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    Study protocol: development and randomized controlled trial of a preventive blended care parenting intervention for parents with PTSD

    Children of parents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at increased risk of adverse psychological outcomes. An important risk mechanism is impaired parental functioning, including negative parentin...

    Laurien Meijer, Catrin Finkenauer, Matthijs Blankers, Anouk de Gee in BMC Psychiatry (2023)

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    Comparing a ses-sensitive and an all-ses implementation strategy to improve participation rates of patients with a lower socioeconomic background in a web-based intervention for depressive complaints: a cluster randomised trial in primary care

    Depression is a major public health concern, which is most pronounced in population segments with a lower social-economic status (SES). E-health interventions for depressive complaints are proven to be effecti...

    Stephanie S. Leone, Odile Smeets, Suzanne Lokman, Brigitte Boon in BMC Primary Care (2022)

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    A school-based program to prevent depressive symptoms and strengthen well-being among pre-vocational students (Happy Lessons): protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial and implementation study

    Depression is one of the leading causes of illness and disability among young people. In the Netherlands, one in twelve Dutch adolescents has experienced depression in the last 12 months. Pre-vocational studen...

    Marieke Rombouts, Elisa L. Duinhof, Marloes Kleinjan, Jannis T. Kraiss in BMC Public Health (2022)

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    Experiences of healthcare staff providing community-based mental healthcare as a multidisciplinary community mental health team in Central and Eastern Europe findings from the RECOVER-E project: an observational intervention study

    Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) deliver healthcare that supports the recovery of people with mental illness. The aim of this paper was to explore to what extent team members of five CMHTs newly implement...

    Catharina Roth, Michel Wensing, Martina Rojnic Kuzman, Sarah Bjedov in BMC Psychiatry (2021)

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    Evaluation of the SPIRIT Integrated Suicide Prevention Programme: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Gujarat, India

    Suicide is a major public health challenge globally and specifically in India where 36.6% and 24.3% of all suicides worldwide occur in women and men, respectively. The United Nations Sustainable Development Go...

    Soumitra Pathare, Laura Shields-Zeeman, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Deepa Pandit in Trials (2020)

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    Towards community-based and recovery-oriented care for severe mental disorders in Southern and Eastern Europe: aims and design of a multi-country implementation and evaluation study (RECOVER-E)

    Substantial strides have been made around the world in reforming mental health systems by shifting away from institutional care towards community-based services. Despite an extensive evidence base on what cons...

    Laura Shields-Zeeman, Ionela Petrea in International Journal of Mental Health Sys… (2020)

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    Atmiyata, a community-led intervention to address common mental disorders: Study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Gujarat, India

    While lay-health worker models for mental health care have proven to be effective in controlled trials, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness and scalability of these models in rural communities in lo...

    Kaustubh Joag, Jasmine Kalha, Deepa Pandit, Susmita Chatterjee in Trials (2020)

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    Feasibility and acceptability of a novel community-based mental health intervention delivered by community volunteers in Maharashtra, India: the Atmiyata programme

    Many community-based intervention models for mental health and wellbeing have undergone robust experimental evaluation; however, there are limited accounts of the implementation of these evidence-based interve...

    Kaustubh Joag, Laura Shields-Zeeman, Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, Rama Kawade in BMC Psychiatry (2020)

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    Recovery for all in the community; position paper on principles and key elements of community-based mental health care

    Service providers throughout Europe have identified the need to define how high-quality community-based mental health care looks to organize their own services and to inform governments, commissioners and fund...

    René Keet, Marjonneke de Vetten-Mc Mahon, Laura Shields-Zeeman in BMC Psychiatry (2019)

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    Bringing Social Context into Diabetes Care: Intervening on Social Risks versus Providing Contextualized Care

    Patient social and economic risk information can guide diabetes care through social risk–targeted care (directly intervening on social risk factors) or social risk–informed care (modifying or tailoring care to...

    Danielle Hessler, Vicky Bowyer, Rachel Gold in Current Diabetes Reports (2019)

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    Promoting wellbeing and improving access to mental health care through community champions in rural India: the Atmiyata intervention approach

    There are limited accounts of community-based interventions for reducing distress or providing support for people with common mental disorders (CMDs) in low and middle-income countries. The recently implemented

    Laura Shields-Zeeman, Soumitra Pathare in International Journal of Mental Health Sys… (2017)