Bendigo Family Study has Victorian government ethics approval to proceed

Great news!

The Bendigo Family Study has received ethics approval from the Victorian Government Bendigo Health Service ethics committee. We are now arranging to print our team T shirts and our consent forms, posters and questionnaires ready to launch and start recruiting.   

Our offical ethics approval code is Bendigo Family Study
103372 HREC/103372/BH-2024-417877(v3)

The Bendigo Family study is unique as it will address trigenerational family health from new borns, parents and grandparents to create a snap shot of family life in rural Australia. We are covering many areas of health and social wellbeing, including pregnancy care, mental health, parenting, enhancing hospital care and managing chronic diseases in rural Australia. We hope our results will achieve service improvements for rural Australians.

Bendigo is a great place to centre this study. Bendigo is the fourth-largest inland city in Australia and the fourth-most populous city in Victoria according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendigo). It has an important history in agricultural sheep industry and the gold rush era of Australia and is a long standing important region for the traditional owners of the area who are the Dja Dja Wurrung (Djaara) people.. It is one of Australia's great inland historic cities.

Please become involved in this study. Enrole as a participant or consider helping to advocate and advertise the study to your community.

Look out for our study launch next Month!

Professor Julie Quinlivan
​Bendigo Family Study lead investigator