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Florence Baingana
Other affiliations: World Bank, London School of Economics and Political Science, World Health Organization
Bio: Florence Baingana is an academic researcher from Makerere University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 47 publications receiving 3049 citations. Previous affiliations of Florence Baingana include World Bank & London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Harvard University1, University of Cape Town2, King's College London3, Makerere University4, Johns Hopkins University5, University of Washington6, Emory University7, Carter Center8, University of London9, University of Melbourne10, World Psychiatric Association11, Rutgers University12, Al-Quds University13, Peking University14, University of Amsterdam15, University of Health Sciences Lahore16, Dow University of Health Sciences17, University of Ibadan18, University of Liverpool19, Public Health Foundation of India20, Wellcome Trust21, University of Oxford22, South African Medical Research Council23, Groote Schuur Hospital24
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TL;DR: Assessment of progress in scaling up mental health services worldwide using a systematic review of literature and a survey of key national stakeholders in mental health suggested that successful strategies can be adopted to overcome barriers to scaling up.
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University of Cape Town1, King's College London2, Medical Research Council3, World Health Organization4, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences5, Princeton University6, University of Melbourne7, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul8, University of Ibadan9, Johns Hopkins University10
TL;DR: New light is shed on how the Sustainable Development Goals are relevant for addressing the social determinants of mental disorders, and how these goals could be optimised to prevent mental disorders.
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TL;DR: The Roadmap includes few recommendations toalleviate fear behaviors and address mental health needs inEbola-affectedcommunities.
Abstract: citingsymptomaticpatientsescap-ing from treatment units, families concealing sick rela-tives at home, preferential use of traditional healers,andphysicalcontactwithinfectiouscorpses.Neverthe-less, the Roadmap includes few recommendations toalleviate fear behaviors and address mental healthneedsinEbola-affectedcommunities.InWestAfrica,Ebolavirusdiseasearousesfearbe-haviors, in part because many have witnessed thegraphic hemorrhagic manifestations of those infectedandthebodiesofthosewhohavedied.Thecorpsesandbeddingofpatientswhohavediedposeinfectionhaz-ardstohealthcareworkersandfamilymembers.AsofDecember14,2014,649front-linehealthcareworkershavebecomeilland365havedied.
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World Psychiatric Association1, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust2, University of Louisville3, Centre for Mental Health4, Queen Mary University of London5, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center6, Columbia University Medical Center7, University of Oxford8, Cayetano Heredia University9, Mayo Clinic10, The Chinese University of Hong Kong11, Wright State University12, Cardiff University13, Prince of Songkla University14, Pan American Health Organization15, Kowloon Hospital16, University of Antwerp17, University of Toronto18, Wellesley Institute19, University of Nottingham20, University of Western Australia21, University of New South Wales22, University of Western Sydney23, Beijing Forestry University24, Harvard University25, Ain Shams University26, Mental Health Services27, Monash University28, Royal College of Psychiatrists29, University of Pittsburgh30, University of Foggia31
TL;DR: The therapeutic relationship remains paramount, and psychiatrists will need to acquire the necessary communication skills and cultural awareness to work optimally as patient demographics change, and psychiatry faces major challenges.
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TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010) as discussed by the authors was used to estimate the burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), years of life lost to premature mortality (YLLs), and years lived with disability (YLDs).
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TL;DR: The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders derives primarily from clinical observations of patients with substance use disorders as mentioned in this paper, who discover that the specific actions or effects of each class of drugs relieve or change a range of painful affect states.
Abstract: The self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders derives primarily from clinical observations of patients with substance use disorders. Individuals discover that the specific actions or effects of each class of drugs relieve or change a range of painful affect states. Self-medication factors occur in a context of self-regulation vulnerabilities--primarily difficulties in regulating affects, self-esteem, relationships, and self-care. Persons with substance use disorders suffer in the extreme with their feelings, either being overwhelmed with painful affects or seeming not to feel their emotions at all. Substances of abuse help such individuals to relieve painful affects or to experience or control emotions when they are absent or confusing. Diagnostic studies provide evidence that variously supports and fails to support a self-medication hypothesis of addictive disorders. The cause-consequence controversy involving psychopathology and substance use/abuse is reviewed and critiqued. In contrast, clinical observations and empirical studies that focus on painful affects and subjective states of distress more consistently suggest that such states of suffering are important psychological determinants in using, becoming dependent upon, and relapsing to addictive substances. Subjective states of distress and suffering involved in motives to self-medicate with substances of abuse are considered with respect to nicotine dependence and to schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder comorbid with a substance use disorder.
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TL;DR: There are high prevalence of mental health problems, which positively associated with frequently SME during the COVID-19 outbreak, and the government need pay more attention to mental health issues among general population and combating with “infodemic” while combating during public health emergency.
Abstract: Huge citizens expose to social media during a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbroke in Wuhan, China. We assess the prevalence of mental health problems and examine their association with social media exposure. A cross-sectional study among Chinese citizens aged≥18 years old was conducted during Jan 31 to Feb 2, 2020. Online survey was used to do rapid assessment. Total of 4872 participants from 31 provinces and autonomous regions were involved in the current study. Besides demographics and social media exposure (SME), depression was assessed by The Chinese version of WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) and anxiety was assessed by Chinese version of generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7). multivariable logistic regressions were used to identify associations between social media exposure with mental health problems after controlling for covariates. The prevalence of depression, anxiety and combination of depression and anxiety (CDA) was 48.3% (95%CI: 46.9%-49.7%), 22.6% (95%CI: 21.4%-23.8%) and 19.4% (95%CI: 18.3%-20.6%) during COVID-19 outbroke in Wuhan, China. More than 80% (95%CI:80.9%-83.1%) of participants reported frequently exposed to social media. After controlling for covariates, frequently SME was positively associated with high odds of anxiety (OR = 1.72, 95%CI: 1.31-2.26) and CDA (OR = 1.91, 95%CI: 1.52-2.41) compared with less SME. Our findings show there are high prevalence of mental health problems, which positively associated with frequently SME during the COVID-19 outbreak. These findings implicated the government need pay more attention to mental health problems, especially depression and anxiety among general population and combating with "infodemic" while combating during public health emergency.
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TL;DR: It is argued that the global burden of mental illness is underestimated and the reasons for under-estimation are examined to identify five main causes: overlap between psychiatric and neurological disorders; the grouping of suicide and self-harm as a separate category; conflation of all chronic pain syndromes with musculoskeletal disorders; exclusion of personality disorders from disease burden calculations; and inadequate consideration of the contribution of severe mental illness to mortality from associated causes.
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TL;DR: Scarcity of available resources, inequities in their distribution, and inefficiencies in their use pose the three main obstacles to better mental health, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.
1,440 citations