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Patricia A. Areán is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, general health professions, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scholar's work centers on several key topics, including:

  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Treatment of Major Depression

Patricia A. Areán has contributed to recent papers such as:

  • Guidelines for wrist-worn consumer wearable assessment of heart rate in biobehavioral research, 2020, npj Digital Medicine
  • Leveraging human-centered design to implement modern psychological science: Return on an early investment., 2020, American Psychologist
  • Banbury Forum Consensus Statement on the Path Forward for Digital Mental Health Treatment, 2021, Psychiatric Services
  • Assessing the usability of complex psychosocial interventions: The Intervention Usability Scale, 2021, Implementation Research and Practice
  • A Digital Mental Health Intervention in an Orthopedic Setting for Patients With Symptoms of Depression and/or Anxiety: Feasibility Prospective Cohort Study, 2022, JMIR Formative Research

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Michael D. Pullmann
  • Patrick J. Raue
  • Brenna N. Renn
  • George S. Alexopoulos
  • Thomas D. Hull

The primary venues for Patricia A. Areán's publications are:

  • JMIR Formative Research
  • Psychiatric Services
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Frontiers in Digital Health

Regarding book publications, Patricia A. Areán has contributed to works published by Frontiers Media, specifically the book titled Aging-related Factors in Digital Health: Design, Uptake, Engagement, and Outcomes released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Collaborative Care Management of Late-Life Depression in the Primary Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Jürgen Unützer;Wayne Katon;Christopher M. Callahan;John W. Williams

  • Effect of Improving Depression Care on Pain and Functional Outcomes Among Older Adults With Arthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Elizabeth H. B. Lin;Wayne Katon;Michael Von Korff;Lingqi Tang

  • Diabetes distress but not clinical depression or depressive symptoms is associated with glycemic control in both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

    Lawrence Fisher;Joseph T Mullan;Patricia A Areán;Russell E. Glasgow

  • A longitudinal study of affective and anxiety disorders, depressive affect and diabetes distress in adults with Type 2 diabetes

    L. Fisher;M. M. Skaff;J. T. Mullan;P. Arean

  • The Selection and Design of Control Conditions for Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychological Interventions

    David C. Mohr;Bonnie Spring;Kenneth E. Freedland;Victoria Beckner

  • Clinical Depression Versus Distress Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Not Just a Question of Semantics

    Lawrence Fisher;Marilyn M. Skaff;Joseph T. Mullan;Patricia Arean

  • Improving access to geriatric mental health services: a randomized trial comparing treatment engagement with integrated versus enhanced referral care for depression, anxiety, and at-risk alcohol use.

    Stephen J. Bartels;Eugenie H. Coakley;Cynthia Zubritsky;James H. Ware

  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance consensus statement on the unmet needs in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in late life.

    Dennis S. Charney;Charles F. Reynolds;Lydia Lewis;Barry D. Lebowitz

  • Comparative Effectiveness of Social Problem-Solving Therapy and Reminiscence Therapy as Treatments for Depression in Older Adults

    Patricia A. Arean;Michael G. Perri;Arthur M. Nezu;Rebecca L. Schein

  • Long term outcomes from the IMPACT randomised trial for depressed elderly patients in primary care

    Enid M Hunkeler;Wayne J Katon;Lingqi Tang;John W Williams

  • The Use and Effectiveness of Mobile Apps for Depression: Results From a Fully Remote Clinical Trial.

    Patricia A Arean;Kevin A Hallgren;Joshua T Jordan;Adam Gazzaley

  • Depression Treatment Preferences in Older Primary Care Patients.

    Amber M. Gum;Patricia A. Areán;Enid Hunkeler;Lingqi Tang

  • Does mentoring matter: results from a survey of faculty mentees at a large health sciences university

    Mitchell D. Feldman;Patricia A. Arean;Sally J. Marshall;Mark Lovett

  • Improving primary care for depression in late life: the design of a multicenter randomized trial.

    Jürgen Unützer;Wayne Katon;John W. Williams;Christopher M. Callahan

  • Effectiveness of nonpharmacological interventions for the management of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia: a systematic review.

    Liat Ayalon;Amber M Gum;Leilani Feliciano;Patricia A Areán

  • Problem-Solving Therapy Versus Supportive Therapy in Geriatric Major Depression With Executive Dysfunction

    George S. Alexopoulos;Patrick Raue;Patricia Areán

  • Problem-Solving Therapy and Supportive Therapy in Older Adults With Major Depression and Executive Dysfunction

    Patricia A. Areán;Patrick Raue;R. Scott Mackin;Dora Kanellopoulos

  • Towards a consensus around standards for smartphone apps and digital mental health

    John Torous;Gerhard Andersson;Andrew Bertagnoli;Helen Christensen

  • Knowledge of Alzheimer's disease in four ethnic groups of older adults.

    Liat Ayalon;Patricia A. Areán

  • REDEEM: A Pragmatic Trial to Reduce Diabetes Distress

    Lawrence Fisher;Danielle Hessler;Russell E. Glasgow;Patricia A. Arean

  • Issues and recommendations for the recruitment and retention of older ethnic minority adults into clinical research.

    Patricia A. Areán;Dolores Gallagher-Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Liat Ayalon
Liat Ayalon Bar-Ilan University
R. Scott Mackin
R. Scott Mackin University of California, San Francisco
Lawrence Fisher
Lawrence Fisher University of California, San Francisco
Joseph T. Mullan
Joseph T. Mullan University of California, San Francisco
Jo Anne Sirey
Jo Anne Sirey Cornell University
David C. Atkins
David C. Atkins University of Washington
Derek D. Satre
Derek D. Satre University of California, San Francisco
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson Stanford University School of Medicine
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe University of California, San Francisco
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego

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