May 2009: Predicting and preventing common mental illness

In this podcast, Professor Michael King describes the first risk algorithm for major depression that he and colleagues have recently developed, modelled along the lines of risk algorithms for cardiac disease and other illnesses.

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Audio running time: 15 minutes

 

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Learning outcomes:

 

By the end of this podcast we hope you will:

 

  • have a clearer understanding as to why the notion of the prevention of mental illness is 'unfashionable' in psychiatry

  • better appreciate the complexities of researching risk factors for depression in population-based studies

  • be familiar with a risk algorithm model for predicting depression

  • be able to define the risk factors which appear to be key variables and which ones of less significance

  • be aware of how we can apply this algorithm tool in the clinical setting and take it forwards in psychiatry.

 

 

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If you like this podcast, you may also be interested in the following:

 

Assessment of suicide ideation by Dr Matthew Nock

 

The assessment of personality

(module) by Professor Peter Tyrer and Dr Caroline Methuen

 

 

 

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