Anthony F Jorm
Biographic Data
| ID | 112597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony F Jorm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony F |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorm |
| SIGNATURE | JORM A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1424-4116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Associations Between the Quality of Mental Health First Aid Received and Change in Psychosocial Outcomes Among Adults With Mental Health Problems
Background: Mental health first aid refers to the support provided by lay people to someone developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Best-practice mental health first aid is defined by expert consensus guidelines describing recommended and non-recommended support actions, which underpin Mental Health First Aid training programmes. While such guidelines aim to improve social responses to mental health problems, li…
Using Co-Design to Adapt a Digital Parenting Program for Parents Seeking Mental Health Support
Background/Objectives : Parental mental health challenges are associated with parenting difficulties and child mental health issues. Parenting interventions can support families; however, parents with mental health challenges face barriers to accessing parenting support, which is not consistently offered within adult mental health settings. Embedding technology-assisted parenting programs into these settings could provide accessible, holistic sup…
Using the Delphi Method to Establish Expert Consensus: A Practical Guide
Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences is a new book series from Palgrave that supports, encourages and facilitates excellence in interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and beyond.As social scientists are increasingly urged to turn to interdisciplinary research to tackle urgent and complex problems, both in their own work and within research teams, new practices are emerging to fit these hybrid approaches.Coll…
How to Approach a Child About Concerns for Their Mental Health and Seeking Help: A Delphi Expert Consensus Study to Develop Guidelines on Mental Health First Aid for Supporting Children
BACKGROUND: Adults who live or work with children are an important source of support and are gateways to professional help when a child is experiencing a mental health problem. This study aimed to develop consensus-based guidelines on how adults such as parents, educators or health professionals should approach a child aged 5-12 years to discuss concerns about the child's mental health and seek help. METHODS: A Delphi consensus method with three …
Mental health literacy of adolescents in Bermuda, according to age, gender and race
Mental health literacy (MHL) is an important part of the help-seeking process, yet there is a lack of knowledge about the MHL of adolescents in the Caribbean. This region is important to study as it is underrepresented in mental health research globally. The aim of this study is to explore the ability of adolescents in Bermuda to recognize depression and social phobia (social anxiety) and their beliefs about the sources of help for a peer with th…
Redevelopment of mental health first aid guidelines for substance use problems: A Delphi study
This study has developed a broader and more comprehensive set of guidelines for how to support a person experiencing or developing a substance use problem. The redeveloped guidelines provide more detail on knowledge about and recognition of substance use problems, approaching and assisting people who want to change or are not ready to change, harm reduction, community-based supports and professional help, but have less on physical first aid actio…
Adolescent peer support for mental health problems: Evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Mental Health Support Scale for Adolescents
The MHSSA shows evidence of validity and reliability for use among adolescents for evaluating the quality of intentions to help peers with mental health problems
Evaluation of the Conversations about Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Mental Health First Aid Course: Effects on Knowledge, Stigmatising Attitudes, Confidence and Helping Behaviour
There is initial evidence that the Conversations about Non-Suicidal Self-Injury course is effective and acceptable for members of the public who may support a person engaging in NSSI
The association between adverse childhood experiences and common mental disorders and suicidality: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Stigmatizing and mitigating elements of a TV news report on violent crime and severe mental illness: An experiment
The news media is a major contributor to stigmatizing beliefs that people with mental illness are dangerous and should be avoided. To reduce stigma, it is critical to understand how to reduce the negative impact from stories about violence and mental illness. This study experimentally manipulated elements of a TV news report to explore the effect on stigma. Participants were 838 community adults, mainly from the U.K. and USA, who were randomized …
National characteristics associated with prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms: A cross-sectional ecological study
Populations of nations with higher human development, quality of government, and mental health resources have better mental health when measured by the prevalence of specific symptoms
Redevelopment of mental health first aid guidelines for supporting someone experiencing a panic attack: A Delphi study
This study has resulted in a more comprehensive set of guidelines than the original version, with the endorsement of 83 helping actions, compared to 27 previously. The redeveloped guidelines provide greater detail on recognising the signs of a panic attack, providing initial assistance, communicating with someone experiencing a panic attack and supporting them to seek appropriate professional help if it is needed. The guidelines will be used in f…
Evaluation of the Conversations About Gambling Mental Health First Aid course: Effects on knowledge, stigmatising attitudes, confidence and helping behaviour
