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| Derege KebedeSummaryAffiliation: World Health Organization Country: Zimbabwe Publications
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Khat and alcohol use and risky sex behaviour among in-school and out-of-school youth in EthiopiaDerege Kebede
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BMC Public Health 5:109. 2005..This study was conducted to describe the magnitude of risky sexual behaviour (unprotected sex and early initiation of sexual activity) and its association with Khat and alcohol consumption in Ethiopian youths...- Trimethoprim as adjuvant treatment in schizophrenia: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trialTeshome Shibre
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Schizophr Bull 36:846-51. 2010.... - Clinical course and outcome of schizophrenia in a predominantly treatment-naive cohort in rural EthiopiaAtalay Alem
Medical Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Schizophr Bull 35:646-54. 2009..Improving access to treatment may be the logical next step to improve outcome of schizophrenia in this setting... 
Comparison of computer assisted scan diagnoses and clinical diagnoses of major mental disorders in Butajira, rural EthiopiaAtalay Alem
Department of Psychiatry, Tikur Anbessa Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ethiop Med J 42:137-43. 2004....- Health related quality of life (SF-36) survey in Butajira, rural Ethiopia: normative data and evaluation of reliability and validityDerege Kebede
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethopia
Ethiop Med J 42:289-97. 2004..The SF-36 health survey, a generic measure of health related quality of life (HRQOL), has been translated, evaluated in various languages and used in over 40 countries worldwide, although it has not been used in Ethiopia... - The distribution of mental disorders among an isolated island community in southern EthiopiaDerege Kebede
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Ethiop Med J 43:71-7. 2005..The Zeway islanders are completely different from the surrounding cultural groups, in the midst of whom they have been living in isolation for over three centuries... - Socio-demographic and psychopathologic correlates of enuresis in urban Ethiopian childrenMenelik Desta
Amanuel Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Department of Clinical Sciences, Umea University, Sweden
Acta Paediatr 96:556-60. 2007..To examine the association between enuresis and psychopathology in urban Ethiopian children... - The sociodemographic correlates of schizophrenia in Butajira, rural EthiopiaDerege Kebede
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, P O Box 19241, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Schizophr Res 69:133-41. 2004..To describe the major sociodemographic correlates of schizophrenia, and their interactions, in a rural population of Ethiopia... - Mortality impact of AIDS in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaEduard J Sanders
Ethio Netherlands AIDS Research Project, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
AIDS 17:1209-16. 2003..To measure the impact of HIV on mortality in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia... - Mortality impact of AIDS in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaEduard J Sanders
Ethio-Netherlands AIDS Research Project, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Box 1242, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ethiop Med J 41:35-42. 2003..This trend, and a five-times higher mortality in 2001 than in 1984 in those aged 35-39 years demonstrate a severe impact of HIV on mortality. Continuing surveillance of burials is recommended... - Lay diagnosis of causes of death for monitoring AIDS mortality in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaTekebash Araya
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Trop Med Int Health 9:178-86. 2004..Our results confirm the high impact of HIV/AIDS on mortality as was estimated by epidemiological projections for Addis Ababa... - Monitoring cause-specific adult mortality in developing countries: a comparison of data sources for Addis Ababa and its implications for policy and researchGeorges Reniers
Population Studies Center University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, 239 McNeil Bldg, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6298, USA
Soc Sci Med 61:1952-7. 2005..In addition, we identify an important gender bias in the utilization of health services in the direction of males being significantly more likely to die in medical facilities than females... - Outcome of major depression in Ethiopia: population-based studySouci Mogga
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 189:241-6. 2006..The outcome and impact of major depression in developing countries are not clear... - Utility of the concept of minor depressive disorder: evidence from a large rural community sample in a developing country settingAbebaw Fekadu
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
J Affect Disord 104:111-8. 2007..Evidence on the utility of the minor depressive disorder diagnostic construct in rural communities and developing countries is scarce... 
Validity of the concept of minor depression in a developing country settingAbebaw Fekadu
Section of Epidemiology, Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:22-8. 2008..Minor depressive disorder seems to be a useful and valid diagnostic construct with particular clinical significance in this and, possibly, similar developing country settings...- Symptomatic and functional outcome of bipolar disorder in Butajira, EthiopiaDerege Kebede
J Affect Disord 90:239-49. 2006..Limited information is available on the outcome of bipolar disorder in developing countries...