Overview
Background
Professor Leanne Hides is athe Deputy Director of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR) and is the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Meaningful Outcomes in Substance Use Treatment.
Professor Hides is a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working on the interface of alcohol and other drug (AOD) clinical research and practice. Her translational research program co-designs, trials and implements innovative AOD treatments into clinical practice. Professor Hides has been a chief investigator on 38 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on substance use and mental health treatment (21 as lead CI including 11 NHMRC-funded RCTs). She also develops web and mobile-phone based programs (16 RCTs). Most of this research has been conducted with industry partners (e.g., Lives Lived Well, Qld Health).
Hides has been in research only positions since 2010, funded by prestigious fellowships including an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (2017-21), ARC Future Fellowship (2012-16) and a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship (Queensland University of Technology, 2010-13). Her research has been supported by $46m in grants ($37 nationally competitive) including 15 NHMRC ($14.5m; 3 as CIA including a Centre for Research Excellence), 3 MRFF ($7m) and 2 ARC ($1m) grants. Professor Hides has 248 career publications, including 243 journal articles with over 10,000 citations.
Prof Hides' current research interests include:
- Developing and testing new models for understanding youth substance use and comorbidity
- Improving the treatment of youth substance use and comorbidity by:
- Integrating more strengths-based approaches
- Identifying and enhancing mechanisms of change
- Combining psychological and pharmacological treatments,
- Integrating mobile phone and web-based interventions
- Understanding the relationship between youth wellbeing and mental disorders
- Development of mobile phone and web-based interventions targeting the mental health and wellbeing of young people
- Ray’s night out: mobile app targeting risky alcohol use
- music eScape: mobile app using music to improve affect regulation
- Breakup Shakeup: mobile app for coping with relationship breakups
- Keep it Real: web-based program targeting psychotic-like experiences in substance users
- Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) plus feedback in SMART Recovery Australia: a feasibility study examining SMART ROM (led by A/Prof Kelly, UoW).
- Training, supervision, and dissemination of evidence-based practice
Nationally Competitive Funding
- NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (led by Prof Hides, UQ): Meaningful Outcomes in Substance use Treatment. See https://mo-cre.centre.uq.edu.au/
- Commonwealth Department of Health (Connor & Hides), National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR) National Addiction Centre
- MRFF Health and Healthy Lifestyles (led by Prof Bonevski, Flinders University): "Escape the vape" Designing health communications for prevention of e-cigarette use in young people
- MRFF Health and Healthy Lifestyles (led by Prof Newton, Matilda Centre Uni Syd): A new scalable e-health appraoch to prevent e-cigarette use amongh adolescents: The OurFutures Vaping Program
- NHMRC Ideas Grant (led by Prof Johnson): Understanding and Treating Videogame Addiction in Young People
- Alcohol and Drug Foundation Research Grant (led by Prof Kelly): Building peer and provider capacity to effectively deliver SMART Family & friends meetings: A two stage mixed- methods evaluation.
- MRFF Million Minds (led by Prof March, USQ): Translating evidence-based interventions into population-level digital models of care for child & adolescent mental health
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Hides): Brief interventions to prevent future alcohol-related harm in young people presenting to emergency departments.
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Hides: Randomised controlled trial of a telephone-delivered social well-being and engaged living (SWEL) intervention for disengaged at-risk youth
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Teesson, University of Sydney)- Internet-based universal prevention for anxiety, depression and substance use in young Australians
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Teesson, University of Sydney)- Healthy, wealthy and wise: The long-term effectiveness of an online universal program to prevent substance use and mental health problems among Australian youth
- Paul Ramsay Foundation (led by Prof Teesson, University of Sydney): The Healthy Lifestyles program: An innovative online primary and secondary prevention intervention
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Kavanagh, QUT) - Trial of a new low-cost treatment to support self-management of Alcohol Use Disorder: Functional Imagery Training
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Toombs, University of QLD) - Indigenous Network Suicide Intervention Skills Training (INSIST): Can a community designed and delivered framework reduce suicide/self-harm in Indigenous youth?
