A5056773655- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Community Health and Development
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Sex work and related issues
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Health disparities and outcomes
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2019-2025
Columbia University
2018-2025
New York State Psychiatric Institute
2018-2025
University of Illinois Chicago
2025
Moi University
2025
Florida International University
2025
New York State Office of Mental Health
2024
University of Oxford
2024
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
2024
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2020-2024
Objective: Stepped mental health care requires a rapid method for nonspecialists to detect illness. This study aimed develop and validate brief instrument, the Mental Wellness Tool (mwTool), identification classification. Methods: Cross-sectional development validation samples included adults at six facilities in Mozambique. Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview diagnoses were criterion standard. Candidate items from nine disorder functioning assessments. Regression modeling expert...
Objectives. To investigate the prevalence, pattern, and socioeconomic risk factors of intimate partner violence (IPV) before 6 months after pandemic onset among a cohort Iranian women. Methods. We conducted population-based IPV survey 2502 partnered women aged 18 to 60 years (n = 2502) (n=2116) pandemic's onset. estimated prevalence incidence psychological, physical, sexual IPV, odds different forms associated with main exposure variables, adjusted for participant relationship factors....
COVID-19 impacted many men’s intimate partner relationships, with distressed and disrupted partnerships consistently featured in commentaries linkages to mental health challenges. The current study draws from interviews 23 Canadian-based men, 19–50 years old, who experienced a break-up during COVID-19. Addressing the research question, “What are connections between masculinities, health, relationship break-ups COVID-19?”, three thematic findings were derived: (1) Virtually Together Growing...
Family-based intervention approaches hold tremendous promise for improving mental health in scalable and relevant ways that address social determinants of health, yet family-focused prevention care interventions are underused global health. This article provides a brief overview the evidence types programs. It then outlines five future directions interventions: integrating implementation science into programs, expanding research on work to other populations different modalities, encouraging...
In sub-Saharan Africa, mental and substance-related disorders account for 19% of all years lived with disability, yet the intersection between poverty distress is poorly understood since most psychiatric research conducted in high-income countries.To examine prevalence associations food insecurity, suicidal ideation three rural village clusters Africa.Cross-sectional multivariate analysis sociodemographic variables associated countries. The sample included 1,142 individuals from Nigeria ( n...
Research examining the interrelated drivers of household violence against women and children is nascent, particularly in humanitarian settings. Gaps remain understanding how relocation, displacement ongoing insecurity affect families may exacerbate violence.
Relations among and interactions between exposure to armed conflict, alcohol misuse, low socioeconomic status, gender (in)equitable decision-making, intimate partner violence (IPV) represent serious global health concerns. Our objective was determine extent of these variables test pathways indicators interest.
The South African National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2013–2020 was adopted to address the country’s substantial burden inadequate treatment of mental illness. It outlines measures toward goal full integration health services into primary care by 2020. To evaluate progress challenges in implementation, we conducted a mixed-methods assessment service provision tuberculosis maternal-child healthcare four districts Africa. Forty clinics (ten per district) were purposively...
To report the interim results from training of providers inevidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) and use mobile applications.The Partnerships in Research to Implement Disseminate Sustainable Scalable Evidence (PRIDE) study is a cluster-randomised hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial comparing three delivery pathways for integrating comprehensive mental healthcare into primary care Mozambique. Innovations include EBPs scaling-up task-shifted health services using applications.We examined...
Mental health conditions impose a major burden worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where specialists are scarce. A challenge to closing LMICs' mental treatment gap is determining the most cost-effective task-shifting pathway for delivering services using evidence-based interventions (EBIs). This article discusses protocol first study implementing comprehensive LMICs.In partnership with Mozambican Ministry of Health, this cluster-randomized, hybrid...
• Adherence to masculine norms about strength was a barrier engagement. Power dynamics within healthcare exchanges heightened many men's vulnerabilities. Stakeholders expressed high acceptability for including men in therapy. Recommendations engagement were situated at the community level.
As global mental health research and programming proliferate, that prioritizes women’s voices examines marginalized outcomes in relation to exposure violence at community relational levels of the socioecological model is needed. In a mixed methods, transnational study, we examined armed conflict exposure, intimate partner (IPV), depressive symptoms among 605 women Northeastern Uganda. We used analysis variance test between groups who had experienced no IPV or conflict, only, both; linear...
American Indians face pervasive trauma exposure, collective histories of communal suffering, and elevated risk for depression posttraumatic stress disorder. In addition to socioeconomic barriers, access culturally responsive treatment is limited, which may compromise engagement. The
Abstract Background and aims Health inequities related to alcohol use exist for transgender individuals. While the Thailand Ministry of Public recently published a clinical guideline implement Screening, Brief Intervention Referral Treatment (SBIRT) in primary care, there has been no study regarding women's (TGW) acceptability implementing SBIRT Thai context, gap this aimed fill. Design A mixed‐method approach was used. In first phase, TGW service users health‐care providers (HCPs) completed...
Abstract Aims Despite the public health impact of violence among young adults with psychosis, behavioural interventions to reduce risk engaging in remain rare. For early cognitive therapy (CBT)‐based psychotherapy has efficacy reducing impairment and improving functioning. However, no CBT‐based intervention been formally adapted for psychosis. This protocol outlines first clinical trial a study is set an services (EIS) setting seeks adapt pilot Psychological Intervention Complex PTSD...
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health challenge. IPV hotlines in high-income settings have reported rising numbers of calls the COVID-19 pandemic era. However, no systematic studies to examine prevalence and risk factors transpired. We investigated prevalence, pattern, socioeconomic pre- six months after onset (hereafter post-pandemic) among cohort Iranian women. Methods: Our population-based survey was conducted before epidemic Iran, when we...