Md Zahir Ahmed, Oli Ahmed, Aibao Zhou, Sang Hanbin et al.
The world is experiencing pandemic of the COVID-19 now, a RNA virus that spread out from Wuhan, China. Two countries, China first and later Italy, have gone to full lock down due to rapid spread of this virus. Till to date, no epidemiological data on mental health problems due to outbreak of the COV...
Md Mahbub Hossain, Samia Tasnim, Abida Sultana, Farah Faizah et al.
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic affecting health and wellbeing globally. In addition to the physical health, economic, and social implications, the psychological impacts of this pandemic are increasingly being reported in the scientific literature. This narrative ...
Simon Gilbody, Paula Whitty, Jeremy Grimshaw, Ruth Thomas
CONTEXT: Depression is commonly encountered in primary care settings yet is often missed or suboptimally managed. A number of organizational and educational strategies to improve management of depression have been proposed. The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these strategies have n...
Robert Goodman, Dawn Renfrew, Mohammad S. I. Mullick
A computerised algorithm was developed to predict child psychiatric diagnoses on the basis of the symptom and impact scores derived from Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires (SDQs) completed by parents, teachers and young people. The predictive algorithm generates "unlikely", "possible" or "pro...
Kiran Shafiq Khan, Mohammed A. Mamun, Mark D. Griffiths, Irfan Ullah
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental health as the state of wellbeing in which an individual realizes their capabilities to combat with normal life stressors and work competencies in contributing to the belonged community, which is underpinned by six psychological elements comprising (...
Tom Foster, Kate Gillespie, Roy Mcclelland
BACKGROUND: The aim of this part of the Northern Ireland Suicide Study was to investigate the prevalence of DSM-III-R axis I (clinical syndrome) and axis II (personality) disorders among suicides (14 years and older) in Northern Ireland during a one-year period. METHOD: A psychological autopsy study...
Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir, Yvonne Forsell, Maigun Edhborg
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the associated factors of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms (ADS and AAS) in low-income countries, yet the World Health Organization identifies depressive disorders as the second leading cause of global disease burden by 2020. There is a paucity of rese...
S.M. Didar-Ul Islam, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Rafid Mahmud Khan, Md. Abidul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has aggregated mental health sufferings throughout the entire world. Suicide completions are the extreme consequences of COVID-19 related psychological burdens, which was reported in many countries including Bangladesh. However, there are lack of study assessing COV...
Mohammad Didar Hossain, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Waziul Alam Chowdhury, Louis Niessen et al.
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves the extent of the problem not so well defined. We reviewed the literature ...
Rose McCabe, Stefan Priebe
BACKGROUND: Explanatory models of illness may differ between ethnic groups and influence treatment satisfaction and compliance. AIMS: To compare explanatory models among people with schizophrenia from four cultural backgrounds and explore their relationship with clinical and psychological characteri...
Saffron Karlsen, James Nazroo, Kwame McKenzie, Kamaldeep Bhui et al.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between risk of psychosis, common mental disorder (CMD) and indicators of racism among ethnic minority groups in England and how this relationship may vary by particular ethnic groups. METHOD: A multivariate analysis was carried out o...
Scott Weich, James Nazroo, Kerry Sproston, Sally McManus et al.
BACKGROUND: There is little population-based evidence on ethnic variation in the most common mental disorders (CMD), anxiety and depression. We compared the prevalence of CMD among representative samples of White, Irish, Black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani individuals living in Englan...
Kamaldeep Bhui, Stephen Stansfeld, Kwame McKenzie, Saffron Karlsen et al.
OBJECTIVES: We measured perceived discrimination and its association with common mental disorders among workers in the United Kingdom. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of a national sample of 6 ethnic groups (n=2054). Discrimination was measured as reports of insults; unfair treatment at w...
Mohammad S. I. Mullick, Robert Goodman
Background No previous epidemiological studies of child mental health have been conducted in Bangladesh, partly due to lack of suitable measures. Methods A Bangla translation of a standardised child psychiatric interview, the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA), was validated against routi...
Mohammad S. I. Mullick, Robert Goodman
Background In the developing world, child psychiatric disorders are common but child mental health professionals are scarce. A cheap and effective method for detecting child psychiatric problems would be useful. The present study examined the potential suitability of the Strengths and Difficulties Q...