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The 2024 Integrated Lived-Experience Applied Research Nationally (i-LEARN) Short Course, Complexity in Interviewing as Mental Health Lived-Experience Researchers was held in July. See what was shared by the attendees about what matters to them in lived-experience interviewing to develop guiding lived-experience research principles for implementation in practice.

Citation Suggestion:

The ALIVE National Lived-Experience Research Collective. 2024. What Matters in Mental Health Lived-Experience Research Interviewing. The ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation: Melbourne, Australia.

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