MENTAL HEALTH, JOB QUALITY AND WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION: EVIDENCE FROM POPULATION HEALTH RESEARCH TO ADDRESS COMPLEX PROBLEMS AND CONFLICTING POLICIES

Poor psychosocial job conditions increase sickness absence: evidence from the PATH Through Life Mid-Aged Cohort

Liana Leach, Allison Milner, Lay San Too, Peter Butterworth

2022-09-01

OBJECTIVES: Evidence is mounting that poor psychosocial job conditions increase sickness absence, but there is a need for further ..

Cumulative impact of high job demands, low job control and high job insecurity on midlife depression and anxiety: a prospective cohort study of Australian employees.

Lay San Too, Liana Leach, Peter Butterworth

2021-05-13

OBJECTIVE: There is a lack of evidence concerning the prospective effect of cumulative exposure to psychosocial job stressors over..

Does psychological distress directly increase risk of incident cardiovascular disease? Evidence from a prospective cohort study using a longer-term measure of distress

Jennifer Welsh, Emily Banks, Grace Joshy, Peter Butterworth, Lyndall Strazdins, Rosemary J Korda

2021-01-01

OBJECTIVE: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence is elevated among people with psychological distress. However, whether the relat..

Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis

Sean McGrath, XiaoFei Zhao, Russell Steele, Brett D Thombs, Andrea Benedetti, Brooke Levis, Kira E Riehm, Nazanin Saadat, Alexander W Levis, Marleine Azar, Danielle B Rice, Ying Sun, Ankur Krishnan, Chen He, Yin Wu, Parash Mani Bhandari, Dipika Neupane, Mahrukh Imran, Jill Boruff, Pim Cuijpers

2020-09-01

Researchers increasingly use meta-analysis to synthesize the results of several studies in order to estimate a common effect. When..

Mental Health Problems and Internet Access: Results From an Australian National Household Survey

Lay San Too, Liana Leach, Peter Butterworth

2020-05-15

Background: Mental health support and interventions are increasingly delivered on the web, and stepped care systems of mental heal..

Identifying long-term psychological distress from single measures: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of the Australian population.

J Welsh, RJ Korda, E Banks, L Strazdins, G Joshy, P Butterworth

2020-03-05

BACKGROUND: Single time-point assessments of psychological distress are often used to indicate chronic mental health problems, but..

Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis.

Yin Wu, Brooke Levis, Kira E Riehm, Nazanin Saadat, Alexander W Levis, Marleine Azar, Danielle B Rice, Jill Boruff, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, John PA Ioannidis, Lorie A Kloda, Dean McMillan, Scott B Patten, Ian Shrier, Roy C Ziegelstein, Dickens H Akena, Bruce Arroll, Liat Ayalon, Hamid R Baradaran

2020-01-01

BACKGROUND: Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidalit..

Is the association between poor job control and common mental disorder explained by general perceptions of control? Findings from an Australian longitudinal cohort.

Lay San Too, Liana Leach, Peter Butterworth

2020-01-01

Objectives This study sought to examine the influence of general perceptions of control on the association between job control and..

The Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Algorithm for Screening to Detect Major Depression: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis

Chen He, Brooke Levis, Kira E Riehm, Nazanin Saadat, Alexander W Levis, Marleine Azar, Danielle B Rice, Ankur Krishnan, Yin Wu, Ying Sun, Mahrukh Imran, Jill Boruff, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, John PA Ioannidis, Lorie A Kloda, Dean McMillan, Scott B Patten, Ian Shrier, Roy C Ziegelstein

2020-01-01

BACKGROUND: Screening for major depression with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) can be done using a cutoff or the PHQ-9..

Do psychosocial job stressors influence mental health service use? Evidence from an Australian cohort

Allison Milner, Dennis Petrie, Anthony D LaMontagne, Peter Butterworth

2019-05-01

Objectives There is strong evidence of a relationship between psychosocial job stressors and mental health at the population leve..

Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis.

Brooke Levis, Andrea Benedetti, Brett D Thombs, null DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration

2019-04-09

OBJECTIVE: To determine the accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression. DESIG..

Shortening self-report mental health symptom measures through optimal test assembly methods: Development and validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-Depression-4

M Ishihara, D Harel, B Levis, AW Levis, KE Riehm, N Saadat, M Azar, DB Rice, TA Sanchez, MJ Chiovitti, P Cuijpers, S Gilbody, JPA Ioannidis, LA Kloda, D McMillan, SB Patten, I Shrier, B Arroll, CH Bombardier, P Butterworth

2019-01-01

Background: The objective of this study was to develop and validate a short form of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), a ..

Does living in remote Australia lessen the impact of hardship on psychological distress?

P Butterworth, BJ Kelly, TE Handley, KJ Inder, TJ Lewin

2018-10-01

AIMS: Rural and remote regions tend to be characterised by poorer socioeconomic conditions than urban areas, yet findings regardin..

Psychosocial Job Stressors and Mental Health The Potential Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation

Lay San Too, Peter Butterworth

2018-10-01

OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether emotion regulation moderates the association between psychosocial job stressors and psychol..

Early Onset of Distress Disorders and High-School Dropout: Prospective Evidence From a National Cohort of Australian Adolescents

Peter Butterworth, Liana S Leach

2018-06-01

Prior research examining whether depression and anxiety lead to high-school dropout has been limited by a reliance on retrospectiv..

