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Perceptions of social capital and the built environment and mental healthRicardo Araya
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:3072-83. 2006..We conclude that our results provide some evidence in support of an association between mental health (GHQ-12 scores) and perceptions of social capital, but less support for the contextual nature of social capital...- Lessons from scaling up a depression treatment program in primary care in ChileRicardo Araya
School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Rev Panam Salud Publica 32:234-40. 2012.... 
Problem-solving therapy for depression and common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: piloting a task-shifting primary mental health care intervention in a population with a high prevalence of people living with HIVDixon Chibanda
Department of Psychiatry, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
BMC Public Health 11:828. 2011....- Treating depression in primary care in low-income women in Santiago, Chile: a randomised controlled trialRicardo Araya
Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Lancet 361:995-1000. 2003..We aimed to compare the effectiveness of a stepped-care programme with usual care in primary-care management of depression in low-income women in Santiago, Chile... 
Effects of stressful life events, maternal depression and 5-HTTLPR genotype on emotional symptoms in pre-adolescent childrenRicardo Araya
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:670-82. 2009..Young cohorts are essential to improve our understanding of the impact of development on gene and environment interactions...- Cost-effectiveness of a primary care treatment program for depression in low-income women in Santiago, ChileRicardo Araya
Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6UJ
Am J Psychiatry 163:1379-87. 2006..The authors compared the incremental cost-effectiveness of a stepped-care, multicomponent program with usual care for the treatment of depressed women in primary care in Santiago, Chile... - Inequities in mental health care after health care system reform in ChileRicardo Araya
Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, England
Am J Public Health 96:109-13. 2006..We compared differences in mental health needs and provision of mental health services among residents of Santiago, Chile, with private and public health insurance coverage... - Education and income: which is more important for mental health?R Araya
University of Bristol, Division of Psychiatry, Bristol, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:501-5. 2003..To assess which indicators of socioeconomic status are associated with an increased prevalence of common mental disorders... - School-based intervention to improve the mental health of low-income, secondary school students in Santiago, Chile (YPSA): study protocol for a randomized controlled trialRicardo Araya
University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, Oakfield Grove, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
Trials 12:49. 2011..This proposal aims to evaluate a school-based, universal psychological intervention to reduce depressive symptoms among student's aged 13-14 attending municipal state secondary schools in Santiago, Chile... - Common mental disorders and the built environment in Santiago, ChileRicardo Araya
Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 190:394-401. 2007..There is growing research interest in the influence of the built environment on mental disorders... - Mental health inequalities in Wales, UK: multi-level investigation of the effect of area deprivationPetros Skapinakis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 186:417-22. 2005..Geographical variation in the prevalence of common mental disorders has not been explained adequately... - Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for non-recovery from common mental disorder: results from the longitudinal follow-up of the National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyJ C Haynes
Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS Mental Healthcare Trust, and Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Psychol Med 38:451-5. 2008..Alcohol is commonly considered to be associated with persistence of common mental disorder (CMD; anxiety/depression). However no community-based longitudinal studies have investigated the direction of causality... - Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy may protect against depression 21 months after pregnancy, an effect modified by MTHFR C677T genotypeS J Lewis
School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 66:97-103. 2012..As low folate status has been implicated in depression, high folate intake, in the form of supplements, during pregnancy might offer protection against depression during pregnancy and postpartum... - Smoking and common mental disorders: a population-based survey in Santiago, ChileRicardo Araya
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol, BS6 6JL, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:874-80. 2007..We aimed to study the association between smoking and common mental disorders after adjusting for alcohol, illicit drug use and other confounders... - Mental health and quality of residential environmentHollie Thomas
Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 191:500-5. 2007..There is increasing interest in the proposition that residential environment can affect mental health... - Emotional symptoms in children: The effect of maternal depression, life events, and COMT genotypeJonathan Evans
University of Bristol, Cotham Hill, UK
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 150:209-18. 2009..Although some studies indicate a role for COMT in emotionality, anxiety, and depression in adults, no direct effect or interaction of COMT genotype was observed in this large sample of young children... - Sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms: an investigation of their longitudinal association in a representative sample of the UK general populationP Skapinakis
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Psychol Med 43:329-39. 2013..The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal association between sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms in a nationally representative sample... - Association between pubertal development and depressive symptoms in girls from a UK cohortC Joinson
School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Psychol Med 42:2579-89. 2012..We used multivariable regression models to examine the relative contributions of pubertal status and timing in accounting for increases in level of depressive symptoms at 14 years... - Socio-economic status in childhood and later alcohol use: a systematic reviewNicola J Wiles
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Addiction 102:1546-63. 2007..To conduct a systematic review of longitudinal studies that examined the association between childhood socio-economic status (SES) and alcohol use in later life... - Socio-economic position and common mental disorders. Longitudinal study in the general population in the UKPetros Skapinakis
