ReviewBehaviour research and therapy2023
Global mental health and its social determinants: How should we intervene?
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of combining psychological prevention interventions with interventions that address the social determinants of mental health in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ mental health · 2025Pooled it
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- Mental health interventions for climate change-induced disaster survivors in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A systematic review.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Utilization Among Adults in Gasabo District, Kigali City, Rwanda: A Convergent Mixed-Methods Study.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Beyond the clinic: The role of the psychiatrist in practicing pragmatic solidarity.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Impact of social risk factors on TF-CBT engagement and strategies to mitigate the impact: A qualitative analysis.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Contextually salient barriers and facilitators to implementing community-based mental health interventions delivered by non-specialists in Senegal: A qualitative study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Psychological health in marginalised women living in witches' camps in Ghana.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Perinatal depression and anxiety symptoms as mediators between grief and PTSD: the moderated effect of social support.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Severity Classification of Anxiety and Depression Using Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale and Patient Health Questionnaire: National Cross-Sectional Study Applying Classification and Regression Tree Models.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Bridging the mental health gap in Chad: a call to action.BMJ global health · 2025Review
- "The professionals weren't from here": provision of mental health services in the context of the Colombian armed conflict.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Depressive symptomatology in Brazil: perspectives of statistical and psychometrics analyses of the PHQ-9 at four time-points (2020-2023) in the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Implementation of the Community Component of the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP): A Scoping Review.Public health reviews · 2025Review
- Applying systems theory to global mental health.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and determinants of mental health problems experienced by school-going adolescents in Sri Lanka.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Exploring mediators of the Amaka Amasanyufu Multiple Family Group Intervention (2016-2022) on parenting stress reduction among caregivers of children with disruptive behavior disorders in Uganda.SSM. Mental health · 2024Article
- Integrating mental health and psychosocial support into economic inclusion programming for displaced families in Ecuador.Conflict and health · 2024Article
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- A study on the influencing factors of mental health of Chinese garden workers: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
This paper makes the case for expanding the field of global mental health to give more attention to the social determinants of mental health. It does so by describing challenges and opportunities for intervening to address these social determinants, and by presenting some potential approaches to the choice, design and evaluation of such interventions, especially in low and middle-income countries. Challenges include distal interventions, limits to the modifiability of some social and economic determinants, poorly understood mechanisms, difficulty defining the boundaries of such interventions, the need for inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral collaboration, limited datasets in LMIC, sample size challenges for prevention interventions, ethical issues and siloed research funding. Potential approaches include the development of more robust causal models, trial designs that allow for analysis of mechanisms and the pooling of data across diverse settings to explore the role of contextual variables. Several criteria can inform the selection of interventions that target social determinants and these include the need for plausible mechanisms, feasibility, acceptability, cultural validity of moderator, mediator and outcome variables, generalizability and sustainability. These approaches require a high level of inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary cooperation and data sharing across sites internationally. Examples are provided from ongoing research in LMIC.
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