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Helen Christensen

Researcher at University of New South Wales

Publications -  629
Citations -  58443

Helen Christensen is an academic researcher from University of New South Wales. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 116, co-authored 596 publications receiving 48002 citations. Previous affiliations of Helen Christensen include Centre for Mental Health & Arcadia University.

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Clinical review of user engagement with mental health smartphone apps: evidence, theory and improvements.

TL;DR: Current challenges surrounding user engagement with mental health smartphone apps are reviewed, and several solutions are proposed and successful examples of mental health apps with high engagement are highlighted.
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Stigma in response to mental disorders: a comparison of Australia and Japan

TL;DR: Stigmatising attitudes were common in both countries, but negative attitudes were greater among the Japanese than the Australian public and there is a need to implement national public awareness interventions tailored to the needs of each country.
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Education, activity, health, blood pressure and apolipoprotein E as predictors of cognitive change in old age: a review.

TL;DR: Analysis of published findings on genetic, health and lifestyle predictors of cognitive change in late adulthood showed that education, hypertension, objective indices of health and cardiovascular disease, and APOE were associated with cognitive change.
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Predictors of depression stigma

TL;DR: The findings highlight the importance of treating the concepts of personal and perceived stigma separately in designing measures of stigma, in interpreting the pattern of findings in studies of the predictors of stigma and in designing, interpreting the impact of and disseminating interventions for stigma.
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Is Telomere Length a Biomarker of Aging? A Review

TL;DR: The evidence suggesting telomere length is a biomarker of aging in humans is equivocal and more studies examining the relationships between telomeres length and mortality and with measures that decline with "normal" aging in community samples are required.