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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2024

'The Lost Peace': Evidencing the Syndemic Relationship between Neglected Tropical Diseases and Mental Distress in Liberia.

Rosalind McCollum, Carrie Barrett, Georgina Zawolo, Rachel Johnstone, Tiawanlyn G Godwin-Akpan, Hannah Berrian, Shahreen Chowdhury, Jerry Kollie, Karsor Kollie, Emerson Rogers and 10 more

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Rosalind McCollumDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Carrie BarrettDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Georgina ZawoloPacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Liberia, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Rachel JohnstoneDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Tiawanlyn G Godwin-AkpanPrograms Department, American Leprosy Mission, 27 Jungle Road, East Legon, Accra GA-374-5385, Ghana.
Hannah BerrianPacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Liberia, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Shahreen ChowdhuryDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9382-7001
Jerry KolliePacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Liberia, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Karsor KollieDepartment of Health Services, Ministry of Health-Liberia, Congo Town Back Road, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Emerson RogersDepartment of Health Services, Ministry of Health-Liberia, Congo Town Back Road, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Colleen ParkerPacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Liberia, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Maneesh PhillipInternational Programs Department, Effect Hope, 200-90 Allstate Pkwy, Markham, ON L3R 6H3, Canada.
Lucas SempeThe Institute for Global Health and Development Division, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK.
Maaike SeeklesDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7000-3624
John Solunta SmithPacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Liberia, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Wede SeekeyPacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, University of Liberia, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Anna WickendenDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0861-8054
Zeela ZaizayAction Transforming Lives, Congo Town Backroad, Monrovia 1000, Liberia.
Sally TheobaldDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Laura DeanDepartment of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4910-9707

Funding

National Institute for Health Research NIHR200129
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of chronic infectious diseases of poverty affecting over one billion people globally. Intersections of NTDs, disability, and mental ill-health are increasingly evidenced but are rarely studied from a mixed-methods perspective. Here, we advance syndemic understandings by further assessing and contextualising the syndemic relationship between NTDs (particularly their associated disability) and mental distress in Liberia. Participatory qualitative methods, including body mapping (56 participants), social mapping (28 participants), and in-depth interviews (12) provided space for persons affected by NTDs to narrate their experiences. Simultaneously, 201 surveys explored experiences of common mental health conditions among persons affected by skin NTDs. An intersectionality approach was applied within the analysis for both qualitative and quantitative methods informed by Meyer's minority stress model, adapted for NTDs. Qualitative data was analysed thematically and gender-disaggregated, univariable and multivariable analyses were applied to survey data for the outcome measures depression (PHQ-9) and anxiety (GAD-7). Disability was associated with higher levels of depression and anxiety (

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anxietydepressiondisabilityLiberiamental healthneglected tropical diseasessyndemics

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PMCPMC11359536

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