Probability of major depression diagnostic classification using semi-structured versus fully structured diagnostic interviews

Brooke Levis, Andrea Benedetti, Kira E Riehm, Nazanin Saadat, Alexander W Levis, Marleine Azar, Danielle B Rice, Matthew J Chiovitti, Tatiana A Sanchez, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, John A Ioannidis, Lorie A Kloda, Dean McMillan, Scott B Patten, Ian Shrier, Russell J Steele, Roy C Ziegelstein, Dickens H Akena, Bruce Arroll

2018-06-01

BACKGROUND: Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-..

Using Longitudinal Survey Data to Estimate Mental Health Related Transitions to a Disability Pension: Analysis of an Australian Household Panel Study

Timothy P Schofield, Kim M Kiely, Arnstein Mykletun, Samuel B Harvey, Peter Butterworth

2018-04-01

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the association between mental ill-health and subsequent receipt of a disability pension in Austral..

Intergenerational policy and workforce participation in Australia: using health as a metric

Lyndall Strazdins, Jennifer Welsh, Sarah Hinde, Peter Butterworth

2018-02-01

Like many nations, population ageing is challenging Australia's economic future; increasing the workforce participation of mothers..

The long-term mental health risk associated with non-heterosexual orientation

RA Burns, P Butterworth, AF Jorm

2018-02-01

AIMS: Findings that describe the mental health risk associated with non-heterosexual orientation in young and middle-aged adults a..

Within-person analysis of welfare transitions in a longitudinal panel survey reveals change in mental health service use

C Pymont, TP Schofield, P Butterworth

2017-12-01

BACKGROUND: While international research shows that receipt of welfare benefits is associated with poor mental health, less is kno..

Psychological distress and ischaemic heart disease: cause or consequence? Evidence from a large prospective cohort study

Jennifer Welsh, Rosemary J Korda, Grace Joshy, Peter Butterworth, Alex Brown, Emily Banks

2017-11-01

BACKGROUND: Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) incidence is elevated in people reporting psychological distress. The extent to which th..

Is the prevalence of mental illness increasing in Australia? Evidence from national health surveys and administrative data, 2001-2014

Samuel B Harvey, Mark Deady, Min-Jung Wang, Arnstein Mykletun, Peter Butterworth, Helen Christensen, Philip B Mitchell

2017-06-19

OBJECTIVES: To assess changes in the prevalence rates of probable common mental disorders (CMDs) and in rates of disability suppor..

Socio-Economic Position and Suicidal Ideation in Men

Jane Pirkis, Dianne Currier, Peter Butterworth, Allison Milner, Anne Kavanagh, Holly Tibble, Jo Robinson, Matthew J Spittal

2017-04-01

People in low socio-economic positions are over-represented in suicide statistics and are at heightened risk for non-fatal suicida..

A method of identifying health-based benchmarks for psychosocial risks at work: A tool for risk assessment

Su Mon Kyaw-Myint, Lyndall Strazdins, Mark Clements, Peter Butterworth, Lou Gallagher

2017-03-01

Objectives We present a novel approach to identify critical exposure levels or heath-based benchmarks of job control using the ben..

Workplace bullying and the association with suicidal ideation/thoughts and behaviour: a systematic review

Liana S Leach, Carmel Poyser, Peter Butterworth

2017-01-01

The established links between workplace bullying and poor mental health provide a prima facie reason to expect that workplace bull..

Health or harm? A cohort study of the importance of job quality in extended workforce participation by older adults

Jennifer Welsh, Lyndall Strazdins, Sara Charlesworth, Carol T Kulik, Peter Butterworth

2016-08-25

BACKGROUND: As people are living longer, they are being encouraged to work longer. While it is assumed that extended employment wi..

An examination of the long-term impact of job strain on mental health and wellbeing over a 12-year period

Richard A Burns, Peter Butterworth, Kaarin J Anstey

2016-05-01

OBJECTIVES: Job strain has been implicated in a range of employee health outcomes including psychiatric health. Much of the litera..

Western diet is associated with a smaller hippocampus: a longitudinal investigation

Felice N Jacka, Nicolas Cherbuin, Kaarin J Anstey, Perminder Sachdev, Peter Butterworth

2015-09-08

BACKGROUND: Recent meta-analyses confirm a relationship between diet quality and both depression and cognitive health in adults. W..

Validation of four measures of mental health against depression and generalized anxiety in a community based sample

Kim Matthew Kiely, Peter Butterworth

2015-02-01

There is a need to validate screening measures of affective and generalized anxiety disorders for use in epidemiological surveys o..

The Symbol Digit Modalities Test: Normative Data from a Large Nationally Representative Sample of Australians

Kim M Kiely, Peter Butterworth, N Watson, Mark Wooden

2014-12-01

Data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey were used to calculate weighted norms for the writ..

Factors associated with the timing and onset of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder: Results from the 2007 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being

Peter Butterworth, Tim Slade, Louisa Degenhardt

2014-09-01

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: To investigate the predictors of both initiation of cannabis use and transition to cannabis use disorder (C..

Temporal effects of separation on suicidal thoughts and behaviours

Philip J Batterham, A Kate Fairweather-Schmidt, Peter Butterworth, Alison L Calear, Andrew J Mackinnon, Helen Christensen

2014-06-01

Divorce has been identified as a risk factor for suicide. However, little research has been conducted on the time trajectory of th..