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Collins, University of Newcastle) Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of varying levels of technology-delivered personalised feedback on dietary patterns in motivating young Australian adults to improve diet quality and eating habits: The Advice, Ideas and Motivation for My Eating study
- NHMRC Project (led by Prof Cotton, University of Melbourne) - Rates, patterns and predictors of long-term outcome in a treated first-episode psychosis cohort
Availability
- Professor Leanne Hides is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
Research impacts
Professor Hides leads the Lives Lived Well (LLW)Group and is the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR). This translational research program co-designs, trials and implements innovative AOD treatments into clinical practice. This research is conducted in partnership with Lives Lived Well a large non-government funded AOD service in QLD, NSW and SA. Since 2017 Professor Hides has been working with LLW to increase access to evidence based care in the AOD sector.
Alcohol and other drug (AOD) use is the number one risk factor for death and disability in all age groups worldwide and was estimated to cost Australia $80 billion in 2021. The demand for AOD treatment greatly outweighs the resources available. Consequently, current healthcare models prioritize the volume (numbers assessed) of AOD service delivery over treatment quality. Value-based healthcare which shift focus onto the achievement of positive client AOD outcomes (value), relative to the resources and costs, provide a potential solution to these problems. The use of core outcome measures (COMs) to assess and provide feedback on treatment progress and improve the quality of healthcare are the cornerstone of this approach. However, relatively few efforts to implement COMs have succeeded due to the challenges involved. Those that have tend to collect data at service entry only, without any follow up data or feedback to staff or clients.
Professor Hides worked in partnership with LLW to identify a standard set of COMs, and address individual, organizational and system barriers to their adoption. Her team developed a novel digital system which collects COM data directly from clients, scores and provides automatic feedback to staff and clientsat service entry and follow up. Between November 202P and 2022 this system was used to collect COMs and deliver feedback to 20,263 LLW clients entering AOD treatment as part of routine care. This system has also been used in a number of cliicnal trials including:
QuikFix: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) of motivational interviewing (MI) enhanced with individualised personality-specific coping skills training for young people with alcohol-related injuries and illnesses accessing emergency services compared to standard MI and an assessment feedback control.
Social Network Targeted Intervention for University College Students:
2021 Feasibility and Outcomes/2022 Cluster RCT: Three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial compared the efficacy of the full QuikFix College program (AOD trivia harm minimisation workshop + social network targeted evidence-based telehalth brief intervention) to AOD trivia harm minimisation workshop alone and residential college AOD education and messaging as usual.:
Implementation and Outcomes of a Trauma-Informed Model of Residential AOD Care: This study developed, implemented and evaluated a new trauma-informed model of care in residential AOD services. The model included the implementation of individual trauma-focused therapy (Cognitive Processing Therapy, CPT) for clients with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder.
First Step Brief Intervention for AOD Use: This study implemented and evaluated a brief intervention for complex clients accessing outpatient AOD treatment services to be delivered as the first part of a stepped care model of care.
