Mental Illness
My Mental Illness Interests
"Alternative Statistical Methods to Use with Survival Data," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Nursing Research, November/December 1996.
"The Length of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays," with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Virginia Economic Journal, November 2001.
"Survival Models of Community Tenure for the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Ten Year Perspective" with Frederick Holt and Elizabeth Merwin, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, May 2002.
"Diagnosis Measurement Error and Instrumental Variables," with Donna Chen, Brent Kreider, and Elizabeth Merwin.
"Shortages of Rural Mental Health Professionals," with Elizabeth Merwin, Ivory Hinton, and Bruce Dembling, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, February 2003.
"The Costs and Benefits of Mental Healthcare," with Amelia McKeithen, for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Commission on Children and Families.
"Estimating Local Prevalence of Mental Health Problems," Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, July 2014, with news stories at:
"Variation in Mental Health Illness and Provision of Public Services in Virginia," with William Johnson, Michael LaForest, and Brett Lissenden, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, February 2017. 17(1): 1- 30. DOI 10.1007/s10742-016-0167-3.
"Cost and Service Variation Across Community Service Boards for Mental Health Services in Virginia," with Caruso Brown and Dina Guo (email steven.stern@stonybrook.edu for a copy).
"Effect of Medicaid on Medical Care Use and Cost" with Caruso Brown and Dina Guo (email steven.stern@stonybrook.edu for a copy).
Students Working on Mental Health at Stony Brook University
Xin Lu, "Education Cost and Study Effort in Family Decision-Making Process Considering Mental Health."Â
Beth Merwin, Emily Hauenstein, and I are working on an NIH grant to help understand large differences in mortality rates between people with and without SMI.