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Economic inequalities in the effectiveness of a primary care intervention for depression and suicidal ideationStephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Epidemiology 24:14-22. 2013..Economic disadvantage is associated with depression and suicide. We sought to determine whether economic disadvantage reduces the effectiveness of depression treatments received in primary care...
Psychosocial stressors and the prognosis of major depression: a test of Axis IVS E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Psychol Med 43:303-16. 2013..Axis IV is for reporting 'psychosocial and environmental problems that may affect the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of mental disorders'. No studies have examined the prognostic value of Axis IV in DSM-IV...- Social inequalities in depression and suicidal ideation among older primary care patientsStephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 48:59-69. 2013..Depression and suicide are major public health concerns, and are often unrecognized among the elderly. This study investigated social inequalities in depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among older adults... - Risks for the transition from major depressive disorder to bipolar disorder in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related ConditionsStephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 73:829-36. 2012..This study investigates clinical and psychosocial risk factors for mania among individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD), indicating diagnostic conversion from MDD to bipolar I disorder... - Bereavement and the diagnosis of major depressive episode in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related ConditionsStephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 73:208-15. 2012.... - Education and race-ethnicity differences in the lifetime risk of alcohol dependenceS E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:224-30. 2008..This study attempts to clarify the nature and extent of social inequalities in alcohol dependence by investigating the effects of SES and race-ethnicity on the development of alcohol dependence following first alcohol use... - Maternal smoking during pregnancy and children's cognitive and physical development: a causal risk factor?Stephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:522-31. 2008..The authors conclude that the hypothesized effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on these outcomes either are not present or are not distinguishable from a broader range of familial factors associated with maternal smoking... - Parental smoking and adolescent smoking initiation: an intergenerational perspective on tobacco controlStephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 123:e274-81. 2009..This study investigates unresolved issues concerning the strength and nature of the association between parent smoking and offspring smoking initiation... 
A longitudinal study of the order of onset of alcohol dependence and major depressionS E Gilman
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 63:277-86. 2001..These results suggest that both alcohol dependence and major depression pose a significant risk for the development of the other disorder at 1 year...- Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?Stephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Epidemiol 37:615-24. 2008..Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established... - Social factors, psychopathology, and maternal smoking during pregnancyStephen E Gilman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:448-53. 2008..5%), compared with women with a college degree and without nicotine dependence (3.9%). More effective and accessible interventions for nicotine dependence among pregnant smokers are needed... - Socioeconomic status in childhood and the lifetime risk of major depressionStephen E Gilman
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:359-67. 2002..In this study, we test the hypotheses that low childhood SES predicts an increased risk of adult depression and contributes to a higher risk of depression among females... - Childhood socioeconomic status, life course pathways and adult mental healthStephen E Gilman
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School, The Miriam Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:403-4. 2002 - Family disruption in childhood and risk of adult depressionStephen E Gilman
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:939-46. 2003..The authors examined the risk that family disruption and low socioeconomic status in early childhood confer on the onset of major depression in adulthood... - Socioeconomic status over the life course and stages of cigarette use: initiation, regular use, and cessationS E Gilman
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, CORO Building Suite 500, 1 Hoppin Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:802-8. 2003..To investigate the association between multiple indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) over the life course and three stages of cigarette use: initiation, regular use, and cessation... - Major depressive disorder in long-term cancer survivors: analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationWilliam F Pirl
Department of Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Yawkey 9A, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:4130-4. 2009.... - Validity and reliability of a Fijian translation and adaptation of the Eating Disorder Examination QuestionnaireAnne E Becker
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:171-8. 2010..Assessment of disordered eating has uncertain validity across culturally diverse populations. This study evaluated Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) performance in an ethnic Fijian study population... - Witness of intimate partner violence in childhood and perpetration of intimate partner violence in adulthoodAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiology 21:809-18. 2010..Witnessing such violence in childhood has been proposed as a principal cause of adulthood perpetration, yet it remains unknown whether the association between witnessing intimate partner violence and adulthood perpetration is causal... - Development of a measure of "acculturation" for ethnic Fijians: methodologic and conceptual considerations for application to eating disorders researchAnne E Becker
