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Free training to parents on 21-22 February 2012! Parents and teenagers aged between 12-15 years from within Warracknabeal and surrounding areas are invited to take part in a research study titled First Aid Training for Parents of Teenagers – a Randomized Controlled Trial. The study, which is headed by Professor Tony Jorm from The University of Melbourne, will assess whether parents who are trained in physical or mental health first aid respond differently to teenagers who develop physical or mental health problems, by measuring whether parental training has a positive impact on a teenager’s perception of support, help-seeking, mental health or an injury needing assistance. There is no requirement for teenagers to have a physical or mental health problem. This study is the first of its kind to provide training to parents and focus on the teenager throughout the adolescent period as the recipient of first aid actions provided by their parents.

Parents will need to register online by Sunday the 12th February at www.tpot.net.au by 7 February 2012. Following registration, parents will be randomly placed into either a 14 hour Youth Mental Health First Aid course or a 15 hour Australian Red Cross First Aid course, scheduled for 21-22 February. Before parents can attend their free training, both parents and teenagers will need to complete a brief telephone interview which will ask about physical or mental health problems.

The project has received ethics approval (ID: 1135679) and is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Australia Fellowship. For more information, contact Julie Fischer at email: jfischer@unimelb.edu.au, tel: 9342 3767 or mobile: 0401 772 648.