David R Offord
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1734191 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David R Offord |
| PRENOMES | David R |
| SOBRENOME | Offord |
| ASSINATURA | OFFORD D R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McMaster University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Big Brothers Big Sisters community match program at the national level
Effect of a Structured Arts Program on the Psychosocial Functioning of Youth From Low-Income Communities
This study reports on the longitudinal examination of a structured arts program for Canadian youth, aged 9 to 15 years, from low-income communities. Evaluated were the extent to which community-based organizations successfully recruited and retained youth in the program and whether they demonstrated improvement with respect to artistic ability (combination of theatre, visual, and media arts) and psychosocial indicators. The results suggest succes…
Research use in children's mental health policy in Canada
Youth at Risk of Homelessness in an Affluent Toronto Suburb
The epidemiology of major depressive episodes
Absence of a common diagnostic interview has hampered cross‐national syntheses of epidemiological evidence on major depressive episodes (MDE). Community epidemiological surveys using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview administered face‐to‐face were carried out in 10 countries in North America (Canada and the US), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, and Mexico), Europe (Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, an…
Stress, social support and depression in single and married mothers
The Health of Ontario First Nations People
How Do Risk Factors Work Together? Mediators, Moderators, and Independent, Overlapping, and Proxy Risk Factors
OBJECTIVE: The authors developed a methodological basis for investigating how risk factors work together. Better methods are needed for understanding the etiology of disorders, such as psychiatric syndromes, that presumably are the result of complex causal chains. METHOD: Approaches from psychology, epidemiology, clinical trials, and basic sciences were synthesized. RESULTS: The authors define conceptually and operationally five different clinica…
Familial Influences on Substance Use by Adolescents and Young Adults
Age at First Alcohol Use
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the natural course of DSM-III-R alcohol disorders as a function of age at first alcohol use and to investigate the influence of early use as a risk factor for progression to the development of alcohol disorders, exclusive of the effect of confounding influences. METHOD: Data were obtained from a community sample (N=5,856) of lifetime drinkers participating in the 1990-1991 Mental Health Supplement of the On…
Tracking the Use and Impact of a Community Social Report
Childhood stress and symptoms of drug dependence in adolescence and early adulthood
Retrospective data from 7,871 individuals age 16 to 64 were used to investigate whether, among those diagnosed with lifetime social phobia, its symptoms serve to link life events and chronic strains in childhood with symptoms of drug dependence in adulthood. Findings suggest social phobia as a pathway through which early life events and chronic strains affect the development of drug-related problems. Implications for research and clinical practic…
Physical Health Complaints and the Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services Among Those with a Mental Disorder
Factors predicting use of mental health and social services by children 6-16 years old
Correlates of mental health and social service utilization are examined based on Ontario Child Health Study data. Findings indicate that psychiatric disorder as a predictor of service use may be confounded by school performance and parental use of services, thus calling into question the extent to which program planning should be based on prevalence rates of child psychiatric disorder. Children from low-income families tend to make greater use of…
Epidemiology of Childhood Depressive Disorders
Immigrant children
Data from the Ontario Child Health Study were used to examine the strength of association between child immigrant status and child psychiatric disorder, poor school performance, and use of mental health/social services. Bivariate results indicate that immigrant children are not at increased risk for psychiatric disorder or poor school performance and that they use mental health and social services significantly less often than do their nonimmigra…
Ontario Child Health Study
The reliability and validity of the 12‐item General Functioning (GF) subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) is reported here. Psychometric properties of the FAD have been previously determined, but no independent assessment has been made of the GF subscale, which was used to measure family functioning in the Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS). Reliability was measured by Chronbach's alpha and split‐half correlation. Validity was a…
Ontario Child Health Study
