Research Area: Health, Disability, and Mortality:
Mental Health

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

2009

Walsemann, Katrina M., Gilbert C. Gee, and Arline T. Geronimus. 2009. "Ethnic Differences in Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms: Disadvantage in Family Background, High School Experiences, and Adult Characteristics." Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 50(1): 82-98.

2008

Tracy, M., Hobfoll, S.E., D. Canetti-Nisim, and Sandro Galea. 2008. "Predictors of depressive symptoms among Israeli Jews and Arabs during the Al Aqsa Intifada: A population-based cohort study." Annals of Epidemiology, 18(6): 447-457.

Wang, P.S., Gruber, M.J., R.E. Powers, Michael Schoenbaum, A.H. Speier, K.B. Wells, and R.C. Kessler. 2008. "Disruption of existing mental health treatments and failure to initiate new treatment after Hurricane Katrina." American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(1): 34-41.

Stein, D.J., Seedat, S., A. Herman, H. Moomal, Steven Heeringa, R.C. Kessler, and David R. Williams. 2008. "Lifetime prevalence pf psychiatric disorders in South Africa." British Journal of Psychiatry, 192(2): 112-117.

2007

Wang, P.S., Gruber, M.J., R.E. Powers, Michael Schoenbaum, A.H. Speier, K.B. Wells, and R.C. Kessler. 2007. "Mental health service use among Hurricane Katrina survivors in the eight months after the disaster." Psychiatric Services, 58(11): 1403-1411.

Galea, Sandro, Ahern, J., A. Nandi, M. Tracy, J. Beard, and D. Vlahov. 2007. "Urban neighborhood poverty and the incidence of depression in a population-based cohort study." Annals of Epidemiology, 17(3): 171-179.

Gabriel, R., L. Ferrando, E.S. Corton, C. Mingote, E. Garcia-Camba, A.F. Liria, and Sandro Galea. 2007. "Psychopathological consequences after a terrorist attack: An epidemiological study among victims, the general population, and police officers." European Psychiatry, 22(6): 339-346.

Galea, Sandro. 2007. "Emerging issues in traumatic stress studies." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20(4): 377-378.

Phinney, Robin, Sheldon H. Danziger, Harold Pollack, and Kristin Seefeldt. 2007. "Housing Instability among Current and Former Welfare Recipients." American Journal of Public Health, 97(5): 832-837.

2006

Adams, R.E., J.A. Boscarino, and Sandro Galea. 2006. "Alcohol Use, Mental Health Status and Psychological Well-Being 2 Years After the World Trade Center Attacks in New York City." American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 32(2): 203-224.

Krause, Neal. 2006. "Religious Doubt and Psychological Well-Being: A Longitudinal Investigation." Review of Religious Research, 47(3): 287-302.

Person, C., M. Tracy, and Sandro Galea. 2006. "Risk factors for depression after a disaster." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 194(9): 659-666.

Ahern, J., and Sandro Galea. 2006. "Social context and depression after a disaster: the role of income inequality." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(9): 766-770.

Leon, A.C., P.M. Marzuk, K. Tardiff, A. Bucciarelli, T.M. Piper, and Sandro Galea. 2006. "Antidepressants and youth suicide in New York City, 1999-2002." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45(9), 1054-1058.

Lawyer, S.R., H.S. Resnick, Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, D.G. Kilpatrick, and D. Vlahov. 2006. "Predictors of peritraumatic reactions and PTSD following the September 11th terrorist attacks." Psychiatry - Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 69(2), 130-141.

Flannelly, Kevin J., Harold G. Koenig, Christopher G. Ellison, Kathleen Galek, and Neal Krause. 2006. "Belief in life after death and mental health-- Findings from a national survey." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 194(7): 524-529.

2005

Ingersoll-Dayton, Berit, and Neal Krause. 2005. "Self-forgiveness: A component of mental health in later life." Research on Aging, 27(3), 267-289.

