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| George C PattonSummaryAffiliation: Royal Children's Hospital Country: Australia Publications
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Health of the world's adolescents: a synthesis of internationally comparable dataGeorge C Patton
Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Lancet 379:1665-75. 2012....
Variation in the gene coding for the M5 muscarinic receptor (CHRM5) influences cigarette dose but is not associated with dependence to drugs of addiction: evidence from a prospective population based cohort study of young adultsRichard J L Anney
Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
BMC Genet 8:46. 2007..We investigated whether these polymorphisms influence substance dependence and dose in a cohort of 1947 young Australians...
Puberty and the onset of substance use and abuseGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Pediatrics 114:e300-6. 2004..Substance abuse remains one of the major threats to adolescent health in Western cultures. The study aim was to ascertain the extent of association between pubertal development and early adolescent substance use...
Service responses for youth onset mental disordersGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia
Curr Opin Psychiatry 20:319-24. 2007..We summarize recent work indicating where interventions are most needed and effective. We also review the literature that examines the scope for reorienting mental health services to meet the needs of adolescents and young adults...- Reverse gateways? Frequent cannabis use as a predictor of tobacco initiation and nicotine dependenceGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Addiction 100:1518-25. 2005..Specifically we examined whether cannabis use in non-smokers predicted later initiation of tobacco use and whether cannabis use predicted later nicotine dependence in tobacco users... - Pubertal stage and deliberate self-harm in adolescentsGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Austraia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:508-14. 2007..To ascertain the association between pubertal stage and deliberate self-harm... - Pubertal transitions in healthGeorge C Patton
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Lancet 369:1130-9. 2007..Recent secular trends in these psychosocial disorders coincide with a growing mismatch between biological and social maturation, and the emergence of more dominant youth cultures... - Promoting social inclusion in schools: a group-randomized trial of effects on student health risk behavior and well-beingGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health and Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Am J Public Health 96:1582-7. 2006..We sought to test the efficacy of an intervention that was designed to promote social inclusion and commitment to education, in reducing among students health risk behaviors and improving emotional well-being... - Teen smokers reach their mid twentiesGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Adolesc Health 39:214-20. 2006..Most outcome studies of adolescent smokers have focused on tobacco use in the short term. Few have reported on the health of adolescent smokers as they reach young adulthood... - Prematurity at birth and adolescent depressive disorderGeorge C Patton
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Centre for Adolescent Health, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 184:446-7. 2004..2% (95% CI 11.1-20.5) v. 1.8% (95% CI 1.6-2.1) in those with normal deliveries. Physiological adaptations in utero before full term may be implicated causally in some cases of depression in adolescence... - Predicting female depression across puberty: a two-nation longitudinal studyGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:1424-32. 2008..To prospectively examine the relation between pubertal stage and the onset and course of depressive symptoms... - Prognosis of adolescent partial syndromes of eating disorderGeorge C Patton
William Buckland House, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 192:294-9. 2008..Partial syndromes of eating disorder are common in adolescents but the health significance of these syndromes remains uncertain... - Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health dataGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health and Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Lancet 374:881-92. 2009..We analysed worldwide rates and patterns of mortality between early adolescence and young adulthood... - Mapping a global agenda for adolescent healthGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
J Adolesc Health 47:427-32. 2010..A global agenda needs more than good data, but sound information about adolescent health and its social and environmental determinants, will be important in both advocacy and practice... - Overweight and obesity between adolescence and young adulthood: a 10-year prospective cohort studyGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
J Adolesc Health 48:275-80. 2011..To assess changes in overweight and obesity between adolescence and young adulthood... - A prospective study of the effects of optimism on adolescent health risksGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Pediatrics 127:308-16. 2011..The promotion of optimism has been widely advocated for children and adolescents, but epidemiologic data to support this approach are scant... - Predicting death in young offenders: a retrospective cohort studyCarolyn Coffey
