Cindy‐Lee Dennis

33.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
338 papers, 22.1k citations indexed

About

Cindy‐Lee Dennis is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cindy‐Lee Dennis has authored 338 papers receiving a total of 22.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 255 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 121 papers in Epidemiology and 106 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Cindy‐Lee Dennis's work include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (230 papers), Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (115 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (72 papers). Cindy‐Lee Dennis is often cited by papers focused on Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (230 papers), Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (115 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (72 papers). Cindy‐Lee Dennis collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Cindy‐Lee Dennis's co-authors include Lori E. Ross, Kobra Falah‐Hassani, Rahman Shiri, Simone N. Vigod, Karen McQueen, Ellen Hodnett, Debra Creedy, Sophie Grigoriadis, Sandra A. Faux and Donna E. Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Cindy‐Lee Dennis

318 papers receiving 20.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prevalence of antenatal and postnatal anxiety: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2017 945 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis, Kobra Falah‐Hassani et al. profile →
Peer support within a health care context: a concept analysis

2003 900 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis profile →
Non-psychotic mental disorders in the perinatal period

2014 850 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis et al. profile →
Postpartum Depression Help‐Seeking Barriers and Maternal Treatment Preferences: A Qualitative Systematic Review

2006 649 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis et al. profile →
The Breastfeeding Self‐Efficacy Scale: Psychometric Assessment of the Short Form

2003 626 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis profile →
The Impact of Maternal Depression During Pregnancy on Perinatal Outcomes

2013 609 citations Sophie Grigoriadis, Cindy‐Lee Dennis et al. profile →
Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration: A 1990-2000 Literature Review

2002 536 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis profile →
Prevalence and risk factors for postpartum depression among women with preterm and low‐birth‐weight infants: a systematic review

2010 449 citations Simone N. Vigod, Cindy‐Lee Dennis et al. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology profile →
Psychosocial and psychological interventions for preventing postpartum depression

2013 311 citations Cindy‐Lee Dennis et al. profile →
Maternal Anxiety During Pregnancy and the Association With Adverse Perinatal Outcomes

2018 253 citations Sophie Grigoriadis, Simone N. Vigod et al. profile →
The prevalence of antenatal and postnatal co-morbid anxiety and depression: a meta-analysis

2017 252 citations Kobra Falah‐Hassani, Rahman Shiri et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Cindy‐Lee Dennis	14.4k	8.3k	7.2k	5.2k	5.1k	338	22.1k
Alan Stein	9.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.2×	11.0k 1.5×	4.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.4×	309	19.5k
Atıf Rahman	7.7k 0.5×	2.1k 0.3×	9.4k 1.3×	3.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	229	16.9k
Louise M. Howard	7.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.3×	7.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.3×	354	16.7k
Jane Fisher	5.6k 0.4×	1.7k 0.2×	4.5k 0.6×	3.8k 0.7×	692 0.1×	432	13.0k
Richard Harding	7.6k 0.5×	2.6k 0.3×	2.9k 0.4×	7.1k 1.4×	618 0.1×	738	22.4k
Sven Cnattingius	6.2k 0.4×	2.8k 0.3×	2.2k 0.3×	14.2k 2.7×	1.5k 0.3×	494	28.1k
J. L. Cox	10.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.3×	6.2k 0.9×	3.2k 0.6×	768 0.2×	35	12.4k
Jørn Olsen	5.9k 0.4×	1.9k 0.2×	1.7k 0.2×	9.2k 1.8×	1.8k 0.3×	422	20.5k
Bradley N. Gaynes	5.4k 0.4×	2.3k 0.3×	5.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.3×	2.9k 0.6×	335	17.5k
Howard Cabral	3.5k 0.2×	2.2k 0.3×	2.7k 0.4×	3.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.2×	433	17.9k

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Singla, Daisy R., Andrea Lawson, Cindy‐Lee Dennis, et al.. (2025). Evidence-based psychotherapies for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and their underlying mechanisms. Nature Reviews Psychology. 4(12). 761–776.

Ravitz, Paula, Crystal Edler Schiller, Mae Lynn Reyes‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2025). Clinical Supervision Models for Non-specialist Providers Delivering Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Analysis. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 52(5). 932–949.

Tryphonopoulos, Panagiota, et al.. (2025). “VID-KIDS” Video-Feedback Interaction Guidance for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Behavioral Sciences. 15(3). 279–279.

