Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #globalmentalhealth, aggregated by home.social.
Great to see the petition at the Society for #PsychotherapyResearch to transform the 'Asian Area Affiliate' group ( #SPRAsia ) into a full chapter of the society.
Find out about goals and activities of the affiliate group:
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/SPR-ASIA-Home
The overview of our #NIHR #GlobalHealth Research Group results is now available:
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/ghr/published-articles/NSHD9987#abstract
"The research highlighted critical gaps in the detection, treatment and integration of care for mental and physical #multimorbidity in South Asia."
I may miss the NIHR library report style, but this was easier to put together, it is probably easier to read, and anyone interested in details can review the published papers by programme objective (Appendix 2).
For disaster psychology and mental health blogs, sign up at https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/contributors/ilan-kelman-phd
Latest: "Mental Health for Future Human Settlements" https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/disaster-by-choice/202603/mental-health-for-future-human-settlements
#GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #DRR #DisasterPsychology #disasters #DisasterRisk #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Activity from #PsychotherapyResearch colleagues of the Consorcio Latinoamericano de Investigación en Psicoterapia*, a protocol describing the implementation of a routine outcome monitoring system across 11 Ecuadorian mental health services:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/5/e115254
* https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/CLIP-About_engl
https://www.europesays.com/africa/172886/ Kenyan youth defy global mental health decline #GlobalMentalHealth #Kenya #KenyanYouth #MentalHealth #MindHealthQuotient
Core outcome sets are a strong tool to improve quality of and communication about research, but especially to align PRACTICE and research. A #COS for #depression has the potential to move the dial considerably:
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(25)00452-4/fulltext
#GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth
The PROCEED study identified outcomes for #depression that matter to patients, caregivers, #healthcare professionals, an excellent read:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32711710/
#Psychometrics #ContentValidity #Validity @philosophy
@eikofried
Summarising literature from 25yrs, the paper shows that most studies investigating cost in global #NCD research emphasise tangible costs (direct & indirect expenses), while largely neglecting intangible costs:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-025-00964-1
Glad to see our recent study included and summarised 👇
https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/1/e013606
Looking forward to today's meeting of the SPR's European Psychotherapy Consortium
Danilo Moggia and I will present on linking measures of psychological distress and cross-cultural analyses.
A brief overview of thoughts and resources can be found in this presentation from last year:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382172059_Analytical_routines_to_align_instrument_scores
And more about the consortium here:
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/SPR-EU-Consortium
#Itembank #Psychometrics #PsychotherapyResearch #GlobalMentalHealth
Happy and humbled that research from our international collaboration has made it into the report, discussing the higher prevalence of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases such as smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/prevalence-of-physical-health-conditions-and-health-risk-behaviours-in-people-with-severe-mental-illness-in-south-asia-multicountry-crosssectional-survey/793439A315E2AF13A2FA5CC33042B7BB
We have also more work on this coming hopefully soon, here link to a recent conference poster discussing the lack of appropriate screening for non-communicable diseases
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/events/2025-events/faculties/academic/calc---koralagamage-kavindu-appuhamy-poster---19-march-2025.pdf?sfvrsn=217a14a7_3
Chapter 4 on the existing gaps in #MentalHealth systems is particularly interesting, as it highlights not only the continued gap in provision and access, but also offers suggestions for practice-focused research and work.
The @who.int "World Mental Health Today" report is out:
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240113817
Over 1bn people live w #MentalDisorder, a leading cause of disability w staggering economic consequences.
Major gaps in resources and quality of care leave most people without adequate support.
Meta-analysis of #TaskShifting / #TaskSharing for managing #Multimorbidity shows some associations w depression (d=-.27, k=14), quality of life (d=.10, k=12), increased anxiety (d=.14, k=5), mortality (OR=.77, k=4).
The Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award going to Clara Paz was excellent news at #SPRKrakow2025, very well-deserved! 👏
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/udla-investiga_internacional-despiertatupasiaejn-udlainvestiga-activity-7343749055069519874-4mAM/
Interesting presentation by Guntars Ermansons (KCL), Neil Carrier (Bristol), and Laura Roe ( #DundeeUni ) in our lunchtime webinar on the special section "Psychoactive Agents: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility" from #MedicineAnthropologyTheory last year:
https://www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/issue/view/590
Editorial about the " #MentalHealth Santhe: Wellness is Fundamental" campaign:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02537176241269034
“Santhe” (Kannada: market) describes a communal gathering where ppl come together to sell, buy, & engage in activities, fostering unity & belonging.
* Similar initiatives in the Society for #PsychotherapyResearch are starting to get traction in this space and if you haven't yet, have a look at the Consorcio Latinoamericano de Investigación en Psicoterapia, which is developing very well:
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/general/custom.asp?page=CLIP-About
Links to follow up:
The COSMOS set
https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/8/e015120.info
The COSmm set
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29531104/
And a special plug for the paper presenting an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of people with
#multimorbidity in low- and middle-income countries based on the interview data from this study
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38262681/
Ending my working week on a high:
Virtual meeting with colleagues from Chile, Ecuador and Argentine discussing #ResearchEthics in cross-national and international #PsychotherapyResearch. Very educating for me and glad that I could share some perspectives.
