Brian Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 98909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1834-2992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Australian media professionals’ views on reporting suicide and evidence-informed guidelines
Collaborating with media to promote safe reporting of suicide is recognized as a promising population-level prevention strategy. While Australian media professionals are broadly aware of, and supportive of, existing guidelines for reporting suicide, variability in agreement with specific recommendations suggests a need to further explore underlying views and perceptions about reporting suicide and associated guidelines. This study analyzed respon…
Spatial inequalities and the impact of multiple environmental risks on ethnic minority children's health
PURPOSE: Urban environments are a key determinant of health and health inequality. We explore the impact of multiple spatial inequalities on primary healthcare use in a prospective multi-ethnic urban cohort of children. METHOD: Primary-care consultations and prescription data for 4949 children were collected from birth to 10 years. Environmental exposure scores for air-pollution, road-traffic, green-space, and proximity to fast-food outlets were …
What factors influence Australian media professionals' level of agreement with guidelines for reporting suicide
This study examined whether Australian media professionals agree with guidelines for reporting suicide (Mindframe guidelines) and the factors that may influence their level of agreement. Participants completed an online survey to assess their level of agreement with Mindframe guidelines and to explore factors that might be associated with guideline agreement. These factors included demographic variables, suicide stigma, exposure to suicide, perce…
Are we ready for the next pandemic? Public preferences and trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions across 21 countries
In vaccination decisions, individuals must weigh the benefits against the risks of remaining unvaccinated and potentially facing social restrictions. Previous studies have focused on individual preferences for vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions separately. This study aims to quantify public preferences and the potential trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates, i…
Perceptions of medical students and their facilitators on clinical communication skills teaching, learning, and assessment
Introduction: Despite various efforts to develop communication skills (CS) in the classroom, the transfer of these skills into clinical practice is not guaranteed. This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators of transferring CS from the classroom to clinical environments. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted at one Australian medical school to explore the experiences and perceptions of facilitators and students in relation to teac…
Examining individual social status using the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status
Subjective social status is how a person perceives their social class relative to other people and has frequently been associated with people's health and well-being. A frequently used measure of subjective social status is the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status that depicts social status as a 10 rung ladder, asking individuals to rank themselves on this ladder relative to other people, either in their local neighbourhood or wider societ…
Chaplaincy in the outpatient setting-getting from here to there
One of the most evident trends in US health care and health care generally in the developed world is that more and more care is shifting to outpatient settings. This change opens up substantial opportunities, and in many cases, expectations for chaplains to extend the breadth of the care they provide in any health system. However, it also brings many challenges. This paper describes the journey of four very different inpatient chaplaincy services…
Psychological debriefing
Dear Editor,\nWe welcome the letter by O'Toole and Eppich1 and thank them for their interest in our manuscript.2 The letter illustrates the controversy surrounding psychological debriefing. We note that the debate as to the effectiveness of psychological debriefing in clinical care is one that has been long rehearsed previously in the literature.3 In this context, readers of Medical Education should be especially cautious in relation to adopting …
The Impact of the Pandemic on Mental Health in Ethnically Diverse Mothers
Restrictions implemented by the UK Government during the COVID-19 pandemic have served to worsen mental health outcomes, particularly amongst younger adults, women, those living with chronic health conditions, and parents of young children. Studies looking at the impact for ethnic minorities have reported inconsistent findings. This paper describes the mental health experiences of mothers from a large and highly ethnically diverse population duri…
Peer Association and Routine Activities in Sex Worker Patronage among Male Migrant Workers
Studies of people who buy sex often focus on psychological and personality factors with less attention paid to the role of social contexts. This study integrates the two lines of inquiry, routine activity theory and peer deviance, to examine the social process of paying for sex. We argue that deviant peer association may shape buying sex due to peers' role in shifts in the three components of routine activity theory: motivation, targets, and lack…
How effectively do drought indices capture health outcomes? An investigation from rural Australia
Drought is a global threat to public health. Increasingly, the impact of drought on mental health and wellbeing is being recognised. This paper investigates the relationship between drought and wellbeing to determine which drought indices most effectively capture wellbeing outcomes. A thorough understanding of the relationship between drought and wellbeing must consider the: (i) three aspects of drought (duration, frequency and magnitude); (ii) d…
When I say psychological debriefing
Critically analyzing the term ‘psychological debriefing’ and its evidence base yields caution against widespread adoption in medical education practice
