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Psychology and mental health
- Strengths, interests and goals of individuals currently receiving treatment for anorexia nervosa.
- ADDAPT: A decision-making support tool to help people with depression and risky alcohol use decide on psychological treatment
- How are media sources portraying information about COVID-19 vaccines?
- Belief in a just world, personality and cognition
- Social connection and its effect on health
- Perceptions of Social Norms and Violations
- The Relationship between Fear of Heterosexism, Psychological Well-being and Protective Factors in the LGBTQA+ community
- Financial skills in older adults
- The effect of mood on inhibition
- CogNet: Developing and evaluating an online Healthy Brain Ageing psychoeducation and cognitive training intervention for older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Biology of Agomelatine: an open-label study of Agomelatine in adults with Major Depressive Disorder
- How we measure cognitive flexibility for eating disorder research
- Treating substance use and traumatic stress
- Evaluating information resources for depression treatment options.
- Study into oxytocin use in preschoolers with autism
- Psychology research participants needed
- The effects of medicinal cannabinoids on driving
- Effect of cannabidiol on simulated car driving
- Differences in perceptions of social media
- COVID-19 and wellbeing in Australians
- Australian lifestyle, personality and social values
- Involvement of dietitians in eating disorder treatment
- How individuals cope during COVID-19
- New treatments for alcohol withdrawal
- Personality traits and skills developed through psychotherapy
- Menopause and heat stress at work
- Reading keeps your brain young
- The effects of childhood apraxia of speech on adults
- How does online learning in VR affect memory?
Nutrition and weight loss
- An exercise approach to managing Type 2 Diabetes
- Assessing food access and meal patterns among university students in Australia
- Comparing image-based dietary records with traditional food records to interpret young adults' dietary intake and improve dietary assessment methods
- Dietary patterns in international students
- Improve glycaemic control and weight management in patients with Type II diabetes
- Intervention for teens on eating and wellbeing
- Study of meat-alternatives on cardiovascular health and nutrition
- Testing of food for the glycemic index and other metabolic variables
- Treating obesity complicated by sleep apnoea
Cancer
Sleep
- Companion dog and human wellbeing study
- Effect of dietary pattern on sleep
- Insomnia Symptoms Study
- Sleep quality and menopause
- Testing light therapy of changing wavelength in adults suffering from sleep disorders to improve sleep quality, day time alertness, sleep wake patterns, mood and cognition.
- Treatment for people with chronic insomnia
Learning, experience and satisfaction
- Agency and algorithms: How young Australian adults use social media to stay informed
- Decision making and problem solving in teams
- Digital health monitoring for pregnant women
- Dog-walking and human wellbeing
- Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) user experience (UX)
- Gait REtraining Interventions for people with knee osteoArthritis Trial (The GREAT Study)
- Perception of facial reflections by patients with facial nerve paralysis
- Seating preference study
- Speech pathology practice during COVID-19
- Students’ attitudes towards digital games
- Study of the relationship between visual characteristics and restorative potential of workplace semi-outdoor space
Other
- Citizen attitudes towards smart city privacy in Greater Sydney
- Defining the Neural Signature of Motor Neuron Disease
- Atrial Fibrillation Device trial
- Biomarkers of sUbconcussive iMpacts in sPort (BUMP Trial)
- SUcceSS: SUrgery for Spinal Stenosis
- OPTIMUM: OPTimising IMmunisation Using Mixed schedules
- Researchers' views on the ethics of payment of research participants
- The SCUlpTOR study
- Use of fans and/or skin-wetting as a low cost cooling strategy for older adults during heatwaves
- The TANGO study: TAperiNG Opioids in older adults with low back pain, and hip or knee osteoarthritis
- Study into using re-purposed medication to treat Parkinson's disease
- Money Talks: household finance, intimacy and cultural negotiation in Chinese-Australian couples/families
- Social connection and its effect on health
- Engaging with social movements and significant events on social media
- Perceptions of citizen science in policy and practice
- Cracks in the ice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander wellbeing
- Cracks in the ice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander welbeing resources
- Assessing sweat responses during cycling
- Improving outcomes in discharge care for older people with low back pain
- The costs of living with Cerebral Palsy
- Perceptions of Brain Donation
- Visual function in retinal disease
- CVOT-SURPASS: a trial for the prevention of cardiovascular events in Type II diabetes
- Effect of Cannabidiol (CBD) on Exercise Physiology
- Your opinion: Neural stem cell therapy for cerebral palsy
- The effect of a companion dog on wellbeing
- Australian experiences of cosmetic medical tourism
- Brain function in healthy adults
- Medical tourism: Australian perspectives and experiences
- Healthy Volunteers needed for MND study
- Healthy volunteers for new generation nebuliser research
- Successful ageing yoga trial
- Falls after stroke trial
- Impact of exercise in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes
- Trial to control blood pressure
- Coaching and exercise for better walking
- Rethinking the Chinese bride price
- Patients with musculoskeletal pain in rural Australia
- Care for common musculoskeletal disorders
- Early parenthood and out-of-home care
- Clinical trial for sufferers of lower back pain
- Cooking videos to encourage healthy eating
- Dating among young people in Australia and Hong Kong
- Acquiring physical disability during adolescence
