SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES FLINDERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SEARCH

 

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Teaching Interests

• Research Methodology
• Evaluating Health Programs
• Designing and Developing Questionnaires

Research Interests

• Speed of Information Processing in Psychiatric Disorders
• Suicide Prevention
• Coordinated Care
• Smoking Cessation
• Socio-economic Determinants of Health

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Grants awarded

Strategic Health Research Program, Department of Health, South Australia – 2008; Associate Investigator [Equity of bowel cancer screening: an epidemiological and qualitative study] - $300,000 (2 years)

Strategic Health Research Program, Department of Health, South Australia – 2007; Primary Chief Investigator [Exploring resilience and coping in relation to smoking ‘at risk' populations] - $350,000 (2 years)

Strategic Health Research Program, Department of Health, South Australia – 2007; Associate Investigator [Socioeconomic status and overweight/obesity: supply of and access to (un)healthy food] - $450,000 (3 years)

Establishment Grant, Flinders University of South Australia – 2006: Primary Chief Investigator [Smoking cessation in primary care: assessing the utility and effectiveness of stress management in disadvantaged areas]

Research Publications

Tsourtos, G., Ward, P. & Muller, R. ( Submitted) . Smoking and Stress: the double-edged sword of living in a disadvantaged area. Health Promotion Journal of Australia

Tsourtos, G., Spong, J., & Stough, C. (2007). The Effects of Electro-Convulsive Therapy on the Speed of Information Processing in Major Depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 103 , 263-266.

Battersby, M., Harvey, P., Mills, D., Kalucy, E., Pols, R., Frith, P., McDonald, P., Esterman, A., Tsourtos, G., Donato, R., Pearce, R., McGowan, C. (submitted). SA HealthPlus: A controlled trial of a statewide application of a generic model of chronic illness care. Milbank Quarterly

Tsourtos, G. & O'Dwyer, L. (2008). Stress, stress management, smoking prevalence and quit rates in a disadvantaged area: has anything changed? Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 19(1), 40-44.

Battersby, M. W. and the South Australian HealthPlus Team (2005). Health reform through coordinated care: SA HealthPlus. BMJ, 330, 662-665

Tsourtos, G., Thompson, J. C., & Stough, C. (2002). Evidence of an early information processing speed deficit in unipolar major depression. Psychological Medicine, 32(2), 259-65.

Kamieniecki, G., Wade, T & Tsourtos, G. (1997). Interpretive Bias for Benign Sensations in Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 11(2), 141-56.

Galletly, C. & Tsourtos, G. (1997). Antipsychotic Drug Doses and the Use of Adjunctive drugs in the Outpatient Treatment of Schizophrenia. Annals Clinical of Psychiatry, 9(2), 77-80.

Schrader, G. & Tsourtos, G. (1996). Role of Depressive Personality in Determining Clinical Characteristics of Chronic Depression. Journal of Personality Disorders, 10(4), 370-376.

Galletly, C., Schrader, G., Chesterman, H. & Tsourtos G. (1995). Medical Students Attitudes to Psychiatry. Medical Education, 29, 449-551.

Bassett, D. & Tsourtos, G. (1995). Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital Psychiatric Unit; A Consequence of Inadequate Resources. General Hospital Psychiatry, 15, 301-306.

Tsourtos, G., Rawson, V., Ward, L. & Stough, C. (1995). Inspection Time as a Measure of Information Processing in Psychiatric Disorders. Asian Journal of Psychology, 1, 76-78.

GOVERNMENT REPORTS (Scientific Evaluations)

Litt, J. & Tsourtos, G. (2005). GPs Assisting Smokers Program (GASP II). Australian Government Report.

Kalucy, E., Tsourtos, G., Richards, I., Hurley, C. & Beecham, B.
(2000). The SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care Trial Final Report. Australian Government Report.

GP Survey (1999). Kalucy, E. & Tsourtos, G. Australian Government Report.

Patient Survey (1999). Kalucy, E., Tsourtos, G. & Beecham, B. Australian Government Report.

Out-of-Pocket Costs for Patients (1998). Kalucy, E. & Tsourtos, G. Australian Government Report

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