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Adherence to clinical guidelines in integration of mental health services into primary health care in Mbarara, southwestern Uganda: a medical records review

The Ugandan Ministry of Health decentralized mental healthcare to the district level; developed the Uganda Clinical Guidelines (UCG); and trained primary health care (PHC) providers in identification, manageme...

Authors: Edith K. Wakida, Moses Ocan, Godfrey Z. Rukundo, Samuel Maling, Peter Ssebutinde, Elialilia S. Okello, Zohray M. Talib and Celestino Obua

The capacity-building role of community liaison workers with refugee communities in Victoria, Australia

A range of services within Australia and internationally have been developed that are focused on the engagement of individuals who are of refugee background to work as a liaison between their communities and m...

Authors: Karen Wei, Prem Chopra, Susie Strehlow, Mardi Stow, Ida Kaplan, Josef Szwarc and Harry Minas

Stakeholders’ perspectives on integrating the management of depression into routine HIV care in Uganda: qualitative findings from a feasibility study

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major global public health problem with Eastern and Southern Africa being the regions most affected. With increased access to effective antiretroviral therapy, HIV has become a chron...

Authors: Rwamahe Rutakumwa, Joshua Ssebunnya, James Mugisha, Richard Steven Mpango, Christine Tusiime, Leticia Kyohangirwe, Geoffrey Taasi, Hafsa Sentongo, Pontiano Kaleebu, Vikram Patel and Eugene Kinyanda

Prevalence of and factors associated with depression in the hill tribe population aged 40 years and older in northern Thailand

Depression is globally recognized as a major mental health problem in all age categories, particularly among those living in poor economic conditions and with low levels of education, including the hill tribe ...

Authors: Onnalin Singkhorn, Tawatchai Apidechkul, Khanittha Pitchalard, Katemanee Moonpanane, Pawadee Hamtanon, Rachanee Sunsern, Yosapon Leaungsomnapa and Jintana Thepsaw

Commonly diagnosed mental disorders in a general hospital system

Considering many patients receive care from general hospitals, these healthcare institutions are uniquely situated to address mental and physical health needs. Little is documented, however, on the common curr...

Authors: George Scott, Alessandra M. Beauchamp-Lebrón, Ashley A. Rosa-Jiménez, Javier G. Hernández-Justiniano, Axel Ramos-Lucca, Gloria Asencio-Toro and Julio Jiménez-Chávez

Mental healthcare for asylum-seekers and refugees residing in the United Kingdom: a scoping review of policies, barriers, and enablers

Since 2011, a large influx of asylum-seekers and refugees has put pressure on the UK’s under-resourced national health services and mental health services. Asylum-seekers and refugees (ASR) may experience trau...

Authors: Teresa Pollard and Natasha Howard

Facilitators, barriers and potential solutions to the integration of depression and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) care in Malawi: a qualitative study with service providers

Integration of depression services into infectious disease care is feasible, acceptable, and effective in sub-Saharan African settings. However, while the region shifts focus to include chronic diseases, addit...

Authors: Chifundo Colleta Zimba, Christopher F. Akiba, Maureen Matewere, Annie Thom, Michael Udedi, Jones Kaponda Masiye, Kazione Kulisewa, Vivian Fei-ling Go, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Bradley Neil Gaynes and Brian Wells Pence

Factors contributing to emotional distress in Sierra Leone: a socio-ecological analysis

There is increasing global evidence that mental health is strongly determined by social, economic and environmental factors, and that strategic action in these areas has considerable potential for improving me...

Authors: Rebecca Horn, Stella Arakelyan, Haja Wurie and Alastair Ager

Prevalence and correlates of suicidal behaviour among adults in Malawi: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey in 2017

The study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of suicidal behaviour (SB) among adults in Malawi.

Authors: Supa Pengpid and Karl Peltzer

Psychological and social interventions for mental health issues and disorders in Southeast Asia: a systematic review

Mental health issues and disorders are major public health challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia, where chronic shortages in mental health services and human resources ...