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville, VIC 3052
Med J Aust 181:473-7. 2004..To examine predictors of death in young offenders who have received a custodial sentence using data routinely collected by juvenile justice services... - Association of adolescent symptoms of depression and anxiety with alcohol use disorders in young adulthood: findings from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort StudyMaria McKenzie
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 195:S27-30. 2011..To examine the association of adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms with alcohol abuse or dependence in young adulthood... - Adolescent precursors of cannabis dependence: findings from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort StudyCarolyn Coffey
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 182:330-6. 2003..Dependence increases the likelihood of adverse consequences of cannabis use, but its aetiology is poorly understood... - Investigating the utility of mobile phones for collecting data about adolescent alcohol use and related mood, stress and coping behaviours: lessons and recommendationsSylvia D Kauer
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Drug Alcohol Rev 28:25-30. 2009..This paper aims to review the feasibility and usefulness of a mobile phone momentary sampling program to capture data about alcohol use and related behaviours... - Changes in body mass index and health related quality of life from childhood to adolescenceJoanne W Williams
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Australia
Int J Pediatr Obes 6:e442-8. 2011..Design. Data collected in 2000 and 2005 within the Health of Young Victorians longitudinal cohort study... - Trajectories of adolescent alcohol and cannabis use into young adulthoodGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Addiction 102:607-15. 2007..Both are commonly initiated in adolescence. To date little research has described trajectories of adolescent cannabis or alcohol use or compared their respective consequences in young adulthood... - Problem alcohol use in young Australian adultsSophie C Reid
Centre for Adolescent Health, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:436-41. 2007..To examine the extent to which excessive drinking in young adults is associated with alcohol abuse and dependence... - Pubertal stage and the prevalence of violence and social/relational aggressionSheryl A Hemphill
Centre for Adolescent Health, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Pediatrics 126:e298-305. 2010..We examined associations between pubertal stage and violent adolescent behavior and social/relational aggression... - Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort studyGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
BMJ 325:1195-8. 2002..To determine whether cannabis use in adolescence predisposes to higher rates of depression and anxiety in young adulthood... - Association between the COMT Val158Met polymorphism and propensity to anxiety in an Australian population-based longitudinal study of adolescent healthCraig A Olsson
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Psychiatr Genet 15:109-15. 2005..Two recent reports have observed the association between the MetMet genotype and risk of anxiety in adult populations. We examined the association between the ValMet genotypes and propensity to anxiety across adolescence... - Predicting future depression in adolescents using the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire: a two-nation studyDean P McKenzie
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Affect Disord 134:151-9. 2011..Predicting the development of depression in adolescence through detecting specific early symptoms may aid in the development of timely screening and intervention programmes... - Cannabis dependence in young adults: an Australian population studyCarolyn Coffey
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Addiction 97:187-94. 2002.... - Association of adolescent symptoms of depression and anxiety with daily smoking and nicotine dependence in young adulthood: findings from a 10-year longitudinal studyMaria McKenzie
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Addiction 105:1652-9. 2010..To examine the association of adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms with daily smoking and nicotine dependence in young adulthood... - A comparison of self-reported puberty using the Pubertal Development Scale and the Sexual Maturation Scale in a school-based epidemiologic surveyLyndal Bond
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, 2 Gatehouse Street, Parkville 3052 VIC, Australia
J Adolesc 29:709-20. 2006..To examine concordance between two self-reported measures of puberty: Sexual Maturation Scale (SMS) and Pubertal Development Scale (PDS) and their acceptability to adolescents... - Using a mobile phone application in youth mental health - an evaluation studySophie C Reid
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 41:711-4. 2012..This study evaluates a mobile phone self monitoring tool designed to assist paediatricians in assessing and managing youth mental health... - Adolescence: a foundation for future healthSusan M Sawyer
