Research

Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder

Findings From World Mental Health Surveys of the Perceived Helpfulness of Treatment for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder (2020) - JAMA Psychiatry. 77(8):830-841; doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1107 PMID: 32432716; PMCID: PMC7240636

Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative

Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative (2020) -Psychological Medicine. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720000884

Pre-marital predictors of marital violence in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys

Pre-marital predictors of marital violence in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys (2020) - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55 (3), 393-405. doi: 10.1007/s00127-019-01703-z. Epub 2019 Apr 16. PMID: 30993376; PMCID: PMC7410347

The epidemiology of alcohol use disorders cross-nationally: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys

The epidemiology of alcohol use disorders cross-nationally: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys (2020) - Addictive Behaviors. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106128

Intermittent Explosive Disorder subtypes in the general population: association with comorbidity, impairment and suicidality

Intermittent Explosive Disorder subtypes in the general population: association with comorbidity, impairment and suicidality (2020) - Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29:e138. doi: 10.1017/S2045796020000517. PMID: 32638683; PMCID: PMC7327434

Towards measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder

Towards measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder (2020) - Psychological Medicine; 52(10), 1948-1958

Transdiagnostic trajectories of internalizing psychopathology throughout the life course up to age 45: a World Mental Health Surveys report

Transdiagnostic trajectories of internalizing psychopathology throughout the life course up to age 45: a World Mental Health Surveys report (2020) - Psychological Medicine; 52(11), 2134-2143

An Evaluation of Hydromethylthionine as a Treatment Option for Alzheimer's Disease

An Evaluation of Hydromethylthionine as a Treatment Option for Alzheimer's Disease (2020) - Expert Opin Pharmacother; 21(6):619-627. doi: 10.1080/14656566.2020.1719066. Epub 2020 Feb 8. PMID: 32037892

Impact of COVID-19 on mental healthcare of older adults: insights from Lebanon (Middle East)

Impact of COVID-19 on mental healthcare of older adults: insights from Lebanon (Middle East) (2020) - International Psychogeriatrics. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S104161022000068X. Epub 2020 Apr 24. PMID: 32326986; PMCID: PMC7205551

What Do We Know About Bullying: A Review of Reviews from 2014 – 2019

What Do We Know About Bullying: A Review of Reviews from 2014 – 2019 / (2019) - The Arab Journal of Psychiatry; 31(2):115 – 128. doi-10.12816/0053342

Diagnostic biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease: A state-of-the-art review

Diagnostic biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease: A state-of-the-art review (2019) - Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry. doi.org/10.1016/j.bionps.2019.100005

Diagnostic Accuracy of the SLU AMSAD Scale for Depression in Older Adults Without Dementia

Diagnostic Accuracy of the SLU AMSAD Scale for Depression in Older Adults Without Dementia (2019) - JAMDA. doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.09.011.Epub 2019 Nov 6. PMID: 31704225

The epidemiology of drug use disorders cross-nationally: Findings from the WHO’s World Mental Health Surveys

The epidemiology of drug use disorders cross-nationally: Findings from the WHO’s World Mental Health Surveys (2019) - International Journal of Drug Policy; 71:103-112. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.03.002. Epub 2019 Jun 28. PMID: 31255918; PMCID: PMC7370948

Adult ADHD in the Arab World: a Review

Adult ADHD in the Arab World: a Review (2019) - Archives of Psychology; doi.org/10.31296/aop.v3i7.115

Mental health research in the Arab world: Challenges and call for action

Mental health research in the Arab world: Challenges and call for action (2019) - Lancet; 6(11):961-966. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30124-5. Epub 2019 Jul 18. PMID: 31327707

Childhood generalized specific phobia as an early marker of internalizing psychopathology across the lifespan: results from the World Mental Health Surveys

Childhood generalized specific phobia as an early marker of internalizing psychopathology across the lifespan: results from the World Mental Health Surveys (2019) - BMC Medicine; 17:101; doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1328-3. PMID: 31122269; PMCID: PMC6533738

