Workforce strategies to address children's mental health and behavioural needs in rural, regional and remote areas: A scoping review.

Introduction: Children living in rural, regional and remote locations experience challenges to receiving services for mental illness and challenging behaviours. Additionally, there is a lack of clarity about the workforce characteristics to address the needs of this population.

Objective: To scope the literature on the rural, regional and remote child mental health and behavioural workforce and identify barriers and enabling mechanisms to mental health service provision.

A longitudinal analysis of Australian women's fruit and vegetable consumption and depressive symptoms.

Background: In Australia, women report higher rates of depressive symptoms than men. Research suggests that dietary patterns rich in fresh fruit and vegetables could protect against depressive symptoms. The Australian Dietary Guidelines suggest that consuming two servings of fruit and five serves of vegetables per day is optimal for overall health.

"It's about What You've Assigned to the Salad": Focus Group Discussions on the Relationship between Food and Mood.

Current observational and interventional studies in nutritional psychiatry suggest that healthy dietary patterns rich in fresh whole foods could protect against depressive symptoms, and that unhealthy dietary patterns high in ultra-processed and refined foods could contribute to depressive symptoms. However, no studies have explored detailed subjective accounts behind the food and mood relationship. This study aimed to uncover unknown factors in the human experience with food and mood.

Psychology and Spirituality: Reviewing Developments in History, Method and Practice.

This paper begins with an overview of the governing principles of psychology as a discipline, and outlines the key paradigm shifts that potentially aligned with concepts of spirituality from the early twentieth century to contemporary theory. The discussion then moves to consider how research methods in psychology can contribute to understanding how spirituality is measured and described. We consider the contribution of validated surveys, and how qualitative methods can access the lived experience of spiritual phenomena.

Is dietary quality associated with depression? An analysis of the Australian longitudinal study of women's health data.

Depression is a chronic and complex condition experienced by over 300 million people worldwide. While research on the impact of nutrition on chronic physical illness is well documented, there is growing interest in the role of dietary patterns for those experiencing symptoms of depression. This study aims to examine the association of diet quality (Dietary Questionnaire for Epidemiological Studies version 2) and depressive symptoms (Centre for Epidemiological Studies for Depression short form) of young Australian women over 6 years at two time points, 2003 ( 9081, Mean age = 27·6) and 2009 ( 8199, Mean age = 33·7) using secondary data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.

Supporting women to achieve breastfeeding to six months postpartum - The theoretical foundations of a successful program.

Background: Although the benefits of breastfeeding to six months are well-established, only about half of Australian women succeed. The factors associated with successful breastfeeding are rarely translated into effective interventions. A new educational and support program, called the Milky Way program has been demonstrated to be effective in supporting women to achieve prolonged breastfeeding.

Increasing breastfeeding rates to six months among nulliparous women: a quasi-experimental study.

Objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a multiphased midwifery intervention called the 'Milky Way' on any breastfeeding rates until six months.

Design: a quasi-experimental study with two groups: standard care and intervention.

Setting: a tertiary, metropolitan hospital in Sydney, Australia.