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Transcult Psychiatry 47:754-88. 2010..We suggest multidimensional measures of acculturation are optimal--and socio-demographic proxies inadequate--for characterization of this complex process for health research... - Social network media exposure and adolescent eating pathology in FijiAnne E Becker
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 641 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Br J Psychiatry 198:43-50. 2011..It is unknown whether indirect media exposure--such as the proliferation of media exposure in an individual's social network--is also associated with eating disorders... - Emotional functioning at age 7 years is associated with C-reactive protein in middle adulthoodAllison A Appleton
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 73:295-303. 2011..Therefore, we evaluated whether child emotional functioning at age 7 years is associated with C-reactive protein (CRP), an indicator of systemic inflammation, in middle adulthood... - Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a follow-up study of psychosocial adjustment and community reintegrationTheresa Stichick Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Child Dev 81:1077-95. 2010..Retention in school was also associated with greater prosocial attitudes... - Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a longitudinal study of risk, protective factors, and mental healthTheresa S Betancourt
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:606-15. 2010.... - Youth health-risk behavior assessment in Fiji: the reliability of Global School-based Student Health Survey content adapted for ethnic Fijian girlsAnne E Becker
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ethn Health 15:181-97. 2010..This study reports test-retest reliability for GSHS content adapted for a female adolescent ethnic Fijian study sample in Fiji... - Social inequalities in response to antidepressant treatment in older adultsAlex Cohen
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:50-6. 2006..We examined the relationship between socioeconomic status and response to treatment for depression among older adults... - Adaptation and evaluation of the Clinical Impairment Assessment to assess disordered eating related distress in an adolescent female ethnic Fijian populationAnne E Becker
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Eat Disord 43:179-86. 2010..This study evaluates psychometric properties of a translated and adapted version of the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA) in an ethnic Fijian population... - A prospective study of familial conflict, psychological stress, and the development of substance use disorders in adolescenceMargie Skeer
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 104:65-72. 2009..Evidence for this is largely based on cross-sectional studies which have been unable to establish the temporality of this association and investigate underlying pathways... - Past horrors, present struggles: the role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra LeoneTheresa S Betancourt
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Soc Sci Med 70:17-26. 2010..These findings point to the complexity of psychosocial adjustment and community reintegration in these youth and have a number of programmatic and policy implications... - Time trends in mortality associated with depression: findings from the Stirling County studyJane M Murphy
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Can J Psychiatry 55:776-83. 2010.... - Binge eating and binge eating disorder in a small-scale, indigenous society: the view from FijiAnne E Becker
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Int J Eat Disord 34:423-31. 2003..No published studies to date have explored BED in small-scale, indigenous, or developing societies. The current study investigated the prevalence and correlates of binge eating in a community sample of Fijian women living in rural Fiji... - Changes in prevalence of overweight and in body image among Fijian women between 1989 and 1998Anne E Becker
Department of Psychiatry, Adult Eating and Weight Disorders Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, WAC 816, 15 Parkman Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Obes Res 13:110-7. 2005..To investigate changes in prevalence of overweight and obesity and in body image among ethnic Fijian women in Fiji during a period of rapid social change and the relationship between changes in body image and BMI... - Eating behaviours and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television among ethnic Fijian adolescent girlsAnne E Becker
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Br J Psychiatry 180:509-14. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: This naturalistic experiment suggests a negative impact of television upon disordered eating attitudes and behaviours in a media-naïve population... - Facets of acculturation and their diverse relations to body shape concern in FijiAnne E Becker
Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:42-50. 2007..The present study examines the relation between acculturation and body shape concern in Fiji--a society undergoing rapid social change... - Invited Commentary: The Life Course Epidemiology of DepressionStephen E Gilman
Am J Epidemiol 166:1134-7. 2007
Research Grants
- Childhood Origin of Disparities in Alcohol Use DisordersSTEPHEN GILMAN; Fiscal Year: 2004....
- Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Trajectories of Substance Use DisordersSTEPHEN GILMAN; Fiscal Year: 2006....
- Social Imprinting in the Development of Major DepressionSTEPHEN GILMAN; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Social Imprinting in the Development of Major DepressionStephen E Gilman; Fiscal Year: 2010....