We studied the six-month prevalence of four child psychiatric disorders (conduct disorder, hyperactivity, emotional disorder, and somatization) and patterns of service utilization for mental health and social services, ambulatory medical care and special education by different regions of Ontario, urban-rural residence, and age and sex groupings. Among children 4 to 16 years of age, the overall six-month prevalence rate of one or more of these dis…
School Performance, IQ and Female Delinquency
The present study explores the extent to which early school failure may be related causally to female delinquency. Parental interview and school record data were collected on 59 girls (and their families) placed on probation. The results suggest that in a relatively poor urban environment school failure does not play an important etiologic role in female delinquency but rather both the school failure and the delinquency arise from common or co-ex…
Broken homes, parental psychiatric illness, and female delinquency
Fifty-nine families with delinquent daughters were compared with 59 families, matched on socioeconomic class, with daughters of the same age who were not delinquent. The frequency of broken homes was found to be the strongest distinguishing factor between probands and controls. Parental disabilities appeared to play a part in the incidence of delinquency among girls, particularly when the disabilities result in a broken home
School Performance, Iq and Delinquency
D. R. OFFORD, MARY F. POUSHINSKY, KATHRYN SULLIVAN; SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, IQ AND DELINQUENCY, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 April
Three Developmental Pathways to Delinquency in Girls
This paper presents familial-social data from both records and interviews on three groups of delinquent girls. The results suggest that the anti-social behaviour of these girls in the three groups may have different developmental roots. The possible nature of the etiological factors involved and the resulting treatment implications are discussed
Research use in children's mental health policy in Canada
Familial Influences on Substance Use by Adolescents and Young Adults
Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Big Brothers Big Sisters community match program at the national level
Effect of a Structured Arts Program on the Psychosocial Functioning of Youth From Low-Income Communities
This study reports on the longitudinal examination of a structured arts program for Canadian youth, aged 9 to 15 years, from low-income communities. Evaluated were the extent to which community-based organizations successfully recruited and retained youth in the program and whether they demonstrated improvement with respect to artistic ability (combination of theatre, visual, and media arts) and psychosocial indicators. The results suggest succes…
School Performance, Iq and Delinquency
D. R. OFFORD, MARY F. POUSHINSKY, KATHRYN SULLIVAN; SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, IQ AND DELINQUENCY, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 April
Youth at Risk of Homelessness in an Affluent Toronto Suburb
The Health of Ontario First Nations People
Three Developmental Pathways to Delinquency in Girls
This paper presents familial-social data from both records and interviews on three groups of delinquent girls. The results suggest that the anti-social behaviour of these girls in the three groups may have different developmental roots. The possible nature of the etiological factors involved and the resulting treatment implications are discussed
Tracking the Use and Impact of a Community Social Report
Three Developmental Pathways to Delinquency in Girls
This paper presents familial-social data from both records and interviews on three groups of delinquent girls. The results suggest that the anti-social behaviour of these girls in the three groups may have different developmental roots. The possible nature of the etiological factors involved and the resulting treatment implications are discussed
School Performance, Iq and Delinquency
D. R. OFFORD, MARY F. POUSHINSKY, KATHRYN SULLIVAN; SCHOOL PERFORMANCE, IQ AND DELINQUENCY, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 April
Broken homes, parental psychiatric illness, and female delinquency
Fifty-nine families with delinquent daughters were compared with 59 families, matched on socioeconomic class, with daughters of the same age who were not delinquent. The frequency of broken homes was found to be the strongest distinguishing factor between probands and controls. Parental disabilities appeared to play a part in the incidence of delinquency among girls, particularly when the disabilities result in a broken home
School Performance, IQ and Female Delinquency
The present study explores the extent to which early school failure may be related causally to female delinquency. Parental interview and school record data were collected on 59 girls (and their families) placed on probation. The results suggest that in a relatively poor urban environment school failure does not play an important etiologic role in female delinquency but rather both the school failure and the delinquency arise from common or co-ex…
Ontario Child Health Study
