Zoe Aitken

Predictors of Change in Employment Status and Associations with Quality of Life: A Prospective International Study of People with Multiple Sclerosis

Claudia H Marck, Zoe Aitken, Steve Simpson, Tracey J Weiland, Anne Kavanagh, George A Jelinek

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation

Purpose This prospective international study aimed to assess the changes in employment, and predictors thereof, and associated cha..

Hierarchical Models for International Comparisons Smoking, Disability, and Social Inequality in 21 European Countries

George Disney, Lyle Gurrin, Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Dennis Petrie

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: International comparisons of social inequalities in health outcomes and behaviors are challenging. Due to the level of..

The cumulative effect of living with disability on mental health in working-age adults: an analysis using marginal structural models

Amalia Karahalios, Frank Pega, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Julie A Simpson, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Previous studies have shown that acquiring a disability is associated with a reduction in mental health, but they have no..

The effect of gender on mental health service use: an examination of mediation through material, social and health-related pathways

Allison Milner, George Disney, Sean Byars, Tania L King, Anne M Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: We aimed to understand how much of the gender difference in mental health service use could be due to the joint mediation..

The wellbeing of working-age adults with and without disability in the UK: Associations with age, gender, ethnicity, partnership status, educational attainment and employment status.

Eric Emerson, Nicola Fortune, Zoe Aitken, Chris Hatton, Roger Stancliffe, Gwynnyth Llewellyn

Journal article  |  2020  |  Disability and Health Journal

BACKGROUND: Few population-based studies have examined the association between disability and personal wellbeing (PWB) among worki..

Do gender and psychosocial job stressors modify the relationship between disability and sickness absence: An investigation using 12 waves of a longitudinal cohort.

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Sean Byars, Peter Butterworth, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health

Objectives A considerable proportion of the working population reports a disability. These workers may be at risk of adverse outco..

Does the effect of disability acquisition on mental health differ by employment characteristics? A longitudinal fixed-effects analysis

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Rebecca Bentley, Allison Milner, Anthony Daniel LaMontagne, Anne Marie Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Longitudinal studies have suggested a causal relationship between disability acquisition and mental health, but there is ..

Does a modifiable risk factor score predict disability worsening in people with multiple sclerosis?

Claudia H Marck, Zoe Aitken, Steve Simpson, Tracey J Weiland, George A Jelinek

Journal article  |  2019  |  Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical

Background: Risk factors for chronic disease include smoking, hazardous alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, unhealthy body m..

Disabling working environments and mental health: A commentary

Allison Milner, Marissa Shields, Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Anthony LaMontagne, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Disability and Health Journal

Employment is a fundamental Social Determinant of Health known to have large impacts on mental health and other health outcomes. A..

Emotional difficulties and self-harm among British adolescents with and without disabilities: Cross sectional study

Eric Emerson, Tania King, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Joanne Arciuli, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Disability and Health Journal

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prevalence of emotional difficulties and self-harm among adolescents with a disability. OBJE..

Response to: Methodological point on mediation analysis

Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Naomi Priest, Amalia Karahalios, Anne Kavanagh, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

Overt acts of perceived discrimination reported by British working-age adults with and without disability.

Eric Emerson, Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Cathy Vaughan, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Public Health

BACKGROUND: Exposure to discrimination can have a negative impact on health. There is little robust evidence on the prevalence of ..

Do financial hardship and social support mediate the effect of unaffordable housing on mental health?

Ankur Singh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Unaffordable housing has a negative impact on mental health; however, little is known about the causal pathways through w..

Mental health of adolescents: variations by borderline intellectual functioning and disability

Tania L King, Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Amalia Karahalios, Eric Emerson, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2019  |  European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Adolescence is a period of elevated stress for many young people, and it is possible that the challenges of adolescence are differ..

