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Overview

Nancy A. Sampson is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and general health professions.

The primary topics of their work center around mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, suicide and self-harm studies, posttraumatic stress disorder research, health disparities and outcomes, mental health research topics, and areas related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Their publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries, 2023, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Sources of Stress and Their Associations With Mental Disorders Among College Students: Results of the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Initiative, 2020, published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative, 2021, published in Psychological Medicine
  • Barriers to Mental Health Service Use and Predictors of Treatment Drop Out: Racial/Ethnic Variation in a Population-Based Study, 2020, published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
  • Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey, 2020, published in International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Frequent co-authors include Ronald C. Kessler, Jordi Alonso, Ronny Bruffaerts, Daniel Vigo, and Irving Hwang.

Publication venues where Nancy A. Sampson has frequently contributed include Psychological Medicine, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, UNC Libraries, JAMA Psychiatry, and International Journal of Mental Health Systems.

Best Publications

  • Twelve‐month and lifetime prevalence and lifetime morbid risk of anxiety and mood disorders in the United States.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Maria Petukhova;Nancy A. Sampson;Alan M. Zaslavsky

  • Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative.

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Robert Jin;Jian-Ping He;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode

    Evelyn Bromet;Laura Helena Andrade;Irving Hwang;Nancy A Sampson

  • Childhood Adversities and Adult Psychiatric Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication I: Associations With First Onset of DSM-IV Disorders

    Jennifer Greif Green;Katie A. McLaughlin;Patricia A. Berglund;Michael J. Gruber

  • WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and distribution of mental disorders.

    Randy P. Auerbach;Philippe Mortier;Ronny Bruffaerts;Jordi Alonso

  • Prevalence, Correlates, and Treatment of Lifetime Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement

    Matthew K. Nock;Jennifer Greif Green;Irving Hwang;Katie A. McLaughlin

  • 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

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative

    Ronald C Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • Barriers to mental health treatment: Results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys

    LH Andrade;J Alonso;Z Mneimneh;JE Wells

  • Mental disorders, comorbidity and suicidal behavior: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey replication.

    Matthew K. Nock;Irving Hwang;Nancy A. Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Prevalence, Persistence, and Sociodemographic Correlates of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement

    Ronald C. Kessler;Shelli Avenevoli;E. Jane Costello;Katholiki Georgiades

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys.

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

  • Concordance of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI 3.0) with standardized clinical assessments in the WHO World Mental Health surveys.

    Josep Maria Haro;Saena Arbabzadeh-Bouchez;Traolach S. Brugha;Giovanni De Girolamo

  • DSM-IV pathological gambling in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

    Ronald C. Kessler;Irving Hwang;Richard LaBrie;Maria Petukhova

  • Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Wai Tat Chiu;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Barriers to mental health treatment: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ramin Mojtabai;Mark Olfson;Nancy A. Sampson;Robert Jin

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative: Screening for Serious Mental Illness

    Ronald C. Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Alan M. Zaslavsky
Alan M. Zaslavsky Harvard University
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Robert J. Ursano
Robert J. Ursano Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Irving Hwang
Irving Hwang Harvard University
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje University of Ibadan
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Jose Posada-Villa
Jose Posada-Villa Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

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