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David L. Streiner

David L. Streiner

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Psychology
Canada
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
113
Citations
70712
World Ranking
348
National Ranking
12

Medicine

D-Index
123
Citations
81404
World Ranking
3276
National Ranking
137

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David L. Streiner is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with substantial publications in Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and General Health Professions.

Their research topics focus on areas including Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, as well as COVID-19 epidemiological studies and related SARS-CoV-2 research. They have also contributed to research on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Streiner include:

  • Effect of Online 1-Day Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Based Workshops Plus Usual Care vs Usual Care Alone for Postpartum Depression, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • The Effectiveness of 6 versus 12 Months of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial, 2022, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for perinatal anxiety: A randomized controlled trial, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Treatment selection in borderline personality disorder between dialectical behavior therapy and psychodynamic psychiatric management, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • Validation of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool-Neuro in brain-injured adults in the intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study, 2021, Critical Care

Frequent co-authors in Streiner's research include Randi E. McCabe, Sheryl M. Green, Benício N. Frey, Eleanor Donegan, and Melissa Furtado.

They have published regularly in venues such as the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

David L. Streiner was awarded the Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use

    David L. Streiner;Geoffrey R. Norman;John Cairney

  • Starting at the beginning: An introduction to coefficient alpha and internal consistency

    David L. Streiner

  • Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies (GRRAS) were proposed.

    Jan Kottner;Laurent Audige;Stig Brorson;Allan Donner

  • Health Measurement Scales

    David L. Streiner;Geoffrey R. Norman

  • Childhood abuse and lifetime psychopathology in a community sample.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Jan E. Fleming;David L. Streiner;Elizabeth Lin

  • Being Inconsistent About Consistency: When Coefficient Alpha Does and Doesn't Matter

    David L. Streiner

  • The Prevalence of Anxiety and Mood Problems among Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome

    Joseph A. Kim;Peter Szatmari;Susan E. Bryson;David L. Streiner

  • Figuring Out Factors: The Use and Misuse of Factor Analysis:

    David L. Streiner

  • A randomized trial of dialectical behavior therapy versus general psychiatric management for borderline personality disorder.

    Shelley F. McMain;Paul S. Links;William H. Gnam;Tim Guimond

  • Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis:

    David L Streiner

  • Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 2. Assessing potential for confounding

    Muhammad Mamdani;Kathy Sykora;Ping Li;Sharon-Lise T Normand

  • Correction for multiple testing: is there a resolution?

    David L. Streiner;David L. Streiner;Geoffrey R. Norman

  • Skin‐to‐skin care for procedural pain in neonates

    Celeste Johnston;Marsha Campbell-Yeo;Timothy Disher;Britney Benoit

  • What's under the ROC? An Introduction to Receiver Operating Characteristics Curves

    David L Streiner;John Cairney

  • Fluoxetine in the Treatment of Premenstrual Dysphoria

    Meir Steiner;Susanne Steinberg;Donna Stewart;Diana Carter

  • Introduction to health measurement scales

    András P. Keszei;Márta Novak;Márta Novak;David L. Streiner

  • School Difficulties at Adolescence in a Regional Cohort of Children Who Were Extremely Low Birth Weight

    Saroj Saigal;Lorraine A. Hoult;David L. Streiner;Barbara L. Stoskopf

  • An introduction to multivariate statistics.

    David L. Streiner

  • Breaking up is hard to do: the heartbreak of dichotomizing continuous data.

    David L Streiner

  • Effects on quality of life with comprehensive rehabilitation after acute myocardial infarction.

    Neil Oldridge;Gordon Guyatt;Norman Jones;Jean Crowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey R. Norman
Geoffrey R. Norman McMaster University
John Cairney
John Cairney University of Queensland
Peter Rosenbaum
Peter Rosenbaum McMaster University
Saroj Saigal
Saroj Saigal McMaster University
Paula Goering
Paula Goering Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Michael H. Boyle
Michael H. Boyle McMaster University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Scott Veldhuizen
Scott Veldhuizen Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Randi E. McCabe
Randi E. McCabe McMaster University
Paul S. Links
Paul S. Links McMaster University

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