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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2017

Challenges and Opportunities in Global Mental Health: a Research-to-Practice Perspective.

Milton L Wainberg, Pamela Scorza, James M Shultz, Liat Helpman, Jennifer J Mootz, Karen A Johnson, Yuval Neria, Jean-Marie E Bradford, Maria A Oquendo, Melissa R Arbuckle

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In one paragraph

Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03610750 (PRIDE SSA - Partnerships in Research to Implement and Disseminate Sustainable and Scalable Evidence Based Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa), which is not on this map. Cited by 357 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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357citing papers in PubMed, 15 pooled it
36.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03610750 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2018, after this paper: background citation

PRIDE SSA - Partnerships in Research to Implement and Disseminate Sustainable and Scalable Evidence Based Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa

TypeinterventionalSponsorNew York State Psychiatric InstituteRan2018 to 2025Enrolled901ConditionsCommon Mental Disorders, Severe Mental DisorderArmspsychiatric medications and evidence-based psychotherapies
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

357 citing papers in PubMed, 15 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 854 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Sustainability of AI-Assisted Mental Health Intervention: A Review of the Literature from 2020-2025.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  7. Association of Menière's disease with depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  8. End-of-life care for people with severe and persistent mental illness and a life-limiting disease: An umbrella review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025
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297 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Milton L WainbergDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA. mlw35@cumc.columbia.edu.
Pamela ScorzaDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
James M ShultzCenter for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness (DEEP Center), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33160, USA.
Liat HelpmanDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Jennifer J MootzDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Karen A JohnsonDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Yuval NeriaDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Jean-Marie E BradfordDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Maria A OquendoDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3535 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3309, USA.
Melissa R ArbuckleDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 24, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · USNew York State Psychiatric InstituteUniversity of Miami · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Global Mental Health Research Fellowship: Interventions That Make a DifferenceT32MH096724 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI MILTON L WAINBERG · 2012 to 2026
$4.4M
NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH096724
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewGlobally, the majority of those who need mental health care worldwide lack access to high-quality mental health services. Stigma, human resource shortages, fragmented service delivery models, and lack of research capacity for implementation and policy change contribute to the current mental health treatment gap. In this review, we describe how health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are addressing the mental health gap and further identify challenges and priority areas for future research. RECENT

findingsCommon mental disorders are responsible for the largest proportion of the global burden of disease; yet, there is sound evidence that these disorders, as well as severe mental disorders, can be successfully treated using evidence-based interventions delivered by trained lay health workers in low-resource community or primary care settings. Stigma is a barrier to service uptake. Prevention, though necessary to address the mental health gap, has not solidified as a research or programmatic focus. Research-to-practice implementation studies are required to inform policies and scale-up services. Four priority areas are identified for focused attention to diminish the mental health treatment gap and to improve access to high-quality mental health services globally: diminishing pervasive stigma, building mental health system treatment and research capacity, implementing prevention programs to decrease the incidence of mental disorders, and establishing sustainable scale up of public health systems to improve access to mental health treatment using evidence-based interventions.

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Global HealthMental HealthMental Health ServicesHealth PersonnelHumansMental DisordersPublic HealthGlobal mental healthImplementation scienceLow- and middle-income countriesPrimary careTask-sharing

Identifiers

PMID28425023
PMCPMC5553319
OpenAlexW2606586703

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