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Institute of Medicine report on prevention of mental disorders. Summary and commentaryR F Munoz
Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California 94110, USA
Am Psychol 51:1116-22. 1996..Five major disorders are chosen to illustrate possible approaches to prevention: conduct disorder, depressive disorders, alcohol abuse and dependence, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease...
Toward evidence-based Internet interventions: A Spanish/English Web site for international smoking cessation trialsRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:77-87. 2006..Smokers with past (but not current) MDEs tended to be the most likely to abstain and those with current MDEs the least likely. This trend reached significance in studies 1 and 4...
Depression screening in a women's clinic: using automated Spanish- and English-language voice recognitionR F Munoz
Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California 94110, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 67:502-10. 1999..75 for live interviews and .81 for the computerized version. Depression screening with computerized voice recognition methods yielded results comparable with those of live interviews in both English and Spanish...
Using extended cognitive behavioral treatment and medication to treat dependent smokersSharon M Hall
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
Am J Public Health 101:2349-56. 2011..We evaluated smoking-cessation efficacy of an extended course of sustained-release bupropion (bupropion SR) and cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT)...
Older versus younger treatment-seeking smokers: differences in smoking behavior, drug and alcohol use, and psychosocial and physical functioningSharon M Hall
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:463-70. 2008..Implications for the assessment and treatment of older adults are discussed...
International Spanish/English Internet smoking cessation trial yields 20% abstinence rates at 1 yearRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, Latino Mental Health Research Program, and Internet World Health Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:1025-34. 2009..Evidence-based Internet interventions with comparable abstinence rates could be a powerful global tool to reduce tobacco-related morbidity and mortality...
Extended treatment of older cigarette smokersSharon M Hall
University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Addiction 104:1043-52. 2009..The aims of the present study were to determine the efficacy of extended cognitive behavioral and pharmacological interventions in smokers > or = 50 years of age, and to determine if gender differences in efficacy existed...
Belief about drug assignment and abstinence in treatment of cigarette smoking using nortriptylineSharon M Hall
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:467-71. 2007....
Group cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression in Spanish: culture-sensitive manualized treatment in practiceAdrian Aguilera
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Clin Psychol 66:857-67. 2010..Last, they demonstrated how technological advances integrate with culture-sensitive, evidence-based treatments to better serve this population and reduce disparities...
Extended nortriptyline and psychological treatment for cigarette smokingSharon M Hall
University of California San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave, Box 0984, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:2100-7. 2004..Using a chronic disease model of smoking, the authors undertook a study to determine the effects of long-term antidepressant and psychological treatment...
Influences of mood, depression history, and treatment modality on outcomes in smoking cessationAmie L Haas
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94304, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:563-70. 2004..The study replicated results reported by R. A. Brown et al. (2001) and expanded upon them by evaluating the differential contribution of poor mood on cessation outcomes relative to MDD history...
Factor structure of the CES-D in a sample of Spanish- and English-speaking smokers on the InternetYan Leykin
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
Psychiatry Res 185:269-74. 2011..The meaning of instruments and depressive symptoms may therefore vary across cultural and linguistic contexts...
Assessing the impact of relative social position and absolute community resources on depression and obesity among smokersAdrian Aguilera
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Am J Community Psychol 50:211-6. 2012..Higher individual education most consistently predicted positive health outcomes, making it a potentially powerful target to reduce health disparities...
From online randomized controlled trials to participant preference studies: morphing the San Francisco Stop Smoking site into a worldwide smoking cessation resourceRICARDO F MUNOZ
Internet World Health Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Med Internet Res 14:e64. 2012....
Interpreting the outcomes of automated internet-based randomized trials: example of an International Smoking Cessation StudyYan Leykin
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
J Med Internet Res 14:e5. 2012..Internet interventions have been shown to reduce smoking rates successfully. However, improved methods of evaluating effectiveness need to be developed for large-scale Internet intervention trials...
Physical activity as a strategy for maintaining tobacco abstinence: a randomized trialJudith J Prochaska
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Box TRC 0984, San Francisco, CA 94143 0984, USA
Prev Med 47:215-20. 2008....
Longitudinal analysis of abstinence-specific social support and smoking cessationDawn Lawhon
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Health Psychol 28:465-72. 2009..2) To describe time-related changes in abstinence-specific support, including how support provided during middle and later phases of the quitting process is associated with treatment outcome...
Global reach of an Internet smoking cessation intervention among Spanish- and English-speaking smokers from 157 countriesALINNE Z BARRERA
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Suite 7M, Box 0852, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:927-40. 2009....
Internet interventions for improving psychological well-being in psycho-oncology: review and recommendationsYan Leykin
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Psychooncology 21:1016-25. 2012..This review examines the potential for Internet interventions to help fill treatment gaps in psychosocial oncology and presents evidence regarding the likely utility of Internet interventions for cancer patients...
Are consumers of Internet health information "cyberchondriacs"? Characteristics of 24,965 users of a depression screening siteYan Leykin
University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Depress Anxiety 29:71-7. 2012..The purpose of this study was to understand the prevalence of major depression among English-speaking individuals worldwide looking for information on depression online...
Toward evidence-based interventions for diverse populations: The San Francisco General Hospital prevention and treatment manualsRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:790-9. 2005..Independent research teams in multi-site national and international clinical trials have evaluated many of these manuals with encouraging results...
Major depression can be preventedRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Am Psychol 67:285-95. 2012....
Prevention of major depressionRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 6:181-212. 2010..We also list the randomized controlled prevention trials that have been carried out to date and discuss the need for prevention interventions that go beyond the limits of traditional face-to-face interventions...
Automated e-mail messaging as a tool for improving quit rates in an internet smoking cessation interventionLeslie Lenert
Department of Medicine, University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 11:235-40. 2004..The aim of this study was to determine whether an automated e-mail messaging system that sent individually timed educational messages (ITEMs) increased the effectiveness of an Internet smoking cessation intervention...
Using evidence-based internet interventions to reduce health disparities worldwideRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Med Internet Res 12:e60. 2010..quot;..
Infant formula, tea, and water supplementation of latino infants at 4-6 weeks postpartumJanet M Wojcicki
Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0136, USA
J Hum Lact 27:122-30. 2011..3-2.9), and infant formula use (relative risk, 1.3; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-1.6). Early supplementation with water or teas and infant formulas should be discouraged in Latinos, given the high frequency observed in this population...
Viva George Albee!RICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Suite 7M, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Prim Prev 28:41-4. 2007
Interpersonal factors and perinatal depressive symptomatology in a low-income Latina sampleManuela A Diaz
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 13:328-36. 2007..These findings also have implications for targeting social support and marital quality in preventive interventions for perinatal depression in Latinas...
Prevention of depression: the state of the science at the beginning of the 21st CenturyALINNE Z BARRERA
University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 19:655-70. 2007..This review concludes with suggestions for the future direction of depression prevention research...
Psychological intervention and antidepressant treatment in smoking cessationSharon M Hall
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 94143 0984, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 59:930-6. 2002..This study compared both drugs with placebo. It also examined the efficacy of these 2 drugs and placebo with and without psychological intervention...
