Research Tracker and Facilitator for Assessment of COVID-19 Experiences and Mental Health
This research tracking and facilitation initiative is led by Professor Maree Teesson, Associate Professor Cath Chapman, Associate Professor Tim Slade and Dr Matthew Sunderland at The Matilda Centre, and the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention and Early Intervention of Mental Illness and Substance Use (PREMISE) at The University of Sydney and Professor Phil Batterham at the Australian National University.

This is a targeted project that aims to track research being undertaken on COVID-19 and mental health by Australian researchers and to provide a platform to facilitate collaboration and encourage open science. This includes sharing information and meta-data regarding the projects. We are hoping this will also facilitate sharing of data in the future and possibly harmonising related datasets. The data for each project will be handled by the chief investigators/data custodians for that project. Any decisions about data sharing or collaboration are at the discretion of the chief investigators for each project. Please contact co-ordinators of participating studies directly if you wish to know more about the research they are undertaking.

Participants are researchers at the Matilda Centre, our PREMISE partnering institutions, collaborators and other Australian-based researchers. We are interested in research you may be undertaking with your existing cohorts, as well as new research you may be planning or conducting. We are interested in studies that are measuring one or more mental health outcomes. We aware that a number of administrative and government datasets contain information about other indicators such as service utilisation and these initiatives are not captured here.

If you wish to be part of this initiative, please fill out this form so we can share and be aware of the research being undertaken in this important area.

If you have any questions please get in touch with Dr Matt Sunderland, Senior Research Fellow and Program Lead, Methodology and Measurement, Matilda Centre (matthew.sunderland@sydney.edu.au) or A/Prof Cath Chapman, Program Director, PREMISE (cath.chapman@sydney.edu.au).

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1. What is the first and last name of the CI, project lead or lead author? *
2. What is the name and email for the main study contact? *
3. What is the Twitter handle of the CI, project lead or lead author?
4. What is the university or institution of the CI, project lead or lead author? *
5. What is today's date *
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6. What is the current status of your project? (Please tick all that apply). *
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7. What is the short title of your project? *
8. Is your project currently funded?
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9. What is the study design?
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10. What are the data collection method/s employed in this study? (Please tick all that apply).
11. What is the primary measure you are using to assess mental health/psychological distress? (E.g. Kessler-10, PHQ-9, etc.).
12. What are the countries in which data for this study is being collected (if being collected outside of Australia)?
13. Are there any other collaborators on this project? Please list them in the following format "First Name Last Name (University/Institution)".
14. When is the first/next wave of data collection occurring?
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15. Does this study leverage an existing sample that has already been studied? If so, please describe that sample.
16. What age range is being targeted?
17. Is this study being specifically conducted with any of the following groups? (Please tick all that apply).
18. What settings is this study being conducted in? (Please tick all that apply).
19. Please provide a short description of the study goals and methods, if known.
20. If you have one, please provide a URL or link to a summary of your research plan, development paper, or trial protocol paper.
21. Are you interested in data sharing? *
22. Do you think it would be useful to put this information on an Open Science Framework (OSF) landing page to share with the wider research community?
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What information are you willing to share from this survey on the OSF page? (Please tick all that apply). *
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Please confirm that you are aware that information added to this form will be made available other researchers who have added their study to the tracker *
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24. Are there any other comments you wish to make about this initiative?
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