Violence against people with disabilites: variations by impairment type, gender and socio-economic status in an australian population-based study

L Krnjacki, E Emerson, G Llewellyn, Z Aitken, A Kavanagh

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Oral presentations

HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS: A CASE STUDY OF SMOKING, DISABILITY AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN 21 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

G Disney, L Gurrin, A Milner, A Kavanagh, Z Aitken, D Petrie

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Oral Presentations

HOW MUCH OF THE DISABILITY-RELATED INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING ARE MEDIATED BY BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION FACED BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES? A CAUSAL MEDIATION ANALYSIS USING LONGITUDINAL DATA FROM WORKING AGE PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES IN GREAT BRITAIN

Z Aitken, G Disney, L Krnjacki, A Milner, E Emerson, AM Kavanagh

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Oral presentations

To what extent is the association between disability and mental health in adolescents mediated by bullying? A causal mediation analysis (vol 47, pg 1402, 2018)

Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Naomi Priest, Amalia Karahalios, Anne Kavanagh, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

The relationship between an electronic mental health stigma campaign and suicidal thoughts and behaviours: a two-arm randomized controlled trial in the Australian construction industry.

A Milner, Z Aitken, PCF Law, AD LaMontagne, C Mann, T Cooper, K Witt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Health Promotion International

Males employed in the construction industry are at greater risk of suicide than other employed males. It is plausible that a high ..

Health Outcomes and Lifestyle in a Sample of People with Multiple Sclerosis (HOLISM): Longitudinal and Validation Cohorts

Tracey J Weiland, Alysha M De Livera, Chelsea R Brown, George A Jelinek, Zoe Aitken, Steve L Simpson, Sandra L Neate, Keryn L Taylor, Emily O'Kearney, Will Bevens, Claudia H Marck

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL

The 'double precarity' of employment insecurity and unaffordable housing and its impact on mental health

Rebecca Bentley, Emma Baker, Zoe Aitken

Journal article  |  2019  |  Social Science and Medicine

Health Outcomes and Lifestyle In a Sample of People with Multiple Sclerosis (HOLISM): longitudinal and validation cohorts

TJ Weiland, AM De Livera, CR Brown, GA Jelinek, Z Aitken, Jr S Simpson, SL Neate, KT Taylor, E O'Kearney, W Bevens, CH Marck

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL

Precariously placed: housing affordability, quality and satisfaction of Australians with disabilities

Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Hannah Badland, Kate Mason, Rebecca Bentley, Andrew Beer, Anne Marie Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Disability & Society

Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions for Pain Reduction in People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Thibaut Demaneuf, Zoe Aitken, Amalia Karahalios, Teng Ieng Leong, Alysha M De Livera, George A Jelinek, Tracey J Weiland, Claudia H Marck

Journal article  |  2019  |  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Health Outcomes and Lifestyle in a Sample of People With Multiple Sclerosis (HOLISM): Longitudinal and Validation Cohorts

Tracey J Weiland, Alysha M De Livera, Chelsea R Brown, George A Jelinek, Zoe Aitken, Steve L Simpson Jr, Sandra L Neate, Keryn L Taylor, Emily O'Kearney, William Bevens, Claudia H Marck

Journal article  |  2018  |  Frontiers in Neurology

Employment predictors of exit from work among workers with disabilities: A survival analysis from the household income labour dynamics in Australia survey

Allison Milner, Yamna Taouk, George Disney, Zoe Aitken, Jerome Rachele, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2018  |  PLOS ONE

To what extent is the association between disability and mental health in adolescents mediated by bullying? A causal mediation analysis

Tania King, Zoe Aitken, Allison Milner, Eric Emerson, Naomi Priest, Amalia Karahalios, Anne Kavanagh, Tony Blakely

Journal article  |  2018  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

Do employment factors reduce the effect of low education on mental health? A causal mediation analysis using a national panel study

Allison Milner, Tony Blakely, George Disney, Anne M Kavanagh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Zoe Aitken

Journal article  |  2018  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

Demographics, lifestyle risk factors, and health outcomes of two large international samples of people with multiple sclerosis: HOLISM Longitudinal and Validation cohorts

T Weiland, A De Livera, C Brown, G Jelinek, Z Aitken, S Simpson, S Neate, K Taylor, E O'Kearney, W Bevens, C Marck

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL

Combining fixed effects and instrumental variable approaches for estimating the effect of psychosocial job quality on mental health: evidence from 13 waves of a nationally representative cohort study

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Frank Pega, Dennis Petrie

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Public Health

Do material, psychosocial and behavioural factors mediate the relationship between disability acquisition and mental health? A sequential causal mediation analysis

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Lyle Gurrin, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2018  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

A Longitudinal Study Examining Changes in Street Connectivity, Land Use, and Density of Dwellings and Walking for Transport in Brisbane, Australia

