Publications by authors named "Steven M Lackersteen"
Does personality affect risk for dementia? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry
August 2013
Objective: A life course epidemiologic approach suggests that personality may have lifelong pathways of influence on risk of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). This article aimed to systematically review case-control and prospective studies on the association between personality and risk of these cognitive disorders.
Methods: Studies were identified through Scopus, Medline, PubMed, and PsycINFO.
Objective: To explore the help-seeking strategies and the acceptance of services among a national sample of Italian, Greek and Chinese compared to third generation Australians.
Methods: A cross-sectional telephone survey of 350 Italian, 414 Greek, 437 Chinese and 500 third generation Australians whose households were randomly selected from the national telephone directory was carried out. Participants were asked how they would seek help for a character in a vignette with dementia and what aged care services they would use.
Background/aim: To investigate recognition, attitudes and causal beliefs regarding dementia in Italian, Greek and Chinese Australians in comparison with 3rd generation Australians. Little is known about dementia literacy in these racial and ethnic minority groups.
Methods: A cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted of 350 Italian, 414 Greek, 437 Chinese and 500 3rd generation Australians randomly selected from the telephone directory.
Objective: To examine the circumstances of homicides of children in New South Wales from 1991 to 2005.
Design And Setting: Retrospective analysis of all identified child homicides in NSW from 1991 to 2005, based on data on offenders and victims obtained from crime statistics, documents located by systematic searches of legal databases and media reports, and medicolegal reports of offenders who committed child homicides during psychotic illness.
Main Outcome Measures: Demographic characteristics of homicides and a history of prior psychiatric treatment among offenders with psychosis.