Viviane Kovess-Masfety

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a more direct test of the gender roles hypothesis by analyzing community epidemiological data collected from respondents surveyed in 15 countries as part of the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-national BED data was presented and compared with bulimia nervosa (BN) data in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health Surveys.

TL;DR: Exposure to interpersonal violence had the strongest associations with subsequent traumatic events, and limited resources may best be dedicated to those that are more likely to be further exposed such as victims of interpersonal violence.

TL;DR: Mental disorders are common among college students, have onsets that mostly occur prior to college entry, and in the case of pre-matriculation disorders are associated with college attrition, and are typically untreated.

TL;DR: An analysis of a large cross-national epidemiologic survey database that estimates the 12-month prevalence of suicidal behaviors, identifies risk factors for suicide attempts, and combines these factors to create a risk index for 12- month suicide attempts separately for developed and developing countries finds risk indices can predict suicide attempts with fairly good accuracy.