Linda Denise Oakley, PhD, RN

Title: Professor
Phone: (608) 263-5866
E-mail: ldoakley@wisc.edu
Support Staff: Kay Martin
Office Address:

K6/356 CSC
600 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53792-2455

Education:

Description of Research Focus:

Promoting recovery from severe depression can be more complicated than treating the disorder. For the purpose of addressing the complexity of depression recovery, my research has focused on the development of the Depression Coping Questionnaire (DCQ) for use as an assessment guide with patient-centered depression coping interventions. The target population is diverse primary care patients. My projects have included psychometric measurement development, large cross-sectional surveys, repeated measures interviews, community outreach with low-income populations, and focus groups. Research subjects have included adult hospital patients, ambulatory treatment patients, and community adults. Project aim is controlled testing of patient-centered interventions to promote positive depression coping and reduce or prevent negative depression coping in diverse primary care patient population groups.

Teaching/Course Responsibilities:
(excluding independent study courses)

Representative Publications:

Oakley, L. D. & Song, M. K. (in review). Positive and negative depression coping in low-income African-American women. Research in Nursing & Health.

Oakley, L.D. (in press). Neurobiology of nonpsychotic illnesses. In L. E. Copstead & J. Banasik (Eds). Pathophysiology: Biological & Behavioral Perspectives, 3rd Edition. St Louis, Elsevier.

Chang, M. W., Nitzke, S., Brown, R. L., Baumann, L. C., & Oakley, L. D. (2003). Development and validation of a self-efficacy measure for fat intake behaviors of low-income women. J Nutrition Education Behav, 35, 302-307.

Oakley, L. D. & Kane, J. (1999). Personal and social illness demands related to depression. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 13, 6, 1-10.

Oakley, L. D., Kutil, R., & Brown, R. (1999). A two-factor model of the depression coping questionnaire. J Clinical Psychology, 55, 1-11.

Oakley, L., & Potter, C. (1997). Psychiatric primary care. St Louis: Mosby.

Kneepkens, R., & Oakley, L. (1996). Rapid improvement in the defense style of depressed women and men. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 184, 358-361.

Woods, N., Lentz, M., Mitchell, E., & Oakley, L. (1994). Depressed mood and self-esteem in young Asian, black, and white women in America. Health Care for Women International, 15, 243-262.