FullFix: RCT of a transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy intervention for comorbid AOD and mental health disorder delivered as an adjunct to standard AOD outpatient care compared to standard care alone
Works
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2023
Journal Article
Evaluating the effectiveness of a universal eHealth school-based prevention programme for depression and anxiety, and the moderating role of friendship network characteristics
Andrews, Jack L., Birrell, Louise, Chapman, Cath, Teesson, Maree, Newton, Nicola, Allsop, Steve, McBride, Nyanda, Hides, Leanne, Andrews, Gavin, Olsen, Nick, Mewton, Louise and Slade, Tim (2023). Evaluating the effectiveness of a universal eHealth school-based prevention programme for depression and anxiety, and the moderating role of friendship network characteristics. Psychological Medicine, 53 (11) PII S0033291722002033, 5042-5051. doi: 10.1017/S0033291722002033
2023
Journal Article
E-Cigarette Use Among High School Students—a Cross-Sectional Study of Associated Risk Factors for the Use of Flavour-Only and Nicotine Vapes
Leung, Janni, Tisdale, Calvert, Choi, Jisu, Ellem, Rhiannon, Davidson, Lily, Chan, Gary C. K., White, Melanie J., Kavanagh, David J., Quinn, Catherine and Hides, Leanne (2023). E-Cigarette Use Among High School Students—a Cross-Sectional Study of Associated Risk Factors for the Use of Flavour-Only and Nicotine Vapes. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-15. doi: 10.1007/s11469-023-01099-7
2023
Journal Article
A case study of an individual participant data meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy showed that prediction regions represented heterogeneity well
de Lara, Aurelio López Malo Vázquez, Bhandari, Parash Mani, Wu, Yin, Levis, Brooke, Thombs, Brett, Benedetti, Andrea, Sun, Ying, He, Chen, Krishnan, Ankur, Neupane, Dipika, Negeri, Zelalem, Imran, Mahrukh, Rice, Danielle B., Riehm, Kira E., Saadat, Nazanin, Azar, Marleine, Boruff, Jill, Cuijpers, Pim, Gilbody, Simon, Ioannidis, John P. A., Kloda, Lorie A., McMillan, Dean, Patten, Scott B., Shrier, Ian, Ziegelstein, Roy C., Akena, Dickens H., Arroll, Bruce, Ayalon, Liat, Baradaran, Hamid R. ... Zhang, Yuying (2023). A case study of an individual participant data meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy showed that prediction regions represented heterogeneity well. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 9275, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-36129-w
2023
Journal Article
Examining the efficacy of a telehealth intervention targeting addictive eating in Australian adults (the TRACE Programme): a randomised controlled trial protocol
Skinner, Janelle A, Whatnall, Megan, Leary, Mark, Collins, Rebecca A, Pursey, Kirrilly M, Verdejo-García, Antonio, Hay, Phillipa J, Baker, Amanda L, Hides, Leanne, Paxton, Susan J, Wood, Lisa G, Colyvas, Kim, Collins, Clare E and Burrows, Tracy L (2023). Examining the efficacy of a telehealth intervention targeting addictive eating in Australian adults (the TRACE Programme): a randomised controlled trial protocol. BMJ Open, 13 (6) e064151, 1-15. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064151
2023
Journal Article
Study protocol of the Our Futures Vaping Trial: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-based eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescents
Gardner, Lauren A., Rowe, Amy-Leigh, Stockings, Emily, Champion, Katrina E., Hides, Leanne, McBride, Nyanda, Allsop, Steve, O'Dean, Siobhan, Sunderland, Matthew, Lee, Yong Yi, Mihalopoulos, Cathy, Freeman, Becky, Leung, Janni, McRobbie, Hayden, Stapinski, Lexine, Lee, Nicole, Thornton, Louise, Debenham, Jennifer, Teesson, Maree and Newton, Nicola C. (2023). Study protocol of the Our Futures Vaping Trial: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-based eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescents. BMC Public Health, 23 (1) 683. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15609-8
2023
Journal Article
A Longitudinal Assessment of Substance Use Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Staff and Service Data
Carlyle, Molly, Newland, Grace, Morris, Leith, Ellem, Rhiannon, Tisdale, Calvert, Quinn, Catherine A. and Hides, Leanne (2023). A Longitudinal Assessment of Substance Use Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Staff and Service Data. BioMed, 3 (2), 217-224. doi: 10.3390/biomed3020019
2023
Journal Article
Supporting people affected by problematic alcohol, substance use and other behaviours under pandemic conditions: a pragmatic evaluation of how SMART recovery Australia responded to COVID-19
Beck, Alison K., Larance, Briony, Baker, Amanda L., Deane, Frank P., Manning, Victoria, Hides, Leanne and Kelly, Peter J. (2023). Supporting people affected by problematic alcohol, substance use and other behaviours under pandemic conditions: a pragmatic evaluation of how SMART recovery Australia responded to COVID-19. Addictive Behaviors, 139 107577, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107577
