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Dr Kerry Sargent-Cox
BAppPsych(Hons) (UC), PhD (ANU)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Mental Health Research
Building 63, Eggleston Road
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
F: +61 2 6125 0733
E: Kerry.Sargent-Cox@anu.edu.au
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Research and Supervision interests
Kerry is a postdoctoral fellow focusing on research development at the Ageing Research Unit. Her research interests include positive and healthy ageing. Her PhD project investigated factors relating to longitudinal change in different self-rated health items and their predictive quality for major health outcomes and mortality in older adults.
Selected Publications
- Anstey, K.J., Butterworth, P., Booth, H., Windsor, T.D., Burns, R., Simons, L.A., Sargent-Cox, K., Byles, J.E., Luszcz, M.A., Gibson, R., von Sanden C., Christensen, H., Shaw, J.E., Broe, G.A., Browning, C., Mitchell, P., Cumming, R.G., & Kendig, H. (2007) The value of comparing health outcomes in cohort studies: An example of self-rated health in seven studies including 79653 participants. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 26(4), 194-200.
- Anstey, K. J., von Sanden, C., Sargent-Cox, K. & Luszcz, M. A. (2007). Prevalence and risk factors for depression in a longitudinal, population-based study including individuals in the community and residential care. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15,497-505.
- Sargent-Cox, Anstey, K. J. & Luszcz, M. A. (2008). The biopsychosocial approach to understanding determinants of self-rated health items with points of reference: Implications for health perceptions of older adults. Journal of Ageing and Health, 20, 739-761.
Selected Presentations
- Sargent-Cox, K.A., Anstey, K.J., & Luszcz, M.A. (2007, November). Self-rated health and mortality: All measures are not created equal. In K.J. Anstey (Chair), Developmental patterns and predictors of late life wellbeing, depression, and mortality. Symposium conducted at the Gerontological Society of America's 60th Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, United States
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