

Research

Evaluation of the Cultural, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Program with Aboriginal women in the Boronia Pre‐Release Centre for Women: a mixed methods study

Pat Dudgeon (Bardi), Ee Pin Chang, Joan Chan, Carolyn Mascall, Gillian King (Noongar), Jemma R Collova and Angela Ryder (Noongar)

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 55-60 Free

Letters

Is the current commercial model of medicinal cannabis in the best interest of patients?

Richard CJ Bradlow and Ferghal Armstrong

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 592-592 Free

Research

The Health4Life e‐health intervention for modifying lifestyle risk behaviours of adolescents: secondary outcomes of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Siobhan O'Dean, Matthew Sunderland, Nicola Newton, Lauren Gardner, Maree Teesson, Cath Chapman, Louise Thornton, Tim Slade, Leanne Hides, Nyanda McBride, Frances J Kay‐Lambkin, Steve J Allsop, David Lubans, Belinda Parmenter, Katherine Mills, Bonnie Spring, Bridie Osman, Rhiannon Ellem, Scarlett Smout, Karrah McCann, Emily Hunter, Amra Catakovic and Katrina Champion

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (8): 417-424 Free

Perspectives

The mental health crisis needs more than increased investment in the mental health system

Shuichi Suetani, Neeraj Gill and Luis Salvador‐Carulla

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (9): 443-444 Free

Research letters

The uptake of long‐acting depot buprenorphine for treating opioid dependence in Australia, 2019–2022: longitudinal sales data analysis

Nicholas Lintzeris, Victoria Hayes and Adrian J Dunlop

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 339-340 Free

Perspectives

The 2023 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: sustainability needed in Australia's health care sector

Paul J Beggs, Stefan Trueck, Martina K Linnenluecke, Hilary Bambrick, Anthony G Capon, Ivan C Hanigan, Nicolas Borchers Arriagada, Troy J Cross, Sharon Friel, Donna Green, Maddie Heenan, Ollie Jay, Harry Kennard, Arunima Malik, Celia McMichael, Mark Stevenson, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Tran N Dang, Gail Garvey, Raymond Lovett, Veronica Matthews, Dung Phung, Alistair J Woodward, Marina B Romanello and Ying Zhang

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 282-303 Free

Letters

The Australian Child Maltreatment Study: National prevalence and associated health outcomes of child abuse and neglect

Ben Mathews

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (5): 275-275 Free

Scoping review

The participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents in Australian trials of parenting programs for improving children's health: a scoping review

Jake MacDonald, Myles Young, Briana Barclay, Stacey McMullen, James Knox and Philip Morgan

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 331-335 Free

Letters

The NDIS at ten years: designing an equitable scheme for the next decade

Nicole TM Hill, Wai Chen and Jenny Downs

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 54-54 Free

Letters

A brief intervention for improving alcohol literacy and reducing harmful alcohol use by women attending a breast screening service: a randomised controlled trial

Alain Braillon

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 559-560 Free

Perspective

Sustainable environments for Australian children's and young people's health and wellbeing: our young's welfare is threatened

Peter D Sly and Fiona J Stanley

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): S40-S43 Free

Perspective

Invisible wounds of the Israel–Gaza war in Australia

Susan J Rees and Batool Moussa

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 4-6 Free

Perspective

Monitoring the physical and mental health of Australian children and young people: a foundation for responsive and accountable actions

Kate Lycett, Georgie Frykberg, Peter S Azzopardi, Joyce Cleary, Susan M Sawyer, John W Toumbourou, Tim Slade and Craig A Olsson

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): S20-S24 Free

Editorials

Child abuse and premature mortality: disrupting the harm cascade

Leonie Segal and Harriet Hiscock

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 301-302

Research

Sexual abuse during childhood and all‐cause mortality into middle adulthood: an Australian cohort study

Nina Papalia, Benjamin L Spivak, Linda Ashford, Ahona Guha, Stefan Luebbers, James RP Ogloff, Nina Papalia, Benjamin L Spivak, Linda Ashford, Ahona Guha, Stefan Luebbers and James RP Ogloff

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 310-315 Free

Research letter

Prevalence, patterns of use, and socio‐demographic features of e‐cigarette use by Australian adolescents: a survey

Lauren A Gardner, Siobhan O'Dean, Katrina E Champion, Emily Stockings, Amy‐Leigh Rowe, Maree Teesson, Nicola C Newton, Lauren A Gardner, Siobhan O'Dean, Katrina E Champion, Emily Stockings, Amy‐Leigh Rowe, Maree Teesson and Nicola C Newton

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 332-334 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Management of opiate dependence related to dihydrocodeine–sorbitol misuse

Richard CJ Bradlow, Baden Hicks, Temika Mu, Daniel Pham, Michelle Sharkey, Noel Plumley, Dan I Lubman and Shalini Arunogiri

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (5): 200-201 Free