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Antenatal depressive symptoms and perinatal complications: a prospective study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Bitew, Tesera ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Kebede, Eskinder ; Honikman, Simone ; Fekadu, Abebaw Date: 22 Aug 2017 Background: Antenatal depressive symptoms affect around 12.3% of women in in low and middle income countries (LMICs) and data are accumulating about associations with adverse outcomes for mother and child. Studies from rural, low-income country ... Read more
Antenatal depressive symptoms and utilisation of delivery and postnatal care: a prospective study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Bitew, Tesera ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Kebede, Eskinder ; Honikman, Simone ; Onah, Michael N ; Fekadu, Abebaw Date: 29 Jun 2017 Background: Uptake of delivery and postnatal care remains low in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where 99% of global maternal deaths take place. However, the potential impact of antenatal depression on use of institutional delivery ... Read more c b
Building the capacity of policy-makers and planners to strengthen mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Author: Keynejad, Roxanne ; Semrau, Maya ; Toynbee, Mark ; Evans-Lacko, Sara ; Lund, Crick ; Gureje, Oye ; Ndyanabangi, Sheila ; Courtin, Emilie ; Abdulmalik, Jibril O ; Alem, Atalay ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 21 Oct 2016 Background: Little is known about the interventions required to build the capacity of mental health policy-makers and planners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conducted a systematic review with the primary aim of identifying ... Read more c b
Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in households of persons with depression: a cross-sectional, comparative study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Hailemichael, Yohannes ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Tirfessa, Kebede ; Docrat, Sumaiyah ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Lund, Crick ; Chisholm, Dan ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Hailemariam, Damen Date: 11 Jul 2019 Abstract Background The extent of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment associated with depression in low-and middle-income countries is not known. The aim of this study was to ... Read more
Catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for households of people with severe mental disorder: a comparative study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Hailemichael, Yohannes ; Hailemariam, Damen ; Tirfessa, Kebede ; Docrat, Sumaiyah ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Lund, Crick ; Chisholm, Dan ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 01 Jun 2019 Abstract Background There are limited data on healthcare spending by households containing a person with severe mental disorder (SMD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This study ... Read more
Challenges and opportunities for implementing integrated mental health care: a district level situation analysis from five low-and middle-income countries

Author: Hanlon, Charlotte ; Luitel, Nagendra P ; Kathree, Tasneem ; Murhar, Vaibhav ; Shrivasta, Sanjay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Ssebunnya, Joshua ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Shidhaye, Rahul ; Petersen, Inge Date: 2014 BACKGROUND: Little is known about how to tailor implementation of mental health services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to the diverse settings encountered within and between countries. In this paper we compare the baseline ... Read more c b
Correction to: Task sharing for the care of severe mental disorders in a low-income country (TaSCS): study protocol for a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

Author: Hanlon, Charlotte ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Shibre, Teshome ; Ejigu, Dawit A ; Negussie, Hanna ; Dewey, Michael ; Wissow, Lawrence ; Prince, Martin ; Susser, Ezra ; Lund, Crick ; Fekadu, Abebaw Date: 06 Oct 2020 An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. Read more
Mental health problems and socioeconomic disadvantage: a controlled household study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Hailemichael, Yohannes ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Tirfessa, Kebede ; Docrat, Sumaiyah ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Lund, Crick ; Chisholm, Dan ; Hailemariam, Damen Date: 31 Jul 2019 Abstract Background There is a lack of high quality population-based studies from low- and middle-income countries examining the relative economic status of households with and without a member ... Read more
Non-fatal suicidal behaviour in rural Ethiopia: a cross-sectional facility- and population-based study

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Selamu, Medhin ; Shiferaw, Tsion ; Hailemariam, Maji ; Rathod, Sujit D ; Jordans, Mark ; Teferra, Solomon ; Lund, Crick ; Breuer, Erica ; Prince, Martin ; Giorgis, Tedla W ; Alem, Atalay ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 22 Mar 2016 Background: Injury related to self-harm is one of the leading causes of global disease burden. As a formative work for a programme to implement comprehensive mental healthcare in a rural district in Ethiopia, we determined the 12-month ... Read more c b
Population level mental distress in rural Ethiopia