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Lancet 379:1630-40. 2012..Strategies that place the adolescent years centre stage-rather than focusing only on specific health agendas-provide important opportunities to improve health, both in adolescence and later in life... - Assessing alcohol guidelines in teenagers: results from a 10-year prospective studyElya Moore
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 33:154-9. 2009..To assess the value of drinking guidelines applied in adolescence for predicting alcohol-related outcomes in young adulthood... - Mortality in young offenders: retrospective cohort studyCarolyn Coffey
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
BMJ 326:1064. 2003..To estimate overall and cause specific standardised mortality ratios in young offenders... - Risk and protective factors for adolescent substance use in washington state, the United States and Victoria, Australia: a longitudinal studySheryl A Hemphill
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
J Adolesc Health 49:312-20. 2011..To compare the levels of risk and protective factors and the predictive influence of these factors on alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use over a 12-month follow-up period in Washington State in the United States and in Victoria, Australia... - Teenage drinking and the onset of alcohol dependence: a cohort study over seven yearsYvonne A Bonomo
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Research Institute
Addiction 99:1520-8. 2004..To determine whether adolescent alcohol use and/or other adolescent health risk behaviour predisposes to alcohol dependence in young adulthood... - Toward youth friendly services: a survey of young people in primary careDagmar M Haller
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children s Institute at the Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
J Gen Intern Med 22:775-81. 2007..The World Health Organization encourages the development of youth friendly services, yet little is known on how youth currently present in general practice... - A training agenda in adolescent medicine and healthSusan M Sawyer
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Int J Adolesc Med Health 19:305-15. 2007..In Australia, this has been best achieved by centres of excellence in adolescent health... - A mobile phone program to track young people's experiences of mood, stress and coping. Development and testing of the mobiletype programSophie C Reid
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, 2 Gatehouse St, Parkville, Vic, 3052, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 44:501-7. 2009..The aim of this study was to develop, pilot, and evaluate a youth-friendly mobile phone program to monitor, in real-time, young people's everyday experiences of mood, stress, and their coping behaviours... - Transitions in an imperfectly observed binary variable: depressive symptomatology in adolescentsRory Wolfe
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Stat Med 22:427-40. 2003..The motivation for this work comes from an analysis of transitions in depression status for a cohort of Australian teenagers participating in a longitudinal study of adolescent health... - A mobile phone application for the assessment and management of youth mental health problems in primary care: a randomised controlled trialSophie C Reid
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
BMC Fam Pract 12:131. 2011.... - Nicotine dependence in a prospective population-based study of adolescents: the protective role of a functional tyrosine hydroxylase polymorphismRichard J L Anney
Behavioural Genetics Laboratory, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Pharmacogenetics 14:73-81. 2004..Including these data, three independent studies, two of which use identical phenotypes, have now identified a protective relationship between the K4 allele of the functional HUMTH01-VNTR polymorphism and high-level smoking... - Assessment of first sexual intercourse in young women with a history of childhood sexual abuseElya E Moore
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Women s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol 51:276-9. 2011..More than half of women reporting CSA in the form of actual or penetrative abuse reported an age of first sexual intercourse at or beyond 16 years. Direct questioning about CSA is needed to accurately ascertain sexual history... - Confidential health care for adolescents: reconciling clinical evidence with family valuesLena A Sanci
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic
Med J Aust 183:410-4. 2005..Evaluation of maturity must take into account characteristics of the young person, gravity of the proposed treatment, family factors, and statutory restrictions... - Comorbidities of overweight/obesity experienced in adolescence: longitudinal studyMelissa Wake
Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville 3052, Australia
Arch Dis Child 95:162-8. 2010..Morbidities experienced by overweight/obese adolescents and associations between morbidities and timing of overweight/obesity were examined... - The persistence of the association between adolescent cannabis use and common mental disorders into young adulthoodLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Addiction 108:124-33. 2013..Most reports have focused on associations in adolescence, with few studies extending into adulthood. We examine the association from adolescence until the age of 29 years in a representative prospective cohort of young Australians... - The prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and adolescent unwanted sexual contact among boys and girls living in Victoria, AustraliaElya E Moore
Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Child Abuse Negl 34:379-85. 2010..There is also little prospective data on unwanted sexual contact (USC) collected during adolescence... - Youth health research ethics: time for a mature-minor clause?Lena A Sanci
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Med J Aust 180:336-8. 2004..There are grounds for considering a mature-minor clause in the National Health and Medical Research Council research ethics guidelines, particularly in the context of youth participation in minimal-risk research... - Adolescent medicineGeorge C Patton
Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, VIC 3052
Med J Aust 176:3. 2002 - Adolescent substance use: beware of international comparisonsJane E Pirkis
Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Adolesc Health 33:279-86. 2003..To compare prevalence estimates of adolescents' cigarette, alcohol and marijuana use from one Australian and two U.S. surveys, and to consider the effect of methodological differences on reported use... - Concern about tall stature during adolescence and depression in later lifeFiona J Bruinsma
Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, 251 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
J Affect Disord 91:145-52. 2006..This retrospective cohort study aimed to examine the long-term psychosocial outcomes for women assessed or treated during adolescence for tall stature... - The predictors and consequences of adolescent amphetamine use: findings from the Victoria Adolescent Health Cohort StudyLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Addiction 102:1076-84. 2007..However, little is known about the predictors and effects of early-onset amphetamine use. We set out to examine these issues using a representative cohort of young people followed-up over 11 years in Victoria, Australia... - Who are the new amphetamine users? A 10-year prospective study of young AustraliansLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Addiction 102:1269-79. 2007..We examined these issues using a representative cohort of young people followed-up in Victoria, Australia... - Are diagnostic orphans at risk of developing cannabis abuse or dependence? Four-year follow-up of young adult cannabis users not meeting diagnostic criteriaLouisa Degenhardt
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Drug Alcohol Depend 92:86-90. 2008..To examine the characteristics of "diagnostic orphans" among cannabis users - those who report one or two symptoms of DSM-IV dependence but do not meet diagnostic criteria for DSM-IV abuse or dependence - 4 years post-assessment... - Mental health of teenagers who use cannabis. Results of an Australian surveyJoseph M Rey
University of Sydney, Coral Tree Family Service, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 180:216-21. 2002..There is concern in the community about increasing cannabis use and its potential effect on health... - Prevalence of substance use and delinquent behavior in adolescents from Victoria, Australia and Washington State, United StatesBarbara J McMorris
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Health Educ Behav 34:634-50. 2007..Implications for conducting international comparisons are discussed... - Receipt of psychological or emotional counseling by suicidal adolescentsJane E Pirkis
Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Pediatrics 111:e388-93. 2003..This study examined utilization of psychological or emotional counseling by suicidal adolescents to answer questions about the extent to which health services can contribute to the prevention of adolescent suicide... - Heavy cannabis use and depressive symptoms in three Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern TerritoryK S Kylie Lee
School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
Med J Aust 188:605-8. 2008..To determine the extent to which depressive symptoms are associated with heavy cannabis use in an Aboriginal population in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory... - Personality and substance use disorders in young adultsPaul Moran
Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:374-9. 2006..There have been no studies of the co-occurrence of personality and substance use disorders in young community-dwelling adults... - Parental smoking and smoking experimentation in childhood increase the risk of being a smoker 20 years later: the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health StudySeana L Paul
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Australia
Addiction 103:846-53. 2008..To examine the long-term effects of childhood smoking experimentation and exposure to parental smoking on adult smoking risk... - A picture of Australia's childrenGeorge C Patton
Med J Aust 182:437-8. 2005..Do we have a clear enough picture to guide rational health and social policy responses?.. - Towards a national agenda for youth?George C Patton
Med J Aust 183:394-5. 2005 - Practical evidence in favour of mature-minor consent in primary care researchDagmar M Haller
Med J Aust 183:439. 2005