Arne Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4624805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arne Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arne |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kaiser Permanente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5304-9794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Safer and targeted use of antipsychotics in youth
BACKGROUND: Antipsychotic medications (AP) are inappropriately prescribed to young people. The goal of this pragmatic trial was to test a four-component approach to improved targeting of antipsychotic prescribing to people aged ≥3 and <18 years. METHODS: Clinicians in four health systems were cluster randomized by the number of previous AP orders and service line - specialty mental health and all others. Intervention arm clinicians received a bes…
Implementation Fidelity of a Virtual Adaptation of the Guiding Good Choices Program
Offering evidence‐based parenting interventions to caregivers virtually has the potential to increase the reach and public health impact of interventions. As virtual adaptations to evidence‐based interventions increase, attention must be paid to implementation fidelity, as high fidelity is associated with better program outcomes. This study examined implementation fidelity of a virtual adaptation of the family‐based Guiding Good Choices program d…
Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the Covid‐19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are among the most common and debilitating psychiatric disorders affecting youth, with both related to increased suicide risk. While rates of youth anxiety and depression were increasing before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic further negatively impacted adolescent mental health. Unfortunately, few studies have examined prevalence of these concerns among early adolescents (ages 10-13) longitudinally during th…
Association Between Adverse Social Determinants of Health and Suicide Death
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify adverse social determinants of health (SDoH) International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code prevalence among individuals who died by suicide and to examine associations between documented adverse SDoH and suicide. RESEARCH DESIGN: A case-control study using linked medical record, insurance claim, and mortality data from 2000 to 2015 obtai…
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Health System, and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Depression within a Large Metropolitan Area
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health Care Visits Made Before Suicide Attempt Across the United States
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a public health concern, but little is known about the patterns of health care visits made before a suicide attempt, and whether those patterns differ by race/ethnicity. OBJECTIVES: To examine racial/ethnic variation in the types of health care visits made before a suicide attempt, when those visits occur, and whether mental health or substance use diagnoses were documented. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal stud…
Designing and Implementing Research on a Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative
OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate a rigorous methodology that optimally balanced internal validity with generalizability to evaluate a statewide collaborative that implemented an evidence-based, collaborative care model for depression management in primary care. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Several operational features of the DIAMOND (Depression Improvement Across Minnesota, Offering a New Direction) Initiative suggested that the DIAMOND Study use a stagger…
Partnership Research
BACKGROUND: Translational research is increasingly important as academic health centers transform themselves to meet new requirements of National Institutes of Health funding. Most attention has focused on T1 translation studies (bench to bedside) with considerable uncertainty about how to enhance T2 (effectiveness trials) and especially T3 (implementation studies). OBJECTIVE: To describe an innovative example of a T3 study, conducted as partners…
Modeling the Impact of Enhanced Depression Treatment on Workplace Functioning and Costs
BACKGROUND: The impact of depression on the workplace has been widely observed in studies examining absenteeism and reduced productivity during days at work. However, there is little scientific evidence about whether depression interventions are cost-beneficial to employers. OBJECTIVE: We construct a cost-benefit analysis of depression treatment under different workplace assumptions better reflecting the nature of employment. RESEARCH DESIGN: Dat…
Response to Letter From Dr Raj Persaud
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois (Lo Sasso) Florida State University College of Medicine Tallahassee, Florida (Rost) Kaiser Permanente Aurora, Colorado (Beck)
Practical Clinical Trials for Translating Research to Practice
RATIONALE: There is a pressing need for practical clinical trials (PCTs) that are more relevant to clinicians and decision-makers, but many are unaware of these trials. Furthermore, such trials can be challenging to conduct and to report. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to build on the seminal paper by Tunis et al (Practical clinical trials. Increasing the value of clinical research for decision making in clinical and health policy. JA…
The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
This report describes the World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ), a self-report instrument designed to estimate the workplace costs of health problems in terms of reduced job performance, sickness absence, and work-related accidents-injuries. Calibration data are presented on the relationship between individual-level HPQ reports and archival measures of work performance and absenteeism obtained from employer arc…
The association between care co-ordination and emergency department use in older managed care enrollees
Existing measures of care co-ordination were not associated with inappropriate ED use in this study of older adults with complex care needs. The absence of an association may, in part, be attributable to the paucity of validated measures to assess care co-ordination, as well as the methodological complexity inherent in studying this topic. Future research should focus on the development of new measures and on approaches that better isolate the ro…
Effects of Efforts to Increase Response Rates on a Workplace Chronic Condition Screening Survey
OBJECTIVE: Expanded health risk appraisal (HRA) surveys can help employers target chronic conditions for outreach or disease management interventions by providing data on the prevalences of conditions and their effects on work performance. However, concerns exist about the accuracy of this data because most HRAs have low response rates. We evaluated these concerns by examining the prevalences and work impairments associated with chronic condition…
Factors That Contribute to Positive Perceived Health in an Older Population
This study explored the extent to which factors commonly associated with negative outcomes of aging also predicted positive perceived health in a group of community-dwelling older people. Questionnaires originally administered during a randomized trial of HMO's outpatient group visit program supplied data from approximately 700 participants. Stepwise modeling identified significant factors within categories of predictors of perceived health. Hier…
Factors That Contribute to Positive Perceived Health in an Older Population
