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Michael King is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and speech and hearing.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

Michael King's recent publications highlight diverse subject matter within mental health and health economics. Notable papers include:

  • Maintenance or Discontinuation of Antidepressants in Primary Care, 2021, published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Effectiveness of a brief lay counsellor-delivered, problem-solving intervention for adolescent mental health problems in urban, low-income schools in India: a randomised controlled trial, 2020, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Effectiveness and costs associated with a lay counselor-delivered, brief problem-solving mental health intervention for adolescents in urban, low-income schools in India: 12-month outcomes of a randomized controlled trial, 2021, published in PLoS Medicine
  • Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance: Evidence from Vietnam, 2020, published in Food Policy
  • Person-centred experiential therapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy delivered in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service for the treatment of moderate or severe depression (PRaCTICED): a pragmatic, randomised, non-inferiority trial, 2021, published in The Lancet Psychiatry

Michael King frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Rumana Omar, Rachael Hunter, Irwin Nazareth, Louise Marston, and Alexandra Pitman.

Their work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • PLoS Medicine
  • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people

    Michael King;Joanna Semlyen;Sharon See Tai;Helen Killaspy

  • Effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors for depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Vikram Patel;Helen A Weiss;Neerja Chowdhary;Smita Naik

  • Relative Risk of Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality in People With Severe Mental Illness From the United Kingdom's General Practice Research Database

    David P. J. Osborn;Gus Levy;Irwin Nazareth;Irene Petersen

  • Stigma: the feelings and experiences of 46 people with mental illness. Qualitative study.

    Sokratis Dinos;Scott Stevens;Marc Serfaty;Scott Weich

  • Dementia in the acute hospital: prospective cohort study of prevalence and mortality.

    Elizabeth L. Sampson;Martin R. Blanchard;Louise Jones;Adrian Tookman

  • How to develop a more accurate risk prediction model when there are few events

    Menelaos Pavlou;Gareth Ambler;Shaun R Seaman;Oliver Guttmann

  • Effects of suicide bereavement on mental health and suicide risk

    Alexandra Pitman;David Osborn;Michael King;Annette Erlangsen

  • Therapist-delivered internet psychotherapy for depression in primary care: a randomised controlled trial

    David Kessler;Glyn Lewis;Surinder Kaur;Nicola Wiles

  • The Stigma Scale: Development of a standardised measure of the stigma of mental illness.

    Michael King;Sokratis Dinos;Jenifer Shaw;Robert Watson

  • The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial

    Vikram Patel;Benedict Weobong;Helen A Weiss;Arpita Anand

  • Prospective controlled study of psychiatric out-patient non-attendance - Characteristics and outcome

    Helen Killaspy;Sube Banerjee;Michael King;Margaret Lloyd

  • Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. II: cost effectiveness.

    Peter Bower;Sarah Byford;Bonnie Sibbald;Elaine Ward

  • Detecting common mental disorders in primary care in India: a comparison of five screening questionnaires.

    V. Patel;R. Araya;N. Chowdhary;M. King

  • Mortality gap for people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: UK-based cohort study 2000-2014.

    Joseph F. Hayes;Louise Marston;Kate Walters;Michael B. King

  • Sexual dysfunction in primary medical care: prevalence, characteristics and detection by the general practitioner.

    Simon Read;Michael King;James Watson

  • Mental health and quality of life of gay men and lesbians in England and Wales: controlled, cross-sectional study.

    Michael King;Eamonn McKeown;James Warner;Angus Ramsay

  • Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy and usual general practitioner care in the management of depression as well as mixed anxiety and depression in primary care

    M King;B Sibbald;E Ward;P Bower

  • Prevalence of common mental disorders in general practice attendees across Europe

    Michael King;Irwin Nazareth;Gus Levy;Carl Walker

  • Childhood sexual abuse and psychosis: data from a cross-sectional national psychiatric survey in England

    Paul Bebbington;Sarah Jonas;Elizabeth Kuipers;Michael King

  • Eating disorders in a general practice population. Prevalence, characteristics and follow-up at 12 to 18 months.

    Michael B. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Irwin Nazareth
Irwin Nazareth University College London
Gerard Leavey
Gerard Leavey Centre for Mental Health
Angela Hassiotis
Angela Hassiotis University College London
Ricardo Araya
Ricardo Araya King's College London
Paul Bebbington
Paul Bebbington University College London
Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel Harvard University
Paul McCrone
Paul McCrone King's College London
Tom K. J. Craig
Tom K. J. Craig King's College London
Sally McManus
Sally McManus City, University of London
Betty R. Kirkwood
Betty R. Kirkwood London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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