Authors: Alan Maddock, Carolyn Blair, Nil Ean and Paul Best

Assessing mental health literacy of primary health care workers in Kenya: a cross-sectional survey

To assess mental health literacy of health workers in primary health care services in Kenya.

Authors: Elijah Marangu, Fethi Mansouri, Natisha Sands, David Ndetei, Peterson Muriithi, Karen Wynter and Helen Rawson

Program evaluation of a student-led peer support service at a Canadian university

University students often experience numerous financial, social and emotional stressors that can affect their mental health. The Peer Support Centre (PSC) is a pilot project that was established to provide pee...

Authors: Rahul Suresh, Zoe Karkossa, Jérémie Richard and Maharshee Karia

Effectiveness of a technology-assisted, family volunteers delivered, brief, multicomponent parents’ skills training intervention for children with developmental disorders in rural Pakistan: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Globally, there is a large documented gap between needs of families and children with developmental disorders and available services. We adapted the World Health Organization’s mental health Gap-Intervention G...

Authors: Syed Usman Hamdani, Zill-e- Huma, Nadia Suleman, Parveen Akhtar, Huma Nazir, Aqsa Masood, Mahjabeen Tariq, Ahmareen Koukab, Erica Salomone, Laura Pacione, Felicity Brown, Stephanie Shire, Siham Sikander, Chiara Servili, Duolao Wang, Fareed Aslam Minhas…

Lay social workers implementing a task-sharing approach to managing depression in Vietnam

While depression is a leading contributor to burden of disease in Vietnam, there is a critical gap in depression care due to the shortage of mental health specialists and extremely limited mental health servic...

Authors: Leena W. Chau, Jill Murphy, Vu Cong Nguyen, Hayami Lou, Huyen Khanh, Trang Thu, Harry Minas and John O’Neil

Mental health consequences of home demolition policy towered Palestinians: Literature review

Home demolition is considered a miserable and frequent reality of life for thousands of Palestinian people. Recently, in January 2020, at least 44 structures were demolished by Israeli forces, displacing at le...

Authors: Mohammed Marie and Sana SaadAdeen

Contribution of researchers in the Arab region to peer-reviewed literature on mental health and well-being of university students

The current study aimed at investigating the contribution of researchers in the Arab region to the field of mental health and well-being of university students using bibliometric tools.

Authors: Waleed M. Sweileh

Dawn of a new day for mental health systems

Authors: Daniel Vigo

Family care for persons with severe mental illness: experiences and perspectives of caregivers in Uganda

In low-income settings with limited social protection supports, by necessity, families are a key resource for care and support. Paradoxically, the quality of family care for people living with Severe Mental Il...

Authors: F. Verity, A. Turiho, B. B. Mutamba and D. Cappo

Scaling-up a new socio-mental health service model in Iran to reduce burden of neuropsychiatric disorders: an economic evaluation study

The integration of core packages of mental health care into routine primary health care has been introduced as an effective way to achieve universal health coverage in mental health care. Based on the transiti...

Authors: Seyede Sedighe Hosseini Jebeli, Aziz Rezapour, Ahmad Hajebi, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Behzad Damari

Correction to: Walking the tightrope-perspectives on local politicians’ role in implementing a national social care policy on evidence-based practice

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: A. Bäck, C. Ståhl, U. von Thiele Schwarz, A. Richter and H. Hasson

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of integrating the management of depression into routine HIV Care in Uganda (the HIV + D trial): A protocol for a cluster-randomised trial

An estimated 8–30 % of people living with HIV (PLWH) have depressive disorders (DD) in sub-Saharan Africa. Of these, the majority are untreated in most of HIV care services. There is evidence from low- and mid...