New Insights Into the Relationship Between Drought and Mental Health Emerging From the Australian Rural Mental Health Study
While it is recognized that drought affects mental health, few population-based longitudinal studies quantify this relationship. In this study, we investigate the effects of drought on mental health in a rural population, and how these effects change with continued exposure to drought conditions. Using a panel dataset consisting of 6,519 observations from the Australian Rural Mental Health Study, we found a non-linear (inverted U-shape) relations…
Men’s Perceptions of a Gender-Tailored eHealth Program Targeting Physical and Mental Health
Despite increasing rates of co-morbid depression and obesity, few interventions target both conditions simultaneously, particularly in men. The SHED-IT: Recharge trial, conducted in 125 men with depressive symptoms and overweight or obesity, tested the efficacy of a gender-tailored eHealth program with integrated mental health support. The aims of this study were to examine the perceptions of men who received the SHED-IT: Recharge intervention in…
Employment and retirement impacts on health and wellbeing among a sample of rural Australians
While retirement is a significant life transition that may affect multiple facets of an individual's life, the direction and magnitude of these effects vary depending on the retirement context, namely the pre-retirement and concurrent circumstances within which an individual is retiring. Personal perceptions of status changes may also contribute to an individual's wellbeing more so than objective factors such as income. Policies that promote rura…
Drought, Wellbeing and Adaptive Capacity
Drought is a threat to public health. Individual and community adaptive capacity is crucial when responding to the impacts of drought. Gaps remain in the understandings of the relationship between wellbeing and adaptive capacity, and whether increased wellbeing can lead to improved adaptive capacity (or vice versa). This paper explores the relationship between drought, wellbeing and adaptive capacity to provide insights that will inform actions t…
Conducting Research in Non-Traditional Settings
Research conducted in traditional and non-traditional settings remains essential to understanding behaviors and attitudes among diverse populations. The effective preparation of research assistants is essential in order to conduct ethical research and ensure safety for the participants and those conducting the research. One such example pertains to examining the behavior of men who have sex with men (e.g., gay, bisexual, other MSM) within bathhou…
Concerns about climate change among rural residents in Australia
Climate change impacts human health and there is growing recognition of the explicit consequences for mental health and wellbeing. Rural communities are recognised as one of the most vulnerable populations to climate change. The majority of research to date is quantitative and has a focus on farmers specifically, with the impacts of climate change on the wider rural community considered to a lesser extent. Our study addresses this gap by analyzin…
Are Young Men Getting the Message? Age Differences in Suicide Prevention Literacy among Male Construction Workers
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young men. Help-seeking is known to be poor among this group, and little is known about what interventions are most successful in improving suicide prevention literacy among young men. This research aims to examine: (1) age differences in beliefs related to suicide prevention literacy and attitudes to the workplace in addressing mental health among male construction workers; (2) age differences in respons…
Slave Self-Activity and the Bourgeois Revolution in the United States
For more than a generation, historical interpretations of emancipation in the United States have acknowledged that the slaves played a central role in driving that process forward. This is a critically important advance, and one worth defending. But it is also a perspective whose influence seems increasingly precarious. This article explores the complex relationship between the slaves’ ‘revolution from below’ and the bourgeois revolution directed…
“The Masks We Wear”
PURPOSE: Farmer suicide is a major public issue in Australia. Using the psychological autopsy method, this study aimed to examine the life and death circumstances of Australian male farmers who died by suicide through verbal reports from their close significant others. METHODS: Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 relatives of male farmers who had died by suicide in Queensland or New South Wales, Australia (2006-2014). This…
Shifting Beliefs about Suicide
Suicide is a significant health problem that is known to disproportionately affect those employed in manual occupations, including construction workers and tradespeople. Universal General Awareness Training (GAT) was part of a multi-component suicide prevention program in the Australian construction industry. The program's aims were to increase awareness of mental health and suicide, reduce stigma, and encourage help-seeking and help-offering beh…
The Challenges of Predicting Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in a Sample of Rural Australians with Depression
Suicide is a leading cause of death, particularly in rural and remote areas. Although depression is strongly related to both suicidal ideation and attempt, it lacks specificity as a predictor, and little is known about characteristics that increase suicide risk among people with depression. A telephone version of the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview explored lifetime depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, …
Depression and Risk of Unintentional Injury in Rural Communities—A Longitudinal Analysis of the Australian Rural Mental Health Study
Limited longitudinal research has examined relationships between depression and injury, particularly in rural contexts. This paper reports cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the Australian Rural Mental Health Study (ARMHS) exploring relationships between "probable depression" episodes and unintentional injury. Participants completed four surveys over five years. Multivariate logistic regressions were employed to assess the causal effe…