Association of Cohort and Individual Substance Use With Risk of Transitioning to Drug Use, Drug Use Disorder, and Remission From Disorder: Findings From the World Mental Health Surveys

Association of Cohort and Individual Substance Use With Risk of Transitioning to Drug Use, Drug Use Disorder, and Remission From Disorder: Findings From the World Mental Health Surveys (2019) - JAMA Psychiatry; 76(7): 708-720

Concordance between the diagnostic guidelines for alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the draft ICD-11 and other classification systems: Analysis of data from the WHO's World Mental Health Surveys

Concordance between the diagnostic guidelines for alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the draft ICD-11 and other classification systems: Analysis of data from the WHO's World Mental Health Surveys (2019) - Addiction. 114(3):534-552

A comparison of DSM-5 and DSM-IV agoraphobia in the World Mental Health Surveys

A comparison of DSM-5 and DSM-IV agoraphobia in the World Mental Health Surveys (2019) - Depression and Anxiety; 36(6):499-510. doi: 10.1002/da.22885

Cross-national patterns of substance use disorder treatment and associations with mental disorder comorbidity in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Cross-national patterns of substance use disorder treatment and associations with mental disorder comorbidity in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2019) - Addiction; 114(8):1446-1459. doi: 10.1111/add.14599. doi: 10.1111/add.14599

Determinants of treatment of mental disorders in Lebanon: barriers to treatment and changing patterns of service use

Determinants of treatment of mental disorders in Lebanon: barriers to treatment and changing patterns of service use (2019) - Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences; 28(6):655-661. doi: 10.1017/S2045796018000422

Role of childhood adversities and environmental sensitivity in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in war-exposed Syrian refugee children and adolescents

Role of childhood adversities and environmental sensitivity in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in war-exposed Syrian refugee children and adolescents. (2019) - British Journal of Psychiatry; 214(6):354-360 doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.272

Validation of geriatric depression and anxiety rating scales into Arabic

Validation of geriatric depression and anxiety rating scales into Arabic (2018) - Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring; 10: 791-795. doi:10.1016

Validation Into Arabic Of Dementia Rating Scales, Dementia Caregivers Scales And Dementia Research Instruments

Validation Into Arabic Of Dementia Rating Scales, Dementia Caregivers Scales And Dementia Research Instruments (2018) - Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring; 10: 796-801 doi: 10.1016

The association between psychotic experiences and health-related quality of life: a cross-national analysis based on World Mental Health Surveys

The association between psychotic experiences and health-related quality of life: a cross-national analysis based on World Mental Health Surveys (2018) -Schizophrenia Research. 201:46-53 doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.04.044

Psychotic experiences and general medical conditions: a cross-national analysis based on 28,002 respondents from 16 countries in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Psychotic experiences and general medical conditions: a cross-national analysis based on 28,002 respondents from 16 countries in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2018) - Psychological Medicine 48(16):2730-2739. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718000363

Psychotic experiences and religiosity: Data from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Psychotic experiences and religiosity: Data from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2018) - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica; 137(4):306-315. doi: 10.1111/acps.12859. Epub 2018 Feb 16. PMID: 29453789; PMCID: PMC6839106

The associations between psychotic experiences, and substance use and substance use disorders: Findings from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

The associations between psychotic experiences, and substance use and substance use disorders: Findings from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys (2018) - Addiction, 113(5):924-934. doi: 10.1111/acps.12859

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: Results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: Results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys (2018) - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology; 53(3):279-288. doi: 10.1007/s00127-018-1481-6

Treatment Gap for Anxiety Disorders is Global: Results of the World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries

Treatment Gap for Anxiety Disorders is Global: Results of the World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries (2018) - Depression and Anxiety; 35(3): 195-208. doi: 10.1002/da.22711. Epub 2018 Jan 22. PMID: 29356216; PMCID: PMC6008788