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  1. Exploring the Links: Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction in Public Mental Health Services

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, October 2025, Wiley

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  2. Mature‐Aged People in the Rural Health Workforce System: A Systems Modelling Approach

    Article • Australian Journal of Rural Health, January 2025, Wiley

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  3. Top 10 Signs and Symptoms of Psychotropic Adverse Drug Events to Monitor in Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities

    Article • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, September 2024, Elsevier

    Frank Moriarty, Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  4. From not knowing to doing: An interprofessional approach to clinician training in use of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) as a recovery‐oriented outcome measure in a rural mental health service

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, April 2024, Wiley

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  5. Investigating Attraction and Retention of Staff Within Public Mental Health Services in Victoria, Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

    Article • JMIR Research Protocols, October 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  6. What accounts for turnover intention in the Australian public mental health workforce?

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, October 2023, Wiley

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  7. Prevalence and factors associated with mental health problems of psychological distress and depression among rural Victorians – analysis of cross-sectional data (Crossroads II)

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  8. Investigating Attraction and Retention of Staff Within Public Mental Health Services in Victoria, Australia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

    Article • May 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  9. The impact of COVID‐19 on the mental health workforce: A rapid review

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, December 2022, Wiley

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  10. Do frailty and depression interact to heighten risk of death?

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, August 2021, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  11. Longitudinal study of health, disease and access to care in rural Victoria: the Crossroads-II study: methods

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  12. Commentary on Richardson et al. detecting delirium superimposed on dementia: diagnostic accuracy of a simple combined arousal and attention testing procedure

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  13. Ultrabrief Electroconvulsive Therapy for Mania

    Article • Journal of Ect, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  14. The role of diagnosis in delirium

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, October 2016, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  15. Retrospective comparison of effectiveness of right unilateral ultra-brief pulse with brief pulse ECT in older adults (over 65) with depression

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, September 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jothi ramalingam, Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  16. Suicide rates in five-year age-bands after the age of 60 years: the international landscape†

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  17. Suicide in centenarians: the international landscape

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ajit Shah, Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  18. Electroconvulsive Therapy After Division and Repair of Strap Muscle and Anterior Jugular Vein

    Article • Journal of Ect, September 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  19. Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy up to 12 years

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, March 2014, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  20. Enhancing cultural responsiveness: the development of a pilot transcultural secondary consultation program

    Article • Australasian Psychiatry, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  21. Elderly suicide rates: the importance of a non-linear relationship with distal risk and protective factors

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  22. Post–Electroconvulsive Therapy Status Epilepticus and Tardive Seizure in a Patient With Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder, Epilepsy, and Intellectual Disability

    Article • Journal of Ect, September 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  23. Veterans who have served in the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan are at increased risk of suicide compared to other veterans if they have a psychiatric diagnosis

    Article • Evidence-Based Mental Health, August 2012, BMJ

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  24. Psychiatric Complications of Dementia

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  25. “Through a glass, darkly”: the clinical and ethical implications of Munchausen syndrome

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, January 2010, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  26. You are what you eat: of fish, fat and folate in late-life psychiatric disorders

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychiatry, November 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  27. Does adversity earlier in life affect elderly suicide rates? A cross-national study

    Article • International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  28. Are elderly suicide rates improved by increased provision of mental health service resources? A cross-national study

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, December 2008, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  29. Inter-rater reliability of the DRS-R-98 in detecting delirium in frail elderly patients

    Article • Age and Ageing, November 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  30. Elderly suicide rates: cross-national comparisons of trends over a 10-year period

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, August 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  31. The relationship between elderly suicide rates and mental health funding, service provision and national policy: a cross-national study

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, June 2008, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  32. Delirium as a disorder of consciousness

    Article • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, November 2007, BMJ

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  33. Elderly suicide rates: cross-national comparisons and association with sex and elderly age-bands

    Article • Medicine Science and the Law, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  34. A cross-national study of the relationship between elderly suicide rates and life expectancy and markers of socioeconomic status and health care

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, April 2007, Elsevier

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  35. Nutrition and geriatric psychiatry: a neglected field

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychiatry, November 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  36. Comment on ‘Inter-Rater Reliability of Delirium Rating Scales’

    Article • Neuroepidemiology, January 2005, Karger Publishers

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  37. Inter-Rater Reliability of Delirium Rating Scales

    Article • Neuroepidemiology, January 2005, Karger Publishers

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat

  38. Should we think before we treat delirium?

    Article • Internal Medicine Journal, March 2004, Wiley

    Associate Professor Ravi Bhat