Authors: Eugene Kinyanda, Leticia Kyohangirwe, Richard S. Mpango, Christine Tusiime, Joshua Ssebunnya, Kenneth Katumba, Patrick Tenywa, James Mugisha, Geoffrey Taasi, Hafsa Sentongo, Dickens Akena, Yoko Laurence, Wilson Muhwezi, Helen A. Weiss, Melissa Neuman, Giulia Greco…

The prevalence of depression, stress and anxiety symptoms in patients with chronic heart failure

Mental health illnesses are associated with frequent hospitalisation and an increased risk of all-cause mortality. Despite the high prevalence of depression in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), there ...

Authors: Nqoba Tsabedze, Jamie-Leigh Hayes Kinsey, Dineo Mpanya, Vanessa Mogashoa, Eric Klug and Pravin Manga

How therapists and patients need to develop a clinical feedback system after 18 months of use in a practice-research network: a qualitative study

A personalized computer-adaptive system for clinical feedback and routine outcome monitoring in mental health, Norse Feedback aims to bridge the needs for standardized and idiographic measures in ordinary prac...

Authors: Christian Moltu, Andrew A. McAleavey, Marianne M. Helleseth, Geir Helge Møller and Sam S. Nordberg

Lifetime relapse and its associated factors among people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders who are on follow up at Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals in Amhara region, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Relapse in psychiatric disorders is highly distressing that posed a huge burden to the patients, family, and society. It interrupts the process of recovery and may increase the risk of resistance to treatment....

Authors: Solomon Moges, Tilahun Belete, Tesfa Mekonen and Melak Menberu

“We do not know how to screen and provide treatment”: a qualitative study of barriers and enablers of implementing perinatal depression health services in Ethiopia

Qualitative studies evaluating maternal mental health services are lacking in Ethiopia, and the available evidence targets severe mental illnesses in the general population. We conducted a qualitative study to...

Authors: Abel Fekadu Dadi, Emma R. Miller, Telake Azale and Lillian Mwanri

Perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge of teachers serving as mental health lay counselors in a low and middle income country: a mixed methods pragmatic pilot study

Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack trained child mental health professionals. While teachers’ child development experience potentially positions them to fill the gap as lay mental health counselors, ...

Authors: Christina M. Cruz, Molly M. Lamb, Priscilla Giri, Juliana Vanderburg, Peter Ferrarone, Surekha Bhattarai, Aileen A. Giardina, Karen Hampanda, Bradley N. Gaynes and Michael Matergia

Knowledge of mental health symptoms and help seeking attitude in a population-based sample in Hong Kong

Mental health symptoms can be subtle, resulting in delaying treatment. A prompt identification of mental signs and symptoms is important for preventing mental disorders in the public. This study examined wheth...

Authors: Ada Wai Tung Fung, Linda Chiu Wa Lam, Sandra Sau Man Chan and Sing Lee

Flexible assertive community treatment teams can change complex and fragmented service systems: experiences of service providers

Implementing innovative health service models in existing service systems is complicated and context dependent. Flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) is a multidisciplinary service model aimed at provi...

Authors: Kristin Trane, Kristian Aasbrenn, Martin Rønningen, Sigrun Odden, Annika Lexén and Anne Landheim

Factors associated with involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in Portugal

Identifying which factors contribute to involuntary psychiatric hospitalization may support initiatives to reduce its frequency. This study examines the sociodemographic, clinical, and contextual factors assoc...

Authors: Manuela Silva, Ana Antunes, Sofia Azeredo-Lopes, Adriana Loureiro, Benedetto Saraceno, José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida and Graça Cardoso

Effects of the Mental Health First Aid for the suicidal person course on beliefs about suicide, stigmatising attitudes, confidence to help, and intended and actual helping actions: an evaluation

Suicide is a significant concern in Australia and globally. There is a strong argument for training community gatekeepers in how to recognise and support suicidal people in their social network. One such train...

Authors: Kathy S. Bond, Fairlie A. Cottrill, Andrew Mackinnon, Amy J. Morgan, Claire M. Kelly, Greg Armstrong, Betty A. Kitchener, Nicola J. Reavley and Anthony F. Jorm

Situational analysis of service provision for adolescents with mental and neurological disorders in in two districts of Ghana

Prevalence among adolescents with mental disorders are about 20% worldwide. In 2012, Ghana enacted the Mental Health Act, Act 846 to regulate mental health care, but did not include specific programmatic detai...

