Research Topics
Species | Albert S YeungSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Country: USA Publications
Research Grants
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Predictors of stable personality disorder diagnoses in outpatients with remitted depressionAmy Farabaugh
Depression and Clinical Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:248-56. 2002....- Elevated cholesterol levels associated with nonresponse to fluoxetine treatment in major depressive disorderShamsah B Sonawalla
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 15 Parkman Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Psychosomatics 43:310-6. 2002..05). Elevated serum cholesterol levels appear to be associated with poorer response to fluoxetine treatment. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings... - Adjustment disorder: intergenerational conflict in a Chinese immigrant familyAlbert S Yeung
Depression and Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 26:509-25. 2002 - Empirical testing of two models for staging antidepressant treatment resistanceTimothy Petersen
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, WACC 812, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Clin Psychopharmacol 25:336-41. 2005..This study was undertaken to empirically test 2 recent models for staging treatment resistance... - Somatic symptoms in outpatients with major depressive disorder treated with fluoxetineJohn W Denninger
Massachusetts General Hospital, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Dept of Psychiatry, 50 Staniford St, Suite 401, Boston, MA 02114 2541, USA
Psychosomatics 47:348-52. 2006..Taken together, these findings suggest that developing treatment strategies that successfully target somatic symptoms of depression may further improve the ability to treat depression to remission... 
Clinical Outcomes in Measurement-based Treatment (Comet): a trial of depression monitoring and feedback to primary care physiciansAlbert S Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Depress Anxiety 29:865-73. 2012..Clinical Outcomes in Measurement-based Treatment (COMET) was designed to assess whether communicating patient-reported depression symptom severity to primary care physicians affects patient outcomes at 6 months...- The Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, clinician rated and self-report: a psychometric assessment in Chinese Americans with major depressive disorderAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:712-5. 2012..65-0.96), respectively. The respective screening sensitivities/specificities were 0.73/0.74 and 0.86/0.58. The Chinese translations of the QIDS(16) have adequate psychometric properties and may be useful tools for depression screening... 
A study of a culturally focused psychiatric consultation service for Asian American and Latino American primary care patients with depressionNhi Ha T Trinh
Depression and Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
BMC Psychiatry 11:166. 2011..To address these issues, we implemented a multi-component intervention for Asian American and Latino American primary care patients with depression at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)...- Outcomes of recognizing depressed Chinese American patients in primary careAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 15 Parkman Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 35:213-24. 2005..This study aims to examine the effect of identifying Chinese American patients as having major depressive disorder (MDD) to their primary care physicians (PCPs) on the latter's attention given to the treatment of depression... - Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for depression screening among Chinese AmericansAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Compr Psychiatry 49:211-7. 2008..The objective of this study was to validate the Chinese Bilingual version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (CB-PHQ-9) for screening for depression among Chinese Americans in primary care... - Current practices in depression careAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Contin Educ Health Prof 27:S9-17. 2007..This article describes the most prevalent types of depression and summarizes current practices in depression care, with an emphasis on treatment standards and opportunities for improved performance... - Culturally sensitive collaborative treatment for depressed chinese americans in primary careAlbert Yeung
South Cove Community Health Center, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2397-402. 2010..We examined the feasibility and effectiveness of using culturally sensitive collaborative treatment (CSCT) to improve recognition, engagement, and treatment of depressed Chinese Americans in primary care... - Recognizing and engaging depressed Chinese Americans in treatment in a primary care settingAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:819-23. 2006..To examine the effectiveness of depression screening and the Engagement Interview Protocol (EIP) in identifying and engaging in treatment depressed Chinese Americans in a primary care setting... - A study of the effectiveness of telepsychiatry-based culturally sensitive collaborative treatment of depressed Chinese AmericansAlbert Yeung
Depression and Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
BMC Psychiatry 11:154. 2011..The current study builds on this prior research by incorporating telemedicine technology into the CSCT model... - Feasibility and effectiveness of telepsychiatry services for chinese immigrants in a nursing homeAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Telemed J E Health 15:336-41. 2009..Telepsychiatry may decrease the disparities in treatment of mental illnesses among ethnic immigrants in nursing homes... - Ethical and cultural considerations in delivering psychiatric diagnosis: reconciling the gap using MDD diagnosis delivery in less-acculturated Chinese patientsAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Transcult Psychiatry 45:531-52. 2008.... - Screening for major depression in Asian-Americans: a comparison of the Beck and the Chinese Depression InventoryA Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 105:252-7. 2002..This study compares the effectiveness of the Chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory (CBDI) and the Chinese Depression Inventory (CDI) in screening for depression among Chinese Americans... - Prevalence and illness beliefs of sleep paralysis among Chinese psychiatric patients in China and the United StatesAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, USA