Department of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 189:109-17. 2006..Individuals in lower socio-economic groups have an increased prevalence of common mental disorders... - Therapist-delivered Internet psychotherapy for depression in primary care: a randomised controlled trialDavid Kessler
Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, NIHR National School for Primary Care Research, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Lancet 374:628-34. 2009..We investigated the effectiveness of CBT delivered online in real time by a therapist for patients with depression in primary care... - The thermolabile variant of MTHFR is associated with depression in the British Women's Heart and Health Study and a meta-analysisS J Lewis
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, UK
Mol Psychiatry 11:352-60. 2006..36 (95% CI: 1.11, 1.67, P=0.003). Since this genotype influences the functioning of the folate metabolic pathway, these findings suggest that folate or its derivatives may be causally related to risk of depression... - Is socioeconomic status in early life associated with drug use? A systematic review of the evidenceJames Z Daniel
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Drug Alcohol Rev 28:142-53. 2009..To conduct a systematic review of longitudinal studies that examined the association between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and illegal drug use in later life... - Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for anxiety and depression: results from the longitudinal follow-up of the National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyJonathan C Haynes
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 187:544-51. 2005..Longitudinal studies have been in conclusive in identifying alcohol as a risk factor for anxiety and depression... - Invited commentary on... Mental health research priorities in low- and middle-income countriesRicardo Araya
University of Bristol, Division of Psychiatry, Cotham House Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 195:364-5. 2009..In the absence of funding, establishing research priorities is seen by many as an exercise of lesser importance... - Substance use among medical students: time to reignite the debate?Dheeraj Rai
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Natl Med J India 21:75-8. 2008..We aimed to explore the patterns of substance use among a sample of medical students from the Indian subcontinent... - Negative self-schemas and the onset of depression in women: longitudinal studyJonathan Evans
Division of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Br J Psychiatry 186:302-7. 2005..Beck's cognitive theory of depression has received little empirical support... - Learning from low income countries: mental healthKwame McKenzie
Royal Free and University College Medical School and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Department of Mental Health Sciences, London NW3 2PF
BMJ 329:1138-40. 2004 - Epidemiology of the association between somatoform disorders and anxiety and depressive disorders: an updateRoselind Lieb
Epidemiology and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60 62, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Psychosom Med 69:860-3. 2007..To review the available epidemiological evidence on associations between somatoform disorders with anxiety and depressive disorders... - Treatment of postnatal depression in low-income mothers in primary-care clinics in Santiago, Chile: a randomised controlled trialGraciela Rojas
Hospital Clinico, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Lancet 370:1629-37. 2007..We compared the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention with usual care to treat postnatal depression in low-income mothers in primary-care clinics in Santiago, Chile... - Treatment and prevention of mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countriesVikram Patel
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 370:991-1005. 2007..However, we recommend that policymakers should act on the available evidence to scale up effective and cost-effective treatments and preventive interventions for mental disorders... - [A randomized trial of pharmacotherapy with telephone monitoring to improve treatment of depression in primary care in Santiago, Chile]Rosemarie Fritsch
Hospital Clinico, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rev Med Chil 135:587-95. 2007..Depression is a public health problem, due to its high prevalence and its associated disability... - [Quality of life of women depressed in the post-partum period]Graciela Rojas
Departamento Psiquiatria y Salud Mental, Hospital Clinico, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rev Med Chil 134:713-20. 2006..Depression is common among women, specially during breeding... - Worry content across the lifespan: an analysis of 16- to 74-year-old participants in the British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity 2000James Lindesay
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, UK
Psychol Med 36:1625-33. 2006..Previous studies suggest that worry content and prevalence may vary as a function of age, but evidence is limited... - [Tobacco smoking and mental health]Graciela Rojas
, Facultad de Medicina, Campus Norte, Universidad de Chile, Avenida La Paz 1003, Santiago, Chile
Rev Med Chil 131:873-80. 2003..Gender differences in use of tobacco have decreased. A higher risk of smoking for people with mental disorders is confirmed... - Comparing sex inequalities in common affective disorders across countries: Great Britain and ChileGraciela Rojas
Clinica Psiquiatrica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Avda La Paz 1003, Santiago, Chile
Soc Sci Med 60:1693-703. 2005..Education is a powerful socio-economic indicator that is difficult to revert later in life, especially in countries where opportunities for women are less forthcoming, and it might act as powerful reminder of social entrapment... - International and regional variation in the prevalence of common mental disorders: do we need more surveys?Scott Weich
Br J Psychiatry 184:289-90. 2004 - Treating depression in the developing worldVikram Patel
Trop Med Int Health 9:539-41. 2004 - Self-help books for depression: how can practitioners and patients make the right choice?Liz Anderson
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol
Br J Gen Pract 55:387-92. 2005..Depression is a common and important public health problem most often treated by GPs. A self-help approach is popular with patients, yet little is known about its effectiveness... - Deciding who gets treatment for depression and anxiety: a study of consecutive GP attendersJulia Hyde
King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, Health Psychology Section, Kings College London
Br J Gen Pract 55:846-53. 2005..Further research is needed to investigate why men are more likely and those with an anxiety disorder less likely, to be offered active treatment... - The Lancet's series on global mental health: 1 year onVikram Patel
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Sangath Centre, Porvorim, Goa, India
Lancet 372:1354-7. 2008