The results of this initial evaluation of Mental Health First Aid Australia's Conversations About Gambling course suggest that it is an effective and acceptable educational intervention for those who wish to support a person experiencing problem gambling
The Role of Parent Engagement in a Web-Based Preventive Parenting Intervention for Child Mental Health in Predicting Parenting, Parent and Child Outcomes
Although parents' engagement in parenting programmes has frequently been posited to influence the efficacy and dissemination of these programmes, its relationship with intervention outcomes in parenting programmes is understudied. This study examined the predictive value of parental engagement on preventive parenting outcomes in a tailored online parenting programme aimed at enhancing parental protective factors and reducing risk factors for chil…
Mental Health First Aid Training with the Nepalese Community in Australia: An Evaluation of Effects on Knowledge, Confidence, Intentions, Willingness to have Contact and Stigmatizing Attitudes
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training amongst the Nepalese community in Australia by exploring the impact on knowledge about mental health first aid, confidence and intentions to help, willingness to have contact and stigmatizing attitudes towards people with mental illness. We hypothesized that since MHFA has been extensively evaluated with other communities and has been found to be ef…
A repeated cross-sectional and longitudinal study of mental health and wellbeing during Covid-19 lockdowns in Victoria, Australia
This study supports the findings of other international studies. It also highlights the need to promote increased social connection and maintain it at times of isolation and separation, particularly amongst younger adults
Teen Mental Health First Aid: 12-Month Outcomes From a Cluster Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Universal Program to Help Adolescents Better Support Peers With a Mental Health Pro…
This research was registered with Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12614000061639
Offering mental health first aid to a person experiencing psychosis: A Delphi study to redevelop the guidelines published in 2008
The redeveloped guidelines outline a general set of strategies for providing initial assistance to a person who is experiencing psychosis. Compared to the original guidelines, these redeveloped guidelines provide more detailed instruction for members of the public on how to provide mental health first aid to assist a person experiencing psychosis. The guidelines are available to the public and will be used to update the Mental Health First Aid co…
Non-participation in epidemiological school-based surveys: Using mixed methods to study predictors and modes of justification for (non-)participation at the school level
Response rates in epidemiological studies have generally been decreasing over the past decades. However, when the target group consists of adolescents and young adults, school-based surveys have hitherto been able to mitigate this problem: This age group can be reached relatively easy in the school context (e.g., as compared to reaching them by phone) with very low refusal rates at the student level. However, the present study used a mixed-method…
Offering mental health first aid to a person after a potentially traumatic event: A Delphi study to redevelop the 2008 guidelines
This study has resulted in a more comprehensive set of guidelines than the original version, with the endorsement of 103 helping actions, compared to 65 previously. The updated guidelines better represent the complexities of experiencing trauma and the considered approach required when providing first aid after a potentially traumatic event. The additional guidance on providing initial assistance, talking about the trauma, offering short-term ass…
The VicHealth Indicators population survey: Methodology, prevalence of behavioural risk factors, and use in local policy
The findings indicate the need for continued targeted action on behavioural risk factors, particularly diet and physical activity, and that more intensive policy and practice action is required to address health inequities to ensure that all Victorians can experience good health. Increased support for low SES municipality policy planning may be warranted
Helping actions given and received in response to suicide risk: Findings from an Australian nationally representative telephone survey
We conducted a nationally representative telephone survey of 3000 Australian adults. We assessed helping responses toward people in severe distress and experiencing suicidal thoughts by asking whether respondents had undertaken 15 specified helping actions (10 recommended and 5 non-recommended actions) to support such a person. We also asked respondents who had experienced suicidal ideation in the last 12 months whether the most helpful person at…
Offering mental health first aid to a person with depression: A Delphi study to re-develop the guidelines published in 2008
This re-development has added detail to the previous version of the guidelines, giving more guidance on the role of the first aider and allowing for a more nuanced approach to providing first aid to someone with depression. These guidelines are available to the public and will be used to update the Mental Health First Aid courses
Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety: Scale Development and Validation
Burgeoning research suggests that parents can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in their adolescents and that parental self-efficacy (PSE) may be related to parental risk and protective factors for these disorders. As there are currently no measures available to assess PSE in relation to parenting behaviors that may reduce adolescent risk for depression and anxiety, we developed and validated a measure of PSE, the Parental Self-Efficacy S…
The Challenge of Improving Population Mental Health: The Example of New York City
Mental health literacy: Empowering the community to take action for better mental health
For major physical diseases, it is widely accepted that members of the public will benefit by knowing what actions they can take for prevention, early intervention, and treatment. However, this type of public knowledge about mental disorders (mental health literacy) has received much less attention. There is evidence from surveys in several countries for deficiencies in (a) the public's knowledge of how to prevent mental disorders, (b) recognitio…
