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    Testing the effectiveness and acceptability of online supportive supervision for mental health practitioners in humanitarian settings: a study protocol for the caring for carers project

    Local humanitarian workers in low and middle-income countries must often contend with potentially morally injurious situations, often with limited resources. This creates barriers to providing sustainable ment...

    Ruth Wells, Ceren Acarturk, Muhammad Kamruzzaman Mozumder, Gülşah Kurt in BMC Psychiatry (2023)

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    Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to healthcare among people with disabilities: evidence from six low- and middle-income countries

    The pandemic has placed considerable strain on health systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), leading to reductions in the availability of routine health services. Emerging evidence su...

    Xanthe Hunt, Shaffa Hameed, Shailaja Tetali in International Journal for Equity in Health (2023)

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    Resilience of people with chronic medical conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 1-year longitudinal prospective survey

    Individuals with chronic medical conditions are considered highly exposed to COVID-19 pandemic stress, but emerging evidence is demonstrating that resilience is common even among them. We aimed at identifying ...

    Lorenzo Tarsitani, Irene Pinucci, Federico Tedeschi, Martina Patanè in BMC Psychiatry (2022)

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    Problems after flight: understanding and comparing Syrians’ perspectives in the Middle East and Europe

    Syrian refugees and asylum seekers (SRAs) face multiple stressors after flight, which may vary due to different geographic, economic, cultural and socio-political contexts in the host countries. Past research ...

    Andrea Drescher, Nikolai Kiselev, Aemal Akhtar, Ceren Acarturk in BMC Public Health (2021)

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    Prevalence and predictors of common mental disorders among Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Turkey: a cross-sectional study

    The war in Syria has created the greatest refugee crisis in the twenty-first century. Turkey hosts the highest number of registered Syrian refugees, who are at increased risk of common mental disorders because...

    Ceren Acarturk, Michael McGrath in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2021)

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    Planning the scale up of brief psychological interventions using theory of change

    A large mental health treatment gap exists among conflict-affected populations, and Syrian refugees specifically. Promising brief psychological interventions for conflict-affected populations exist such as the...

    Daniela C. Fuhr, Ceren Acarturk, Marit Sijbrandij in BMC Health Services Research (2020)

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    Pathways towards scaling up Problem Management Plus in Turkey: a theory of change workshop

    A considerable evidence base has been produced in recent years highlighting the effectiveness of brief scalable psychological interventions for people living in communities exposed to adversity. However, pract...

    Daniela C. Fuhr, Ceren Acarturk, Ersin Uygun, Michael McGrath in Conflict and Health (2020)

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    Protocol for a randomized controlled trial: peer-to-peer Group Problem Management Plus (PM+) for adult Syrian refugees in Turkey

    A large proportion of Syrians have been exposed to potentially traumatic events, multiple losses, and breakdown of supportive social networks and many of them have sought refuge in host countries where they al...

    Ersin Uygun, Zeynep Ilkkursun, Marit Sijbrandij, A. Tamer Aker, Richard Bryant in Trials (2020)

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    Social identity continuity and mental health among Syrian refugees in Turkey

    Building upon social psychological work on social identity and mental health, this study among Syrian refugees in Turkey examined the importance of multiple group memberships and identity continuity for mental...

    Anouk Smeekes, Maykel Verkuyten, Elif Çelebi in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemio… (2017)