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| JOSEPH JOHN GALLOSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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ApoE4 allele is associated with late-life depression: a population-based studyYung Chieh Yen
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:858-68. 2007..This study aimed to clarify the relationship between the epsilon4 allele and late-life depression, taking into account lipid profile, vascular diseases, and sociodemographics...- The epidemiology of common late-life mental disorders in the community: themes for the new centuryJ J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Psychiatr Serv 50:1158-66. 1999..The prevalence and incidence of the major mental disorders of late life that are common in the community and in primary health care are reviewed... - Life-sustaining treatments: what do physicians want and do they express their wishes to others?Joseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:961-9. 2003.... - Linking depressive symptoms and functional disability in late lifeJ J Gallo
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 4283, USA
Aging Ment Health 7:469-80. 2003..The results suggest that intervention studies intended to limit functional disability secondary to depression among older adults may need to consider the effect of depression on cognition... - Do family physicians and internists differ in knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported approaches for depression?Joseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 32:1-20. 2002..The purpose of this investigation was to assess the relationship of primary care specialty training with self-assessed skill, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward depression recognition and management... 
Primary care clinicians evaluate integrated and referral models of behavioral health care for older adults: results from a multisite effectiveness trial (PRISM-e)Joseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Fam Med 2:305-9. 2004..No study, however, has asked the opinions of clinicians whose patients actually experienced integrated rather than enhanced referral care for depression and other conditions...- Major depression and cancer: the 13-year follow-up of the Baltimore epidemiologic catchment area sample (United States)J J Gallo
Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Cancer Causes Control 11:751-8. 2000..No studies have employed standardized interviews keyed to the diagnostic criteria for Major Depression. Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between Major Depression at baseline and new onset of cancer at follow-up... - The acceptability of treatment for depression among African-American, Hispanic, and white primary care patientsLisa A Cooper
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Care 41:479-89. 2003..Ethnic minority patients are less likely than white patients to receive guideline-concordant care for depression. It is uncertain whether racial and ethnic differences exist in patient beliefs, attitudes, and preferences for treatment... - Chronic medical conditions and wishes to die among older primary care patientsYeowon A Kim
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 36:183-98. 2006..Persons with a history of myocardial infarction may be particularly vulnerable to a wish to die... - Patient ethnicity and the identification and active management of depression in late lifeJoseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, 2 Gates Pavilion, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1962-8. 2005..We investigated the association of ethnicity with the identification and active management of depression among older patients... - Personal characteristics and depression-related attitudes of older adults and participation in stages of implementation of a multi-site effectiveness trial (PRISM-E)Marsha N Wittink
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 20:927-37. 2005.... - Brief report: patient cognitive status and the identification and management of depression by primary care physiciansMonica K Crane
Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1042-4. 2006..No known study has examined the role of patients' cognitive impairment in the identification and management of depression by primary care physicians... - Depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and two-year mortality among older, primary-care patientsJoseph J Gallo
Dept of Family Practice and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 2 Gates Bldg, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:748-55. 2005.... - The role of cardiovascular disease in the identification and management of depression by primary care physiciansHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:71-8. 2006..The objective of this study was to describe the influence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) on identification and management of depression by primary care physicians... - Unwritten rules of talking to doctors about depression: integrating qualitative and quantitative methodsMarsha N Wittink
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:302-9. 2006..We wanted to understand concordance and discordance between physicians and patients about depression status by assessing older patient's views of interactions with their physicians... - A mixed-methods approach to understanding loneliness and depression in older adultsFrances K Barg
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, 2 Gates Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S329-39. 2006.... - The role of patient personality in the identification of depression in older primary care patientsLaura W McCray
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 22:1095-100. 2007..Our aim was to evaluate whether personality factors significantly contribute to the identification of depression in older primary care patients, even after controlling for depressive symptoms... - The effect of a primary care practice-based depression intervention on mortality in older adults: a randomized trialJoseph J Gallo
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Ann Intern Med 146:689-98. 2007..Few studies have tested the effects of a depression intervention on the risk for death associated with depression... - The effect of OPC Factor on energy levels in healthy adults ages 45-65: a phase IIb randomized controlled trialPatrick J Lariccia
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Altern Complement Med 14:723-32. 2008..To determine the efficacy of the food supplement OPC Factor to increase energy levels in healthy adults aged 45 to 65... - Stability of preferences for end-of-life treatment after 3 years of follow-up: the Johns Hopkins Precursors StudyMarsha N Wittink
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:2125-30. 2008..Preferences for life-sustaining treatment elicited in one state of health may not reflect preferences in another state of health... 
