Psychiatric Epidemiology
We adopt a life course approach to document the etiology of mental disorders among an urban marginalized population. We explore the interaction of multiple psychological constructs with a particular interest in understanding the relations between these variables and how they jointly affect mental health. One line of research seeks to tease apart the factors that individually and in interaction with each other nurture the capacity for adaptation in the face of cumulative stress and trauma. Do these influencing factors change over the life course? What prevention and/or intervention efforts buffer the short- and long-term effects of cumulative stress and trauma and for whom? In this way our work aims to create a discourse between related yet siloed fields: Psychiatric epidemiology and clinical psychology.
Related Publications
Rudenstine, S., McNeal, K., Schulder, T., Ettman, C.K., Hernandez, M., Gvozdieva, K., Galea, S. (2020). Depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban, low-income public university sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress. Journal of Traumatic Stress. October.
Rudenstine, S., Espinosa, A., Kumar, A. (2020). Depression and anxiety subgroups across alcohol and types of substance use in a National Epidemiologic Study. Journal of Dual Diagnosis.
Rudenstine, S., Espinosa, A. (2018). Latent comorbid depression and anxiety symptoms across sex and race/ethnic subpopulations in a national epidemiologic study. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 104, 114-123.
Rudenstine, S, Prescott, MR, Sampson, L, Liberzon, I, Tamburrino, M, Calabrese, J. Galea, S. Adverse childhood events and the risk for new onset depression and posttraumatic stress disorder among US National Guard soldiers. Military Medicine, 2015;180(9):972-978.
Rudenstine, S, Galea, S. Preventing brain disorders: A framework for action. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2015; 50(5): 833-841.
