Name: Eliana Brehaut
Email Address: eliana.brehaut@mail.mcgill.ca
Position: Undergraduate Thesis Student
Biography:
Eliana is currently working towards her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at McGill University, and is completing her second undergraduate honours thesis under the supervision of Dr. Brett Thombs. Before joining the DEPRESSD team, she worked as a summer student at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute where she helped conduct a systematic review of behaviour-change techniques, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she took part in the development of an app to test stroke patients on their linguistic impairments. Her first thesis compared depression prevalence estimates based on a commonly used screening tool (HADS) versus a validated diagnostic interview (SCID). Her second thesis examines methods of optimal cutoff selection in depression screening studies. She is also working on a replication of a study that demonstrated the efficacy of anti-inflammatory drugs in reducing depressive symptoms.
Awards:
- Golden Key International Honour Society Membership. McGill University, 2019-Present
- Dean’s Honour List. McGill University, 2019-2020
- Dow-Hickson Scholarship ($2,000). McGill University, 2019-2020
- Arts Undergraduate Research Award ($4,500). ARIA, McGill University, Summer 2020
- Helen Vale Travel Fund ($250). Adath Shalom Congregation, Summer 2019
Publications:
Negeri, ZF, Levis B, Sun Y, He C, Krishnan A, Wu Y, Bhandari PM, Neupane D, Brehaut E, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, and the Depression Screening Data (DEPRESSD) PHQ Group. Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for Screening to Detect Major Depression: An Updated Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry. Under review.
Brehaut E, Neupane D, Levis B, Wu Y, Sun Y, Ioannidis JPA, Markham S, Cuijpers P, Patten SB, Benedetti A, Thombs BD. Optimal Cutoff Selection in Studies of Depression Screening Tool Accuracy using the PHQ-9, EPDS, or HADS Depression Subscale. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. Under review.
Brehaut E, Neupane D, Levis B, Wu Y, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, and the DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration. Depression Prevalence using the HADS-D Compared to SCID Classification: Individual Participant Data Meta- Analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2020;139:110256. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110256
Levis B, Sun Y, He C, Wu Y, Krishnan A, Bhandari PM, Neupane D, Imran M, Brehaut E, Negeri Z, Fischer FH, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, and the DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) PHQ Collaboration. Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination with the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: an Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis. JAMA. 2020;323(22):2290-2300. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6504
Patey AM, Linklater S, Fedotova A, Brehaut E, McCleary N, Birken S, Francis JJ, Kirk MA, Asad S, Shorr R, Grimshaw JM, Presseau, J. Barriers assessment of healthcare professional behaviour using the Theoretical Domains Framework: a systematic scoping review. Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society. Under review.
Protocols:
Neupane D, Brehaut E, Krishnan A, Little J, Benedetti A, Thombs, BD. Effectiveness of anti-inflammatory drugs agents as monotherapy or adjunctive to anti-depressant treatments for major depressive disorder: protocol for a replication and update of a systematic review and meta-analysis. Open Science Framework, January 26, 2021. https://osf.io/5r34n/
Brehaut E, Neupane D, Levis B, Wu Y, Sun Y, Ioannidis J, Markham S, Cuijpers P, Patten S, Benedetti A, Thombs BD. Optimal Cutoff Selection in Depression Screening Studies Using the PHQ-9, EPDS, and HADS. Protocol. Open Science Framework, September 15, 2020. https://osf.io/fxhyw/
Brehaut E, Neupane D, Levis B, Wu Y, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, and the DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration. Depression Prevalence using the HADS-D Compared to SCID Classification: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Protocol. Open Science Framework, January 24, 2020. https://osf.io/n5a3e.
Presentations:
Brehaut E, Neupane D, Levis B, Wu Y, Ioannidis JPA, Benedetti A, Thombs BD. Optimal cutoff selection in depression screening studies using the PHQ-9, EPDS, and HADS. Arts Undergraduate Research Event. McGill University, Montreal, QC. January 2021. (Presented online due to COVID-19).
Brehaut E, Neupane D, Levis B, Bhandari PM, Thombs BD, Benedetti A, and the DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration. Prevalence using the HADS Depression Subscale Compared to SCID Classification: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Interdisciplinary Conference in Psychology, Ottawa, ON. May 2020. (Presented online due to COVID-19).
Levis B, Sun Y, He C, Wu Y, Krishnan A, Bhandari PM, Neupane D, Imran M, Brehaut E, Negeri ZF, Fischer FH, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, and the DEPRESSD PHQ Collaboration. Screening for depression with the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) alone and in combination with the PHQ-9: individual participant data meta-analysis. 27th Cochrane Colloquium, Toronto, ON. October 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).
Patey AM, Linklater S, Fedotova A, Brehaut E, McCleary N, Birken S, Francis JJ, Kirk MA, Asad S, Shorr R, Grimshaw JM, Presseau, J. Barriers assessment of healthcare professional behaviour using the Theoretical Domains Framework: a systematic scoping review. Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, Dubrovnik, Croatia. September 2019.