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| A MacKinnonSummaryAffiliation: Mental Health Research Institute Country: Australia Publications
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A spreadsheet for the calculation of comprehensive statistics for the assessment of diagnostic tests and inter-rater agreementA MacKinnon
The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria and Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Locked Bag 11, Parkville, Australia
Comput Biol Med 30:127-34. 2000..As well as a wide range of indices of test or rater performance, confidence intervals for these quantities are also calculated by the spreadsheet...
Improving screening accuracy for dementia in a community sample by augmenting cognitive testing with informant reportAndrew MacKinnon
Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, and Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Locked Bag 11, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 56:358-66. 2003..The findings also suggest that the appropriate combination of existing tests may be a fruitful method of improving screening accuracy in a variety of situations...
A National Depression Index for AustraliaAndrew MacKinnon
Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Locked Bag 11, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Med J Aust 181:S52-6. 2004..To develop a National Depression Index for measuring the depression status of the Australian population...
Combining cognitive testing and informant report to increase accuracy in screening for dementiaA MacKinnon
Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 155:1529-35. 1998..Methods of combining test scores that can be readily applied in clinical settings were developed and assessed...
Decreased hippocampal NMDA, but not kainate or AMPA receptors in bipolar disorderE Scarr
Rebecca L Cooper Research Laboratories, Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Bipolar Disord 5:257-64. 2003..The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are changes in the density of ionotropic glutamate receptors in the hippocampus of subjects with bipolar disorder...
The Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales (PAS): psychometric properties in French and German speaking populationsA MacKinnon
Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria and Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:892-9. 2001..Demographic variables, the mini-mental state examination and measures of premorbid intelligence robust to current intellectual impairment were also gathered in the course of the survey...
The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale in older community samples in Indonesia, North Korea, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and ThailandA MacKinnon
Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 53:P343-52. 1998..There appears to be a general factor measuring depressed mood across older populations. The results support the validity of comparing responses on the CES-D across cultures...
Why are we weighting? The role of importance ratings in quality of life measurementT Trauer
Mental Health Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Qual Life Res 10:579-85. 2001..Apart from the face validity and the intuitive appeal of multiplying satisfaction ratings by importance ratings, there appear to be no sound reasons for doing so, and several good reasons not to do so...
Assessment of change with the Developmental Behaviour ChecklistA R Clarke
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Intellect Disabil Res 47:210-2. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: The DBC is able to measure changes in behaviour and emotions which are recognized by an experienced clinician who is following the progress of a child with ID...
[The estimation of premorbid intelligence levels in French speakers]A MacKinnon
Centre for Mental Health Research, Building 63, Australian National University, Canberray, ACT 0200, Australia
Encephale 31:31-43. 2005..Nevertheless, this study has demonstrated that the fNART is a reliable and valid method of assessing premorbid intellectual ability in French speakers...
Psychiatric disorders and depression in multiple sclerosis outpatients: impact of disability and interferon beta therapyG M Galeazzi
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service, Department of Neuroscience TCR, Section of Psychiatry, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via del Pozzo 71, I 41100 Modena, Italy
Neurol Sci 26:255-62. 2005..Disability level, but not therapy with beta-interferons, is a risk factor for depression in MS outpatients. Regular screening for depression in this population is appropriate...
Frequent attenders in primary care: impact of medical, psychiatric and psychosomatic diagnosesS Ferrari
Department of Neuroscience TCR, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 77:306-14. 2008..The present case-control study explored how psychiatric and psychosomatic diagnoses and perceived quality of life are associated with the phenomenon of frequent attendance...