2004

Okabayshi, H., Jersey Liang, and Neal Krause. 2004. "Mental Health Among Older Adults in Japan: Do Sources of Social Support and Negative Interaction Make a Difference?" Social Science & Medicine, 59(11): 2259-2270.

Ahern, J., Sandro Galea, H. Resnick, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Television Watching and Mental Health in the General Population of New York City After September 11." Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 9(1/2): 109-124.

Marshall, R., and Sandro Galea. 2004. "Science for the Community: Mental Health after 9/11." Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 65(Supplement1): 37-43.

Boscarino, J.A., Sandro Galea, R. Adams, J. Ahern, H. Resnick, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Mental Health Service and Psychiatric Medication Use Following the Terrorist Attacks in New York City." Psychiatric Services, 55: 274-283.

Demyttenaere, K., R. Bruffaerts, J. Posada-Villa, I. Gasquet, V. Kovess, J.P. Lepine, M.C. Angermeyer, S. Bernert, G. De Girolamo, P. Morosini, G. Polidori, T. Kikkawa, N. Kawakami, Y. Ono, T. Takeshima, H. Uda, E.G. Karam, J.A. Fayyad, A.N. Karam, Z.N. Mneimneh, M.E. Medina-Mora, G. Borges, C. Lara, R. De Graaf, J. Ormel, O. Gureje, Y.C. Shen, Y.Q. Huang, M.Y. Zhang, J. Alonso, J.M. Haro, J. Vilagut, E.J. Bromet, S. Gluzman, C. Webb, R.C. Kessler, K.R. Merikangas, J.C. Anthony, M.R. Von Korff, P.S. Wang, J. Alonso, T.S. Brugha, S. Aguilar-Guixola, S. Lee, Steven Heeringa, B.E. Pennell, A.M. Zaslavsky, T. Ustun, and S. Chatterji. 2004. "Prevalence, Severity, and Unmet Need for Treatment of Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys." Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association, 291:2581-2590.

Fernandez, W.G., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, B. Koci, R.J. Waldman, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Mental health status among ethnic Albanians seeking medical care in an emergency department two years after the war in Kosovo." Annals of Emergency Medicine, 43(2): E1-E8.

2003

Colarossi, L.G., and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. 2003. "Differential effects of support providers on adolescents' mental health." Social Work Research, 27(1), 19-30.

Krause, Neal. 2003. "A preliminary assessment of race differences in the relationship between religious doubt and depressive symptoms." Review of Religious Research, 45(2): 93-115.

Chapters

Harding, David J., Jal Mehta, and Katherine Newman. 2003. "No Exit: Mental Illness, Marginality, and School Violence in West Paducah, Kentucky." In National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence. Case Studies of School Violence Committee edited by M. H. Moore, C. V. Petrie, A. A. Braga, B. L. McLaughlin. Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press.

Zimmer, Z., J. Natividad, Mary Beth Ofstedal, and Hui-Sheng Lin. 2002. "Physical and Mental Health and Well-Being." In The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia: A Four Country Comparative Study edited by A. I. Hermalin. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

PSC Reports

Nicklett, Emily, and Sarah Burgard. 2009. "Downward Social Mobility and Major Depressive Episodes among Latino and Asian American Immigrants to the United States." PSC Research Report No. 09-668. January 2009.

Ford, Kathleen, MaryFran Sowers, Theresa Seeman, Gail Greendale, Barbara Sternfeld, and Susan Everson-Rose. 2008. "Cognitive Functioning is Related to Physical Functioning in a Longitudinal Study of Women at Mid-Life." PSC Research Report No. 08-661. November 2008.

Burgard, Sarah, and Jennifer Ailshire. 2008. "Putting Work to Bed: Stressful Experiences on the Job and Sleep Quality." PSC Research Report No. 08-652. July 2008.

Sastry, Narayan. 2008. "Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study." PSC Research Report No. 08-637. May 2008.

Other Reports

Kimball, Miles, Helen Levy, Fumio Ohtake, and Yoshiro Tsutsui. 2006. "Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina." NBER Working Paper No. 12062.


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