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Neerja Chowdhary
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 46
Citations - 4008
Neerja Chowdhary is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 36 publications receiving 2919 citations. Previous affiliations of Neerja Chowdhary include International Medical Corps & University of London.
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Effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors for depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Vikram Patel,Helen A. Weiss,Neerja Chowdhary,Smita Naik,Sulochana Pednekar,Sudipto Chatterjee,Mary De Silva,Bhargav Bhat,Ricardo Araya,Michael King,Gregory E. Simon,Helen Verdeli,Betty R. Kirkwood +12 more
TL;DR: The MANAS trial as discussed by the authors aimed to test the effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors in primary care settings to improve outcomes of people with depression and anxiety disorders.
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Theory of Change: a theory-driven approach to enhance the Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions
TL;DR: This work proposes a theory-driven approach to the design and evaluation of complex interventions by adapting and integrating a programmatic design and Evaluation tool, Theory of Change (ToC), into the MRC framework for complex interventions and urges researchers developing and evaluating complex interventions to consider using it.
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The burden of mental disorders across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2017
Rajesh Sagar,Rakhi Dandona,Gopalkrishna Gururaj,Rajesh Dhaliwal,Aditya Singh,Alize J. Ferrari,Tarun Dua,Atreyi Ganguli,Mathew Varghese,Joy K Chakma,G Anil Kumar,K S Shaji,Atul Ambekar,Thara Rangaswamy,Lakshmi Vijayakumar,Vivek Agarwal,Rinu P Krishnankutty,Rohit Bhatia,Fiona J Charlson,Neerja Chowdhary,Holly E. Erskine,Scott D Glenn,Varsha Krish,Ana Maria Mantilla Herrera,Parul Mutreja,Christopher M Odell,Pramod Kumar Pal,Sanjay Prakash,Damian Santomauro,D K Shukla,Ravinder Singh,R K Lenin Singh,JS Thakur,Akhil Soman ThekkePurakkal,Chris M Varghese,K. Srinath Reddy,Soumya Swaminathan,Harvey Whiteford,Hendrik J Bekedam,Christopher J L Murray,Theo Vos,Lalit Dandona +41 more
TL;DR: Substantial variations exist between states in the burden from different mental disorders and in their trends over time, and these state-specific trends could guide appropriate policies and health system response to more effectively address the burden of mental disorders in India.
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Detecting common mental disorders in primary care in India: a comparison of five screening questionnaires.
Vikram Patel,Ricardo Araya,Neerja Chowdhary,Michael King,Betty R. Kirkwood,Surendra Kumar Nayak,Greg Simon,Helen A. Weiss +7 more
TL;DR: There is little difference in the ability of these questionnaires to identify cases accurately, but none showed high PPVs without a considerable compromise on sensitivity, so the choice of an optimum cut-off score that yields the best balance between sensitivity and PPV may need to be tailored to individual settings.
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Improving access to psychological treatments: Lessons from developing countries
TL;DR: This essay synthesizes the experiences of programs which developed and evaluated psychological treatments for depression in three resource poor developing countries and demonstrated significant benefits in recovery rates when compared with usual care demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach.