A5026420405- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
UNSW Sydney
2014-2025
Cardiff University
2023
King's College London
2002-2023
St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
2012-2022
Heart Research UK
2022
St Vincent's Hospital
2011-2020
Collaborative Group (United States)
2020
Brain (Germany)
2020
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
2018
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center
1988-2017
Background. A 10-question screening scale of psychological distress and a six-question short-form embedded within the were developed for redesigned US National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Methods. Initial pilot questions administered in national mail survey ( N = 1401). reduced set was subsequently telephone 1574). The scales, which we refer to as K10 K6, constructed from based on Item Response Theory models. scales validated two-stage clinical reappraisal 1000 interviews first stage...
Abstract Data are reported on a series of short‐form (SF) screening scales DSM‐III‐R psychiatric disorders developed from the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). A multi‐step procedure was used to generate CIDI‐SF for each eight DSM US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). This began with subsample respondents who endorsed CIDI diagnostic stem question given disorder and then stepwise regression analyses select subset questions maximize reproduction...
Background. Two new screening scales for psychological distress, the K6 and K10, have been developed but their relative efficiency has not evaluated in comparison with existing scales. Method. The Australian National Survey of Mental Health Well-Being, a nationally representative household survey, administered WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) to assess 30-day DSM-IV disorders. K10 were also along General Questionnaire (GHQ-12), current de facto standard mental health...
Background Health planning should be based on data about prevalence, disability and services used. Aims To determine the prevalence of ICD–10 disorders associated comorbidity, service utilisation. Method We surveyed a national probability sample Australian households using Composite International Diagnostic Interview other measures. Results The size was 10 641 adults, response rate 78%. Close to 23% reported at least one disorder in past 12 months 14% current disorder. Comorbidity with use....
Objective: To provide a description of the methods and key findings 2007 Australian National Survey Mental Health Wellbeing. Method: A national face-to-face household survey 8841 (60% response rate) community residents aged between 16 85 years was carried out using World Initiative version Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Diagnoses were made according to ICD-10. Key include prevalence mental disorder, sex age distributions disorders, severity comorbidity among extent disability...
The Defense Style Questionnaire has proven of interest as the first questionnaire to reliably describe defense styles. 72-item DSM-III-R-labeled was administered 388 controls and 324 patients. Eight statistical two a priori criteria were used in choosing items represent each 20 defenses. A new 40-item is published together with normative reliability data on normal population, patients anxiety disorders, child-abusing parents. scores are unaffected by sex respondent, but endorsement immature...
Background Mental health survey data are now being used proactively to decide how the burden of disease might best be reduced. Aims To study cost-effectiveness current and optimal treatments for mental disorders proportion avertable by each. Method Data three affective, four anxiety two alcohol use schizophrenia were compared in terms cost, averted efficiency treatment. We then calculated unavertable given knowledge. The unit gain was a reduction years lived with disability (YLDs). Results...
The effects of life event stress, coping style, and social support on psychological impairment were examined in a survey representative Australian suburban sample (N = 863). Psychological was defined as score 4 or more the 20-item General Health Questionnaire. Life one variates, crisis support, related to impairment, significantly decreasing increasing risk being identified impaired from total frequency 24 per cent. There no evidence that style became associated by moderating relationship...
Many behaviour, psychotherapy and healthy life-style programmes require subjects to take responsibility for the control of old unwanted behaviours or be responsible maintaining new desired after therapy has ended. A scale measure locus behaviour would valuable if it could predict persons likely relapse following apparently successful therapy. 17-item Likert-type this construct was developed shown have satisfactory internal reliability, test-retest reliable in absence treatment, independent...
Background Treatment coverage for mental disorders is poor in most developed countries. Aims To explore some reasons the treatment Method Data were taken from Australian national surveys and World Health Report. Results Only one-third of people with a disorder consulted. Probability consulting varied by diagnosis: 90% schizophrenia, which accounted external factors; 60% depression; 15% substance use personality disorders. The probability gender, age, marital status disability, 73% among...
Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) for depression is effective when guided by a clinician, less so if unguided.Would guidance from technician be as clinician?Randomized controlled non-inferiority trial comparing three groups: Clinician-assisted vs. technician-assisted delayed treatment. Community-based volunteers applied to the VirtualClinic (www.virtualclinic.org.au) research program, and 141 participants with major depressive disorder were randomized. Participants in...
The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) measures disability due to health conditions including diseases, illnesses, injuries, mental or emotional problems, and problems with alcohol drugs.The 12 Item WHODAS 2.0 was used in the second Australian Survey of Mental Well-being. We report overall factor structure distribution scores normative data (means SDs) for people any physical disorder, disorder neither.A single order justifies use scale as a measure global...
Background Changes in criteria and differences populations studied methodology have produced a wide range of prevalence estimates for mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods Uniform were applied to harmonized data from 11 studies USA, Europe, Asia Australia, MCI determined using three separate definitions impairment. Results The published was 5.0%–36.7%. This reduced with all definitions: performance the bottom 6.681% (3.2%–10.8%); Clinical Dementia Rating 0.5 (1.8%–14.9%); Mini-Mental...
Abstract Background This paper reports the results of a pilot randomized controlled trial comparing delivery modality (mobile phone/tablet or fixed computer) cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for treatment depression. The aim was to establish whether previously validated computerized program (The Sadness Program) remained efficacious when delivered via mobile application. Method 35 participants were recruited with Major Depression (80% female) and randomly allocated access using app...
A comprehensive life event inventory suitable for questionnaire or interviewer administration has been constructed. Two sets of matched scalings these events have derived from the responses an Australian urban population. Each were consistent across sociodemographic groups in The two scales allow significance to be scaled conceptually different ways. first follows Holmes concept extent change produced by event, second Paykel amount distress caused event. and are use
Shortened forms of the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS) and Phobia (SPS) were developed using nonparametric item response theory methods. Using data from socially phobic participants enrolled in 5 treatment trials (N = 456), 2 six-item scales (the SIAS-6 SPS-6) developed. The validity scores on SPS-6 was then tested traditional methods for their convergent an independent clinical sample a student sample, as well sensitivity to change diagnostic sample. correlated original SIAS SPS,...