Federal funding for child mental health and wellbeing survey
The Federal Government has awarded $8.1 million for the third National Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing which University of 亚洲色吧 experts will play a key role in.
The Young Minds: Our Future survey will be led by Curtin University鈥檚 Professor David Lawrence, with the University of 亚洲色吧's Emeritus Professor Michael Sawyer a key contributor.
This survey will build on insights from previous studies, which also involved Emeritus Professor Sawyer, and will require face-to-face interviews with 6,500 primary carers of children aged four to 17; children aged 11 to 17 will also be invited to complete a questionnaire.
The last survey revealed one in seven Australians aged four to 17 had a mental disorder, with only 56 per cent having received help in the year prior to the survey.
Emeritus Professor Sawyer said objectives of the survey were to update the prevalence rates of mental disorders amongst children and adolescents as well as obtaining information about the extent to which children and adolescents currently receive help for mental disorders.