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Overview

Kate M. Scott is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a focus on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work addresses several main topics including Mental Health Treatment and Access, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes, Migration, Health and Trauma, and Schizophrenia Research and Treatment.

Frequent publication venues for Kate M. Scott include the International Journal of Mental Health Systems, Psychological Medicine, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, and BMC Psychiatry.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Scott are:

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries (2023, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Comorbidity within mental disorders: a comprehensive analysis based on 145 990 survey respondents from 27 countries (2020, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences)
  • Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Toward measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder (2020, Psychological Medicine)

Kate M. Scott has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Jordi Alonso, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Oye Gureje, Ronald C. Kessler, and Ronny Bruffaerts.

Best Publications

  • Global prevalence of anxiety disorders: a systematic review and meta-regression

    A. J. Baxter;K. M. Scott;T. Vos;H. A. Whiteford

  • Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    R. P. Auerbach;J. Alonso;W. G. Axinn;P. Cuijpers

  • Cross-National Associations Between Gender and Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Soraya Seedat;Kate Margaret Scott;Matthias C. Angermeyer;Patricia Berglund

  • Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Corina Benjet

  • The prevalence and correlates of binge eating disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Patricia A. Berglund;Wai Tat Chiu;Anne C. Deitz

  • The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium.

    C. Benjet;E. Bromet;E. G. Karam;R. C. Kessler

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys.

    K. C. Koenen;A. Ratanatharathorn;L. Ng;K. A. McLaughlin

  • The global burden of anxiety disorders in 2010

    A. J. Baxter;T. Vos;K. M. Scott;A. J. Ferrari

  • Mental disorders among persons with chronic back or neck pain: results from the World Mental Health Surveys.

    Koen Demyttenaere;Ronny Bruffaerts;Sing Lee;José Posada-Villa

  • Socio-economic variations in the mental health treatment gap for people with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys

    S Evans-Lacko;S Aguilar-Gaxiola;A Al-Hamzawi;J Alonso

  • Multiple Actions of the Chemokine CXCL12 on Epithelial Tumor Cells in Human Ovarian Cancer

    Chris J. Scotton;Julia L. Wilson;Kate Scott;Gordon Stamp

  • Depression–anxiety relationships with chronic physical conditions: Results from the World Mental Health surveys

    KM Scott;Ronny Bruffaerts;A Tsang;J Ormel

  • Obesity and mental disorders in the general population: results from the world mental health surveys.

    K M Scott;Ronny Bruffaerts;G E Simon;J Alonso

  • Association of Mental Disorders With Subsequent Chronic Physical Conditions: World Mental Health Surveys From 17 Countries

    Kate M. Scott;Carmen Lim;Ali Al-Hamzawi;Jordi Alonso

  • Psychotic Experiences in the General Population: A Cross-National Analysis Based on 31 261 Respondents From 18 Countries

    John J. McGrath;John J. McGrath;Sukanta Saha;Sukanta Saha;Ali Al-Hamzawi;Jordi Alonso

  • Exploring Comorbidity Within Mental Disorders Among a Danish National Population.

    Oleguer Plana-Ripoll;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Yan Holtz;Michael E. Benros;Michael E. Benros

  • Days out of role due to common physical and mental conditions: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys

    J. Alonso;M. Petukhova;G. Vilagut;S. Chatterji

  • Obesity and mental disorders in the adult general population

    Kate M Scott;Magnus A McGee;J Elisabeth Wells;Mark Anthony Oakley Browne

  • Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world.

    Johan Ormel;Maria Petukhova;Somnath Chatterji;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

  • Challenging the myth of an "epidemic" of common mental disorders: trends in the global prevalence of anxiety and depression between 1990 and 2010.

    Amanda J. Baxter;Amanda J. Baxter;Kate M. Scott;Alize J. Ferrari;Alize J. Ferrari;Rosana E. Norman;Rosana E. Norman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Jose Posada-Villa
Jose Posada-Villa Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje University of Ibadan
Giovanni de Girolamo
Giovanni de Girolamo Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Chiyi Hu
Chiyi Hu University of California, Davis
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola University of California, Davis

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