Centre for Psychiatry
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The Centre for Psychiatry carries out research on a range of issues in social, environmental and cultural psychiatry, and chronic disease and mental illness. They also provide undergraduate and postgraduate education.
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Understanding Psychosis Complexity Through a Syndemic Framework: a systematic review.
(2024-03-01)Psychotic conditions pose significant challenges due to their complex aetiology and impact on individuals and communities. Syndemic theory offers a promising framework to understand the interconnectedness of various health ... -
Art therapy-based interventions to address burnout and psychosocial distress in healthcare workers-a systematic review
(BMC, 2023-10-04)Background Burnout and psychosocial distress are serious and growing issues for healthcare workers (HCWs) and healthcare systems across the globe. Exacerbated by changes in healthcare delivery during and following the ... -
Associations between common mental disorders and menopause: cross-sectional analysis of the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey.
(2023-06-08)We investigated whether women who participated in a household survey in England were more likely to screen positive for possible generalised anxiety disorder and depression during and after menopause. We used logistic ... -
Widespread collapse, glimpses of revival: a scoping review of mental health policy and service development in Central Asia.
(2021-08)PURPOSE: We aimed to map evidence on the development of mental health care in Central Asia after 1991. METHOD: We conducted a scoping review complemented by an expert review. We searched five databases for peer-reviewed ... -
Life events and psychosis: case-control study from India, Nigeria, and Trinidad and Tobago.
(2022-09-16)BACKGROUND: There is evidence of an association between life events and psychosis in Europe, North America and Australasia, but few studies have examined this association in the rest of the world. AIMS: To test the association ... -
Cannabis use and psychotic disorders in diverse settings in the Global South: findings from INTREPID II.
(2023-11)BACKGROUND: Cannabis use has been linked to psychotic disorders but this association has been primarily observed in the Global North. This study investigates patterns of cannabis use and associations with psychoses in three ... -
Mutuality as a method: advancing a social paradigm for global mental health through mutual learning.
(2023-07-01)PURPOSE: Calls for "mutuality" in global mental health (GMH) aim to produce knowledge more equitably across epistemic and power differences. With funding, convening, and publishing power still concentrated in institutions ... -
Epidemiology of Untreated Psychoses in 3 Diverse Settings in the Global South: The International Research Program on Psychotic Disorders in Diverse Settings (INTREPID II).
(2023-01-01)IMPORTANCE: Less than 10% of research on psychotic disorders has been conducted in settings in the Global South, which refers broadly to the regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. There is a lack of basic ... -
Urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South.
(2023-01-16)BACKGROUND: Extensive evidence indicates that rates of psychotic disorder are elevated in more urban compared with less urban areas, but this evidence largely originates from Northern Europe. It is unclear whether the same ... -
COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health.
(2021-06)Most of the global population live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), which have historically received a small fraction of global resources for mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly in ... -
Reconceptualising the treatment gap for common mental disorders: a fork in the road for global mental health?
(2022-09)In this analysis, we argue that the 'treatment gap' for common mental disorders often reflects lack of demand, arising because services fail to address the needs of disadvantaged communities. We propose a route forward for ... -
Neighbourhoods & recovery from psychosis in Trinidad: A qualitative study
(Elsevier BV, 2023-12)