Alan E. Kazdin
Yale University
H-index: 170
North America-United States
Description
Alan E. Kazdin, With an exceptional h-index of 170 and a recent h-index of 71 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Yale University,
His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:
Factors associated with satisfaction and perceived helpfulness of mental healthcare: a World Mental Health Surveys report
Proof‐of‐concept of a data‐driven approach to estimate the associations of comorbid mental and physical disorders with global health‐related disability
Patterns, predictors, and patient-reported reasons for antidepressant discontinuation in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.
Salud mental infantil y la brecha de tratamiento en México
Lifetime prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Saudi youth and adolescents
Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries
Professor Information
University | Yale University |
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Citations(all) | 127439 |
Citations(since 2020) | 23198 |
Cited By | 117008 |
hIndex(all) | 170 |
hIndex(since 2020) | 71 |
i10Index(all) | 511 |
i10Index(since 2020) | 254 |
University Profile Page | Yale University |
Top articles of Alan E. Kazdin
Factors associated with satisfaction and perceived helpfulness of mental healthcare: a World Mental Health Surveys report
BackgroundMental health service providers are increasingly interested in patient perspectives. We examined rates and predictors of patient-reported satisfaction and perceived helpfulness in a cross-national general population survey of adults with 12-month DSM-IV disorders who saw a provider for help with their mental health.MethodsData were obtained from epidemiological surveys in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Respondents were asked about satisfaction with treatments received from up to 11 different types of providers (very satisfied, satisfied, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, very dissatisfied) and helpfulness of the provider (a lot, some, a little, not at all). We modelled predictors of satisfaction and helpfulness using a dataset of patient-provider observations (n = 5,248).ResultsMost treatment was provided by general medical providers (37.4%), psychiatrists (18.4%) and …
Authors
Meredith G Harris,Alan E Kazdin,Richard J Munthali,Daniel V Vigo,Dan J Stein,Maria Carmen Viana,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Laura Helena Andrade,Brendan Bunting,Stephanie Chardoul,Oye Gureje,Chiyi Hu,Irving Hwang,Elie G Karam,Fernando Navarro-Mateu,Daisuke Nishi,Ricardo Orozco,Nancy A Sampson,Kate M Scott,Cristian Vladescu,Bogdan Wojtyniak,Miguel Xavier,Zahari Zarkov,Ronald C Kessler
Journal
International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Published Date
2024/3/1
Proof‐of‐concept of a data‐driven approach to estimate the associations of comorbid mental and physical disorders with global health‐related disability
Objective The standard method of generating disorder‐specific disability scores has lay raters make rankings between pairs of disorders based on brief disorder vignettes. This method introduces bias due to differential rater knowledge of disorders and inability to disentangle the disability due to disorders from the disability due to comorbidities. Methods We propose an alternative, data‐driven, method of generating disorder‐specific disability scores that assesses disorders in a sample of individuals either from population medical registry data or population survey self‐reports and uses Generalized Random Forests (GRF) to predict global (rather than disorder‐specific) disability assessed by clinician ratings or by survey respondent self‐reports. This method also provides a principled basis for studying patterns and predictors of heterogeneity in disorder‐specific disability. We illustrate this method by analyzing data …
Authors
Ymkje Anna de Vries,Jordi Alonso,Somnath Chatterji,Peter de Jonge,Joran Lokkerbol,John J McGrath,Maria V Petukhova,Nancy A Sampson,Erik Sverdrup,Daniel V Vigo,Stefan Wager,Ali Al‐Hamzawi,Guilherme Borges,Ronny Bruffaerts,Brendan Bunting,Stephanie Chardoul,Elie G Karam,Andrzej Kiejna,Viviane Kovess‐Masfety,Fernando Navarro‐Mateu,Akin Ojagbemi,Marina Piazza,José Posada‐Villa,Carmen Sasu,Kate M Scott,Hisateru Tachimori,Margreet Ten Have,Yolanda Torres,Maria Carmen Viana,Manuel Zamparini,Zahari Zarkov,Ronald C Kessler,World Mental Health Survey Collaborators,Sergio Aguilar‐Gaxiola,Yasmin A Altwaijri,Laura Helena Andrade,Lukoye Atwoli,Corina Benjet,Evelyn J Bromet,Jose Miguel Caldas‐de‐Almeida,Graça Cardoso,Alfredo H Cía,Louisa Degenhardt,Giovanni de Girolamo,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Meredith G Harris,Hristo Hinkov,Chi‐yi Hu,Aimee Nasser Karam,Georges Karam,Alan E Kazdin,Norito Kawakami,Salma Khaled,Maria Elena Medina‐Mora,Jacek Moskalewicz,Daisuke Nishi,Juan Carlos Stagnaro,Dan J Stein,Cristian Vladescu,David R Williams,Bogdan Wojtyniak,Peter Woodruff,Miguel Xavier,Alan M Zaslavsky
