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Join our study: Download the ‘Minding Your Mind’ app

By joining our study, you’ll get access to an easy-to-use app designed to help you understand your mental health. Track your sleep, activity, mood, symptoms, and behaviours to build a detailed picture of your wellbeing. You can also explore evidence-based strategies to help you take charge of your mental health, day to day.

Learn more about your mental health and identify patterns, empowering you to discover what works best for you. You can also share what you learn with your clinician so together you can make better decisions about your care.

If you decide you don’t want to be involved in the Minding Your Mind, you can leave anytime without giving a reason. Here’s how:
• Stop using the app if you don’t want your data shared.
• Skip surveys whenever you like.
• Don’t open the app, and it won’t read your passive data. Or you can turn off the app’s permissions anytime in your phone’s Settings.
• Delete your account anytime under ‘My account’.
If you’d like your past data deleted, just email the research team at minding-your-mind.study@sydney.edu.au

Other Current Research Projects

Keen to learn more about the model or get involved in other research projects? Check out our options to find the study that is right for you.

Join us in striving for better mental health outcomes for young people. Your insights, knowledge, and experiences can help inform the quality of youth mental health care across Australia.

From Complexity to Clarity: Evaluating Personalised Computational Reports to Support Shared Decision Making in Youth Mental Health

We are inviting clinicians working with young people to take part in a new research project exploring how personalised computational reports can support shared decision making in youth mental health care. Using data collected through the Minding Your Mind app, a computational model generates an individualised report that maps how factors such as sleep, mood, behaviour, and functioning interact over time. The goal is to support clearer conversations between clinicians and young people, enabling care that is more personalised, collaborative and targeted. For more information email sam.huntley@sydney.edu.au.

Co-designing digital decision-support tools to personalise care pathways within youth mental health services

The aim of this study is to co-design a range of digital mental health technologies (e.g., mhealth app, AI chatbot) to improve young people's access to care, help them get the right care at the right time, and empower them to be active participants in their care. We are seeking to recruit young people aged 18-30 to actively contribute to the co-design of these technologies. The outcomes will be improved personalisation of care pathways for young people and improved demand management in services. For more information email adam.poulsen@sydney.edu.au.

Neurobiology Youth Follow-up Study: A Youth Mental Health longitudinal and prospective clinical cohort study

This study aims to better characterise young people aged 12-40 years who are currently seeking treatment for their mental health. Improved characterisation of this population may enable effective early interventions and provide young people maximal opportunity for recovery. The study is designed as a longitudinal and prospective cohort study. We are collecting information about young people from the time they enter the study and will continue to collect information over a 3-year period. For more information email ymh.research@sydney.edu.au.

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