The ethics of mental health survey research in low- and middle- income countries.

S M Murray, N Kass, T Mendelson, J Bass

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Article in Global mental health (Cambridge, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Depressive symptoms and associated factors among internally displaced people in Sub-Saharan africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2025
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Conducting Violence and Mental Health Research with Female Sex Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Considerations, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from the Maisha Fiti Study in Nairobi, Kenya.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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No research for the decisionally-impaired mentally ill: a view from Montenegro.BMC medical ethics · 2020
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Association Rule Learning Is an Easy and Efficient Method for Identifying Profiles of Traumas and Stressors that Predict Psychopathology in Disaster Survivors: The Example of Sri Lanka.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 authors.

S M MurrayDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4976-9713

N KassDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

T MendelsonDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

J BassDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Funding

Global Mental Health Training ProgramT32MH103210 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Judith Karen Bass, Sarah Sutherlin-McIvor Murray · 2015 to 2026

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NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH103210

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global healthmental healthresearch ethics

Identifiers

PMID28596881

DOI10.1017/gmh.2016.6

PMCPMC5314948

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