Item Bias in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: Effects of Physical Disorders and Disability in an Elderly Community Sample
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is frequently used in studies of elderly individuals. One controversy regarding its use turns on the issue of whether the effect of physical disorder on the CES-D total score reflects genuine effects on depression or item-level artifacts. The present article addresses this issue using medical examination data from 506 community-dwelling individuals aged 75 or older. A form of structura…
Health, cognitive, and psychosocial factors as predictors of mortality in an elderly community sample
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine whether cognitive and psychosocial factors predict mortality once physical health is controlled. DESIGN: A prospective study of community dwelling elderly. Mortality was assessed over a period of 3-4 years after the baseline assessment of predictors. The data were analysed using the Cox proportional hazards model. SETTING: Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A sample of 897 people aged 70 or over and livi…
Labeling of mental disorders and stigma in young people
The impact of pet ownership on health and health service use: Results from a community sample of Australians aged 40 to 44 years
Research on the extent to which humans derive health and social benefits from being with pets has produced inconsistent findings. We examined whether middle-aged adults who owned or cared for pets differed in mental or physical health or in use of general practitioner services. We obtained socio-demographic data and measures of mental and physical health from a random sample of 2,530 adults aged 40 to 44 years living in the community. For 1844 of…
Early reading achievement, oral language ability, and a child's home background
The relationships between early reading achievement, oral language ability, and the home were studied in a group of 543 school-entry age children. Using hierarchical multiple regression it was found that socioeconomic status was associated with both reading achievement and oral language ability. However, this association occurred largely because socioeconomic status was associated with educational processes in the home which contribute more direc…
Improving the public's understanding and response to mental disorders
Mental disorders are so common that members of the public have a high probability of either developing one or having close contact with someone who does. Therefore, the public need some degree of knowledge about the recognition, management and prevention of these disorders. Community surveys in Australia show that many people are unable to recognise mental disorders and that they hold beliefs about treatment that are different from those of profe…
Characteristics of Australians who reported consulting a psychologist for a health problem: An analysis of data from the 1989-90 national health survey
The National Health Survey is a large household survey of the health of Australians. Data from the survey indicate that around 43,000 Australians consulted a psychologist over a two-week period, mostly for common mental health problems. Consulting a psychologist was more common among boys than girls (prevalences of 279 and 140 per 100,000), but with young and middle-aged adults the prevalence rate was higher in women than men (389 versus 275 per …
An analysis of the mental health trajectories of university students compared to their community peers using a national longitudinal survey
This study examines the mental health trajectories of future/current undergraduate university students relative to their age-matched community peers from the ages of 15 to 21. It analysed data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey. The sample comprised 442 students and 1292 peers. Mental health was assessed with the five-item Mental Health Inventory from the Short Form 36. The results showed that students generally ha…
Non-participation in epidemiological school-based surveys: Using mixed methods to study predictors and modes of justification for (non-)participation at the school level
Response rates in epidemiological studies have generally been decreasing over the past decades. However, when the target group consists of adolescents and young adults, school-based surveys have hitherto been able to mitigate this problem: This age group can be reached relatively easy in the school context (e.g., as compared to reaching them by phone) with very low refusal rates at the student level. However, the present study used a mixed-method…
Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety: Scale Development and Validation
Burgeoning research suggests that parents can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in their adolescents and that parental self-efficacy (PSE) may be related to parental risk and protective factors for these disorders. As there are currently no measures available to assess PSE in relation to parenting behaviors that may reduce adolescent risk for depression and anxiety, we developed and validated a measure of PSE, the Parental Self-Efficacy S…
Examining Predictors of Help Giving Toward People With a Mental Illness: Results From a National Survey of Australian Adults
Little is known about factors influencing helping behaviors toward a person with mental illness. This study explored a range of predictors of helping intentions and behaviors using data from a national survey of Australian adults. Participants ( n = 6,019) were randomly assigned one of six vignettes and asked how they would help the character if it was someone they knew and cared about, and asked whether and how they had helped a person in real l…
Social networks and health: It’s time for an intervention trial
A randomised controlled trial is necessary to find out if intervention on social networks has a health benefit for older people and if this could be extended to the whole population. Back in 1988, James House and colleagues reviewed a number of studies on social relationships and mortality. They concluded that “...the theory and evidence on social relationships and health increasingly approximate that available at the time of the U.S. Surgeon Gen…