2023
Journal Article
Health4Life eHealth intervention to modify multiple lifestyle risk behaviours among adolescent students in Australia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Champion, Katrina E., Newton, Nicola C., Gardner, Lauren A., Chapman, Cath, Thornton, Louise, Slade, Tim, Sunderland, Matthew, Hides, Leanne, McBride, Nyanda, O'Dean, Siobhan, Kay-Lambkin, Frances, Allsop, Steve, Lubans, David R., Parmenter, Belinda, Mills, Katherine, Spring, Bonnie, Osman, Bridie, Ellem, Rhiannon, Smout, Scarlett, Whife, Jesse, Stewart, Courtney, McCann, Karrah M., Catakovic, Amra, Hunter, Emily, Teesson, Maree, on behalf of the Health4Life Team, Barrett, Emma L., Birrell, Louise, Stapinski, Lexine A. and Mewton, Louise (2023). Health4Life eHealth intervention to modify multiple lifestyle risk behaviours among adolescent students in Australia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Digital Health, 5 (5), e276-e287. doi: 10.1016/s2589-7500(23)00028-6
2023
Journal Article
Cannabis use in Sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Belete, Habte, Mekonen, Tesfa, Espinosa, Dorothy C., Ambaw, Fentie, Connor, Jason, Chan, Gary, Hides, Leanne, Hall, Wayne and Leung, Janni (2023). Cannabis use in Sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Addiction, 118 (7), 1201-1215. doi: 10.1111/add.16170
2023
Other Outputs
Sharper Minds 2022 Report
Dingle, G., Williams, E., Alhadad, S. S. J., Beckman, E., Bentley, S., Fooken, J., Gomersall, S. R., Hides, L., Ludlow, T., Maccallum, F., McKimmie, B.M., Rossa, K., Smith, S. S., Walter, Z.C and Wright, O. (2023). Sharper Minds 2022 Report.
2023
Journal Article
Efficacy of technology-based personalised feedback on diet quality in young Australian adults: Results for the Advice, Ideas and Motivation for My Eating (Aim4Me) randomised controlled trial
Haslam, Rebecca L, Baldwin, Jennifer N, Pezdirc, Kristine, Truby, Helen, Attia, John, Hutchesson, Melinda J, Burrows, Tracy, Callister, Robin, Hides, Leanne, Bonevski, Billie, Kerr, Deborah A, Kirkpatrick, Sharon I, Rollo, Megan E, McCaffrey, Tracy A and Collins, Clare E (2023). Efficacy of technology-based personalised feedback on diet quality in young Australian adults: Results for the Advice, Ideas and Motivation for My Eating (Aim4Me) randomised controlled trial. Public Health Nutrition, 26 (6) PII S1368980023000253, 1-29. doi: 10.1017/s1368980023000253
2023
Journal Article
Trends in cannabis use intention around the period of cannabis legalisation in Australia: an age‐period‐cohort model
Chiu, Vivian, Chan, Gary, Hall, Wayne, Hides, Leanne and Leung, Janni (2023). Trends in cannabis use intention around the period of cannabis legalisation in Australia: an age‐period‐cohort model. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42 (2), 337-345. doi: 10.1111/dar.13578
2023
Journal Article
Client and staff perceptions of the integration of trauma informed care and specialist posttraumatic stress disorder treatment in residential treatment facilities for substance use: A qualitative study
Mefodeva, Valeriya, Carlyle, Molly, Walter, Zoe and Hides, Leanne (2023). Client and staff perceptions of the integration of trauma informed care and specialist posttraumatic stress disorder treatment in residential treatment facilities for substance use: A qualitative study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42 (1), 181-192. doi: 10.1111/dar.13535
2023
Other Outputs
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Young People: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Hides, Leanne (2023). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Young People: A Randomised Controlled Trial. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/88aa939
2022
Journal Article
Modelling the relationship between environmental and social cognitive determinants of risky drinking among emerging adults
Davidson, Lily, Piatkowski, Timothy, Pocuca, Nina and Hides, Leanne (2022). Modelling the relationship between environmental and social cognitive determinants of risky drinking among emerging adults. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. doi: 10.1007/s11469-022-00978-9
2022
Journal Article
Mental health service utilization in a low resource setting: A qualitative study on perspectives of health professionals in Northwest Ethiopia
Mekonen, Tesfa, Chan, Gary C. K., Belete, Tilahun, Menberu, Melak, Davidson, Lily, Hides, Leanne and Leung, Janni (2022). Mental health service utilization in a low resource setting: A qualitative study on perspectives of health professionals in Northwest Ethiopia. PLoS One, 17 (11) e0278106, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278106
2022
Journal Article
Controlled trial examining the strength-based grit wellbeing and self-regulation program for young people in residential settings for substance use