Pathways to Suicide in Australian Farmers
Farmers have been found to be at increased risk of suicide in Australia. The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behaviour suggests that the proximal factors leading to the suicidal desire or ideation include an individual's experiences of both perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. Suicidal desire with acquired capability to engage in lethal self-injury is predictive of suicidal behaviour. This study investigates the pat…
The psychological impact of chronic environmental adversity
Travels in extreme social mobility
Higher education is understood as essential to enabling social mobility. Research and policy have centred on access to university, but recently attention has turned to the journey of social mobility itself – and its costs. Long-distance or ‘extreme’ social mobility journeys particularly require analysis. This paper examines journeys of first-in-family university students in the especially high-status degree of medicine, through interviews with 21…
Experiences of medical students who are first in family to attend university
Context Students from backgrounds of low socio-economic status (SES) or who are first in family to attend university (FiF) are under-represented in medicine. Research has focused on these students' pre-admission perceptions of medicine, rather than on their lived experience as medical students. Such research is necessary to monitor and understand the potential perpetuation of disadvantage within medical schools. Objectives This study drew on the …
Concerns about climate change among rural residents in Australia
Climate change impacts human health and there is growing recognition of the explicit consequences for mental health and wellbeing. Rural communities are recognised as one of the most vulnerable populations to climate change. The majority of research to date is quantitative and has a focus on farmers specifically, with the impacts of climate change on the wider rural community considered to a lesser extent. Our study addresses this gap by analyzin…
Quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome
Labour and Place
Important advances in scholarship on the post-emancipation South have made possible a new synthesis that moves beyond broad generalizations about African American agency to identify both the shared elements in black life across the region and the varying capacity of freedpeople to assert their interests in the face of white hostility. Building on a number of recent studies of Reconstruction this article seeks to demonstrate that the varying capac…
Black Laborers, the Republican Party, and the Crisis of Reconstruction in Lowcountry South Carolina
The wave of strikes that swept across the South Carolina rice fields in late 1876 offer rich material for revisiting the most compelling issues in the postwar Reconstruction of the US's former slave states. They expose sharp tensions between the Republican Party's black, working-class constituency and its mostly white, bourgeois leadership. Recent studies, based almost entirely on Northern published opinion, have made the case that Northern Repub…
Food insecurity and mental health
BACKGROUND: Since 2008, use of food banks has risen sharply in the UK; however, evidence on the epidemiology of UK food insecurity is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory of common mental disorder across the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postnatal period for food secure compared with food insecure women. METHODS: Data from the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort, the nested BiB1000 study and primary care records were linked based…
Improving The Mental Health Of Drought-Affected Communities
In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the social impact of drought on rural communities. This paper provides an overview of a major mental health program developed in response to persistent severe drought and longer-term social and economic restructuring in New SouthWales agriculture. Led by government and incorporating close collaboration with rural community agencies and services, the program’s design and implementation was i…
Are we ready for the next pandemic? Public preferences and trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions across 21 countries
In vaccination decisions, individuals must weigh the benefits against the risks of remaining unvaccinated and potentially facing social restrictions. Previous studies have focused on individual preferences for vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions separately. This study aims to quantify public preferences and the potential trade-offs between vaccine characteristics and societal restrictions, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates, i…
Conducting Research in Non-Traditional Settings
Research conducted in traditional and non-traditional settings remains essential to understanding behaviors and attitudes among diverse populations. The effective preparation of research assistants is essential in order to conduct ethical research and ensure safety for the participants and those conducting the research. One such example pertains to examining the behavior of men who have sex with men (e.g., gay, bisexual, other MSM) within bathhou…
Jubilee and the limits of African American freedom after emancipation
But scholars equally need to examine why the end of slavery did not deliver freedom, but instead - after a short-lived 'jubilee' during which freedpeople savoured their 'brief moment in the sun' - opened up a period of extreme repression and violence. This article traces the political trajectory of one prominent ex-slave and Republican party organiser, Elias Hill, to assess the constraints in which black grassroots activists operated. Though main…
Du Bois's Prolific “Error” and the Break with “Color-Blind” Orthodoxy
Contribution to a roundtable on the 70th anniversary of the publication of W. E. B. DuBois's classic study of US slave emancipation, Black Reconstruction, 1860-1880 , including original research on the context in which the book was launched and reflections on its impact on the recent historiography of the American Civil War and its aftermath
The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture
Sentinels for New South Industry
