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Petra K. Staiger

Petra K. Staiger

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
6499
World Ranking
5378
National Ranking
389

Overview

Petra K. Staiger is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and medicine. Their research spans 48 publications in psychology and 21 in medicine, with significant focus on applied, clinical, experimental and cognitive, and social psychology subfields. The scientist's work addresses areas including behavioral health and interventions, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, anxiety, depression and cognitive processes, digital mental health interventions, LGBTQ health and identity, and sexuality, behavior, and technology.

Staiger has published articles in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Addiction
  • British Journal of General Practice
  • Clinical Psychologist

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Staiger include:

  • Mobile Apps to Reduce Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illicit Drug Use: Systematic Review of the First Decade (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Effect of Cognitive Bias Modification on Early Relapse Among Adults Undergoing Inpatient Alcohol Withdrawal Treatment (2020), JAMA Psychiatry (authored by Victoria Manning, highly cited)
  • Cognitive training and remediation interventions for substance use disorders: a Delphi consensus study (2022), Addiction
  • Examining Health-Related Effects of Refurbishment to Parks in a Lower Socioeconomic Area: The ShadePlus Natural Experiment (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Alcohol use in the year following approach bias modification during inpatient withdrawal: secondary outcomes from a double-blind, multi-site randomized controlled trial (2022), Addiction

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Victoria Manning
  • Dan I. Lubman
  • Hugh Piercy
  • Joshua B. B. Garfield
  • Kate Hall

Staiger's research emphasizes digital and behavioral interventions in mental health, particularly addressing substance abuse and its treatment outcomes. Their contributions include examining the effects of cognitive bias modification, use of mobile applications for substance use reduction, and evaluation of public health impacts of environmental interventions.

Best Publications

  • Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic treatment construct across anxiety, depression, substance, eating and borderline personality disorders: A systematic review

    Elise Sloan;Kate Hall;Richard Moulding;Shayden Bryce

  • Effect of Western culture on women's attitudes to eating and perceptions of body shape.

    Amelia J. Lake;Petra K. Staiger;Huguette Glowinski

  • The association between sports participation, alcohol use and aggression and violence: A systematic review

    Anders Larrabee Sonderlund;Kerry Steven O'Brien;Peter J Kremer;Bosco C Rowland

  • Does the tendency to act impulsively underlie binge eating and alcohol use problems? An empirical investigation

    Tamsin A. Kane;Natalie June Loxton;Petra K. Staiger;Sharon Dawe

  • Expanding Children’s Food Experiences: The Impact of a School-Based Kitchen Garden Program

    Lisa Gibbs;Petra K. Staiger;Britt Johnson;Karen Block

  • Growing Community: The Impact of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program on the Social and Learning Environment in Primary Schools

    Karen Block;Lisa Gibbs;Petra K Staiger;Lisa Gold

  • The influence of sensitivity to reward on reactivity to alcohol-related cues.

    Nicolas Kambouropoulos;Petra K. Staiger

  • After 30 years of dissemination, have we achieved sustained practice change in motivational interviewing?

    Kate Hall;Kate Hall;Petra K. Staiger;Angela Simpson;Angela Simpson;David Best;David Best;David Best

  • Alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy mediate the association of impulsivity with alcohol misuse.

    Matthew John Gullo;Sharon Dawe;Nicolas Kambouropoulos;Petra K. Staiger

  • Improving family functioning and child outcome in methadone maintained families: the Parents Under Pressure programme

    Sharon Dawe;Paul Harnett;Vanessa Marie Rendalls;Petra Staiger

  • Cue reactivity in alcohol abusers: stimulus specificity and extinction of the responses.

    Petra K. Staiger;Jason M. White

  • Cognitive Bias Modification Training During Inpatient Alcohol Detoxification Reduces Early Relapse: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Victoria Manning;Victoria Manning;Petra K. Staiger;Kate Hall;Joshua B.B. Garfield;Joshua B.B. Garfield

  • Rural Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Use: A Comparison of Students in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, United States

    Kerri Coomber;John W. Toumbourou;Peter Miller;Petra K. Staiger

  • Can emotion-focused coping help explain the link between posttraumatic stress disorder severity and triggers for substance use in young adults?

    Petra Karin Staiger;Fritha Melville;Leanne Hides;Nicolas Kambouropoulos

  • Children who are cruel to animals: a revisit.

    Ernest S. L. Luk;Petra K. Staiger;Lisa Wong;John Mathai

  • Should personality traits be considered when refining substance misuse treatment programs

    Petra K. Staiger;Nicolas Kambouropoulos;Sharon Dawe

  • Reactivity to alcohol-related cues: relationship among cue type, motivational processes, and personality

    Nicolas Kambouropoulos;Petra K. Staiger

  • Overlooked and underestimated? Problematic alcohol use in clients recovering from drug dependence

    Petra K. Staiger;Ben Richardson;Caroline M. Long;Victoria Carr

  • Children with persistent conduct problems who dropout of treatment.

    Ernest Luk;P. K. Staiger;John Mathai;Lisa Wong

  • Male Domestic Violence Attitudes, Aggression, and Interpersonal Dependency

    Tamsin A. Kane;Petra K. Staiger;Line A. Ricciardelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
David Best
David Best University of Derby
Victoria Manning
Victoria Manning Monash University
Antonio Verdejo-García
Antonio Verdejo-García Monash University
Sharon Dawe
Sharon Dawe Griffith University
Catherine Haslam
Catherine Haslam University of Queensland
Genevieve A. Dingle
Genevieve A. Dingle University of Queensland
Jarrad A. G. Lum
Jarrad A. G. Lum Deakin University
Marita P. McCabe
Marita P. McCabe Swinburne University of Technology
Michael Kyrios
Michael Kyrios Flinders University

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