Informing the Future of Integrated Digital and Clinical Mental Health Care: Synthesis of the Outcomes From Project Synergy.

Background: Globally, there are fundamental shortcomings in mental health care systems, including restricted access, siloed services, interventions that are poorly matched to service users' needs, underuse of personal outcome monitoring to track progress, exclusion of family and carers, and suboptimal experiences of care. Health information technologies (HITs) hold great potential to improve these aspects that underpin the enhanced quality of mental health care.

Objective: Project Synergy aimed to co-design, implement, and evaluate novel HITs, as exemplified by the InnoWell Platform, to work with standard health care organizations.

Innovative preclinic triage system to guide Australians to the right mental health care first time.

This paper presents a case study of an innovative direct-to-consumer preclinic triage system designed to reduce predicted peak demand for Australian mental health services as a result of COVID-19 and its associated socioeconomic consequences by guiding Australians to the right mental health care first time. Our innovative, digital health solution comprises two components: (1) a highly personalised and measurement-based model of care (Brain and Mind Centre model of care) that considers both the heterogeneity of mental disorders and other underlying comorbidities, as well as clinical staging; and (2) a health information technology (i.e.

Optimising the integration of technology-enabled solutions to enhance primary mental health care: a service mapping study.

Background: Despite the widely acknowledged potential for health information technologies to improve the accessibility, quality and clinical safety of mental health care, implementation of such technologies in services is frequently unsuccessful due to varying consumer, health professional, and service-level factors. The objective of this co-design study was to use process mapping (i.e.

Technology-Enabled Solutions for Australian Mental Health Services Reform: Impact Evaluation.

Background: Health information technologies (HITs) are becoming increasingly recognized for their potential to provide innovative solutions to improve the delivery of mental health services and drive system reforms for better outcomes.

Objective: This paper describes the baseline results of a study designed to systematically monitor and evaluate the impact of implementing an HIT, namely the InnoWell Platform, into Australian mental health services to facilitate the iterative refinement of the HIT and the service model in which it is embedded to meet the needs of consumers and their supportive others as well as health professionals and service providers.

Methods: Data were collected via web-based surveys, semistructured interviews, and a workshop with staff from the mental health services implementing the InnoWell Platform to systematically monitor and evaluate its impact.

Co-designing the InnoWell Platform to deliver the right mental health care first time to regional youth.

Objective: Building upon earlier research, a person-centred technology-enabled solution (the InnoWell Platform) is being co-designed and implemented into regional youth primary mental health services to improve clinical safety and service quality.

Design: Co-design methodologies of service pathway mapping and participatory design workshops as well as usability testing guide the development and implementation of the InnoWell Platform.

Setting And Participants: headspace centres on the North Coast of New South Wales and their associated communities.

Empathy at a distance: a qualitative study on the impact of publically-displayed art on observers.

While there is some evidence in the literature on the impact of art therapy for consumers, there is comparatively little written on how art that has been created by consumers impacts on those observing the art. This paper reports on a qualitative research study that sought to determine if publically-displayed art created by young consumers impacted on stigma reduction and self-help-seeking behaviours of the observers. The findings derived from the thematic analysis of qualitative interviews suggested that publically-displayed art is a safe medium, through which empathy and understanding towards young people with mental illness can be enhanced, and that the art generates discussion and self-help behaviours for mental illness.

Alcohol consumption and intoxication among people involved in police-recorded incidents of violence and disorder in non-metropolitan New South Wales.

Objective: To describe, based on routinely recorded police data, the prevalence and characteristics of alcohol consumption among people involved in violence and disorder incidents in non-metropolitan New South Wales (NSW).

Methods: A descriptive analysis was conducted of people involved in violence and disorder incidents over 24 months (2003-05) across 21 non-metropolitan police commands. The prevalence of alcohol involvement was reported as: the annual population rate of people involved in incidents who had consumed alcohol; the proportion of people involved in such incidents who had consumed alcohol; and the proportion of such people who were intoxicated.

Evaluation of an educational policing strategy to reduce alcohol-related crime associated with licensed premises.

Objectives: Licensed premises are associated with a considerable level of alcohol-related harm. This study examined the effectiveness of an educational policing strategy, implemented as routine policing practice, to reduce the number of patrons of licensed premises involved in police-recorded incidents of violence, disorder and motor vehicle crashes.

Participants: The educational policing strategy targeted on-licensed premises registered as operating in 2003.

Establishments licensed to serve alcohol and their contribution to police-recorded crime in Australia: further opportunities for harm reduction.

Objective: Although strategies exist to minimize alcohol-related harms associated with establishments licensed to serve alcohol, such establishments are associated with a disproportionate level of harm. To date, understanding the association between such establishments and alcohol-related harms, and hence the opportunities for reducing harm, has been limited by inadequate information regarding incidents of alcohol-related crime. To address this deficiency, this study was undertaken to describe the association between such establishments and incidents of crime using enhanced police-recorded, alcohol-related crime intelligence.