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Abebaw Fekadu
Researcher at College of Health Sciences, Bahrain
Publications - 221
Citations - 7367
Abebaw Fekadu is an academic researcher from College of Health Sciences, Bahrain. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 202 publications receiving 5731 citations. Previous affiliations of Abebaw Fekadu include St Ann's Hospital, Dorset & South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
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PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Crick Lund,Mark Tomlinson,Mark Tomlinson,Mary De Silva,Abebaw Fekadu,Rahul Shidhaye,Mark J. D. Jordans,Mark J. D. Jordans,Inge Petersen,Arvin Bhana,Fred Kigozi,Martin Prince,Graham Thornicroft,Charlotte Hanlon,Ritsuko Kakuma,David McDaid,Shekhar Saxena,Dan Chisholm,Shoba Raja,Sarah Kippen-Wood,Simone Honikman,Lara Fairall,Vikram Patel,Vikram Patel +23 more
TL;DR: The PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME) aims to generate evidence on implementing and scaling up integrated packages of care for priority mental disorders in primary and maternal health care contexts in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.
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Perception of stigma among family members of individuals with schizophrenia and major affective disorders in rural Ethiopia.
Teshome Shibre,Alemayehu Negash,Gunnar Kullgren,Derege Kebede,Atalay Alem,Abebaw Fekadu,Daniel Fekadu,G Madhin,Lars Jacobsson +8 more
TL;DR: Stigma was found to be a common problem, with few differences between socio-demographic groups or between types of mental disorder, with common beliefs about causes differ from those held by professionals.
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What happens to patients with treatment-resistant depression? A systematic review of medium to long term outcome studies
Abebaw Fekadu,Sarah C. Wooderson,Kalypso Markopoulo,Catherine Donaldson,Andrew Papadopoulos,Anthony J. Cleare +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of outcome studies of TRD found TRD is associated with poorer clinical outcome, particularly among those who require multiple antidepressant medications, and is recommended for further follow-up studies of carefully identified samples.
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Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.
Emily Mendenhall,Mary De Silva,Charlotte Hanlon,Inge Petersen,Rahul Shidhaye,Mark J. D. Jordans,Nagendra P. Luitel,Joshua Ssebunnya,Abebaw Fekadu,Vikram Patel,Mark Tomlinson,Crick Lund +11 more
TL;DR: It is found that task-sharing mental health services is perceived to be acceptable and feasible in these LMICs as long as key conditions are met: increased numbers of human resources and better access to medications; ongoing structured supportive supervision at the community and primary care-levels.
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Challenges and opportunities for implementing integrated mental health care: a district level situation analysis from five low- and middle-income countries.
Charlotte Hanlon,Nagendra P. Luitel,Tasneem Kathree,Vaibhav Murhar,Sanjay Shrivasta,Girmay Medhin,Joshua Ssebunnya,Abebaw Fekadu,Rahul Shidhaye,Inge Petersen,Mark J. D. Jordans,Fred Kigozi,Graham Thornicroft,Vikram Patel,Mark Tomlinson,Crick Lund,Erica Breuer,Mary De Silva,Martin Prince +18 more
TL;DR: The low level of baseline health system preparedness across sites underlines that interventions at the levels of health care organisation, health facility and community will all be essential for sustainable delivery of quality mental health care integrated into primary care.