Monitoring of injury and psychosocial health outcomes, career trajectories and continuing education, lived experiences and social connectedness: A pilot longitudinal cohort study of Macquarie University graduates (MQ-MINDS)

Participants will be asked to complete an online survey that measures a wide range of health and lifestyle factors. The online survey, which takes approximately 30 minutes to complete, will be administered at baseline and at 12 months post-baseline. The online survey includes questions about: general physical and mental health, employment and work satisfaction, social media use, major life events and social readjustment, resilience, physical activity and sedentary behaviour, injury, and risk behaviour (e.g. smoking, alcohol, and drug use). Survey responses will be linked to personal health information from administrative data collections (ie, ambulance dispatches, emergency department presentations, hospital admissions, cancer registry, and mortality records) in New South Wales (NSW) from 1 April 2018 to 12 months after the completion of the baseline survey. Participants will have an opportunity to opt out of having their survey responses linked to their health records during the web-based registration process. The secure health data linkage will be conducted by the NSW Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL). For ththe purpose of this study we will not seek to collect any linked health records, only to obtain fact of linkage from CHeReL.