Disparity in use of psychotherapy offered in primary care between older african-american and white adults: results from a practice-based depression intervention trialJin Hui Joo
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:154-60. 2010..71, 95% CI=0.37-1.37). Older African Americans with minor depression were less likely than whites to use psychotherapy. Targeted strategies are needed to mitigate the disparity in use of psychotherapy...- Patient characteristics associated with participation in a practice-based study of depression in late life: the Spectrum studyJoseph J Gallo
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 35:41-57. 2005..The Spectrum study of depression in older primary care patients was utilized to consider patient characteristics associated with nonparticipation... - Anxiety disorders and disability secondary to urinary incontinence among adults over age 50Hillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 32:141-54. 2002..No previous research has investigated whether there is an association between anxiety disorders and urinary incontinence. We hypothesized that anxiety disorders would be associated with increased urinary incontinence related disability... - Urinary incontinence and psychological distress in community-dwelling older adultsHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:489-95. 2002..We hypothesized that persons with UI associated with condition-specific functional loss would be most likely to report psychological distress... - The role of physicians in assessing older drivers: barriers, opportunities, and strategiesHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 17:38-43. 2004..Evaluation of the older driver is a difficult task for primary care physicians. We investigated the physician-perceived barriers to assessing older drivers in primary care practice... - Are higher rates of depression in women accounted for by differential symptom reporting?Hillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street 2 Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39:126-32. 2004..We sought to examine whether any gender differences in symptom profile might account for this difference in rates... - Physical functioning, depression, and preferences for treatment at the end of life: the Johns Hopkins Precursors StudyJoseph B Straton
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvannia School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:577-82. 2004..To examine the relationship between worsening physical function and depression and preferences for life-sustaining treatment... - Using a Bayesian latent growth curve model to identify trajectories of positive affect and negative events following myocardial infarctionMichael R Elliott
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 612 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Biostatistics 6:119-43. 2005..We consider whether latent class models might be used to distinguish patients on the basis of trajectories of observed affect scores, reported events, and presence or absence of clinical depression... - Personal characteristics of older primary care patients who provide a buccal swab for apolipoprotein E testing and banking of genetic material: the spectrum studyHillary R Bogner
Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Community Genet 7:202-10. 2004..To determine the personal characteristics and reasons associated with providing a buccal swab for apolipoprotein E (APOE) genetic testing in a primary care study... - Prospective study of brief neuropsychological measures to assess crash risk in older primary care patientsSandra E Lesikar
Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 15:11-9. 2002.... - Identifying dementia in high-risk community samples: the memory and medical care studyBetty Smith Black
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 17:9-18. 2003..62, 95% confidence interval = 0.45-0.78). The methods used in the MMCS are efficient and reasonably valid for establishing a cohort of subjects to investigate how dementia is assessed, diagnosed, and treated in the community... - Hopelessness, depression, substance disorder, and suicidality--a 13-year community-based studyWen Hung Kuo
Dept of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39:497-501. 2004..Using a longitudinal study design with a community sample of more than 3,000 participants, we aimed to examine if hopelessness was a long-term predictor of suicidal behaviors... - Depression and cancer risk: 24 years of follow-up of the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area sampleAlden L Gross
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:191-9. 2010..The objective was to characterize the relationship between depression and incident cancer. Few studies have employed population-based prospective data on subtypes of cancer to address the question... - The burden of out-of-pocket and indirect costs of prostate cancerRavishankar Jayadevappa
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Prostate 70:1255-64. 2010..We sought to analyze OPI costs of newly diagnosed PCa patients receiving either radical prostatectomy (RP) or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT)... - Resident physician burnout: is there hope?Laura W McCray
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Fam Med 40:626-32. 2008..Prevalent among resident physicians, burnout has been associated with absenteeism, low job satisfaction, and medical errors. Little is known about the number and quality of interventions used to combat burnout... - Suicidal and death ideation in older primary care patients with depression, anxiety, and at-risk alcohol useStephen J Bartels
Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 10:417-27. 2002..Accordingly, targeted assessment and preventive services should be emphasized for geriatric outpatients with co-occurring depression and anxiety, social isolation, younger age, and Asian or Caucasian race... - Computer-assisted assessment of depression and function in older primary care patientsReyis Kurt
Department of Family Medicine, Universitair Medisch Centrum St. Radboud, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 73:165-71. 2004.... - Completed suicide after a suicide attemptWen-Hung Kuo
Am J Psychiatry 162:633. 2005 - Urinary incontinence, condition-specific functional loss, and psychological distressHillary R Bogner
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1311. 2002 - Education and sex differences in the mini-mental state examination: effects of differential item functioningRichard N Jones
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged Research and Training Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:P548-58. 2002..Adjustments of total scores that eliminate education group differences are not supported by these results. Our results have implications for future research concerning education and risk for dementia... - A factor analysis of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND)Aleksandras Radzius
Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health Baltimore MD 21224, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:255-40. 2003..These two dimensions may provide indirect assessment of a smoker's daily nicotine intake. Testing this hypothesis requires correlation of biomarkers and responses to specific items of the FTND...
Research Grants
- MIDCAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD-PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCHJoseph Gallo; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Depression in Late Life and Causes of DeathJoseph Gallo; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- SPECTRUM OF DEPRESSION IN LATER LIFE--PRIMARY STUDYJoseph Gallo; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- SocioCultural Context of Depression in Late LifeJoseph Gallo; Fiscal Year: 2002..Use of mixed methods will help us better understand how older adults may experience depression in social and cultural context from both an epidemiologic and anthropologic perspective. ..
- Long Term Effects of Depression Care on Services Use and Mortality in Late LifeJOSEPH JOHN GALLO; Fiscal Year: 2010..Our project is consistent with the NIMH Strategic Plan to reduce premature mortality among persons with mental illness. ..