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| Jane E PirkisSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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Suicide among psychiatric patients: a case-control studyJane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, P O box 477, West Heidelberg, and Mental Health Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:86-91. 2002....- On-screen portrayals of mental illness: extent, nature, and impactsJane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Health Commun 11:523-41. 2006.... - Media guidelines on the reporting of suicideJane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Crisis 27:82-7. 2006..It makes recommendations for further evaluative work, and suggests that the lessons from well-designed evaluations should be shared... 
Interventions to reduce suicides at suicide hotspots: a systematic reviewGeorgina R Cox
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 13:214. 2013..Suicide hotspots' include tall structures (for example, bridges and cliffs), railway tracks, and isolated locations (for example, rural car parks) which offer direct means for suicide or seclusion that prevents intervention...- Recruiting and retaining GPs and patients in intervention studies: the DEPS-GP project as a case studyMichelle K Williamson
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
BMC Med Res Methodol 7:42. 2007..The paper aims to outline experiences that may be of interest to others considering engaging GPs and/or their patients in primary care studies... - Models of psychological service provision under Australia's Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care programJane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Aust Health Rev 30:277-85. 2006..Many of these models were being used in combination. No model was predictive of differential levels of access, suggesting that the approach of adapting models to the local context is proving successful... 
The community prevalence of depression in older AustraliansJane Pirkis
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
J Affect Disord 115:54-61. 2009..To estimate the prevalence of depression among older adults in Australia...- International planning directions for provision of mental health servicesJane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Adm Policy Ment Health 34:377-87. 2007..The challenge remains for individual countries to develop plans that include appropriate resource targets, and to implement initiatives that move them towards these targets... - Legal bans on pro-suicide web sites: an early retrospective from AustraliaJane Pirkis
Center for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Suicide Life Threat Behav 39:190-3. 2009.... - The relationship between media reporting of suicide and actual suicide in AustraliaJane E Pirkis
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Soc Sci Med 62:2874-86. 2006..Mental health professionals and suicide experts should collaborate with media professionals to try to balance 'public interest' against the risk of harm... - A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measuresJane E Pirkis
School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:76. 2005..There is, however, no comprehensive review of these instruments. This paper fills this gap by reviewing the psychometric properties of each... - Who cares? A profile of people who care for relatives with a mental disorderJane Pirkis
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 44:929-37. 2010..To profile the Australian adults who are caring for a relative with a mental disorder... - Media awards for responsible reporting of suicide: Experiences from Australia, Belgium and DenmarkAndrew J Dare
Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Ment Health Syst 5:15. 2011..abstract:.. - 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... - 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... - Clinical improvement after treatment provided through the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) programme: do some patients show greater improvement than others?Jane Pirkis
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 45:289-98. 2011..This paper considers whether patients who receive care through the ATAPS projects make clinical gains, if so, whether particular patient-related and treatment-related variables are predictive of these outcomes... - Improving collaboration between private psychiatrists, the public mental health sector and general practitioners: evaluation of the Partnership ProjectJane Pirkis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:125-34. 2004..The evaluation aimed to describe the impacts and outcomes of these elements... - Australia's Better Access initiative: an evaluationJane Pirkis
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 45:726-39. 2011..The current paper contributes to this debate by presenting the findings of a study which profiled the clinical and treatment characteristics of Better Access patients and examined the outcomes of their care... - Changes in media reporting of suicide in Australia between 2000/01 and 2006/07Jane Pirkis
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Crisis 30:25-33. 2009..To evaluate changes in Australian news media reporting of suicide between 2000/01 and 2006/07 against recommendations in the resource Reporting Suicide and Mental Illness... - Improving access to and outcomes from mental health care in rural AustraliaBelinda Morley
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust J Rural Health 15:304-12. 2007.... - Meeting demand for psychological services for people with depression and anxiety: recent developments in primary mental health careJustine R Fletcher
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 188:S107-9. 2008.... - Service use for mental health problems: findings from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and WellbeingPhilip M Burgess
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, QLD, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:615-23. 2009..To provide an overview of 12 month rates of service use for mental health problems and mental disorders by the general Australian adult population... - Media reporting of specific mental illnesses in the context of crime: implications for mental health literacyCatherine Francis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 179:638. 2003 - Integrating psychologists into the Canadian health care system: the example of AustraliaRichard Moulding
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Can J Public Health 100:145-7. 2009..We argue that integrating psychologists into the publicly-funded primary care system in Canada would be feasible, beneficial for consumers, and cost-effective... - Reporting of suicide in the Australian mediaJane Pirkis