Journal
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Published Date
2024/3
Patterns, predictors, and patient-reported reasons for antidepressant discontinuation in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
BackgroundDespite their documented efficacy, substantial proportions of patients discontinue antidepressant medication (ADM) without a doctor's recommendation. The current report integrates data on patient-reported reasons into an investigation of patterns and predictors of ADM discontinuation.MethodsFace-to-face interviews with community samples from 13 countries (n = 30 697) in the World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys included n = 1890 respondents who used ADMs within the past 12 months.Results10.9% of 12-month ADM users reported discontinuation-based on recommendation of the prescriber while 15.7% discontinued in the absence of prescriber recommendation. The main patient-reported reason for discontinuation was feeling better (46.6%), which was reported by a higher proportion of patients who discontinued within the first 2 weeks of treatment than later. Perceived ineffectiveness (18.5 …
Authors
Alan E Kazdin,Meredith G Harris,Irving Hwang,Nancy A Sampson,Dan J Stein,Maria Carmen Viana,Daniel V Vigo,Chi-Shin Wu,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Jordi Alonso,Corina Benjet,Ronny Bruffaerts,José Miguel Caldas-Almeida,Graça Cardoso,Elisa Caselani,Stephanie Chardoul,Alfredo Cía,Peter De Jonge,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Elie G Karam,Viviane Kovess-Masfety,Fernando Navarro-Mateu,Marina Piazza,José Posada-Villa,Kate M Scott,Juan Carlos Stagnaro,Margreet Ten Have,Yolanda Torres,Cristian Vladescu,Ronald C Kessler
Published Date
2024/1
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research
ObjectiveRandomized control trials (RCTs) have played a critical role in psychotherapy research. This article discusses RCTs in the context of the criteria for drawing causal inferences in psychotherapy and intervention research more generally. The article also highlights underused variations of RCTs and how they not only establish causal relations but also address critical questions that can improve our intervention portfolio and patient care.ConclusionRandom assignment is discussed in terms of what it can and cannot do in relation to drawing conclusions about the effects of interventions. Finally, RCTs are examined in the context of multiple questions that can guide therapy research, improve patient care, and develop treatments that reach people in need of psychological services.
Authors
Alan E Kazdin
Journal
Psychotherapy Research
Published Date
2023/11/17
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.
The high prevalence rates of mental disorders worldwide and the paucity of services constitute a mental health crisis. The vast majority of people in low-, middle-, and high-income countries do not receive any intervention for their symptoms of mental disorders, despite enormous advances in developing evidence-based psychosocial treatments and medications. The article proposes greater utilization of interventions in everyday life as an addition to the more traditional and commonly used mental-health interventions. The article delineates criteria to help identify what such interventions ought to include to permit accessibility, scalability, and reach to special populations. Physical activity, contact with nature, and yoga are examples to illustrate the class of everyday interventions that have evidence attesting to their impact on mental health and symptoms of psychopathology. The challenge is to integrate such …
Authors
Alan E Kazdin
Journal
American Psychologist
Published Date
2023/4/20
Salud mental infantil y la brecha de tratamiento en México
El presente artículo se centra en la brecha de tratamiento, que se refiere a la discrepancia entre la proporción de la población que necesita servicios y la que los recibe. Actualmente, en México, pero también en el mundo, la mayoría de las personas que necesitan servicios de salud mental no reciben tratamiento. Los autores se centran en el tratamiento de los trastornos mentales en niños y adolescentes porque en su mayoría tales trastornos surgen durante estos periodos de vida. Se discuten las barreras para recibir y prestar servicios de las personas que lo necesitan, y se subraya la importancia de proporcionar tratamientos que sean escalables (o sea, que puedan llegar a un gran número de personas) y que tengan alcance (es decir, que puedan extenderse a los grupos que a menudo se descuidan en la atención de la salud mental). Se identifican múltiples modelos de prestación de tratamiento y se ilustran tres de ellos en detalle: el cambio de tareas, el entretenimiento educativo y las intervenciones de mejor-compra. Estos y otros modelos permiten que los servicios de salud mental lleguen a más personas que los necesitan, y reducir así la brecha de tratamiento en México.
