Amit Malik
A5086715433- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Global Health Workforce Issues
University of Al-Qadisiyah
2015-2024
Universiti Teknologi MARA
2024
Centre for Development of Telematics
2023
University of British Columbia
2023
SRM University
2022-2023
Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
2022
UNSW Sydney
2021
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
2021
Government of India
2021
Hospital Del Mar
2017
Background Although mental disorders are significant predictors of educational attainment throughout the entire career, most research on among students has focused primary and secondary school years. Method The World Health Organization Mental Surveys were used to examine associations with college entry attrition by comparing ( n = 1572) non-students in same age range (18–22 years; 4178), including who recently left without graduating 702) based surveys 21 countries (four low/lower-middle...
Background To examine barriers to initiation and continuation of mental health treatment among individuals with common disorders. Method Data were from the World Health Organization (WHO) Mental (WMH) surveys. Representative household samples interviewed face in 24 countries. Reasons initiate continue examined a subsample ( n = 636 78) analyzed at different levels clinical severity. Results Among those DSM-IV disorder past 12 months, low perceived need was most reason for not initiating more...
Background Traumatic events are common globally; however, comprehensive population-based cross-national data on the epidemiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), paradigmatic trauma-related mental disorder, lacking. Methods Data were analyzed from 26 population surveys in World Health Organization Mental Surveys. A total 71 083 respondents ages 18+ participated. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview assessed exposure to traumatic as well 30-day, 12-month, and lifetime...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide.To examine the: (a) 12-month prevalence DSM-IV MDD; (b) proportion aware that they have problem needing treatment and who want care; (c) the latter receiving treatment; (d) such meeting minimal standards.Representative community household surveys from 21 countries as part World Health Organization Mental Surveys.Of 51 547 respondents, 4.6% met criteria for MDD these 56.7% reported treatment. Among those recognised...
Abstract Background The treatment gap between the number of people with mental disorders and treated represents a major public health challenge. We examine this by socio-economic status (SES; indicated family income respondent education) service sector in cross-national analysis community epidemiological survey data. Methods Data come from 16 753 respondents 12-month DSM-IV surveys 25 countries WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative. anxiety, mood, or substance these were assessed...
To examine cross-national patterns and correlates of lifetime 12-month comorbid DSM-IV anxiety disorders among people with major depressive disorder (MDD).Nationally or regionally representative epidemiological interviews were administered to 74 045 adults in 27 surveys across 24 countries the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. MDD, a wide range disorders, number assessed Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI).45.7% respondents MDD (32.0-46.5% inter-quartile (IQR) surveys)...
Background Anxiety disorders are a major cause of burden disease. Treatment gaps have been described, but worldwide evaluation is lacking. We estimated, among individuals with 12-month DSM-IV (where DSM Diagnostic Statistical Manual) anxiety disorder in 21 countries, the proportion who (i) perceived need for treatment; (ii) received any and (iii) possibly adequate treatment. Methods Data from 23 community surveys countries World Mental Health (WMH) surveys. mental were assessed (WHO...
It is clear that mental disorders in treatment settings are associated with a higher incidence of chronic physical conditions, but whether this true the community, and how generalized (across range health outcomes) these associations are, less clear. This information has important implications for care primary prevention disease.To investigate 16 temporally prior DSM-IV subsequent onset or diagnosis 10 conditions.Eighteen face-to-face, cross-sectional household surveys community-dwelling...
<h3>Importance</h3> Community-based surveys find that many otherwise healthy individuals report histories of hallucinations and delusions. To date, most studies have focused on the overall lifetime prevalence any these psychotic experiences (PEs), which might mask important features related to types frequencies PEs. <h3>Objective</h3> explore detailed epidemiologic information about PEs in a large multinational sample. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> We obtained data from World Health...
There is evidence that social anxiety disorder (SAD) a prevalent and disabling disorder. However, most of the available data on epidemiology this condition originate from high income countries in West. The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative provides an opportunity to investigate prevalence, course, impairment, socio-demographic correlates, comorbidity, treatment across range high, middle, low different geographic regions world, address question whether differences SAD merely reflect...
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is poorly understood compared with other disorders, and debates persist about the seriousness of this disorder. Few data exist on GAD outside a small number affluent, industrialized nations. No population-based as it currently defined in DSM-5.To provide first epidemiologic DSM-5 explore cross-national differences its prevalence, course, correlates, impact.Data come from World Health Organization Mental Survey Initiative. Cross-sectional general population...
Associations between specific parent and offspring mental disorders are likely to have been overestimated in studies that failed control for comorbidity.
Substance use is a major cause of disability globally. This has been recognized in the recent United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which treatment coverage for substance disorders identified as one indicators. There have no estimates this cross‐nationally, making it difficult to know what baseline that SDG target. Here we report data from World Health Organization (WHO)'s Mental Surveys (WMHS), based on representative community household surveys 26 countries. We assessed...
While it is now recognized that psychotic experiences are associated with an increased risk of later mental disorders, we lack a detailed understanding the reciprocal time-lagged relationships between first onsets and disorders. Using data from World Health Organization Mental (WMH) Surveys, authors assessed bidirectional temporal associations disorders.The WMH Surveys lifetime prevalence age at onset 21 common DSM-IV disorders among 31,261 adult respondents 18 countries. Discrete-time...
Background Although specific phobia is highly prevalent, associated with impairment, and an important risk factor for the development of other mental disorders, cross-national epidemiological data are scarce, especially from low- middle-income countries. This paper presents 22 low-, lower-middle-, upper-middle- high-income Method Data came 25 representative population-based surveys conducted in countries (2001–2011) as part World Health Organization Mental Surveys initiative ( n = 124 902)....
The scarcity of cross-national reports and the changes in Diagnostic Statistical Manual version 5 (DSM-5) regarding panic disorder (PD) attacks (PAs) call for new epidemiological data on PD PAs its subtypes general population. To present representative about epidemiology accordance with DSM-5 definitions. Nationally cross-sectional surveys using World Health Organization Composite International Interview 3.0. Respondents (n = 142,949) from 25 high, middle, lower-middle income countries...
Abstract Aims Epidemiological studies indicate that individuals with one type of mental disorder have an increased risk subsequently developing other types disorders. This study aimed to undertake a comprehensive analysis pair-wise lifetime comorbidity across range common disorders based on diverse population-based surveys. Methods The WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys assessed 145 990 adult respondents from 27 countries. Based retrospectively-reported age-of-onset for 24 DSM-IV...
Although there is robust evidence linking childhood adversities (CAs) and an increased risk for psychotic experiences (PEs), little known about whether these associations vary across the life-course mental disorders that emerge prior to PEs explain associations.We assessed CAs, DSM-IV in 23 998 adults WHO World Mental Health Surveys. Discrete-time survival analysis was used investigate between CAs PEs, influence of on using multivariate logistic models.Exposure common, those who experienced...
The inverse social gradient in mental disorders is a well-established research finding with important implications for causal models and policy. This has used traditional objective status (OSS) measures, such as educational level, income, occupation. Recently, subjective (SSS) measurement been advocated to capture the perception of relative status, but our knowledge, there have no studies associations between SSS disorders.To estimate DSM-IV multiple countries investigate whether persist...
Abstract Background Recruitment to psychiatry is insufficient meet projected mental health service needs world-wide. We report on the career plans of final year medical students from 20 countries, investigating factors identified literature which influence psychiatric choice. Methods Cross sectional electronic or paper survey. Subjects were at 46 schools in participating countries. assessed students’ intentions, motivations, school teaching and exposure psychiatry. attitudes personality...