Leanne Hides, PhD
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow & Clinical Psychologist, Lives Lived Well Professor of Alcohol, Drugs & Mental Health, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland
Professor Leanne Hides holds an Australian National Health and Medical Research (NHMRC) Council Senior Research Fellowship and the industry-supported Lives Lived Well Chair in Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health at the University of Queensland. Leanne is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of clinical and research experience in the development and testing treatments for substance use and comorbid mental disorders. She has led over 30 randomized controlled trial, with her most recent work focused on telehealth, web and mobile-app treatments. This research program is also contributing knowledge on the key mechanisms of change of treatment, who they are most effective for, and how to best engage and deliver treatment to young people. Her work has also increased knowledge about and access to high quality eHealth resources. The Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) was the first scale to provide app developers/health professionals with a reliable tool to assess and identify high quality apps. A simplified end-user version (uMARs) is used to promote consumer input. The MARS has been translated into 13 languages, the MARS training youtube video has been accessed more than 4000 times, and the tool is routinely used by national and international organisations to identify high quality apps for health professionals and consumer app libraries.
Hides co-leads the Australian Federal Government funded National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research. She also led a major research program developing web and mobile-phone based programs for youth mental health and wellbeing between 2010 and 2016. Her current work focuses on the translating evidence-based eHealth interventions for child/adolescent mental health into population-level digital models of care.
In her spare time, Leanne enjoys exercise and spending time with friends and family, especially her nieces and nephews and Rakki, her dog.
Selected Publications
- Brown K, Toombs M, Nasir B, Kisely S, Ranmuthugala G, Brennan-Olsen SL, Nicholson GC, Gill NS, Hayman NS, Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan S, Hides L. How can mobile applications support suicide prevention gatekeepers in Australian Indigenous communities? Soc Sci Med. 2020 Aug;258:113015. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113015. PMID: 32559573.
- Hides L, Baker A, Norberg M, Copeland J, Quinn C, Walter Z, Leung J, Stoyanov SR, Kavanagh D. A web-based program for cannabis use and psychotic experiences in young people (keep it real): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Jul 29;9(7):e15803. doi: 10.2196/15803. PMID: 32723727; PMCID: PMC7424487.
- Teesson M, Champion KE, Newton NC, Kay-Lambkin F, Chapman C, Thornton L, Slade T, Sunderland M, Mills K, Gardner LA, Parmenter B, Lubans DR, Hides L, McBride N, Allsop S, Spring BJ, Smout S, Osman B; Health4Life Team. Study protocol of the Health4Life initiative: A cluster randomised controlled trial of an eHealth school-based program targeting multiple lifestyle risk behaviours among young Australians. BMJ Open. 2020 Jul 13;10(7):e035662. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035662. PMID: 32665344; PMCID: PMC7359380.
- Hides L, Quinn C, Chan G, Cotton S, Pocuca N, Connor JP, Witkiewitz K, Daglish MRC, Young RM, Stoyanov S, Kavanagh DJ. Telephone-based motivational interviewing enhanced with individualised personality-specific coping skills training for young people with alcohol-related injuries and illnesses accessing emergency or rest/recovery services: a randomized controlled trial (QuikFix). Addiction. 2020 Jun 7. doi: 10.1111/add.15146. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32506558.
- Teesson M, Newton NC, Slade T, Chapman C, Birrell L, Mewton L, Mather M, Hides L, McBride N, Allsop S, Andrews G. Combined prevention for substance use, depression, and anxiety in adolescence: A cluster-randomised controlled trial of a digital online intervention. Lancet Digit Health. 2020 Feb;2(2):e74-e84. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(19)30213-4. PMID: 33334564.
- Birrell L, Newton NC, Slade T, Chapman C, Mewton L, McBride N, Hides L, Chatterton ML, Allsop S, Healy A, Mather M, Quinn C, Mihalopoulos C, Teesson M. Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of school-based depression, anxiety, and substance use prevention into young adulthood: Protocol for the climate school combined study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Nov 6;7(11):e11372. doi: 10.2196/11372. Erratum in: JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 Sep 26;8(9):e15391. PMID: 30401663; PMCID: PMC6246975.
- Hides L, Dingle G, Quinn C, Stoyanov SR, Zelenko O, Tjondronegoro D, Johnson D, Cockshaw W, Kavanagh DJ. Efficacy and outcomes of a music-based emotion regulation mobile app in distressed young people: Randomized controlled trial. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2019 Jan 16;7(1):e11482. doi: 10.2196/11482. PMID: 30664457; PMCID: PMC6352004.
- Robinson NL, Connolly J, Johnson GM, Kim Y, Hides L, Kavanagh DJ. Measures of incentives and confidence in using a social robot. Science Robotics. 2018 Aug 22;3(21). eaat6963. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aat6963.
- Hides L, Quinn C, Cockshaw W, Stoyanov S, Zelenko O, Johnson D, Tjondronegoro D, Quek LH, Kavanagh DJ. Efficacy and outcomes of a mobile app targeting alcohol use in young people. Addict Behav. 2018 Feb;77:89-95. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.09.020. PMID: 28992580.