Authors
Karla Suárez,Alan E Kazdin
Journal
Psicología y Salud
Published Date
2023
Lifetime prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Saudi youth and adolescents
Previous global and regional studies indicate that adolescents and young adults (i.e., youth) are affected by various mental disorders with lifelong consequences. However, there are no national estimates of mental disorders prevalent among Saudi youth. Using data from the Saudi National Mental Health Survey (SNMHS), we examined the lifetime prevalence, treatment, and socio-demographic correlates of mental disorders among Saudi youth (aged 15–30). A total of 4004 interviews were conducted using the adapted Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0). Cross tabulations and logistic regression were used to generate estimates for the SNMHS youth sample (n = 1881). The prevalence of a mental disorder among Saudi youth was 40.10%, where anxiety disorders affected 26.84% of the sample, followed by disruptive behavior disorders (15.44%), mood disorders (9.67%), substance use …
Authors
Yasmin Altwaijri,Alan E Kazdin,Abdullah Al-Subaie,Abdulhameed Al-Habeeb,Sanaa Hyder,Lisa Bilal,Mohammad Talal Naseem,Edward De Vol
Journal
Scientific Reports
Published Date
2023/4/15
Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries
BackgroundInformation on the frequency and timing of mental disorder onsets across the lifespan is of fundamental importance for public health planning. Broad, cross-national estimates of this information from coordinated general population surveys were last updated in 2007. We aimed to provide updated and improved estimates of age-of-onset distributions, lifetime prevalence, and morbid risk.MethodsIn this cross-national analysis, we analysed data from respondents aged 18 years or older to the World Mental Health surveys, a coordinated series of cross-sectional, face-to-face community epidemiological surveys administered between 2001 and 2022. In the surveys, the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview, a fully structured psychiatric diagnostic interview, was used to assess age of onset, lifetime prevalence, and morbid risk of 13 DSM-IV mental disorders until age 75 years across surveys by …
Authors
John J McGrath,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Yasmin Altwaijri,Laura H Andrade,Evelyn J Bromet,Ronny Bruffaerts,José Miguel Caldas de Almeida,Stephanie Chardoul,Wai Tat Chiu,Louisa Degenhardt,Olga V Demler,Finola Ferry,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Elie G Karam,Georges Karam,Salma M Khaled,Viviane Kovess-Masfety,Marta Magno,Maria Elena Medina-Mora,Jacek Moskalewicz,Fernando Navarro-Mateu,Daisuke Nishi,Oleguer Plana-Ripoll,José Posada-Villa,Charlene Rapsey,Nancy A Sampson,Juan Carlos Stagnaro,Dan J Stein,Margreet Ten Have,Yolanda Torres,Cristian Vladescu,Peter W Woodruff,Zahari Zarkov,Ronald C Kessler,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Yasmin A Altwaijri,Laura Helena Andrade,Lukoye Atwoli,Corina Benjet,Evelyn J Bromet,Brendan Bunting,José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida,Graça Cardoso,Alfredo H Cía,Giovanni De Girolamo,Meredith G Harris,Hristo Hinkov,Chi-yi Hu,Peter De Jonge,Aimee N Karam,Elie G Karam,Alan E Kazdin,Norito Kawakami,Ronald C Kessler,Andrzej Kiejna,John J McGrath,Marina Piazza,Kate M Scott,Dan J Stein,Margreet Ten Have,Maria Carmen Viana,Daniel V Vigo,David R Williams,Peter Woodruff,Bogdan Wojtyniak,Miguel Xavier,Alan M Zaslavsky
Journal
The Lancet Psychiatry
Published Date
2023/9/1
Professor FAQs
What is Alan E. Kazdin's h-index at Yale University?
The h-index of Alan E. Kazdin has been 71 since 2020 and 170 in total.
What are Alan E. Kazdin's top articles?
The articles with the titles of
Factors associated with satisfaction and perceived helpfulness of mental healthcare: a World Mental Health Surveys report
Proof‐of‐concept of a data‐driven approach to estimate the associations of comorbid mental and physical disorders with global health‐related disability
Patterns, predictors, and patient-reported reasons for antidepressant discontinuation in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Drawing causal inferences from randomized controlled trials in psychotherapy research
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.
Salud mental infantil y la brecha de tratamiento en México
Lifetime prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in Saudi youth and adolescents
Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries
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are the top articles of Alan E. Kazdin at Yale University.
What is Alan E. Kazdin's total number of citations?
Alan E. Kazdin has 127,439 citations in total.
What are the co-authors of Alan E. Kazdin?
The co-authors of Alan E. Kazdin are Ronald C Kessler, Philip C. Kendall, Benjamin Lahey, Matthew Nock, Ted Jack Kaptchuk, Brian Scassellati.