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Sarah Skeen
Researcher at Stellenbosch University
Publications - 87
Citations - 1219
Sarah Skeen is an academic researcher from Stellenbosch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 69 publications receiving 839 citations. Previous affiliations of Sarah Skeen include University of Cape Town.
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The movement for global mental health.
Vikram Patel,Pamela Y. Collins,John R. M. Copeland,Ritsuko Kakuma,Sylvester Katontoka,Jagannath Lamichhane,Smita Naik,Sarah Skeen +7 more
TL;DR: The Movement for Global Mental Health (MGM) is a coalition of individuals and institutions committed to collective actions that aim to close the treatment gap for people living with mental disorders worldwide as discussed by the authors.
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Adolescent Mental Health Program Components and Behavior Risk Reduction: A Meta-analysis
Sarah Skeen,Christina A. Laurenzi,Sarah Gordon,Stefani du Toit,Mark Tomlinson,Mark Tomlinson,Tarun Dua,Alexandra Fleischmann,Kid Kohl,David Ross,Chiara Servili,Amanda Brand,Nicholas Dowdall,Crick Lund,Claire van der Westhuizen,Liliana Carvajal-Aguirre,Cristina Eriksson de Carvalho,G. J. Melendez-Torres +17 more
TL;DR: This meta-analysis of adolescent mental health interventions identifies successful program components across those promoting positive mental health, preventing depression and anxiety, and preventing risk behaviors and three program components emerged as consistently effective across different outcomes, providing a basis for developing future multioutcome intervention programs.
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Health system context and implementation of evidence-based practices—development and validation of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool for low- and middle-income settings
Anna Bergström,Sarah Skeen,Duong M. Duc,Duong M. Duc,Elmer Zelaya Blandón,Carole A. Estabrooks,Petter Gustavsson,Dinh Thi Phuong Hoa,Carina Källestål,Mats Målqvist,Nguyen Thu Nga,Lars Åke Persson,Jesmin Pervin,Stefan Peterson,Stefan Peterson,Stefan Peterson,Anisur Rahman,Katarina Ekholm Selling,Janet E. Squires,Janet E. Squires,Mark Tomlinson,Peter Waiswa,Peter Waiswa,Lars Wallin,Lars Wallin +24 more
TL;DR: Use of the COACH tool will allow for systematic description of the local healthcare context prior implementing healthcare interventions to allow for tailoring implementation strategies or as part of the evaluation of implementing Healthcare interventions and thus allow for deeper insights into the process of implementing EBPs in LMICs.
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Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa: What about mental health?
TL;DR: It is recommended that the role of mental health interventions in accelerating the realization of the MDGs is investigated; further efforts are dedicated to probing the impact of different development projects upon mental health outcomes, and that mental health is declared a global development priority for the remainder of theMDG period and beyond.
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Exposure to violence predicts poor educational outcomes in young children in South Africa and Malawi
TL;DR: Violence experiences and school enrolment, progress and attendance in children attending community-based organisations in South Africa and Malawi at baseline and at 15 months' follow-up and were associated with a number of educational outcomes, which may have long-term consequences.