Centre for Health Program Evaluation, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:190-7. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The reporting of suicide is extensive across all media types, and varies in nature and quality. In general, good items outnumber poorer items. However, there are still opportunities for improving media reporting of suicide... - Partnerships for knowledge exchange in health services research, policy and practicePenelope Mitchell
Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
J Health Serv Res Policy 14:104-11. 2009.... - The complementarity of two major Australian primary mental health care initiativesBridget Bassilios
Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 44:997-1004. 2010..ATAPS session delivery, before and after the introduction of the Better Access program, is also examined... - Relationship between vehicle emissions laws and incidence of suicide by motor vehicle exhaust gas in Australia, 2001-06: an ecological analysisDavid M Studdert
Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
PLoS Med 7:e1000210. 2010..The objective of this ecological study was to test the relationship by investigating whether areas of Australia with fewer noxious vehicles per capita experienced lower rates of MVEG suicide... - Attaching unit costs to Australia's National Survey of Mental Health and WellbeingCathrine Mihalopoulos
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
J Ment Health Policy Econ 8:61-9. 2005..There are clearly areas where shared or common investment in the development of statistical software syntax, analytical frameworks and other resources could maximise the use of data... - Public and private psychiatry: can they work together and is it worth the effort?Alison Yung
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:67-73. 2005..It also examined possible barriers to collaboration and some possible solutions to the identified problems... - Better outcomes in mental health care: impact of different models of psychological service provision on patient outcomesBelinda Morley
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:142-9. 2007..This paper examines the extent to which the projects are achieving positive patient outcomes, and explores the association between different models of service delivery and varying levels of patient outcomes... - The newsworthiness of suicideJane Pirkis
School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:278-83. 2007..The data suggest a need for media professionals and suicide experts to work together to balance newsworthiness against the risk of copycat behavior... - Building evaluation capacity: definitional and practical implications from an Australian case studyLucio Naccarella
Centre for Health, Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourn, VIC 3010, Australia
Eval Program Plann 30:231-6. 2007..In addition, such definitions should acknowledge some of the valuable by-products of evaluation capacity building activities, such as the development of shared understandings of the program or project being evaluated... - Were the budgetary reforms to the Better Access to Mental Health Care initiative appropriate?--yesJane E Pirkis
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC j pirkisATunimelb edu au
Med J Aust 194:594. 2011..Mental health researchers Jane Pirkis and Meredith Harris say the government got it right... - Impact of a specialized early psychosis treatment programme on suicide. Retrospective cohort studyMeredith G Harris
ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Early Interv Psychiatry 2:11-21. 2008..Aim: To investigate the impact of a specialized early psychosis (EP) treatment programme on risk of suicide up to 8.5 years following first contact with mental health services... - Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy: the next chapterJo Robinson
ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne, 35 Poplar Road, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia
Aust Health Rev 30:271-6. 2006..This balance should be re-dressed and the opportunity should be taken to build the evidence-base regarding suicide prevention. Such steps have the potential to maximise the impact of suicide prevention activities in Australia... - Research priorities in suicide prevention in Australia. A comparison of current research efforts and stakeholder-identified prioritiesJo Robinson
ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Crisis 29:180-90. 2008..A strategic approach to suicide prevention research will help fill internationally-identified gaps in knowledge about what works and what doesn't work in suicide prevention... - Managing depression and suicide risk in men presenting to primary care physiciansGrant Blashki
Department of General Practice, School of Primary Health Care, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Prim Care 33:211-21, x-xi. 2006 - What does 'clinical significance' mean in the context of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales?Philip Burgess
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 17:141-8. 2009..The aim of this paper was to improve understanding of what 'clinical significance' means in relation to the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and its older persons and child/adolescent equivalents (the HoNOS65+ and HoNOSCA)... - Modelling candidate effectiveness indicators for mental health servicesPhilip Burgess
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Sumner Park BC, QLD, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:531-8. 2009.... - The portrayal of mental health and illness in Australian non-fiction mediaCatherine Francis
Program Evaluation Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:541-6. 2004..However, there are still opportunities for improving media reporting of mental health/illness, which should be taken up in future media strategies... - Lessons from the National Mental Health Integration ProgramKathy Eagar
Centre for Health Service Development, Faculty of Commerce, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW 2522
Aust Health Rev 29:189-200. 2005..Cost-wise, there were no increases in expenditure, and even some reductions. Many of the lessons from the projects (and their evaluations) may be generalised to other mental health settings and beyond... - Referral of patients with depression to specialist psychological care from general practiceGrant Blashki
Department of General Practice, Monash University, Victoria
Aust Fam Physician 32:998-1002. 2003 - Stakeholder concerns about Australia's mental health care systemClare E Townsend
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD
Aust Health Rev 30:158-63. 2006.... - General practitioners' response to depression and anxiety in the Australian community: a preliminary analysisIan B Hickie
Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, NSW 2039, Australia
Med J Aust 181:S15-20. 2004....