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Selamu, Medhin ; Hailemariam, Maji ; Alem, Atalay ; Giorgis, Tedla ; Breuer, Erica ; Lund, Crick ; Prince, Martin ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 2014 BACKGROUND:As part of a situational analysis for a research programme on the integration of mental health care into primary care (Programme for Improving Mental Health Care-PRIME), we conducted a baseline study aimed at determining the broad ... Read more c b
PRIME: a programme to reduce the treatment gap for mental disorders in five low-and middle-income countries

Author: Lund, Crick ; Tomlinson, Mark ; De Silva, Mary ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Shidhaye, Rahul ; Jordans, Mark ; Petersen, Inge ; Bhana, Arvin ; Kigozi, Fred ; Prince, Martin Date: 2012 Crick Lund and colleagues describe their plans for the PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME), which aims to generate evidence on implementing and scaling up integrated packages of care for priority mental disorders in primary and ... Read more c b
Recognition of depression by primary care clinicians in rural Ethiopia

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Selamu, Medhin ; Giorgis, Tedla W ; Lund, Crick ; Alem, Atalay ; Prince, Martin ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 21 Apr 2017 Background: Depression is a common health condition affecting up to a third of patients attending primary care, where most of the care for people with depression is provided. Adequate recognition of depression is the critical step in the path ... Read more
Stakeholder analysis of the Programme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME): baseline findings

Author: Makan, Amit ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Murhar, Vaibhav ; Luitel, Nagendra ; Kathree, Tasneem ; Ssebunya, Joshua ; Lund, Crick Date: 2015 BACKGROUND: The knowledge generated from evidence-based interventions in mental health systems research is seldom translated into policy and practice in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Stakeholder analysis is a potentially useful tool ... Read more c b
Stakeholder perspectives on antenatal depression and the potential for psychological intervention in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study

Author: Bitew, Tesera ; Keynejad, Roxanne ; Honikman, Simone ; Sorsdahl, Katherine ; Myers, Bronwyn ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 22 Jun 2020 Background Psychological interventions for antenatal depression are an integral part of evidence-based care but need to be contextualised for respective sociocultural settings. In this study, we aimed to understand women and healthcare ... Read more
Task sharing for the care of severe mental disorders in a low-income country (TaSCS): study protocol for a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

Author: Hanlon, Charlotte ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Shibre, Teshome ; Ejigu, Dawit A ; Negussie, Hanna ; Dewey, Michael ; Wissow, Lawrence ; Prince, Martin ; Susser, Ezra ; Lund, Crick ; Fekadu, Abebaw Date: 11 Feb 2016 Background: Task sharing mental health care through integration into primary health care (PHC) is advocated as a means of narrowing the treatment gap for mental disorders in low-income countries. However, the effectiveness, acceptability, ... Read more c b
The psychosis treatment gap and its consequences in rural Ethiopia

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Lund, Crick ; DeSilva, Mary ; Selamu, Medhin ; Alem, Atalay ; Asher, Laura ; Birhane, Rahel ; Patel, Vikram ; Hailemariam, Maji ; Shibre, Teshome ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Prince, Martin ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 29 Oct 2019 Abstract Background The “treatment gap” (TG) for mental disorders, widely advocated by the WHO in low-and middle-income countries, is an important indicator of the extent to which a health system ... Read more
Treatment Contact Coverage for Probable Depressive and Probable Alcohol Use Disorders in Four Low- and Middle-Income Country Districts: The PRIME Cross-Sectional Community Surveys

Author: Rathod, Sujit D ; De Silva, Mary J ; Ssebunnya, Joshua ; Breuer, Erica ; Murhar, Vaibhav ; Luitel, Nagendra P ; Medhin, Girmay ; Kigozi, Fred ; Shidhaye, Rahul ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Jordans, Mark ; Patel, Vikram ; Tomlinson, Mark ; Lund, Crick Date: 2016 Context A robust evidence base is now emerging that indicates that treatment for depression and alcohol use disorders (AUD) delivered in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) can be effective. However, the coverage of services for these ... Read more c b

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