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Overview

Joan Russo is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology, medicine, and health professions, focusing significantly on trauma, emergency care, and mental health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, Joan Russo has contributed extensively to the following subfields:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Their research covers diverse topics such as:

  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Joan Russo has published frequently in several academic venues. Some of the key publication platforms include:

  • Psychiatry
  • Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Injury
  • General Hospital Psychiatry

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Joan Russo include:

  • A Meta-analysis of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Depression (2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin)
  • Stepped Collaborative Care Targeting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Comorbidity for US Trauma Care Systems (2021, JAMA Surgery)
  • Variation In The Effectiveness Of Collaborative Care For Depression: Does It Matter Where You Get Your Care? (2020, Health Affairs)
  • Effectiveness of collaborative care in reducing suicidal ideation: An individual participant data meta-analysis (2021, General Hospital Psychiatry)
  • A Prospective US National Trauma Center Study of Firearm Injury Survivors Weapon Carriage and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms (2021, Annals of Surgery)

The scientist has collaborated closely with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Douglas Zatzick
  • Eileen M. Bulger
  • Allison Engstrom
  • Lauren Whiteside
  • Kathleen Moloney

Best Publications

  • Depression and diabetes: impact of depressive symptoms on adherence, function, and costs.

    Paul S. Ciechanowski;Wayne J. Katon;Joan E. Russo

  • The Ways of Coping Checklist: Revision and psychometric properties.

    Peter P. Vitaliano;Joan Russo;John E. Carr;Roland D. Maiuro

  • Collaborative management to achieve treatment guidelines : impact on depression in primary care

    Wayne Katon;Michael Von Korff;Elizabeth Lin;Edward Walker

  • The Pathways Study: a randomized trial of collaborative care in patients with diabetes and depression

    Wayne J. Katon;Michael Von Korff;Elizabeth H. B. Lin;Greg Simon

  • Adult health status of women with histories of childhood abuse and neglect

    Edward A Walker;Ann Gelfand;Wayne J Katon;Mary P Koss

  • Evaluation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Item for Detecting Major Depression Among Adolescents

    Laura P. Richardson;Elizabeth McCauley;Elizabeth McCauley;David C. Grossman;David C. Grossman;Carolyn A. McCarty

  • Stepped Collaborative Care for Primary Care Patients With Persistent Symptoms of Depression: A Randomized Trial

    Wayne Katon;Michael Von Korff;Elizabeth Lin;Greg Simon

  • The Patient-Provider Relationship: Attachment Theory and Adherence to Treatment in Diabetes

    Paul S. Ciechanowski;Wayne J. Katon;Joan E. Russo;Edward A. Walker

  • Distressed high utilizers of medical care: DSM-III-R diagnoses and treatment needs☆

    Wayne Katon;Michael Von Korff;Elizabeth Lin;Elizabeth Lin;Patricia Lipscomb

  • Increased Medical Costs of a Population-Based Sample of Depressed Elderly Patients

    Wayne J. Katon;Elizabeth Lin;Joan Russo;Jürgen Unützer

  • Raw versus relative scores in the assessment of coping strategies

    Peter P. Vitaliano;Roland D. Maiuro;Joan Russo;Joseph Becker

  • Behavioral and Clinical Factors Associated With Depression Among Individuals With Diabetes

    Wayne Katon;Michael Von Korff;Paul Ciechanowski;Joan Russo

  • Relationship of chronic pelvic pain to psychiatric diagnoses and childhood sexual abuse

    Elizabeth Walker;Wayne Katon;J. Harrop-Griffiths;L. Holm

  • The relationship of depressive symptoms to symptom reporting, self-care and glucose control in diabetes.

    Paul S Ciechanowski;Wayne J Katon;Joan E Russo;Irl B Hirsch

  • Appraised changeability of a stressor as a modifier of the relationship between coping and depression: a test of the hypothesis of fit.

    Peter P. Vitaliano;Deborah J. DeWolfe;Roland D. Maiuro;Joan Russo

  • Somatization: a spectrum of severity.

    W Katon;E Lin;M Von Korff;J Russo

  • The Screen for Caregiver Burden

    Peter P. Vitaliano;Joan Russo;Heather M. Young;Joseph Becker

  • Attachment theory: a model for health care utilization and somatization.

    Paul S Ciechanowski;Edward A Walker;Wayne J Katon;Joan E Russo

  • Predictors of Burden in Spouse Caregivers of Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease

    Peter P. Vitaliano;Joan Russo;Heather M. Young;Linda Teri

  • The longitudinal effects of depression on physical activity.

    Babak Roshanaei-Moghaddam;Wayne J. Katon;Joan Russo

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne Katon
Wayne Katon University of Washington
Peter Roy-Byrne
Peter Roy-Byrne University of Washington
Peter P. Vitaliano
Peter P. Vitaliano University of Washington
Michael Von Korff
Michael Von Korff Kaiser Permanente
Evette J. Ludman
Evette J. Ludman Kaiser Permanente
Edward A. Walker
Edward A. Walker University of Washington
Frederick P. Rivara
Frederick P. Rivara University of Washington
Richard K. Ries
Richard K. Ries University of Washington
Gregory J. Jurkovich
Gregory J. Jurkovich University of California, Davis
Elizabeth H. B. Lin
Elizabeth H. B. Lin Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

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