Social and emotional wellbeing

Digital perinatal mental health resources for women of migrant and refugee background in Australia

Funding: MRFF, through the AHRA Womens Health Research Translation Network

Lead CIs: Jacqui Boyle and Malavkia Kadwadkar

Other investigators from HS&E: Dr Subasinghe and Dr Altun

The research team is comprised academics from Uni Adelaide, Monash University, Deakin, Uni NSW and community representatives.

This is a co-designed research program from beginning to end, with academic and community investigators all determining the research priority to be addressed, the methodology and analysis.

It incorporates three stages:

1. A search for digital resources available for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds and an assessment made of how they were developed and how they are shared.

2. Assessing how women find resources, do the ones identified meet their needs and what are the gaps.

3. Co-design of a framework for future digital health resources.