Rachel Visontay

May 9, 2024 | ias.org.uk | Rachel Visontay

Research has long found that, when compared with abstinence, moderate alcohol consumption is associated with lower risk for a diverse range of health outcomes. But determining whether alcohol is truly health protective depends on whether we can tease apart causation from association – what we call ‘causal inference’. Until recently, most studies did not use strong methods for causal inference.

May 15, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Matthew Sunderland |Nicholas Olsen |Rachel Visontay |Cath Chapman

AbstractThere is a significant degree of heterogeneity in scales that purport to measure depression and generalized anxiety in adolescent samples, which makes it difficult to directly compare scores across studies. The aim of the current study is to develop a common metric that facilitates the comparison of scores from different but related scales of depression and generalized anxiety using a large adolescent sample.