Publications by authors named "Katherine H Bullard"

Objective: This study examined the impact of high-reliability changes to how measurement-based care questionnaires were administered to patients on rates of questionnaire completion.

Methods: Medical record data were abstracted from 44,305 adult outpatient return visits to a psychiatry outpatient clinic within two 10-month periods (before and after process changes were implemented). Linear mixed models tested the change in questionnaire completion rates and the interaction effects between time and age, sex, and race.

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This study leverages psychiatric intake data from treatment-seeking perinatal women aiming to explore the understudied associations between childhood adversity, sleep quality, and severity of perinatal mental illness in this population. The sample is 578 perinatal women presenting for initial evaluation to a university-based perinatal psychiatry clinic. At intake, we collected demographics, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), sleep quality, and diagnosis and symptom severity of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Central serotonin dysfunction appears to be related to a subtype of alcoholism with antisocial impulsive features (type II; antisocial alcoholism). The serotonergic deficit may be associated with greater impulsivity, which in turn facilitates both alcohol dependence and antisocial behavior. The present study tested association of antisocial impulsive alcoholism with candidate genes related to serotonergic neurotransmission, using families.

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