Parental involvement in reading progress
The nature and role of parental assistance with reading progress was investigated in a large representative sample of grade 2 children (aged 7-8). A consistent pattern of negative correlations between measures of parental assistance and reading achievement suggested that the role of this help is largely remedial, with the poorer readers receiving the greater help. Furthermore, parental help appeared to have no effect on progress during grade 2
Specific reading retardation and working memory: A review
Research into the memory deficit of retarded readers is examined within a working memory framework. Although much of the evidence in this area is confusing, there is fairly consistent evidence that reading retardation can be associated with a deficit in long‐term storage of phonological information. This deficit may affect retarded readers' ability to utilize the articulatory loop, a short‐term store which appears to play an important role in cer…
Early reading achievement, oral language ability, and a child's home background
The relationships between early reading achievement, oral language ability, and the home were studied in a group of 543 school-entry age children. Using hierarchical multiple regression it was found that socioeconomic status was associated with both reading achievement and oral language ability. However, this association occurred largely because socioeconomic status was associated with educational processes in the home which contribute more direc…
Phonological confusability in short‐term memory for sentences as a predictor of reading ability
Upon entry to kindergarten, a group of 477 children was given sentence memory tasks involving rhyming and non‐rhyming sentences. These tasks were readministered to the children at the end of Grade 1 when the children were also tested for reading ability. Short‐term memory for sentences was found to correlate with Grade 1 reading ability on both occasions when it was tested. Furthermore, at both ages the children found rhyming sentences harder to …
Parental involvement in reading progress
The nature and role of parental assistance with reading progress was investigated in a large representative sample of grade 2 children (aged 7-8). A consistent pattern of negative correlations between measures of parental assistance and reading achievement suggested that the role of this help is largely remedial, with the poorer readers receiving the greater help. Furthermore, parental help appeared to have no effect on progress during grade 2
Characteristics of Australians who reported consulting a psychologist for a health problem: An analysis of data from the 1989-90 national health survey
The National Health Survey is a large household survey of the health of Australians. Data from the survey indicate that around 43,000 Australians consulted a psychologist over a two-week period, mostly for common mental health problems. Consulting a psychologist was more common among boys than girls (prevalences of 279 and 140 per 100,000), but with young and middle-aged adults the prevalence rate was higher in women than men (389 versus 275 per …
“Mental health literacy”: A survey of the public's ability to recognise mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment
OBJECTIVES: To assess the public's recognition of mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of various treatments ("mental health literacy"). DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey, in 1995, with structured interviews using vignettes of a person with either depression or schizophrenia. PARTICIPANTS: A representative national sample of 2031 individuals aged 18-74 years; 1010 participants were questioned about the depression vignette and…
A short form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule: Evaluation of factorial validity and invariance across demographic variables in a community sample
Health, cognitive, and psychosocial factors as predictors of mortality in an elderly community sample
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine whether cognitive and psychosocial factors predict mortality once physical health is controlled. DESIGN: A prospective study of community dwelling elderly. Mortality was assessed over a period of 3-4 years after the baseline assessment of predictors. The data were analysed using the Cox proportional hazards model. SETTING: Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A sample of 897 people aged 70 or over and livi…
Does old age reduce the risk of anxiety and depression? A review of epidemiological studies across the adult life span
Background. There is considerable disagreement about what happens to the risk of anxiety and depression disorders and symptoms as people get older. Methods. A search was made for studies that examine the occurrence of anxiety, depression or general distress across the adult life span. To be included, a study had to involve a general population sample ranging in age from at least the 30s to 65 and over and use the same assessment method at each ag…
Mental health literacy: Public knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders
BACKGROUND: Although the benefits of public knowledge of physical diseases are widely accepted, knowledge about mental disorders (mental health literacy) has been comparatively neglected. AIMS: To introduce the concept of mental health literacy to a wider audience, to bring together diverse research relevant to the topic and to identify gaps in the area. METHOD: A narrative review within a conceptual framework. RESULTS: Many members of the public…
Item Bias in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: Effects of Physical Disorders and Disability in an Elderly Community Sample
The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is frequently used in studies of elderly individuals. One controversy regarding its use turns on the issue of whether the effect of physical disorder on the CES-D total score reflects genuine effects on depression or item-level artifacts. The present article addresses this issue using medical examination data from 506 community-dwelling individuals aged 75 or older. A form of structura…
