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Research Interests
Sara Evans-Lacko is a mental health services researcher with a particular interest in the role of health services and social support in the prevention and treatment of mental illness. Her research focuses on developing innovative methods to improve access to and quality of mental health care for young people and cross-cultural applications of this in addition to the evaluation of public health interventions such as the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign which aim to improve important changes at the population level. Recently, she received an ERC Starting grant which investigates how to improve access to care for young people already experiencing or at risk of developing psychiatric disorders. The project, APPLAUSE (Adolescent Precursors to Psychiatric Disorders – Learning from User Service Engagement) is based in the UK and Brazil and looks at the relative value of formal mental health services and informal social and familial support structures in promoting fruitful engagement with care. Previously, she worked as a health care consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, USA). She has a PhD in Health Policy and Management, with an emphasis in health services research, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sara Evans-Lacko's Publications
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Seeking informal and formal help for mental health problems in the community: a secondary analysis from a psychiatric morbidity survey in South London (2014)
Brown J, Evans-Lacko S, Aschan L, Henderson M, Hatch S, Hotopf M
BMC Psychiatry , 14:275
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Viewpoint survey of mental health service users’ experiences of discrimination in England 2008-12 (2014)
Evans-Lacko S, Corker Elizabeth, Williams A, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft G
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 49, 10, 1599-1608
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Collective levels of stigma and national suicide rates in 25 European countries (2014)
Schomerus G, Evans-Lacko S, Rüsch N, Mojtabai R, Angermeyer M, Thornicroft G
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 24, 2, 166-171
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Effect of the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign on trends in mental-illness-related public stigma among the English population in 2003–13: an analysis of survey data (2014)
Evans-Lacko S, Corker Elizabeth, Williams A, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft G
The Lancet 1, 2, 121-128
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The Wounded Healer: an effective anti-stigma intervention targeted at the medical profession? (2014)
Hankir A, Zaman R, Evans-Lacko S
Psychiatria Danubina 26, 89-96
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Importance of social and cultural factors for attitudes, disclosure and time off work for depression: findings from a seven country European study on depression in the workplace (2014)
Evans-Lacko S, Knapp M
PLOS One 9, 3, e91053
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The state of the art in European research on reducing social exclusion and stigma related to mental health: a systematic mapping of the literature (2014)
Evans-Lacko S, Courtin E, Fiorillo A, Knapp M, Luciano M, Park A, Brunn M, Byford S, Chevreul K, Forsman A, Gulacsi L, Haro J, Kennelly B, Knappe S, Lai T, Lasalvia A, Miret M, O'Sullivan C, Obradors-Tarragó C, Rüsch N, Sartorius N, Švab V, van Weeghel J, Van Audenhove C, Wahlbeck K, Zlati A, on behalf of the ROAMER Consortium, McDaid D, Thornicroft G
European Psychiatry 29, 6, 381-389
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’Our community is the worst’: the influence of cultural beliefs on stigma, relationships with family, and help seeking in three ethnic communities in London (2013)
Shefer G, Rose D, Nellums L, Thornicroft G, Henderson Claire, Evans-Lacko S
International Journal of Social Psychiatry 59, 6, 535-544
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The impact of exercise projects to promote mental wellbeing (2013)
Malcolm E, Evans-Lacko S, Little K, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft G
Journal of Mental Health 22, 6, 519-527
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Mental illness stigma, help-seeking and public health programmes (2013)
Henderson Claire, Evans-Lacko S, Thornicroft G
American Journal of Public Health 103, 5, 777-780
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The impact of epidemic violence on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013)
Ribeiro WS, Mari JJ, Quintana MI, Dewey M, Evans-Lacko S, Vilete LMP, Figueira I, Bressan RA, Mello MF, Prince M, Ferri C, Coutinho ESF, Andreoli SB
Plos One 8, 5
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Anti-stigma training for medical students – the Education not Discrimination project (2013)
Friedrich B, Evans-Lacko S, London J, Rhydderch D, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft G
British Journal of Psychiatry 202, Supplement 55, s89-s94
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Public knowledge, attitudes and behaviour regarding people with mental illness in England 2009-2012 (2013)
Evans-Lacko S, Henderson C, Thornicroft G
British Journal of Psychiatry 202, s51-57
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Economic evaluation of the anti-stigma social marketing campaign in England 2009-2011 (2013)
Evans-Lacko S, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft G, McCrone P
British Journal of Psychiatry 202, Supplement 55, s95-s101
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Influence of Time to Change’s social marketing interventions on stigma in England 2009-2011 (2013)
Evans-Lacko S, Malcolm E, West K, Rose D, London J, Rüsch N, Little K, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft G
British Journal of Psychiatry 55, 77-88
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Disclosure of a mental health problem in the employment context: Qualitative study of beliefs and experiences (2013)
Brohan E, Evans-Lacko S, Henderson Claire, Murray J, Slade M, Thornicroft G
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 23, 3, 289-300
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Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma (2013)
Clement S, Lassman F, Barley E, Evans-Lacko S, Williams A, Yamaguchi S, Slade M, Rüsch N, Thornicroft G
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 7
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ROAMER: roadmap for mental health research in Europe (2013)
Haro J, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Bitter I, Demotes-Mainard J, Leboyer M, Lewis S, Linszen D, Maj M, McDaid D, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Robbins T, Schumann G, Thornicroft G, van der Feltz-Cornelis C, van Os J, Wahlbeck K, Wittchen H, Wykes T, Arango C, Bickenbach J, Brunn M, Cammarata P, Chevreul K, Evans-Lacko S, Finocchiaro C, Fiorillo A, Forsman A, Hazo JB, Knappe S, Kuepper R, Luciano M, Miret M, Obradors-Tarragó C, Pagano G, Papp S, Walker-Tilley T
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 23, S1, 1-14
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The mental health consequences of the recession: economic hardship and employment of people with mental health problems in 27 European countries (2013)
Evans-Lacko S, Knapp M, McCrone P, Thornicroft G, Mojtabai R
PLoS ONE 8, 7
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Economic impact of childhood psychiatric disorder on public sector services in Britain: estimates from national survey data (2013)
Snell T, Knapp M, Healey A, Guglani S, Evans-Lacko S, Fernández J-L, Meltzer H, Ford T
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 54, 9, 977-985
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