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Girmay Medhin
Researcher at Addis Ababa University
Publications - 300
Citations - 8341
Girmay Medhin is an academic researcher from Addis Ababa University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 274 publications receiving 6712 citations. Previous affiliations of Girmay Medhin include College of Health Sciences, Bahrain & King's College London.
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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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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.
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Knowledge and use of medicinal plants by people around Debre Libanos monastery in Ethiopia
TL;DR: The knowledge of the villagers close to the monastery is found to be higher than those distant from the monastery and the correlation between Abichu and Telaye and Zegamel and Doreni is significant indicating the relationships between the number of plants reported by the informants and the distance from the monasteries to the villages.
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Intestinal parasitic infections in relation to HIV/AIDS status, diarrhea and CD4 T-cell count
TL;DR: Investigating the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection among people with and without HIV infection and its association with diarrhea and CD4 T-cell count found that immunodeficiency increased the risk of having opportunistic parasites and diarrhea.
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Impact of antenatal common mental disorders upon perinatal outcomes in Ethiopia: the P-MaMiE population-based cohort study
Charlotte Hanlon,Charlotte Hanlon,Girmay Medhin,Atalay Alem,Fikru Tesfaye,Zufan Lakew,Bogale Worku,Michael E. Dewey,Mesfin Araya,Abdulreshid Abdulahi,Marcus Hughes,Mark Tomlinson,Vikram Patel,Martin Prince +13 more
TL;DR: The impact of antenatal psychosocial stressors, including maternal common mental disorders (CMD), upon low birth weight, stillbirth and neonatal mortality, and other perinatal outcomes in rural Ethiopia is examined.