We studied the six-month prevalence of four child psychiatric disorders (conduct disorder, hyperactivity, emotional disorder, and somatization) and patterns of service utilization for mental health and social services, ambulatory medical care and special education by different regions of Ontario, urban-rural residence, and age and sex groupings. Among children 4 to 16 years of age, the overall six-month prevalence rate of one or more of these dis…
Ontario Child Health Study
The reliability and validity of the 12‐item General Functioning (GF) subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) is reported here. Psychometric properties of the FAD have been previously determined, but no independent assessment has been made of the GF subscale, which was used to measure family functioning in the Ontario Child Health Study (OCHS). Reliability was measured by Chronbach's alpha and split‐half correlation. Validity was a…
Immigrant children
Data from the Ontario Child Health Study were used to examine the strength of association between child immigrant status and child psychiatric disorder, poor school performance, and use of mental health/social services. Bivariate results indicate that immigrant children are not at increased risk for psychiatric disorder or poor school performance and that they use mental health and social services significantly less often than do their nonimmigra…
Epidemiology of Childhood Depressive Disorders
Factors predicting use of mental health and social services by children 6-16 years old
Correlates of mental health and social service utilization are examined based on Ontario Child Health Study data. Findings indicate that psychiatric disorder as a predictor of service use may be confounded by school performance and parental use of services, thus calling into question the extent to which program planning should be based on prevalence rates of child psychiatric disorder. Children from low-income families tend to make greater use of…
Physical Health Complaints and the Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services Among Those with a Mental Disorder
Childhood stress and symptoms of drug dependence in adolescence and early adulthood
Retrospective data from 7,871 individuals age 16 to 64 were used to investigate whether, among those diagnosed with lifetime social phobia, its symptoms serve to link life events and chronic strains in childhood with symptoms of drug dependence in adulthood. Findings suggest social phobia as a pathway through which early life events and chronic strains affect the development of drug-related problems. Implications for research and clinical practic…
Age at First Alcohol Use
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the natural course of DSM-III-R alcohol disorders as a function of age at first alcohol use and to investigate the influence of early use as a risk factor for progression to the development of alcohol disorders, exclusive of the effect of confounding influences. METHOD: Data were obtained from a community sample (N=5,856) of lifetime drinkers participating in the 1990-1991 Mental Health Supplement of the On…
Tracking the Use and Impact of a Community Social Report
How Do Risk Factors Work Together? Mediators, Moderators, and Independent, Overlapping, and Proxy Risk Factors
OBJECTIVE: The authors developed a methodological basis for investigating how risk factors work together. Better methods are needed for understanding the etiology of disorders, such as psychiatric syndromes, that presumably are the result of complex causal chains. METHOD: Approaches from psychology, epidemiology, clinical trials, and basic sciences were synthesized. RESULTS: The authors define conceptually and operationally five different clinica…
Familial Influences on Substance Use by Adolescents and Young Adults
The epidemiology of major depressive episodes
Absence of a common diagnostic interview has hampered cross‐national syntheses of epidemiological evidence on major depressive episodes (MDE). Community epidemiological surveys using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview administered face‐to‐face were carried out in 10 countries in North America (Canada and the US), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, and Mexico), Europe (Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, an…
Stress, social support and depression in single and married mothers
The Health of Ontario First Nations People
Youth at Risk of Homelessness in an Affluent Toronto Suburb
Research use in children's mental health policy in Canada
Effect of a Structured Arts Program on the Psychosocial Functioning of Youth From Low-Income Communities
This study reports on the longitudinal examination of a structured arts program for Canadian youth, aged 9 to 15 years, from low-income communities. Evaluated were the extent to which community-based organizations successfully recruited and retained youth in the program and whether they demonstrated improvement with respect to artistic ability (combination of theatre, visual, and media arts) and psychosocial indicators. The results suggest succes…
Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of the Big Brothers Big Sisters community match program at the national level
Medicine (17 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Psychiatry (16 obras) · Clinical Psychology (11 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Mental health (6 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)