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Overview

Deborah A. King is affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields including economics and econometrics, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, applied psychology, and epidemiology. The primary topics addressed in their work involve the economic and financial impacts of cancer, digital mental health interventions, dementia and cognitive impairment research, health systems and economic evaluations, quality of life, health policy implementation science, mental health and patient involvement, and multiple and secondary primary cancers.

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as JCO Oncology Practice, with four publications, as well as in Trials, Implementation Science, Behavioral Sciences, and Contemporary Clinical Trials. Their recent papers cover a range of interdisciplinary health issues and include the following:

  • The Cancer Financial Experience (CAFÉ) study: randomized controlled trial of a financial navigation intervention to address cancer-related financial hardship, 2022, Trials
  • Study protocol for a factorial-randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation, costs, effectiveness, and sustainment of digital therapeutics for substance use disorder in primary care (DIGITS Trial), 2023, Implementation Science
  • Eliciting Willingness and Beliefs towards Participation in Genetic Psychiatric Testing in Black/African American Mothers at Risk for Depression, 2020, Behavioral Sciences
  • The electronic health record Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia Assessment Rule (eRADAR) Brain Health Trial: Protocol for an embedded, pragmatic clinical trial of a low-cost dementia detection algorithm, 2023, Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • Service learning: Nursing students' civic engagement with diverse populations of children with special needs, 2022, Journal of Pediatric Nursing

The collaborative network of Deborah A. King includes frequent coauthors such as Nora B. Henrikson, Blake W. Locher, Amanda F. Petrik, Matthew P. Banegas, and Erin Keast, with repeated joint contributions indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Screening for Depression in Elderly Primary Care Patients: A Comparison of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies—Depression Scale and the Geriatric Depression Scale

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Tamson Kelly Noel;Christopher Cox;Deborah A. King

  • Method Choice, Intent, and Gender in Completed Suicide

    Diane G. Denning;Yeates Conwell;Deborah King;Chris Cox

  • The importance of subsyndromal depression in older primary care patients: prevalence and associated functional disability.

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Deborah A. King;Christopher Cox;Z. Yoediono

  • Older Age and the Underreporting of Depressive Symptoms

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Christopher Cox;Jennifer Curry;Yeates Conwell

  • Psychiatric disorders in older primary care patients.

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Eric D. Caine;Deborah A. King;Christopher Cox

  • The clinical significance of subsyndromal depression in older primary care patients.

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;JaeHyun Kim;JaeHyun Kim;Xin Tu;Yeates Conwell

  • Social support, depression, and functional disability in older adult primary-care patients.

    Linda A. Travis;Jeffrey M. Lyness;Cleveland G. Shields;Deborah A. King

  • Stimulus and response contingencies in the misbehavior of rats.

    William Timberlake;Glenda Wahl;Deborah A. King

  • Personality is associated with perceived health and functional status in older primary care patients.

    Paul R Duberstein;Silvia Sörensen;Jeffrey M Lyness;Deborah A King

  • Depressive symptoms, medical illness, and functional status in depressed psychiatric inpatients.

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Eric D. Caine;Yeates Conwell;Deborah A. King

  • Depressive disorders and symptoms in older primary care patients: one-year outcomes.

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Eric D. Caine;Deborah A. King;Yeates Conwell

  • A Neuropsychological Comparison of Depressed Suicide Attempters and Nonattempters

    Deborah A. King;Yeates Conwell;Christopher Cox;Robin E. Henderson

  • Cerebrovascular Risk Factors and 1-Year Depression Outcome in Older Primary Care Patients

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Deborah A. King;Yeates Conwell;Christopher Cox

  • Reconsidering Depression in the Elderly.

    Eric D. Caine;Jeffrey M. Lyness;Deborah A. King

  • Cerebrovascular risk factors and later-life major depression. Testing a small-vessel brain disease model.

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Eric D. Caine;Christopher Cox;Deborah A. King

  • Does perceived burdensomeness erode meaning in life among older adults

    Kimberly A. Van Orden;Patricia M. Bamonti;Deborah A. King;Paul R. Duberstein

  • Trait Neuroticism, Depression, and Cognitive Function in Older Primary Care Patients

    Lisa L. Boyle;Jeffrey M. Lyness;Paul R. Duberstein;Jurgis Karuza

  • Sex differences in subclinical depression: administration of the Beck Depression Inventory in public and private disclosure situations.

    Deborah A. King;Alexander M. Buchwald

  • Working with families in palliative care: one size does not fit all.

    Deborah A. King;Timothy Quill

  • Adapting Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Older Adults at Risk for Suicide

    Marnin J. Heisel;Marnin J. Heisel;Marnin J. Heisel;Nancy L. Talbot;Deborah A. King;Xin M. Tu

  • Adapting Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Older Adults at Risk for Suicide: Preliminary Findings

    Marnin J. Heisel;Paul R. Duberstein;Nancy L. Talbot;Deborah A. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Duberstein
Paul R. Duberstein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Marnin J. Heisel
Marnin J. Heisel University of Western Ontario
Silvia Sörensen
Silvia Sörensen University of Rochester
Kimberly A. Van Orden
Kimberly A. Van Orden University of Rochester Medical Center
William Timberlake
William Timberlake Indiana University
Wilfred R. Pigeon
Wilfred R. Pigeon University of Rochester Medical Center

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