Promoting sustained access to cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in Australia: a system-level implementation program.

Study Objectives: Insomnia is a highly prevalent and debilitating disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is the recommended 'fist line' treatment, but is accessed by a minority of people with insomnia. This paper describes a system-level implementation program to improve access to CBTi in Australia to inform CBTi implementation in other locations.

Trust and experiences of National Health Service healthcare do not fully explain demographic disparities in coronavirus vaccination uptake in the UK: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To test whether demographic variation in vaccine hesitancy can be explained by trust and healthcare experiences.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Data collected online in April 2021.

Coronavirus conspiracy suspicions, general vaccine attitudes, trust and coronavirus information source as predictors of vaccine hesitancy among UK residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Vaccine hesitancy presents an obstacle to the campaign to control COVID-19. It has previously been found to be associated with youth, female gender, low income, low education, low medical trust, minority ethnic group membership, low perceived risk from COVID-19, use of certain social media platforms and conspiracy beliefs. However, it is unclear which of these predictors might explain variance associated with others.

Media usage predicts intention to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 in the US and the UK.

There is existing evidence of a relationship between media use and vaccine hesitancy. Four online questionnaires were completed by general population samples from the US and the UK in June 2020 (N = 1198, N = 3890, N = 1663, N = 2237). After controls, all four studies found a positive association between intention to be vaccinated and usage of broadcast and print media.

Anger and confrontation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey in the UK.

Objectives: To investigate factors associated with anger or confronting others due to COVID-19.

Design: Online cross-sectional survey.

Setting: Data were collected between 17 and 20 July 2020.

The Going Out In Sydney App: Evaluating the Utility of a Smartphone App for Monitoring Real-World Illicit Drug Use and Police Encounters Among Festival and Club Goers.

Gaining accurate information on illicit drug use and policing in real-world settings is a challenge. This study examines the utility of a smartphone app ('Going Out In Sydney') to prospectively follow up illicit drug use and policing encounters at music festivals and licensed entertainment precincts in Sydney, Australia. In all, 38 regular festival and licensed entertainment venue attendees used the app to log nights out over a 3-month period, including (1) where they went (eg, festival, nightclub), (2) the prevalence of illicit drug use, and (3) the incidence and nature of police encounters.

The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals.

Background: Australian and international street-level drug law enforcement deploy many strategies in efforts to prevent or deter illicit drug offending. Limited evidence of deterrence exists. This study assessed the likely impacts of four Australian policing strategies on the incidence and nature of drug use and supply at a common policing target: outdoor music festivals.

(Re)introducing medicinal cannabis.

• After considering extensive scientific and medical evidence, a New South Wales Legislative Council multiparty committee recommended that medicinal cannabis should lawfully be made available for selected-use pharmacotherapy. • The evidence indicates that cannabis has genuine medicinal utility in patients with certain neuropathic conditions, with acceptable levels of risk from mostly mild side effects. • The potential medical benefits of cannabis pharmacotherapy have largely been overlooked, with research and society's attention, in most parts of the world, being directed towards the hazards of its recreational use.