Exploring Ways to Reduce Heavy Drinking by Increasing Hope Among Midlife Women in Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Paul R Ward   ¹ , PhD ;   Megan Warin   ² , PhD ;   Sarah MacLean   ³ , PhD ;   Belinda Lunnay   ¹ , PhD ;   Catherine Palmer   ¹ , PhD ;   Samantha Meyer   ⁴ , PhD ;   Tonda Hughes   ⁵ , PhD ;   Antonia Lyons   ⁶ , PhD ;   Emily Nicholls   ⁷ , PhD

¹ Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing, Torrens University Australia, Adelaide, Australia

² School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

³ Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ School of Public Health Sciences, Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁵ Center for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research, Columbia University, New York, United States

⁶ Centre for Addiction Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

⁷ Department of Sociology, University of York, York, United Kingdom