Authors: Adrienne Formentos, Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise, Solomon Nyame and Kwaku Poku Asante

Impact of intensive training on mental health, the experience of Port Said, Egypt

Mental disorder is extremely common globally and integration of mental health in primary health services represents a critical gap especially in low- and middle-income Countries like Egypt. The World Health Or...

Authors: Saverio Bellizzi, Amal Khalil, Ahmed Sawahel, Alessandra Nivoli, Liliana Lorettu, Dina Sabry Said and Susanna Padrini

Enhancing psychological safety in mental health services

Psychological safety—speaking up about ideas and concerns, free from interpersonal risk—are essential to the high-risk environment, such as healthcare settings. Psychologically safe working is particularly imp...

Authors: D. F. Hunt, J. Bailey, B. R. Lennox, M. Crofts and C. Vincent

Effectiveness of a Community-based Group Mindfulness Program tailored for Arabic and Bangla-speaking Migrants

Migrant communities are often underserved by mainstream mental health services resulting in high rates of untreated psychological distress. This collaborative study built on evidence that mindfulness-based int...

Authors: Ilse Blignault, Hend Saab, Lisa Woodland, Haider Mannan and Arshdeep Kaur

The burden of mental disorder in Sierra Leone: a retrospective observational evaluation of programmatic data from the roll out of decentralised nurse-led mental health units

In sub-Saharan Africa the treatment gap for mental disorders is high. In 2009, 98.0% of people with mental illness in Sierra Leone were not receiving treatment, partly due to the absence of public psychiatric ...

Authors: Helen Hopwood, Stephen Sevalie, Moshi Optat Herman, Dawn Harris, Katharine Collet, Abdulai Jawo Bah and Fenella Beynon

Barriers and drivers to stakeholder engagement in global mental health projects

Engagement with diverse stakeholders, including policy makers, care providers and service users and communities, is essential for successful implementation of global mental health interventions. Despite being ...

Authors: Jill Murphy, Onaiza Qureshi, Tarik Endale, Georgina Miguel Esponda, Soumitra Pathare, Julian Eaton, Mary De Silva and Grace Ryan

Characterizing individuals accessing mental health services in the UAE: a focus on youth living in Dubai

Most mental health issues develop during adolescence, therefore identifying youth mental health needs and pathways to care is critical to improve prevention. To date, studies have typically focused on Western ...

Authors: Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, Shorouk Nafie, Baraa A. Dhuhair and Nadia T. Dabbagh

Assessment of alcohol use disorder and its associated factors among alcohol users of medical and surgical outpatients attending a specialized hospital in Gondar, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Alcohol use disorder increase the risk of physical harm, mental or social consequences for patients and others in the community. Studies on alcohol use disorder and associated factors among medical and surgica...

Authors: Demeke Demilew, Berhanu Boru, Getachew Tesfaw, Habtamu Kerebih and Endalamaw Salelew

Prevalence of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide in the general population of Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

In Ethiopia, in spite of the high burden of suicide related-adverse effect, substantial variability in the reported prevalence of individual studies about suicidal ideation and attempted suicide; there is no n...

Authors: Berhanu Boru Bifftu, Bewket Tadesse Tiruneh, Berihun Assefa Dachew and Yonas Deressa Guracho

Organizing as negotiation: the construction of a pathway in Norwegian mental health services

In 2015, a decision was made to implement clinical pathways in Norwegian mental health services. The idea was to construct pathways similar to those used in cancer treatment. These pathways are based on diagno...

Authors: Tine Nesboe Toerseth

Process evaluation of TeamUp: a movement-based psychosocial intervention for refugee children in the Netherlands

Nearly 60,000 people applied for asylum in the Netherland in 2015, confronting the governmental structures and services with great administrative, logistical and service provision challenges. Refugee children’...