Transcult Psychiatry 42:135-45. 2005..Sleep paralysis is common among Chinese psychiatric out-patients. The endorsement of supernatural explanations for SP is rare among contemporary Chinese patients... - Integrating psychiatry and primary care improves acceptability to mental health services among Chinese AmericansAlbert Yeung
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 26:256-60. 2004..3, P<.001) in the previous 12 months. Integrating psychiatry and primary care is effective in improving access to mental health services and in increasing treatment engagement among low-income immigrant Chinese Americans... - Prevalence of major depressive disorder among Chinese-Americans in primary careAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 26:24-30. 2004..6% +/- 0.06. MDD is common among Asian-Americans in primary care settings. The prevalence of MDD is comparable to or higher than those found in the U.S. nonminority populations... - Somatoform disordersAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program Massachusetts General Hospital 50 Staniford St Boston, MA 02113, USA
West J Med 176:253-6. 2002 - Effect of communicating depression severity on physician prescribing patterns: findings from the Clinical Outcomes in MEasurement-based Treatment (COMET) trialTrina E Chang
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 34:105-12. 2012.... - A description of next-step switching versus augmentation practices for outpatients with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder enrolled in an academic specialty clinicGeorge I Papakostas
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Ann Clin Psychiatry 17:161-5. 2005.... - Illness beliefs of depressed Chinese American patients in primary careAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:324-7. 2004..5%) for their depressive symptoms. The results suggest that many Chinese Americans do not consider depressed mood a symptom to report to their physicians, and many are unfamiliar with depression as a treatable psychiatric disorder... - Prevalence of MTHFR C677T and MS A2756G polymorphisms in major depressive disorder, and their impact on response to fluoxetine treatmentDavid Mischoulon
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
CNS Spectr 17:76-86. 2012..To examine the prevalence of the C677T polymorphism of the methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene and the A2756G polymorphism of methionine synthase (MS), and their impact on antidepressant response... - A pilot study of acupuncture augmentation therapy in antidepressant partial and non-responders with major depressive disorderAlbert S Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Affect Disord 130:285-9. 2011..There is evidence supporting acupuncture as an antidepressant monotherapy, but its efficacy as augmentation in antidepressant partial and non-responders has not been well-investigated... - Use of the Chinese version of the Beck Depression Inventory for screening depression in primary careAlbert Yeung
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford St, Suite 401, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:94-9. 2002..Lack of interest among Chinese-American patients in using the CBDI as a self-rating instrument has limited its use for depression screening in primary care settings... - Examining the role of race and ethnicity in relapse rates of major depressive disorderNhi Ha T Trinh
Depression and Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Compr Psychiatry 52:151-5. 2011..We test the hypothesis that racial or ethnic differences exist in relapse rates to fluoxetine discontinuation in major depressive disorder (MDD)... - A pilot study of acupuncture monotherapy in patients with major depressive disorderDavid Mischoulon
Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
J Affect Disord 141:469-73. 2012..This pilot study examines the efficacy and safety of this protocol as monotherapy for MDD... - Periodontal disease among adult, new-immigrant, Chinese Americans in Boston with and without diabetes -- a brief communicationPeggy Leong
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Public Health Dent 67:171-3. 2007..We compared the periodontal disease levels in a population of low socioeconomic status (SES), urban, adult, Chinese American immigrants with and without type 2 diabetes... - Acupuncture for depression: a review of clinical applicationsJunmei Wu
Neural Systems Group, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Can J Psychiatry 57:397-405. 2012..However, the body of evidence based on well-designed studies is limited, and further investigation is called for...
Research Grants
- Culturally Sensitive Treatment for Depressed AsiansAlbert Yeung; Fiscal Year: 2007..The development of a larger scale R01 project involving different sites and different groups of Asian Americans will be started during the last 2 years of the award period. ..
- Telepsychiatry & Culturally Sensitive Treatment of Depressed Asian AmericansAlbert Yeung; Fiscal Year: 2009..The goal is to increase access to mental health services and to decrease disparities in the treatment of depression among ethnic minority patients. ..
- Telepsychiatry & Culturally Sensitive Treatment of Depressed Asian AmericansAlbert S Yeung; Fiscal Year: 2010..The goal is to increase access to mental health services and to decrease disparities in the treatment of depression among ethnic minority patients. ..