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Dawit Wondimagegn
Researcher at College of Health Sciences, Bahrain
Publications - 37
Citations - 1578
Dawit Wondimagegn is an academic researcher from College of Health Sciences, Bahrain. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Mental distress. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1258 citations. Previous affiliations of Dawit Wondimagegn include University of Wisconsin-Madison & Addis Ababa University.
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Validity of the patient health questionnaire-9 for depression screening and diagnosis in East Africa
Bizu Gelaye,Bizu Gelaye,Michelle A. Williams,Seblewengel Lemma,Negussie Deyessa,Yonas Bahretibeb,Teshome Shibre,Dawit Wondimagegn,Asnake Lemenhe,Jesse R. Fann,Ann Vander Stoep,Xiao Hua Andrew Zhou +11 more
TL;DR: The PHQ-9 appears to be a reliable and valid instrument that may be used to diagnose major depressive disorders among Ethiopian adults.
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Detecting perinatal common mental disorders in Ethiopia : validation of the self-reporting questionnaire and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.
Charlotte Hanlon,Girmay Medhin,Atalay Alem,Mesfin Araya,Abdulreshid Abdulahi,Marcus Hughes,Markos Tesfaye,Dawit Wondimagegn,Vikram Patel,Martin Prince +9 more
TL;DR: The SRQ-20 was superior to EPDS across all domains for evaluating cultural equivalence and showed validity as a dimensional measure of perinatal CMD in this rural, low-income setting.
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WPA guidance on steps, obstacles and mistakes to avoid in the implementation of community mental health care.
Graham Thornicroft,Atalay Alem,Rnato Antunes Dos Santos,Elizabeth Barley,Robert E. Drake,Guilherne Gregorio,Charotte Hanlon,Hiroto Ito,Eric Latimer,Ann Law,Jair Mari Mari,Peter McGeorge,R. Padmavati,Denise Razzouk,Maya Semrau,Yutaro Setoya,Rangaswamy Thara,Dawit Wondimagegn +17 more
TL;DR: The main recommendations are presented in relation to: the need for coordinated policies, plans and programmes, the requirement to scale up services for whole populations, the importance of promoting community awareness about mental illness to increase levels of help-seeking and how to most effectively harness the experience of users, families, and other advocates.
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Detecting postnatal common mental disorders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Kessler Scales
TL;DR: The EPDS, K6 and K10 all demonstrated acceptable clinical utility as screening scales for postnatal CMD in an urban setting in Ethiopia and the marked urban-rural difference in EPDS performance within Ethiopia highlights the difficulty of applying urban-validated instruments to rural settings in LAMIC.
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Lessons learned in developing community mental health care in Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the findings for the African Region of the WPA Task Force on Steps, Obstacles and Mistakes to Avoid in the Implementation of Community Mental Health Care are summarized.