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| Ramin MojtabaiSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Perceived unmet need for alcohol and drug use treatments and future use of services: results from a longitudinal studyRamin Mojtabai
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 127:59-64. 2013..This study assessed the association of perceived need for and perceived barriers to treatments for substance use disorder (SUD) with subsequent use of these treatments in community settings...- National trends in mental health disability, 1997-2009Ramin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Public Health 101:2156-63. 2011..I assessed recent trends in mental health disability in the US nonelderly adult population in the context of trends in physical disabilities and psychological distress... 
Bereavement-related depressive episodes: characteristics, 3-year course, and implications for the DSM-5Ramin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:920-8. 2011..The DSM-IV criteria for major depressive episodes exclude brief episodes that are better accounted for by bereavement. However, a proposal has been made to remove this exclusion from the DSM-5...- Proportion of antidepressants prescribed without a psychiatric diagnosis is growingRamin Mojtabai
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1434-42. 2011.... - The public health impact of antidepressants: an instrumental variable analysisRamin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
J Affect Disord 134:188-97. 2011..This study examined the impact of expansion of antidepressant use on prevalence and characteristics of depression and suicidal ideations in the community... - Does depression screening have an effect on the diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in general medical settings?: an instrumental variable analysis of the national ambulatory medical care surveyRamin Mojtabai
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Med Care Res Rev 68:462-89. 2011..Wider use of depression screening may help curb the growing trend of off-label antidepressant prescriptions... - Social comparison of distress and mental health help-seeking in the US general populationRamin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Soc Sci Med 67:1944-50. 2008..Individual variations in social comparison of distress may partly explain the discrepancy between need-as measured by non-compared distress-and help-seeking in the general population... - National trends in psychotropic medication polypharmacy in office-based psychiatryRamin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 797, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:26-36. 2010..Psychotropic medication polypharmacy is common in psychiatric outpatient settings and, in some patient groups, may have increased in recent years... - Mental illness stigma and willingness to seek mental health care in the European UnionRamin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 45:705-12. 2010..This study aims to examine these assumptions... - Americans' attitudes toward psychiatric medications: 1998-2006Ramin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 795, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1015-23. 2009..This study examined recent changes in attitudes toward psychiatric medications in the U.S. general population... - Unmet need for mental health care in schizophrenia: an overview of literature and new data from a first-admission studyRamin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:679-95. 2009..Recovery in this patient population cannot be fully achieved without enhancing access to services and improving the quality of available services. The recent expansion of managed care has made this goal more difficult to achieve... - Unmet need for treatment of major depression in the United StatesRamin Mojtabai
Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:297-305. 2009..This study examined the extent and correlates of perceived unmet need for treatment among individuals with depression in the U.S. general population... - Chronic disease management for depression in US medical practices: results from the Health Tracking Physician SurveyWaleed Zafar
Departments of Health, Behavior and Society, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Med Care 49:634-40. 2011..In past research, the use of CCM has been operationalized by measuring the use of evidence-based organized care management processes (CMPs)... - Legal challenges for substance abuse treatment during disastersLainie Rutkow
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Psychiatr Serv 63:7-9. 2012..Opportunities to mitigate legal challenges and facilitate substance abuse treatment during disasters are discussed... - Sleep problems, psychiatric hospitalization, and emergency department use among psychiatric patients with MedicaidChristopher N Kaufmann
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Mental Health, Hampton House, 624 North Broadway, 8th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Psychiatr Serv 62:1101-5. 2011..This study examined the prevalence of sleep problems and their association with the use of inpatient and emergency department services by Medicaid recipients with serious mental illness... - Nonaffective acute psychoses: uncertainties on the way to DSM-V and ICD-11Katie L Nugent
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 13:203-10. 2011..A unified diagnostic category for these disorders would reduce unnecessary fragmentation in the diagnostic systems and assist in the progress of research on these rare conditions...