If you haven't, have a look at the Consorcio Latinoamericano de Investigación en Psicoterapia, which is developing very well:
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/general/custom.asp?page=CLIP-About
It was very nice to be asked by the SPR European Psychotherapy Consortium to present a workplan for aligning measures across services*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382172059_Analytical_routines_to_align_instrument_scores
But it was even better to hear about CLIP from Clara Paz and colleagues! 👇
#GlobalMentalHealth
*described here:
https://www.psycharchives.org/en/item/43ccc929-5c44-40fe-b59a-9c2162fa3cd9
Call for #GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth researchers interested in #Multimorbidity:
9th GACD Funding Call – Management of Multiple Long-Term Conditions
https://www.gacd.org/funding/current-call-for-applications/management-of-multiple-long-term-conditions
🗓️ 15.05. (first stage)
The common call document [pdf https://www.gacd.org/perch/resources/admin/ninth-gacd-call-text-mltc-wp-v1-5.pdf] lists a range of topics such as #StudyDesign, health #equity, stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing it has a specific section on #OutcomeMeasures that explicitly refers to our COSMOS work
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.29.24301589v1
Semi-structured interviews with therapists & trainees of a university psychotherapy service in Ecuador explore expected benefits and difficulties of the implementation a routine outcome measurement system
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10488-024-01350-w
The authors develop a conceptual model summarising these perspectives (Figure 1 for a summary).
„Eine einzigartige Versorgung psychisch erkrankter Elternteile nach der Geburt“ – mit diesen Worten ist das Team der Eltern-Kind-Einheit der #CharitéBerlin für seine berufsübergreifende Arbeit mit dem Otsuka Team Award Psychiatry+ ausgezeichnet worden. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉
👉 https://www.charite.de/klinikum/themen_klinikum/wenn_es_mehr_ist_als_nur_babyblues/
#Medizin #Forschung #Pädiatrie #MentalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth #Depression #Geburt
Looking for a #FridayRead?
How about this blog post by #MentalElf about our research showing that people living with severe mental illness suffer high burden of physical illness:
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/other-health-conditions/comorbidity/south-asias-silent-struggle-severe-mental-illness-patients-suffer-increased-burden-of-physical-illness/
In line with international guidelines, we need to focus on the early detection, prevention and management of physical health problems in people with severe mental illness living in South Asia.
#GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth #MentalIllness #Multimorbidity #NCDs
"The greatest impact we've made is that we've got people taking about mental health together, in the same breath, as talking about chronic long-term [physical health] conditions."
Najma Siddiqi
#MentalElf video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e-hFnQRaSQ
Great summary of the work that I had the fortune of being part since ~2016. Wishing my colleagues all the best to continue pushing forward the boundaries in the new Centre for IMPACT:
https://www.impactsouthasia.com/about-us/meet-the-people/
What can #psychometrics offer for #CrossCultural research? Why is simply translating questionnaires rarely enough for international research efforts?
#SysReview published last week excellently illustrates the #interdisciplinary problems:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dar.13715 measuring #AlcoholUse
Two other examples I like a lot:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26319270/ in #Dementia
and
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721166115 for broader #BehaviouralScience issues.
#TranslationIsNotEnough #HRQL #GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth
If you were asked for 4 of your publications that were
- something old
- sth new
- sth borrowed
- sth blue
which would it be?
### ###
Old:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2010.549520
#RCT #PsychotherapyResearch
New:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/prevalence-of-physical-health-conditions-and-health-risk-behaviours-in-people-with-severe-mental-illness-in-south-asia-multicountry-crosssectional-survey/793439A315E2AF13A2FA5CC33042B7BB
#GlobalMentalHealth
Borrowed (educational piece for practice audience):
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cpp.2742
#ClinicalPsychology #Psychometrics
Blue:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2022.2095237
#NegativeEffects #AdverseEffects #UnderResearched
It was great to hear at #SPRDublin2023 of this study to set up a web-based routine outcome monitoring system in psychotherapy services in Ecuador:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/5/e071875.full
"...in the short term, a culturally contextualised data collection system will be developed, implemented and made available for free to Spanish-speaking clinicians and researchers." 👏
#ROM #GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth #PsychotherapyResearch
Detection of depression in primary care settings in low- and middle-income countries
https://www.nationalelfservice.net/?p=167442
#Depression #Detection #Prevalence #LMICs #GlobalMentalHealth #PrimaryCare
🔥 📣 Launch meeting of the Society for #PsychotherapyResearch's
Asia Regional Affiliate Group!!!
This will be an online #webinar on
April 29, 2023
9:30–11:00 IST
12:00–13:30 HKT
13:00–14:30 JST
It is free of charge and we would like you to get connected with other researchers
and practitioners in Asian countries! You do not have to be a SPR member to join.
The meeting will be
in English.
To register, please complete the Google form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_DcMIb7APDahM3RNFm7CjsZ48anLL6-fjhtMznr4KuQeVIQ/viewform
Excited to share this new publication @NKarachiwalla @cherreralmanza Chimbutane + Lauchande: evidence about mental health of rural adolescents in Mozambique in the post-COVID-19 school *reopening* period (2021) #globalmentalhealth @drdrtsai
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032300018X
The results from our cross-sectional survey drawn from #MentalHealth facilities in #Bangladesh, #India & #Pakistan identifies significant gaps in detection, prevention, treatment of non-communicable diseases in people with severe mental illnesses:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/prevalence-of-physical-health-conditions-and-health-risk-behaviours-in-people-with-severe-mental-illness-in-south-asia-multicountry-crosssectional-survey/793439A315E2AF13A2FA5CC33042B7BB
Video summary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi0a-NA2-iA
Personally: Having worked on the underlying funding & infrastructure since 2015, I am so grateful to the international team & participants that we made it! 🥳