Quinn, Catherine A., Walter, Zoe C., de Andrade, Dominique, Dingle, Genevieve, Haslam, Catherine and Hides, Leanne (2022). Controlled trial examining the strength-based grit wellbeing and self-regulation program for young people in residential settings for substance use. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (21) 13835, 1-16. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192113835
2022
Journal Article
Retrospective self-reports of how adolescent substance use changed with the COVID-19 pandemic
Leung, Janni, Quinn, Catherine, Carlyle, Molly, Ellem, Rhiannon, Tisdale, Calvert, Davidson, Lily, White, Melanie J., Kavanagh, David J. and Hides, Leanne (2022). Retrospective self-reports of how adolescent substance use changed with the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (20) 13680, 1-10. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013680
2022
Conference Publication
Twelve-month outcomes of a two-stage social network intervention aimed at reducing heavy drinking among residential college students
Davidson, Lily, Ellem, Rhiannon, Broccatelli, Chiara, Keane, Carol, Walter, Zoe C., Chan, Gary C. K. and Hides, Leanne (2022). Twelve-month outcomes of a two-stage social network intervention aimed at reducing heavy drinking among residential college students. APSAD 2022 Conference, Darwin, NT, Australia, 9-12 October 2022. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/dar.13537
2022
Conference Publication
Implementation, sustainability, client and service outcomes of delivering the first step brief intervention in community alcohol and other drug settings
Hides, Leanne, Morris, Leith, Quinn, Catherine A., Dignan, Julie, Stokes, Holly, Kerswell, Nick, Newland, Grace, Pariz, Juliane, Curtin, James, Mooney, David and Giles, Mitchell (2022). Implementation, sustainability, client and service outcomes of delivering the first step brief intervention in community alcohol and other drug settings. APSAD 2022 Conference, Darwin, NT Australia, 9-12 October 2022. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Leanne Hides is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Treating comorbid Substance Use and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Vanessa Cobham, Dr Zoe Walter, Dr Molly Carlyle
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Doctor Philosophy
Impact of routine outcome measures and feedback on client outcomes in alcohol and other drug treatment.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Gabrielle Campbell
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Doctor Philosophy
Enhancing self-confidence in school-aged adolescents for prevention impulsive behaviors (substance addiction, risky sexual behavior, gambling and internet addiction) and mental illnesses
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gary Chung Kai Chan, Associate Professor Janni Leung, Dr Carmen Lim
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Doctor Philosophy
PROFILING CHRONIC MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH IN THE AUSTRALIAN DEAF COMMUNITY
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Gabrielle Campbell
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Doctor Philosophy
Effectiveness of online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for chronic pain management
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Melissa Day
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Doctor Philosophy
Performance and Image Enhancing Drug (PIED) use in Australia: key individual and social determinants of initiation and dependence and gender-based differences
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Mair Underwood, Dr Zoe Walter
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Advancements in Understanding and Intervention of Problematic Alcohol use by Emerging Adults in Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gary Chung Kai Chan, Dr Chiara Broccatelli
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Towards effective clinical supervision in the Australian alcohol and other drugs sector
Principal Advisor
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Utilisation of data linkage to determine the long-term health and substance use outcomes of residential substance use treatment
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dominique De Andrade, Associate Professor Janni Leung
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Mental health services in low resource settings: Treatment gap, service utilization, and barriers to mental health service use
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Gary Chung Kai Chan, Associate Professor Janni Leung
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Cannabis Legalisation: An Empirical Analysis Causes of Attitudinal Change in the U.S. and Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Wayne Hall, Associate Professor Gary Chung Kai Chan, Associate Professor Janni Leung
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