Kathleen Griffiths

..Internet support groups (ISGs) are popular, particularly among people with depression, but there is little high quality evidence concerning their effectiveness...

..The current study sought to investigate the views of consumers about the advantages and disadvantages of seeking support from family and friends for depression...

..This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a web-based program for treating GAD relative to sertraline and attention placebo...

..This study aimed to inform the design of interventions to reduce stigma by systematically investigating community perceptions of beliefs about depression according to theorised dimensional components of stigma...

..The community's knowledge and beliefs about mental health problems, their risk factors, treatments and sources of help may vary as a function of age...

..However, currently little is known about the information needs of people with depression. This study aimed to investigate the explicit and implicit information needs of users of an online depression support forum...

..The present trial (the WebGAD trial) aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence-based online prevention website for GAD...

..To date, there has been very little work investigating behaviour changes induced by interventions that are designed to increase help seeking. The present paper examines the effects of two Internet depression websites on help seeking...

..However, there has been little direct cross-cultural comparison. Here we report a comparison of public beliefs about the causes of mental disorders in Japan and Australia...

..How they respond to that person (the mental health first aid response) may affect outcomes. However, there is no information on what members of the public might do in such circumstances...

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..The aim of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of four new prototype screeners for predicting depression and anxiety disorders and to compare their performance with existing scales...

..Japan is also more collectivist and Australia more individualist in values. These differences might influence recognition of disorders and beliefs about treatment in the two countries...

..There are no published meta-analyses of the effectiveness of passive psychoeducation in reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety or psychological distress...

..This paper aims to determine the effective components of depression care in primary care through a systematic examination of both general practice and community based intervention trials...

..This study seeks to compare the nature and extent of stigma among the public in the two countries...

..To discuss, using two case examples, the potential utility of Internet-based depression information and automated therapy programs in rural regions...

..The aim of this study was to develop a multi-item measure of Generalised Anxiety Disorder stigma (the GASS)...

..There is a need to develop better consumer tools, and in particular to explore the potential of automated procedures for evaluating the quality of health information on the web...

..To investigate and compare the predictors of personal and perceived stigma associated with depression...

..Some of these programs could be used by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals as an adjunct to clinician-based treatment. However, clinicians need to know which programs work and how they can be accessed...

..The current study sought to investigate whether stigmatising attitudes predict a belief in the helpfulness of dealing with depression without external assistance...

..To consider the implications for mental health policy of a recent synthesis of the literature on the effectiveness of different service delivery models for depression in primary care...

..This study sought to determine the impact of remoteness on public knowledge of depression and schizophrenia...

..A number of studies have evaluated the nature and impact of depression-specific ISGs. However, to date there have been no published systematic reviews of this evidence...

..To review the outcomes, nature and quality of published randomised controlled trials of preventive and treatment internet interventions for depression and anxiety disorders, and to document the availability of effective interventions...

..Given the growing role of ISGs for both users with depression and those with a physical disorder, there is a need to evaluate the evidence concerning the efficacy of ISGs in reducing depressive symptoms...

..By contrast, despite their popularity, there is little evidence as to the effectiveness of Internet support groups which provide peer-to-peer mutual support...

..The Lancet recently declared that it intends to "make mental health one of its campaign focal points". However, it has been silent on the role it might play in disseminating mental health research...

..It is therefore important to explore the validity of other simpler potential indicators of site quality such as Google PageRank...

..To describe the contributions that consumers, and academic consumer researchers in particular, can make to mental health research...

..To evaluate quality of web based information on treatment of depression, to identify potential indicators of content quality, and to establish if accountability criteria are indicators of quality...

..To provide information about Australian depression sites and the quality of their content; to identify possible indicators of the quality of site content; and determine the accessibility of Australian depression web sites...

..Little is known about the efficacy of educational interventions for reducing the stigma associated with depression...

..However, CC analysis is generally biased under MAR. The magnitude of the bias is largest when the correlation of post- and pre-test is relatively low...

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..e-health resources complement existing services by providing high quality information, symptom prevention, management interventions and peer support...

..The present study aimed to find out whether recognition and treatment beliefs have changed over 8 years...

..There is a need to identify interventions that increase help seeking for depression among young adults...

..Nevertheless, there is consensus across stakeholder groups that a number of areas should be a high priority...

..05). Panic attacks were more common among more frequent callers. These results will be useful in developing new telephone-administered anxiety and depression treatment programmes...

..To assess changes in depression awareness and attitudes in Australia and the effect that beyondblue: the national depression initiative has had on these...

..Through consumers, the guidelines can make their way into practitioners' awareness and play a role in the maintenance of treatment quality...

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..Randomised controlled trials of CBT delivered by the Internet are required...

..It is a promising tool for the measurement of self-stigma and is likely to be useful in further understanding self-stigma and evaluating stigma interventions...

..To describe the Beacon web portal, which lists and rates quality health websites, collects user characteristics and publishes user feedback; and to report summary data on Beacon's highest-rated (best evidence-based) sites for mental health...

..A range of best-practice measures have been developed and put in place to ensure high-quality service delivery. Evaluation and quality control are enabled by a database and associated software...

..This study aimed to examine and compare levels of personal and perceived depression stigma amongst Australian adolescents and to identify predictors of these constructs...

..anu.edu.au) designed to treat and prevent depression in young people, available to all Internet users, and targeted to those who may have no formal contact with professional help services...

..To review the evidence for the effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for depression...

..To examine the amount of research that various mental disorders are currently receiving in Australia and compare this with the disease burden and health system costs attributable to these disorders...

..To review the evidence for the effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for anxiety disorders...

..Surveys of the public in several countries have found a predominant belief in social environmental causes of mental disorders. The present study was conducted to determine whether this has changed over time in Australia...

..To identify reports in the "grey literature" of programs conducted in Australian primary care to improve depression and anxiety outcomes, and to examine these reports for evidence of effectiveness...

..An earlier paper reported positive outcomes immediately following access to a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) internet intervention and a depression information website...

..To conduct a systematic review of the evidence for the effectiveness of a range of possible treatments for depression in older people...

..We need to understand more about adherence in order to maximize the impact of Internet-based interventions on the disease burden associated with common mental disorders...

..To evaluate whether a campaign to increase public knowledge about depression (beyondblue: the national depression initiative) has influenced the Australian public's ability to recognize depression and their beliefs about treatments...

..27-0.43). Although small to moderate, the effects obtained in the current study provide support for the utility of universal prevention programs in schools. The effectiveness of booster sessions should be explored in future research...

..The aim of this article was to examine community help-seeking intentions and stigmatizing beliefs associated with depression...

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..However, it is unclear if the positive effects demonstrated in these trials transfer to community users of such sites...

..However, challenges to their uptake amongst youth need to be investigated. This paper aims to explore the barriers to the use of these programs by young people and the methods by which these barriers might be overcome...

..We recommend that our approach be used in conjunction with methods of analysis which assume MAR in estimating the ITT effect...

..Data is reported on the use of clozapine in an entire cohort of (42) patients in a community, the Australian Capital Territory. It extends a 3-year study of clinical and financial outcomes to 5 years...

..The present study uses factor analysis to examine the structure of public beliefs about interventions for depression and schizophrenia, using case vignettes that vary in severity or stage of illness...

..These are highly acceptable to the public, easily applied, inexpensive and may avert the development of many clinical cases...

..Surveys of the public in several countries have found that negative attitudes towards antidepressants are common. However, there has been little research into the factors associated with these attitudes...