Authors: Alexandra C. E. Bleile, Gabriela V. Koppenol-Gonzalez, Katia Verreault, Karin Abeling, Elin Hofman, Willem Vriend, Adnan Hasan and Mark J. D. Jordans

Development of a culturally sensitive Arabic version of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.-AR) and validation of the depression module

Arabic represents one of the most frequently spoken languages worldwide, especially among refugee populations. There is a pressing need for specialized diagnostic tools corresponding to the DSM-5 criteria in M...

Authors: Carine Karnouk, Kerem Böge, Nico Lindheimer, Dana Churbaji, Shaymaa Abdelmagid, Sara Mohamad, Eric Hahn and Malek Bajbouj

Developing a task-sharing psychological intervention to treat mild to moderate symptoms of perinatal depression and anxiety in South Africa: a mixed-method formative study

Symptoms of depression and anxiety are highly prevalent amongst perinatal women in low-resource settings of South Africa, but there is no access to standardised counselling support for these conditions in publ...

Authors: Sonet Boisits, Zulfa Abrahams, Marguerite Schneider, Simone Honikman, Debra Kaminer and Crick Lund

Prevention and management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders: WHO recommendations

People with severe mental disorders (SMD) experience premature mortality mostly from preventable physical causes. The World Health Organization (WHO) have recently produced guidelines on the prevention and man...

Authors: Petra C. Gronholm, Neerja Chowdhary, Corrado Barbui, Jayati Das-Munshi, Kavitha Kolappa, Graham Thornicroft, Maya Semrau and Tarun Dua

Readiness to deliver person‐focused care in a fragile situation: the case of Mental Health Services in Lebanon

Evidence suggests wide variability in the provision of mental healthcare across countries. Countries experiencing fragility related risks suffer from a high burden of mental-ill health and additionally have li...

Authors: Aya Noubani, Karin Diaconu, Giulia Loffreda and Shadi Saleh

Global mental health should engage with the ethics of involuntary admission

Global mental health, as a field, has focused on both increasing access to mental health services and promoting human rights. Amidst many successes in engaging with and addressing various human rights violatio...

Authors: Marisha N. Wickremsinhe

The mental health impact of COVID-19 outbreak: a Nationwide Survey in Iran

Disease outbreak not only carries the risk of death to the public due to the infection, but it also can lead to unbearable psychological impact on the mental health of the individuals. This study aims to explo...

Authors: Reza Shahriarirad, Amirhossein Erfani, Keivan Ranjbar, Amir Bazrafshan and Alireza Mirahmadizadeh

Lessons from a theory of change-driven evaluation of a global mental health funding portfolio

Given the underinvestment in global mental health to-date, it is important to consider how best to maximize the impact of existing investments. Theory of Change (ToC) is increasingly attracting the interest of...

Authors: G. Miguel Esponda, G. K. Ryan, G. Lockwood Estrin, S. Usmani, L. Lee, J. Murphy, O. Qureshi, T. Endale, M. Regan, J. Eaton and M. De Silva

Cross-sectional study of mental health related knowledge and attitudes among care assistant workers in Guangzhou, China

Care assistant workers (CAWs) are a part of a new pattern of mental health care providers in China and play a significant role in bridging the human resource shortage. CAWs in China mainly include community ca...

Authors: Jie Li, Xiao-Ling Duan, Hua-Qing Zhong, Wen Chen, Sara Evans‑Lacko and Graham Thornicroft

Implementing child and youth mental health services: early lessons from the Australian Primary Health Network Lead Site Project

Primary mental health care services play an important role in prevention and early intervention efforts to reduce the prevalence and impact of mental health problems amongst young people. This paper aimed to (...

Authors: Sanne Oostermeijer, Bridget Bassilios, Angela Nicholas, Michelle Williamson, Anna Machlin, Meredith Harris, Philip Burgess and Jane Pirkis