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Philip J. Batterham
Psychiatry
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Open AccessWhat aspects of the pandemic had the greatest impact on adolescent mental health: duration of lockdown or subjective experience?
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted global mental health, with adolescents experiencing disproportionate effects. Limited research has explored the impact of different pandemic restrictions on adolescent...
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Open AccessPragmatic controlled trial of a school-based emotion literacy program for 8- to 10-year-old children: study protocol
Mental disorders are common in childhood, but many young people do not receive adequate professional support. Help-seeking interventions may bridge this treatment gap, however, there is limited research on int...
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Open AccessTesting a syndemics perspective on the effects of multiple adversities on depression and anxiety symptoms in a representative population sample
Considerable empirical evidence indicates that stressful life experiences may have a negative impact on mental health. However, it is unclear how multiple adverse experiences may intersect to influence symptom...
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Open AccessUnderstanding suicidal transitions in Australian adults: protocol for the LifeTrack prospective longitudinal cohort study
The factors that influence transition from suicidal ideation to a suicide attempt or remission of suicidal thoughts are poorly understood. Despite an abundance of research on risk factors for suicidal ideation...
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Open AccessDevelopment and psychometric evaluation of the mental readiness for military transition scale (MT-Ready)
The transition to civilian life following separation from military service is associated with increased risk of mental health disorders, suicide, and poor adjustment. No measure currently enables pre-separatio...
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Open AccessThe impact of COVID-19 and bushfires on the mental health of Australian adolescents: a cross-sectional study
When COVID-19 spread to Australia in January 2020, many communities were already in a state of emergency from the Black Summer bushfires. Studies of adolescent mental health have typically focused on the effec...
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Open AccessThe Youth Aware of Mental Health program in Australian Secondary Schools: 3- and 6-month outcomes
The evidence base for suicide prevention programs in Australian schools is limited. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a universal, mental health promotion and suicide prevention program—Youth ...
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Measures of mental, physical, and social wellbeing and their association with death by suicide and self-harm in a cohort of 266,324 persons aged 45 years and over
The aim of this study was to examine the relation of mental, physical, and social wellbeing measures to death by suicide and self-harm (SH).
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Help-seeking attitudes and intentions for generalised anxiety disorder in adolescents: the role of anxiety literacy and stigma
Help seeking for anxiety tends to be low in adolescents. Identifying modifiable factors that may facilitate help seeking is important. The aim of the current study is to test the effects of generalized anxiety...
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Open AccessAssessing psychological adjustment and cultural reintegration after military service: development and psychometric evaluation of the post-separation Military-Civilian Adjustment and Reintegration Measure (M-CARM)
The transition out of military service and subsequent reintegration to civilian life has been established as a period associated with an increased risk of psychological adjustment difficulties, psychiatric dis...
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Development of the Australian neighborhood social fragmentation index and its association with spatial variation in depression across communities
We know little about how community structures influence the risk of common mental illnesses. This study presents a new way to establish links between depression and social fragmentation, thereby identifying pa...
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Open AccessSpatial clustering of fatal, and non-fatal, suicide in new South Wales, Australia: implications for evidence-based prevention
Rates of suicide appear to be increasing, indicating a critical need for more effective prevention initiatives. To increase the efficacy of future prevention initiatives, we examined the spatial distribution o...
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Open AccessAcceptance and commitment therapy universal prevention program for adolescents: a feasibility study
There is a need to prevent anxiety and depression in young people and mindfulness contains important emotion regulation strategies. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a mindfulness-based therapy, has yet...
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Network approach to the symptom-level association between alcohol use disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder
The high prevalence of alcohol use disorder among individuals with a history of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder is well documented. The current study applied network analysis to map the structure of s...
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Predictors of Comfort and Confidence Among Medical Students in Providing Care to Patients at Risk of Suicide
The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with comfort and confidence in providing care to patients at risk of suicide, in a sample of Australian medical students.
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Mental health symptoms associated with morbidity, not mortality, in an elderly community sample
Six previous reviews have found a relationship between depression and mortality. However, many past studies have failed to adequately control for the role of physical health. A proposed mechanism of the depres...
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Open AccessThe generalised anxiety stigma scale (GASS): psychometric properties in a community sample
Although there is substantial concern about negative attitudes to mental illness, little is known about the stigma associated with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) or its measurement. The aim of this study w...
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Open AccessProtocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of an online e health application for the prevention of Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a highly prevalent psychiatric disorder. Effective prevention in young adulthood has the potential to reduce the prevalence of the disorder, to reduce disability and lower...
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Open AccessModifiable risk factors predicting major depressive disorder at four year follow-up: a decision tree approach
Relative to physical health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, little is known about risk factors that predict the prevalence of depression. The present study investigates the expected effects of a red...
