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Women and depression: a 30 year learning curveKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:3-12. 2008..The study findings are supplemented by data from other studies undertaken by this research team that are pertinent to the topic and add weight to some of the observations from the Teachers' Study...
Association between serotonin transporter promoter polymorphisms and psychological distress in a diabetic populationKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
Psychiatry Res 200:343-8. 2012..Findings suggest that 5-HTTLPR/rs25531 genotype is associated with psychological distress in a sample of subjects with diabetes...
Cardiovascular risk among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal smoking male prisoners: inequalities compared to the wider communityRobyn L Richmond
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:783. 2011..Cross-sectional baseline data on CVRF were compared among smoking male prisoners and males of similar age in the general population...- Grey lungs and blue moods: smoking cessation in the context of lifetime depression historyKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:896-905. 2004..To present an overview of the relationship between depression and cigarette smoking and to provide recommendations for clinicians who wish to help patients with a history of depression to stop smoking... - Examining sex differences in the impact of anticipated and actual life eventsK Wilhelm
Prince Henry Hospital and School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 48:37-45. 1998.... - The stability of the Parental Bonding Instrument over a 20-year periodKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Psychol Med 35:387-93. 2005..While the PBI has been shown to be a reliable and valid instrument, the stability of the PBI over extended periods (taking into account individual characteristics and life experience) needs to be demonstrated... - Great expectations: factors influencing patient expectations and doctors recommendations at a Mood Disorders UnitKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 88:187-92. 2005..We examined the factors influencing treatment expectations and psychiatrists' treatment recommendations for patients referred to a mood disorders unit with identified episodes of major depression... - Small groups for supporting GPs' professional development in mental health disease--an evaluationKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 34:791-4. 2005..They have been promoted in general practice in Australia, especially for mental health disease, and often by divisions of general practice... - Actions taken to cope with depression in patients seeking specialist careK Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:239-44. 2006..To assess the rates and perceived effectiveness of actions used to cope with depression and the factors influencing these in an outpatient sample seeking help for depression... - Life events, first depression onset and the serotonin transporter geneKay Wilhelm
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Level 4, DeLacy Building, St Vincent s Hospital, Victoria Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 188:210-5. 2006..A relationship between the serotonin transporter gene, adverse events and onset of major depression has been reported... - The Green Card Clinic: overview of a brief patient-centred intervention following deliberate self-harmKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 15:35-41. 2007.... - The long and the short of it: associations between 5-HTT genotypes and coping with stressKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Psychosom Med 69:614-20. 2007..The short (s) variant of the 5-HTT promoter polymorphism has been associated with an increased likelihood of depression after significant life stress and greater emotional reactivity to fear-invoking stimuli... - What can alert the general practitioner to people whose common mental health problems are unrecognised?Kay A Wilhelm
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, St Vincent s Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S114-8. 2008..To assess the characteristics of people with common mental health problems who are recognised by their general practitioner, and those who are not... - Men and depressionKay A Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, and Senior Staff Specialist, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, St Vincent s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust Fam Physician 38:102-5. 2009..It is often reported that men have lower rates of depression than women, but this does not necessarily signify better overall mental health in the male population... - Issues concerning feedback about genetic testing and risk of depressionKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 194:404-10. 2009..Research in genes related to risk of depression leads to the question of how this information is received by individuals... - Predicting mental health and well-being in adulthoodKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry and Black Dog University, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Nerv Ment Dis 198:85-90. 2010..This article reinforces the need for precise conception(s) of mental well-being, allowing objective measures to guide future research... - Work and mental healthKay Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry and Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39:866-73. 2004..There have also been some models proposed to allow understanding of factors common to different types of occupations. We sought to provide an overview of research related to work and mental health and consider future research directions... - Screening for Depression in the Medically Ill: a comparison of self-report measures, clinician judgment, and DSM-IV diagnosesKay Wilhelm
St Vincent s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Psychosomatics 45:461-9. 2004..The Depression in the Medically Ill scale was slightly superior to the Beck Depression Inventory for Primary Care in its relationship to clinicians' judgments of clinical depression caseness... - The student and junior doctor in distressKay A Wilhelm
St Vincent's Hospital, Level 4 Xavier Building, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
Med J Aust 177:S5-8. 2002 - Critical decision points in the management of impaired doctors: the New South Wales Medical Board programKay A Wilhelm
