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Wietse A. Tol
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 193
Citations - 8647
Wietse A. Tol is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Psychosocial. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 173 publications receiving 6883 citations. Previous affiliations of Wietse A. Tol include Yale University & VU University Medical Center.
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Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: Linking practice and research
Wietse A. Tol,Corrado Barbui,Ananda Galappatti,Derrick Silove,Theresa S. Betancourt,Renato Souza,Anne Golaz,Mark van Ommeren +7 more
TL;DR: Overall, research and evidence focuses on interventions that are infrequently implemented, whereas the most commonly used interventions have had little rigorous scrutiny.
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Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews
Crick Lund,Crick Lund,Carrie Brooke-Sumner,Carrie Brooke-Sumner,Florence Baingana,Emily Baron,Erica Breuer,Prabha S. Chandra,Johannes Haushofer,Helen Herrman,Mark J. D. Jordans,Christian Kieling,María Elena Medina-Mora,Ellen Morgan,Olayinka Omigbodun,Wietse A. Tol,Vikram Patel,Shekhar Saxena +17 more
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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Annual Research Review: Resilience and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents Living in Areas of Armed Conflict--A Systematic Review of Findings in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
TL;DR: It is concluded that resilience-focused interventions will need to be highly tailored to specific contexts, rather than the application of a universal model that may be expected to have similar effects on mental health across contexts.
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Pharmacotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis
Mathew Hoskins,Jennifer Pearce,Andrew Bethell,Liliya Dankova,Corrado Barbui,Wietse A. Tol,Mark van Ommeren,Joop T. V. M. de Jong,Soraya Seedat,Hanhui Chen,Jonathan Ian Bisson +10 more
TL;DR: Some drugs have a small positive impact on PTSD symptoms and are acceptable, and for individual pharmacological agents compared with placebo in two or more trials, small statistically significant evidence of efficacy for fluoxetine, paroxettine and venlafaxine is found.
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School-based mental health intervention for children affected by political violence in Indonesia: a cluster randomized trial.
Wietse A. Tol,Ivan H. Komproe,Dessy Susanty,Mark J. D. Jordans,Robert D. Macy,Joop T. V. M. de Jong +5 more
TL;DR: In this study of children in violence-affected communities, a school-based intervention reduced posttraumatic stress symptoms and helped maintain hope, but did not reduce traumatic-stress related symptoms, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, or functional impairment.