Rebecca Bentley, Tony Blakely, Anne Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Tania King, Paul McElwee, Billie Giles-Corti, Gavin Turrell

Journal article  |  2018  |  Environmental Health Perspectives

Disability-based discrimination and health: findings from an Australian-based population study

Lauren Krnjacki, Naomi Priest, Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Tania King, Anne Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

The effectiveness of exercise interventions for pain reduction in people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

C Marck, T Demaneuf, Z Aitken, E Karahalios, T Leng, A de Livera, G Jelinek, Tracey Weiland

Conference Proceedings  |  2018

Underemployment and its impacts on mental health among those with disabilities: evidence from the HILDA cohort

Allison Milner, Tania Louise King, Anthony D LaMontagne, Zoe Aitken, Dennis Petrie, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Does social support modify the effect of disability acquisition on mental health? A longitudinal study of Australian adults

Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Anne Marie Kavanagh, Anthony Daniel LaMontagne, Allison Milner

Journal article  |  2017  |  Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Disability acquisition and mental health: effect modification by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics using data from an Australian longitudinal study

Zoe Aitken, Julie Anne Simpson, Rebecca Bentley, Anne Marie Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2017  |  BMJ Open

Status inconsistency and mental health: A random effects and instrumental variables analysis using 14 annual waves of cohort data

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Dennis Petrie

Journal article  |  2017  |  Social Science & Medicine

Change in employment status and associations with quality of life: a longitudinal international study of people with multiple sclerosis

Claudia Marck, Zoe Aitken, Chelsea Brown, Alysha de Livera, Tracey Weiland, Sandra Neate, Keryn Taylor, Anne Kavanagh, George Jelinek

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JOURNAL

Persistent and contemporaneous effects of job stressors on mental health: a study testing multiple analytic approaches across 13 waves of annually collected cohort data

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Dennis Petrie

Journal article  |  2016  |  Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Inequalities in socio-economic characteristics and health and wellbeing of men with and without disabilities: a cross-sectional analysis of the baseline wave of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health

Anne M Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Eric Emerson, Sash Sahabandu, Allison Milner, Rebecca Bentley, Anthony D LaMontagne, Jane Pirkis, David Studdert

Journal article  |  2016  |  BMC Public Health

Young maternal age at first birth and mental health later in life: Does the association vary by birth cohort?

Zoe Aitken, Belinda Hewitt, Louise Keogh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Rebecca Bentley, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2016  |  SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Housing tenure and affordability and mental health following disability acquisition in adulthood

Anne M Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Emma Baker, Anthony D LaMontagne, Allison Milner, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2016  |  Social Science & Medicine

Mental Health Following Acquisition of Disability in Adulthood-The Impact of Wealth

Anne Marie Kavanagh, Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Anthony Daniel LaMontagne, Rebecca Bentley, Allison Milner

Journal article  |  2015  |  PLOS ONE

Perceived fairness of pay among people with and without disabilities: a propensity score matched analysis of working Australians

Allison Milner, Zoe Aitken, Lauren Krnjacki, Rebecca Bentley, Tony Blakely, Anthony D LaMontagne, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2015  |  Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health

Fine-mapping identifies two additional breast cancer susceptibility loci at 9q31.2

Nick Orr, Frank Dudbridge, Nicola Dryden, Sarah Maguire, Daniela Novo, Eleni Perrakis, Nichola Johnson, Maya Ghoussaini, John L Hopper, Melissa C Southey, Carmel Apicella, Jennifer Stone, Marjanka K Schmidt, Annegien Broeks, Laura J Van't Veer, Frans B Hogervorst, Peter A Fasching, Lothar Haeberle, Arif B Ekici, Matthias W Beckmann, et al.

