Table 2 Participating third sector...

Table 2

Participating third sector organisations (TSO) forum providers, users and staff

	SANE Australia	Beyond Blue	ReachOut
Target population	People with acute mental health conditions and their families, friends and carers	People with anxiety, depression, grief, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide and young people	People aged 14–25 years experiencing mental health conditions
TSO aims	Mental health support, research and advocacy	Improving mental health at the population level and over the lifespan	Protecting youth mental health
Rural posts analysed/total no. of rural posts* 01/08/2018 to 31/12/2020 inclusive	1,000/12,032*	1,000/5,027*	1,000/11,905*
No. of rural user interviewees	20	6	4
No. of TSO staff interviewees	1	3	5

	SANE Australia	Beyond Blue	ReachOut
Target population	People with acute mental health conditions and their families, friends and carers	People with anxiety, depression, grief, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide and young people	People aged 14–25 years experiencing mental health conditions
TSO aims	Mental health support, research and advocacy	Improving mental health at the population level and over the lifespan	Protecting youth mental health
Rural posts analysed/total no. of rural posts* 01/08/2018 to 31/12/2020 inclusive	1,000/12,032*	1,000/5,027*	1,000/11,905*
No. of rural user interviewees	20	6	4
No. of TSO staff interviewees	1	3	5

Note(s): *This study included only posts and consumer interviewees living outside major cities. That is in Inner and Outer Regional, Remote and Very Remote areas using the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2018). Posts by people in included areas represented 11.3% (Beyond Blue), 14.8% (ReachOut) and 17.5% (SANE) of total posts on the forums during August 2018–December 2020

Source(s): The above table was created by the authors

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