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Overview

Brian J. Hall is affiliated with New York University Shanghai in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with substantial contributions in Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Health as subfields.

The thematic focus of their work covers diverse and interconnected topics. These include COVID-19 and Mental Health, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Migration, Health and Trauma, Mental Health Research Topics, Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Digital Mental Health Interventions.

Brian J. Hall has contributed to various academic publication venues, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary reach. Frequent venues include UNC Libraries, Journal of Affective Disorders, Frontiers in Psychiatry, European journal of psychotraumatology, and Asian Journal of Psychiatry.

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian J. Hall include:

  • Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2022, The Lancet Public Health)
  • Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis (2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))
  • The neglected health of international migrant workers in the COVID-19 epidemic (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Media use and acute psychological outcomes during COVID-19 outbreak in China (2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis (2020, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology)

Their frequent collaborators span multiple areas of expertise and include Gen Li, Carl A. Latkin, Yu-Tao Xiang, Wen Chen, and Hao Fong Sit, each having co-authored multiple publications with Brian J. Hall. This network of co-authors highlights interdisciplinary cooperation within mental health and social science research domains.

Best Publications

  • Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology.

    Jon D. Elhai;Robert D. Dvorak;Jason C. Levine;Brian J. Hall

  • Fear of missing out, need for touch, anxiety and depression are related to problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Robert D. Dvorak;Brian J. Hall

  • Refining our Understanding of Traumatic Growth in the Face of Terrorism: Moving from Meaning Cognitions to Doing what is Meaningful

    Stevan E. Hobfoll;Brian J. Hall;Daphna Canetti‐Nisim;Sandro Galea

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Pre-migration and post-migration factors associated with mental health in humanitarian migrants in Australia and the moderation effect of post-migration stressors: findings from the first wave data of the BNLA cohort study

    Wen Chen;Wen Chen;Brian J Hall;Brian J Hall;Brian J Hall;Li Ling;Andre M. N Renzaho

  • The neglected health of international migrant workers in the COVID-19 epidemic.

    Andrian Liem;Cheng Wang;Yosa Wariyanti;Carl A Latkin

  • Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

    Yin Wu;Brooke Levis;Kira E. Riehm;Nazanin Saadat

  • Non-social features of smartphone use are most related to depression, anxiety and problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Robert D. Dvorak;Brian J. Hall

  • Association of Depressive Symptoms With Incident Cardiovascular Diseases in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults.

    Haibin Li;Deqiang Zheng;Zhiwei Li;Zhiyuan Wu

  • Fear of missing out: Testing relationships with negative affectivity, online social engagement, and problematic smartphone use

    Jon D. Elhai;Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Ahmad M. Alghraibeh;Ali A. Alafnan

  • The relationship between anxiety symptom severity and problematic smartphone use: A review of the literature and conceptual frameworks.

    Jon D. Elhai;Jason C. Levine;Brian J. Hall;Brian J. Hall

  • Trajectories of Resilience, Resistance, and Distress During Ongoing Terrorism: The Case of Jews and Arabs in Israel

    Stevan E. Hobfoll;Patrick A. Palmieri;Regina Jones Johnson;Daphna Canetti-Nisim

  • Depression and anxiety symptoms are related to problematic smartphone use severity in Chinese young adults: Fear of missing out as a mediator.

    Jon D. Elhai;Haibo Yang;Jianwen Fang;Xuejun Bai

  • The association between problematic smartphone use, depression and anxiety symptom severity, and objectively measured smartphone use over one week

    Dmitri Rozgonjuk;Dmitri Rozgonjuk;Jason C. Levine;Brian J. Hall;Brian J. Hall;Jon D. Elhai

  • Media use and acute psychological outcomes during COVID-19 outbreak in China.

    Miao Chao;Dini Xue;Tour Liu;Haibo Yang

  • Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Joseph L Ward;Peter S Azzopardi;Kate Louise Francis;John S Santelli

  • Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017

    Roy Burstein;Nathaniel J. Henry;Michael L. Collison;Laurie B. Marczak

  • Depression and emotion regulation predict objective smartphone use measured over one week

    Jon D. Elhai;Mojisola F. Tiamiyu;Justin W. Weeks;Jason C. Levine

  • The Limits of Resilience: Distress Following Chronic Political Violence among Palestinians

    Stevan E. Hobfoll;Anthony D. Mancini;Brian J. Hall;Brian J. Hall;Daphna Canetti

  • Prevalence of prenatal and postpartum depression in fathers: A comprehensive meta-analysis of observational surveys

    Wen-Wang Rao;Xiao-Min Zhu;Qian-Qian Zong;Qinge Zhang

  • The psychological impact of impending forced settler disengagement in Gaza: Trauma and posttraumatic growth

    Brian J. Hall;Stevan E. Hobfoll;Patrick A. Palmieri;Daphna Canetti-Nisim

  • Proneness to Boredom Mediates Relationships Between Problematic Smartphone Use With Depression and Anxiety Severity

    Jon D. Elhai;Jon D. Elhai;Juanita K. Vasquez;Samuel D. Lustgarten;Jason C. Levine

Frequent Co-Authors

Stevan E. Hobfoll
Stevan E. Hobfoll Rush University Medical Center
Jon D. Elhai
Jon D. Elhai University of Toledo
Carl A. Latkin
Carl A. Latkin Johns Hopkins University
Yu-Tao Xiang
Yu-Tao Xiang University of Macau
Deborah Carvalho Malta
Deborah Carvalho Malta Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
David C. Schwebel
David C. Schwebel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Lidia Morawska
Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology

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