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Past projects
The CHPRC has an extensive research track record across the four main focus areas of: Mental health promotion (including bullying and aggression prevention); Healthy lifestyle and healthy weight promotion; Drug use harm reduction; and Injury prevention. Our research projects have aimed to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people across Australia by understanding the health issues they face and developing, implementing and evaluating the success of strategies to ameliorate these health issues. The CHPRC has also provided research support to industry and government stakeholders in conducting formative intervention development research studies alongside longitudinal evaluation of state and national projects. Each of the projects held by the CHPRC since 2004 in each of our four research focus areas is described in detail in this section.
- An empirical trial to reduce cyber-bullying in adolescents
- Baseline, Phase 2 and 3 evaluation of the Road Aware Kids and Child Car Restraints programs
- Bringing a reduction in adolescent smoking and harm (BRASH) project
- Building a portfolio of interventions: Addressing issues hampering the promotion of healthy weight gain among young children in Australia
- Childhood Aggression Prevention project: Child centred environments to limit early aggression intervention trial
- Constable Care child safety foundation evaluation toolkit
- Covert Bullying Project: Its nature and prevalence in Australian schools
- Cyberbullying and the Bystander project
- Development and rural pilot of a Perinatal Healthy Lifestyle web-based support network for parents and providers
- Development of a Research and Evaluation Framework to Guide NfP Tenders, Delivery and Reporting on “Good Health” Funded Health Promotion Programs
- Development of a scale to measure harms associated with cyberbullying
- Development of national principles for early childhood safety education
- Development of parent education resource materials to reduce cyberbullying
- Diffusion and dissemination of a mental health promotion innovation in an education setting
- Engaging families through primary health care to prevent childhood obesity
- Engaging parents in research project: Do current ethical standards prevent participation of low socio-economic populations in child health promotion research?
- Evaluation of Cybersmart Detectives game
- Evaluation of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s national pilot of the Cybersafety and Wellbeing Schools Initiative
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of the pedestrian education programs delivered by VicRoads and the TAC
- Evaluation of the implementation of Kids on the Move (KOTM)
- Formative evaluation of the development of a Pastoral Care Standard for all Western Australian Government schools
- Formative evaluation of the Road Aware Parents program
- Formative study of aggression prevention and reduction in junior primary school children
- Formative trial of a video to promote father-child communication about drugs
- Friendly Schools Bullying Intervention Project: Bullying prevention for primary school students
- Helmet formative project
- Investigating the interpersonal and contextual mediators associated with secondary school students’ behaviour as bystanders in bullying interactions, and how these differ according to gender
- Investigating the use of social media as a methodological communications technology tool for researching cyber bullying: An assessment of feasibility and acceptability among young people of an innovative research method
- K-3 Baseline evaluation of School Drug Education and Road Aware (SDERA)
- Kidskin Sun Safety project: Intervention to reduce sun exposure in children
- KIT-Plus research project: Strengthening pastoral care to reduce secondary students’ harm from tobacco
- Literature review of best practice in performance-based education
- Mandurah Bullying Prevention project
- Monitoring and evaluation of the Active-Ate Project: Activate program evaluation in tropical North Queensland
- Optimising school nurse involvement in youth-based tobacco control programs
- Parental smoking cessation and children’s smoking attitudes and behaviours
- Phase One of the outcome evaluation of the School Drug Education Project
- Phase Two outcome evaluation of the School Drug Education project
- Prevention and early intervention of overweight and obesity in young children: Evidence for management and policy making
- Principles of best practice for road safety education: A formative evaluation of best practice principles for school-based road safety education in Australia
- Relational aggression in boarding schools - A formative study
- Review of existing Australian and international cyber-safety research
- School Bicycle Safety Project: A health promotion school approach to encourage children to wear helmets: Intervention trial
- Smoking cessation for youth project booster and cohort tracking study for the year 12 cohort
- Strengthening school and families’ capacity to reduce the academic social and emotional harms secondary students’ can experience from cyber-bullying
- Strengthening student bystanders’ capacity to respond to covert bullying
- Strong Kids, Solid Schools: Reducing the effects of bullying among Aboriginal school children living in rural areas of Western Australia
- Successful practice in the prevention, reduction and management of bullying in schools: A Delphi and interview study
- Supportive Schools Project: A randomised control trial to reduce bullying and other aggressive behaviours in secondary schools
- The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention project
- The Cyber Bullying project: How cyber technology is affecting relational aggression and teenage health
- The Early Childhood Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (ECPIPP): Maximising parent involvement in the pedestrian safety of 4 to 6 year old children
- The Extra-Curricular Project: The impact of extra-curricular activities on adolescents’ connectedness and cigarette smoking
- The Friendly Schools Friendly Families project: Maximising parental involvement in school-based bullying prevention interventions
- The Health and Extra-curricular Project: The role of extra-curricular activities in reducing smoking among adolescents
- The Marijuana Education Project: Trans-adaption of successful cigarette smoking intervention to randomised school-based cannabis intervention trial
- The relationship between mental health outcomes and bullying trajectories of students transitioning from primary school to high school
- The Smoking Cessation for Youth Project: A harm minimisation intervention trial targeting tobacco use by high school youth
- The Starting Childhood Obesity Prevention Earlier (SCOPE) project
- Tobacco control in South Africa: Prevention and capacity building
- Violence related behaviours and young people project