Liaison Psychiatry, St Vincent s Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Med J Aust 181:372-5. 2004..Decision-making at these points takes into account the nature of the impairment, compliance, professional and personal support available and the registrant's insight and motivation... - Development of a simple screening tool for common mental disorders in general practiceI B Hickie
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Med J Aust 175:S10-7. 2001..To develop and validate a self-report screening tool for common mental disorders... - Gender differences in depression risk and coping factors in a clinical sampleK Wilhelm
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 106:45-53. 2002..Gender differences were related to levels of arousal, anxiety disorders, and repertoires for dealing with depression, rather than depressive symptoms per se... - Distinguishing early and late onset non-melancholic unipolar depressionGordon Parker
Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, and School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick 2031, Australia
J Affect Disord 74:131-8. 2003..Early onset depression is indicative of a poor prognosis, both in terms of response to interventions and in regard to chronicity and disability... - Depression and smoking: examining correlates in a subset of depressed patientsK Roy
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 35:329-35. 2001..The objective of this study was to examine for associations between depression and cigarette smoking... - Characteristics of depressed patients who report childhood sexual abuseG Gladstone
Prince of Wales Hospital and The School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 156:431-7. 1999.... - Predictors of 1-year outcome in depressionG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:56-64. 2000..Second, we assessed baseline predictors of 1-year outcome and recovery status. Third, we examined the extent to which predictors showed consistency across the variable definitions of outcome and recovery... - Costing depression and its management: an Australian studyG Parker
School of Psychiatry, The University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:290-9. 2000..To examine the cost impact of referral to a Mood Disorders Unit (MDU), by comparing pre-service and post-service costs, and MDU and control samples... - The clinical features of bipolar depression: a comparison with matched major depressive disorder patientsP B Mitchell
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Clin Psychiatry 62:212-6; quiz 217. 2001..Identification of any distinctive clinical "signatures" of bipolar depression would be helpful in determining treatment options in the clinical setting... - Sub-grouping non-melancholic major depression using both clinical and aetiological featuresG Parker
Senior Psychiatry Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 33:217-25. 1999..Here, we address the same objective but combine both sets of variables, and contrast the combined solution with each of the contributing ones... - Physician don't heal thyself: a descriptive study of impaired older doctorsC Peisah
Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Int Psychogeriatr 19:974-84. 2007..The growing and welcome interest in the issues leading to distress and impairment in younger doctors has not been mirrored by a focus on the similar issues in older doctors which is surprising given the aging medical workforce... - Early and late onset depression in old age: different aetiologies, same phenomenologyH Brodaty
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Affect Disord 66:225-36. 2001..We aimed to compare aetiological factors, phenomenology and cognitive function in older patients with depression by age of onset... - Progressing a spectrum model for defining non-melancholic depressionG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 111:139-43. 2005..To further develop a 'spectrum model' for non-melancholic disorders that encompasses underlying personality styles and clinical patterning... - Late-onset depression: genetic, vascular and clinical contributionsI Hickie
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Psychol Med 31:1403-12. 2001..Neuropsychiatric research needs to examine the relationships between aetiological, genotypic and clinical risk factors and behavioural phenotypes. These relationships can now be examined in older patients with depressive disorders... - Indicators of suicide over 10 years in a specialist mood disorders unit sampleG L Gladstone
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Clin Psychiatry 62:945-51. 2001..but revealed less suicidal ideation at the time of the index MDU assessment. While these features were statistically significant, they are of limited usefulness in predicting suicide in an individual patient... - Measuring disordered personality functioning: to love and to work reprisedG Parker
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Syndey, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:230-9. 2004..Current limitations to diagnosing and measuring the personality disorders encouraged a set of studies seeking to provide an alternate approach to modeling and measuring disordered personality function... - Relationship between self-reported childhood behavioral inhibition and lifetime anxiety disorders in a clinical sampleGemma L Gladstone
University of New South Wales and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Depress Anxiety 22:103-13. 2005..Findings are discussed in light of the existing risk-factor literature and support the hypothesis that an early inhibited temperament may be a significant precursor to later anxiety, especially social anxiety disorder... - Promoting smoking cessation among prisoners: feasibility of a multi-component interventionRobyn L Richmond
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 30:474-8. 2006..To conduct a pilot study to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a multi-component smoking cessation intervention among prison inmates... - A Brief Measure of Worry Severity (BMWS): personality and clinical correlates of severe worriersGemma L Gladstone
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 19:877-92. 2005..This study suggests that pathological worry is not only relevant for patients with GAD, but may be an equally detrimental cognitive activity for patients with panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder... - Feeling unsupported? An investigation of depressed patients' perceptionsGemma L Gladstone
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales and Mood Disorders Unit, Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, 2031, Australia
J Affect Disord 103:147-54. 2007....