Journal article  |  2015  |  Human Molecular Genetics

Intersections between disability, type of impairment, gender and socio-economic disadvantage in a nationally representative sample of 33,101 working-aged Australians

Anne M Kavanagh, Lauren Krnjacki, Zoe Aitken, Anthony D LaMontagne, Andrew Beer, Emma Baker, Rebecca Bentley

Journal article  |  2015  |  Disability and Health Journal

The maternal health outcomes of paid maternity leave: A systematic review

Zoe Aitken, Cameryn C Garrett, Belinda Hewitt, Louise Keogh, Jane S Hocking, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2015  |  Social Science & Medicine

Inequalities in social capital and health between people with and without disabilities

Johanna Mithen, Zoe Aitken, Anna Ziersch, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2015  |  Social Science & Medicine

The One Percent

Richard V Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Economic Perspectives

MicroRNA Related Polymorphisms and Breast Cancer Risk

Sofia Khan, Dario Greco, Kyriaki Michailidou, Roger L Milne, Taru A Muranen, Tuomas Heikkinen, Kirsimari Aaltonen, Joe Dennis, Manjeet K Bolla, Jianjun Liu, Per Hall, Astrid Irwanto, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Kamila Czene, Jenny Chang-Claude, Rebecca Hein, Anja Rudolph, Petra Seibold, Dieter Flesch-Janys, et al.

Journal article  |  2014  |  PLoS ONE

Employment status and mental health among persons with and without a disability: evidence from an Australian cohort study

A Milner, AD LaMontagne, Z Aitken, R Bentley, AM Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Comparison of fully and semi-automated area-based methods for measuring mammographic density and predicting breast cancer risk

U Sovio, J Li, Z Aitken, K Humphreys, K Czene, S Moss, P Hall, V McCormack, I dos-Santos-Silva

Journal article  |  2014  |  British Journal of Cancer

Introduction to causal diagrams for confounder selection

Elizabeth J Williamson, Zoe Aitken, Jock Lawrie, Shyamali C Dharmage, John A Burgess, Andrew B Forbes

Journal article  |  2014  |  Respirology

Functional Variants at the 11q13 Risk Locus for Breast Cancer Regulate Cyclin D1 Expression through Long-Range Enhancers

Juliet D French, Maya Ghoussaini, Stacey L Edwards, Kerstin B Meyer, Kyriaki Michailidou, Shahana Ahmed, Sofia Khan, Mel J Maranian, Martin O'Reilly, Kristine M Hillman, Joshua A Betts, Thomas Carro, Peter J Bailey, Ed Dicks, Jonathan Beesley, Jonathan Tyrer, Ana-Teresa Maia, Andrew Beck, Nicholas W Knoblauch, Constance Chen, et al.

Journal article  |  2013  |  American Journal of Human Genetics

Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

Kyriaki Michailidou, Per Hall, Anna Gonzalez-Neira, Maya Ghoussaini, Joe Dennis, Roger L Milne, Marjanka K Schmidt, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stig E Bojesen, Manjeet K Bolla, Qin Wang, Ed Dicks, Andrew Lee, Clare Turnbull, Nazneen Rahman, Olivia Fletcher, Julian Peto, Lorna Gibson, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Heli Nevanlinna, et al.

Journal article  |  2013  |  Nature Genetics

AutoDensity: an automated method to measure mammographic breast density that predicts breast cancer risk and screening

Carolyn Nickson, Yulia Arzhaeva, Zoe Aitken, Tarek Elgindy, Mitchell Buckley, Min Li, Dallas R English, Anne M Kavanagh

Journal article  |  2013  |  Breast Cancer Research

Neighbourhood deprivation and the price and availability of fruit and vegetables in Scotland

S Cummins, DM Smith, Z Aitken, J Dawson, D Marshall, L Sparks, AS Anderson

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Mammographic density and markers of socioeconomic status: a cross-sectional study

Zoe Aitken, Kate Walker, Bernardine H Stegeman, Petra A Wark, Sue M Moss, Valerie A McCormack, Isabel dos Santos Silva

Journal article  |  2010  |  BMC Cancer

Screen-Film Mammographic Density and Breast Cancer Risk: A Comparison of the Volumetric Standard Mammogram Form and the Interactive Threshold Measurement Methods

Zoe Aitken, Valerie A McCormack, Ralph P Highnam, Lisa Martin, Anoma Gunasekara, Olga Melnichouk, Gord Mawdsley, Chris Peressotti, Martin Yaffe, Norman F Boyd, Isabel dos Santos Silva

Journal article  |  2010  |  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

The effect of ethnicity on the prevalence of diabetes and associated chronic kidney disease

G Dreyer, S Hull, Z Aitken, A Chesser, MM Yaqoob

Journal article  |  2009  |  QJM

Removal of ‘double dipping’ from parental leave may impact mothers’ health

B HEWITT, A Kavanagh, L Strazdins, Z Aitken

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