Mental health first aid training for the public: Evaluation of effects on knowledge, attitudes and helping behavior
BACKGROUND: Many members of the public have poor mental health literacy. A Mental Health First Aid training course was developed in order to improve this. This paper describes the training course and reports an evaluation study looking at changes in knowledge, stigmatizing attitudes and help provided to others. METHODS: Data are reported on the first 210 participants in public courses. Evaluation questionnaires were given at the beginning of cour…
Sexual orientation and mental health: Results from a community survey of young and middle – aged adults
BACKGROUND: Community surveys have reported a higher rate of mental health problems in combined groups of homosexual and bisexual participants, but have not separated these two groups. AIMS: To assess separately the mental health of homosexual and bisexual groups compared with heterosexuals. METHOD: A community survey of 4824 adults was carried out in Canberra, Australia. Measures covered anxiety, depression, suicidality, alcohol misuse, positive…
Predictors of refusal to participate: A longitudinal health survey of the elderly in Australia
Longitudinal studies of the elderly may over estimate cognitive performance because of the greater refusal rate of those with poorer performance. However, there is no evidence of bias with respect to anxiety or depression
Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Temperament: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to the Late Teens
OBJECTIVE: To replicate an earlier Finnish study by Keltikangas-Järvinen et al. (5) reporting that the APOE genotype is associated with temperamental traits involving increased activity. METHODS: DNA was collected from 683 Australian children who had participated in a longitudinal study of childhood temperament from 4 to 8 months up to 17 to 18 years. Associations were examined between APOE genotype and a range of measures of activity and hyperac…
The impact of pet ownership on health and health service use: Results from a community sample of Australians aged 40 to 44 years
Research on the extent to which humans derive health and social benefits from being with pets has produced inconsistent findings. We examined whether middle-aged adults who owned or cared for pets differed in mental or physical health or in use of general practitioner services. We obtained socio-demographic data and measures of mental and physical health from a random sample of 2,530 adults aged 40 to 44 years living in the community. For 1844 of…
Mild cognitive impairment – beyond controversies, towards a consensus: Report of the International Working Group on Mild Cognitive Impairment
The First Key Symposium was held in Stockholm, Sweden, 2–5 September 2003. The aim of the symposium was to integrate clinical and epidemiological perspectives on the topic of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). A multidisciplinary, international group of experts discussed the current status and future directions of MCI, with regard to clinical presentation, cognitive and functional assessment, and the role of neuroimaging, biomarkers and genetics. A…
Effect of web-based depression literacy and cognitive–behavioural therapy interventions on stigmatising attitudes to depression: Randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the efficacy of educational interventions for reducing the stigma associated with depression. AIMS: To investigate the effects on stigma of two internet depression sites. METHOD: A sample of 525 individuals with elevated scores on a depression assessment scale were randomly allocated to a depression information website (BluePages), a cognitive-behavioural skills training website (MoodGYM) or an attention control …
Gender differences in factors affecting use of health services: An analysis of a community study of middle-aged and older Australians
The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: An analysis of a sample of Australian government employees
Measures of work stress and not employee level affect the mental health and well-being of government employees. For governments with responsibility for funding health care services, reducing work stress experienced by their own employees offers potential benefits by improving the health of their workforce and reducing outlays for such services
Global prevalence of dementia: A Delphi consensus study
Social networks and health: It’s time for an intervention trial
A randomised controlled trial is necessary to find out if intervention on social networks has a health benefit for older people and if this could be extended to the whole population. Back in 1988, James House and colleagues reviewed a number of studies on social relationships and mortality. They concluded that “...the theory and evidence on social relationships and health increasingly approximate that available at the time of the U.S. Surgeon Gen…
Stigma in response to mental disorders: A comparison of Australia and Japan
Influence of Gender on Mental Health Literacy in Young Australians
Objectives: To determine the effects of gender on mental health literacy in young people between 12 and 25 years of age. Design: Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing was employed to conduct a crosssectional structured interview focusing on young people's awareness of depression and psychosis. Participants: The sample comprised 1207 young Australians (539 males and 668 females) between the ages of 12-25 recruited from two metropolitan and two …
Stigma about Depression and its Impact on Help-Seeking Intentions
Objective: Research has shown that people are reluctant to seek professional help for depression, especially from mental health professionals. This may be because of the impact of stigma which can involve people's own responses to depression and help-seeking (self stigma) as well as their perceptions of others' negative responses (perceived stigma). The aim of this article was to examine community help-seeking intentions and stigmatizing beliefs …
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