This study explored the extent to which factors commonly associated with negative outcomes of aging also predicted positive perceived health in a group of community-dwelling older people. Questionnaires originally administered during a randomized trial of HMO's outpatient group visit program supplied data from approximately 700 participants. Stepwise modeling identified significant factors within categories of predictors of perceived health. Hier…
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Health System, and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Depression within a Large Metropolitan Area
Factors That Contribute to Positive Perceived Health in an Older Population
This study explored the extent to which factors commonly associated with negative outcomes of aging also predicted positive perceived health in a group of community-dwelling older people. Questionnaires originally administered during a randomized trial of HMO's outpatient group visit program supplied data from approximately 700 participants. Stepwise modeling identified significant factors within categories of predictors of perceived health. Hier…
The association between care co-ordination and emergency department use in older managed care enrollees
Existing measures of care co-ordination were not associated with inappropriate ED use in this study of older adults with complex care needs. The absence of an association may, in part, be attributable to the paucity of validated measures to assess care co-ordination, as well as the methodological complexity inherent in studying this topic. Future research should focus on the development of new measures and on approaches that better isolate the ro…
Effects of Efforts to Increase Response Rates on a Workplace Chronic Condition Screening Survey
OBJECTIVE: Expanded health risk appraisal (HRA) surveys can help employers target chronic conditions for outreach or disease management interventions by providing data on the prevalences of conditions and their effects on work performance. However, concerns exist about the accuracy of this data because most HRAs have low response rates. We evaluated these concerns by examining the prevalences and work impairments associated with chronic condition…
The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)
This report describes the World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ), a self-report instrument designed to estimate the workplace costs of health problems in terms of reduced job performance, sickness absence, and work-related accidents-injuries. Calibration data are presented on the relationship between individual-level HPQ reports and archival measures of work performance and absenteeism obtained from employer arc…
Practical Clinical Trials for Translating Research to Practice
RATIONALE: There is a pressing need for practical clinical trials (PCTs) that are more relevant to clinicians and decision-makers, but many are unaware of these trials. Furthermore, such trials can be challenging to conduct and to report. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to build on the seminal paper by Tunis et al (Practical clinical trials. Increasing the value of clinical research for decision making in clinical and health policy. JA…
Modeling the Impact of Enhanced Depression Treatment on Workplace Functioning and Costs
BACKGROUND: The impact of depression on the workplace has been widely observed in studies examining absenteeism and reduced productivity during days at work. However, there is little scientific evidence about whether depression interventions are cost-beneficial to employers. OBJECTIVE: We construct a cost-benefit analysis of depression treatment under different workplace assumptions better reflecting the nature of employment. RESEARCH DESIGN: Dat…
Response to Letter From Dr Raj Persaud
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois (Lo Sasso) Florida State University College of Medicine Tallahassee, Florida (Rost) Kaiser Permanente Aurora, Colorado (Beck)
Partnership Research
BACKGROUND: Translational research is increasingly important as academic health centers transform themselves to meet new requirements of National Institutes of Health funding. Most attention has focused on T1 translation studies (bench to bedside) with considerable uncertainty about how to enhance T2 (effectiveness trials) and especially T3 (implementation studies). OBJECTIVE: To describe an innovative example of a T3 study, conducted as partners…
Designing and Implementing Research on a Statewide Quality Improvement Initiative
OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate a rigorous methodology that optimally balanced internal validity with generalizability to evaluate a statewide collaborative that implemented an evidence-based, collaborative care model for depression management in primary care. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Several operational features of the DIAMOND (Depression Improvement Across Minnesota, Offering a New Direction) Initiative suggested that the DIAMOND Study use a stagger…
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health Care Visits Made Before Suicide Attempt Across the United States
BACKGROUND: Suicide is a public health concern, but little is known about the patterns of health care visits made before a suicide attempt, and whether those patterns differ by race/ethnicity. OBJECTIVES: To examine racial/ethnic variation in the types of health care visits made before a suicide attempt, when those visits occur, and whether mental health or substance use diagnoses were documented. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective, longitudinal stud…
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Health System, and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Depression within a Large Metropolitan Area
Association Between Adverse Social Determinants of Health and Suicide Death
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify adverse social determinants of health (SDoH) International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code prevalence among individuals who died by suicide and to examine associations between documented adverse SDoH and suicide. RESEARCH DESIGN: A case-control study using linked medical record, insurance claim, and mortality data from 2000 to 2015 obtai…
Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the Covid‐19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are among the most common and debilitating psychiatric disorders affecting youth, with both related to increased suicide risk. While rates of youth anxiety and depression were increasing before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic further negatively impacted adolescent mental health. Unfortunately, few studies have examined prevalence of these concerns among early adolescents (ages 10-13) longitudinally during th…
Safer and targeted use of antipsychotics in youth
BACKGROUND: Antipsychotic medications (AP) are inappropriately prescribed to young people. The goal of this pragmatic trial was to test a four-component approach to improved targeting of antipsychotic prescribing to people aged ≥3 and <18 years. METHODS: Clinicians in four health systems were cluster randomized by the number of previous AP orders and service line - specialty mental health and all others. Intervention arm clinicians received a bes…
Implementation Fidelity of a Virtual Adaptation of the Guiding Good Choices Program
Offering evidence‐based parenting interventions to caregivers virtually has the potential to increase the reach and public health impact of interventions. As virtual adaptations to evidence‐based interventions increase, attention must be paid to implementation fidelity, as high fidelity is associated with better program outcomes. This study examined implementation fidelity of a virtual adaptation of the family‐based Guiding Good Choices program d…
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (4 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (4 works)