Brown, Hilary K., Rachel Strauss, Kinwah Fung, et al.. (2024). Mental Illness in the 2 Years Prior to Pregnancy in a Population With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study: La maladie mentale dans les deux ans précédant une grossesse dans une population souffrant de lésion cérébrale traumatique : une étude transversale. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 69(8). 607–617. 1 indexed citations

Dennis, Cindy‐Lee, et al.. (2024). The Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale–Short Form (BSES-SF): German Translation and Psychometric Assessment. Journal of Human Lactation. 40(3). 374–385. 1 indexed citations

Dennis, Cindy‐Lee, Simone N. Vigod, Sophie Grigoriadis, et al.. (2023). Cohort profile: Impact of Maternal and Paternal Mental Health – Assessing Concurrent Depression, Anxiety and Comorbidity in the Canadian Family (IMPACT study). BMJ Open. 13(3). e071691–e071691. 4 indexed citations

Dayan, Natalie, Graeme N. Smith, Haim A. Abenhaim, et al.. (2023). Study protocol for the sheMATTERS study (iMproving cArdiovascular healTh in new moThERS): a randomized behavioral trial assessing the effect of a self-efficacy enhancing breastfeeding intervention on postpartum blood pressure and breastfeeding continuation in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 23(1). 68–68. 7 indexed citations

Singla, Daisy R., Claire de Oliveira, Sean M. Murphy, et al.. (2023). Protocol for an economic evaluation of scalable strategies to improve mental health among perinatal women: non-specialist care delivered via telemedicine vs. specialist care delivered in-person. BMC Psychiatry. 23(1). 817–817. 2 indexed citations

Singla, Daisy R., Matthew J. Cohen, Cindy‐Lee Dennis, et al.. (2023). Scaling up quality-assured psychotherapy: The role of therapist competence on perinatal depression and anxiety outcomes. General Hospital Psychiatry. 83. 101–108. 7 indexed citations

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Abbass‐Dick, Jennifer, Karen McQueen, Manon Lemonde, Adam Dubrowski, & Cindy‐Lee Dennis. (2023). Health literacy: A missing link to breastfeeding protection, promotion and support?. 3(3). 365–374.

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Dennis, Cindy‐Lee, Valerie H. Taylor, Sophie Grigoriadis, et al.. (2022). The PPD-ACT app in Canada: feasibility and a latent class analysis of participants with postpartum depression recruited to a psychiatric genetics study using a mobile application. BMC Psychiatry. 22(1). 735–735.

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Dennis, Cindy‐Lee, Sarah Carsley, Sarah Brennenstuhl, et al.. (2022). Screen use and internet addiction among parents of young children: A nationwide Canadian cross-sectional survey. PLoS ONE. 17(1). e0257831–e0257831. 8 indexed citations

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Taylor, Clare, Hilary K. Brown, Natasha Saunders, et al.. (2021). Accidental injury, self‐injury, and assault among children of women with schizophrenia: a population‐based cohort study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 143(5). 406–417. 3 indexed citations

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Costa, Deborah Da, et al.. (2021). ‘I felt less alone knowing I could contribute to the forum’: psychological distress and use of an online infertility peer support forum. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. 9(1). 128–148. 17 indexed citations

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Ruggiero, Erica Di, et al.. (2021). Effect on breastfeeding practices of providing in-home lactation support to vulnerable women through the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program: protocol for a pre/post intervention study. International Breastfeeding Journal. 16(1). 49–49. 7 indexed citations

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Ruggiero, Erica Di, et al.. (2021). High levels of breastmilk feeding despite a low rate of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months in a cohort of vulnerable women in Toronto, Canada. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 18(1). e13260–e13260. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanting, Chen Liu, Liang Dong, et al.. (2020). Coronavirus disease 2019 among pregnant Chinese women: case series data on the safety of vaginal birth and breastfeeding. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 127(9). 1109–1115. 136 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanting, Jun Liu, Jing-Jing Xu, et al.. (2020). Neonatal outcome in 29 pregnant women with COVID-19: A retrospective study in Wuhan, China. PLoS Medicine. 17(7). e1003195–e1003195. 51 indexed citations

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Dennis, Cindy‐Lee, Rahman Shiri, Hilary K. Brown, et al.. (2019). Breastfeeding rates in immigrant and non‐immigrant women: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 15(3). e12809–e12809. 44 indexed citations

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Brown, Hilary K., Andrew S. Wilton, Joel G. Ray, et al.. (2019). Chronic physical conditions and risk for perinatal mental illness: A population-based retrospective cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 16(8). e1002864–e1002864. 38 indexed citations

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