Research dissemination

The Principal Investigators of the CIPA study regularly disseminate their findings across national, regional, and local media platforms to ensure that the results are accessible to the general population. 

Examples of previous media disseminations by the researchers include:

National news (television)

• Factors promoting adherence to government-initiated protocols during infectious disease periods.

• Mitigating mental distress in vulnerable professionals during periods of infectious disease.

• Patterns of interaction among psychopathological processes contributing to risk of onset and maintenance of depressive states.
  
  

National and regional newspapers

• Putting 2020 and the mental health impact of global crises into perspective.

• Trajectories of resiliency and deterioration of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic pandemic.

• Conceptualising mental health problems as emergent properties of underlying interactive elements.

• Our current conceptualisation of mental health disorders and its deficiencies.

National radio

• Vaccine hesitancy as global health threat, its prevalence and predictors.

• Differentiating between hope and unrealistic optimism during critical events.

The initiation of the CIPA project

• The rationale of the CIPA study and its initiation.

• Extending the investigation of mental health during critical events beyond periods of infectious disease.

• Brief notice of the beginning of a national study investigating mental health across critical events over a 15-year period.