In 1912, “race war” broke out in Cuba. The island's hard-won independence, formally attained in 1902, had failed to deliver the “nation for all” that nationalist visionary Jose Marti and his largely black and mulatto following had aspired to. Instead white Cuban elites attempted to emulate the standards of “civilization” laid down by their North American counterparts, laying the foundations for a society in which blacks and mulattoes remained sec…
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921
Short Essays
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Quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome
Short Essays
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921
Sentinels for New South Industry
In 1912, “race war” broke out in Cuba. The island's hard-won independence, formally attained in 1902, had failed to deliver the “nation for all” that nationalist visionary Jose Marti and his largely black and mulatto following had aspired to. Instead white Cuban elites attempted to emulate the standards of “civilization” laid down by their North American counterparts, laying the foundations for a society in which blacks and mulattoes remained sec…
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
A Nation Under Our Feet
Book Review| September 01 2004 A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South,from Slavery to the Great Migration A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South,from Slavery to the Great Migration Steven Hahn Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 viii + 610 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Brian Kelly Brian Kelly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (3): 145–147. https:…
The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture
Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
Fighting Against the Odds
Black Laborers, the Republican Party, and the Crisis of Reconstruction in Lowcountry South Carolina
The wave of strikes that swept across the South Carolina rice fields in late 1876 offer rich material for revisiting the most compelling issues in the postwar Reconstruction of the US's former slave states. They expose sharp tensions between the Republican Party's black, working-class constituency and its mostly white, bourgeois leadership. Recent studies, based almost entirely on Northern published opinion, have made the case that Northern Repub…
Labour and Place
Important advances in scholarship on the post-emancipation South have made possible a new synthesis that moves beyond broad generalizations about African American agency to identify both the shared elements in black life across the region and the varying capacity of freedpeople to assert their interests in the face of white hostility. Building on a number of recent studies of Reconstruction this article seeks to demonstrate that the varying capac…
The Colfax Massacre
The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction." American Nineteenth Century History, 10(3), pp. 357–358
Improving The Mental Health Of Drought-Affected Communities
In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the social impact of drought on rural communities. This paper provides an overview of a major mental health program developed in response to persistent severe drought and longer-term social and economic restructuring in New SouthWales agriculture. Led by government and incorporating close collaboration with rural community agencies and services, the program’s design and implementation was i…
Emancipations and Reversals
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An improved brief measure of cannabis misuse
Killing for Coal
Book Review| March 01 2010 Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War Thomas G. Andrews Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008 386 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Brian Kelly Brian Kelly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (1): 107–109. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-058 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Brian Kelly;…
No Easy Way Through
It is difficult, even excruciating, to imagine the staggering descent from high optimism to despondency experienced by many African Americans who lived between emancipation and the dawn of the twentieth century. For historians living in the post–civil rights era, recapturing the scale, velocity, and brutality of that dramatic fall has been hampered by two conceptual problems. The first of these, undergirded by prominent trends in the formerly “ne…
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom STEVEN HAHN Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009 Pp. xvii + 246, $21.95 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 6740 3296 5 Whatever else might be said of the field of Af
Telehealth from a regulatory perspective, ethics and consent and update on general concepts of liability for telehealth providers
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Emancipation's Diaspora
P2-496 An interaction of social support and remoteness in the prediction of psychological distress
Introduction The influence of social support on mental health outcomes may vary with remoteness in Australian communities. However, the potential variation of determinants of mental health with remoteness has rarely been directly examined. The current research aims to examine the association of social support and distress with remoteness. Methods Community cohorts from rural and urban New South Wales were combined (N=5924; mean age=61.1 yrs; 44.2…
The psychological impact of chronic environmental adversity
Social support and age influence distress outcomes differentially across urban, regional and remote Australia
Remoteness may moderate the influence of social support and age on psychological distress outcomes
Individual and district-level predictors of alcohol use
Although recent attention has been directed towards the potential adverse health effects of district or community level adversity across rural regions, our study found relatively few district-level factors contributing to at-risk alcohol consumption after controlling for individual-level factors. Population-based prevention strategies may be most beneficial in rural areas with a higher socio-economic ranking, while individual attention should be …
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