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Ruth Verhey

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Citations 726
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General Medicine
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Dixon Chibanda
Ricardo Araya
Melanie Abas
Helen A Weiss
Victoria Simms
Bradley N Gaynes
Crick Lund
Teresa R Filipowicz
Abigail Mutsinze
Soraya Seedat
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Int J Ment Health Syst
BMJ Glob Health
AIDS Behav
BMJ Open
PLoS One
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Recent Articles
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An Adapted Friendship Bench Counseling Intervention (FB) to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Outcomes Among People Living with HIV (PWH) Who Inject Drugs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Results from the VITAL Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Gaynes B, Tran H, Nong H, Filipowicz T, Landrum K, Tran T, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2025 Feb; PMID: 39894853
Common mental disorders (CMDs) are prevalent among people living with HIV (PWH) and cause morbidity, jeopardize HIV care engagement, and worsen HIV outcomes. In Vietnam, PWH who inject drugs are...
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"We Need Gentleness": Isolation, Loneliness, and Implications for Psychosocial Counseling Among People with HIV who are on Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Experience Common Mental Disorders in Vietnam
Filipowicz T, Tran H, Nong H, Tran T, Landrum K, Nguyen M, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2025 Jan; PMID: 39776336
The psychological experiences and needs of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who use methadone maintenance treatment and have common mental disorders in Hanoi, Vietnam remain unknown. Due to limited...
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Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study
Vidyasagaran A, Ayesha R, Boehnke J, Kirkham J, Rose L, Hurst J, et al.
BMJ Glob Health . 2024 Aug; 9(8). PMID: 39160083
Introduction: The burden of multimorbidity is recognised increasingly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), creating a strong emphasis on the need for effective evidence-based interventions. Core outcome sets (COS) appropriate...
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Integrating a mental health intervention into PrEP services for South African young women: a human-centred implementation research approach to intervention development
Velloza J, Ndimande-Khoza N, Mills L, Concepcion T, Gumede S, Chauke H, et al.
J Int AIDS Soc . 2024 Jul; 27 Suppl 1:e26274. PMID: 38965973
Introduction: Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who may benefit from HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) face high levels of common mental disorders (e.g. depression, anxiety). Common mental disorders can reduce...
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Mutual capacity building model for adaptation (MCB-MA): a seven-step procedure bidirectional learning and support during intervention adaptation
Jack H, Giusto A, Rose A, Mwamuka R, Brown I, Bere T, et al.
Glob Health Res Policy . 2024 Jul; 9(1):25. PMID: 38956652
Global health reciprocal innovation emphasizes the movement of technologies or interventions between high- and low-income countries to address a shared public health problem, in contrast to unidirectional models of "development...
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Global health reciprocal innovation to address mental health and well-being: strategies used and lessons learnt
Turan J, Vinikoor M, Su A, Rangel-Gomez M, Sweetland A, Verhey R, et al.
BMJ Glob Health . 2023 Nov; 8(Suppl 7). PMID: 37949477
Over the past two decades there have been major advances in the development of interventions promoting mental health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), including delivery of care...
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The impact of working alliance in managing youth anxiety and depression: a scoping review
Dambi J, Mavhu W, Beji-Chauke R, Kaiyo-Utete M, Mills R, Shumba R, et al.
Npj Ment Health Res . 2023 Jul; 2(1):1. PMID: 37520938
A working alliance (WA) is a multidimensional construct signifying a collaborative relationship between a client and a therapist. Systematic reviews of therapies to treat depression and anxiety, almost exclusively in...
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Effect of the Friendship Bench Intervention on Antiretroviral Therapy Outcomes and Mental Health Symptoms in Rural Zimbabwe: A Cluster Randomized Trial
Haas A, Kunzekwenyika C, Manzero J, Hossmann S, Limacher A, van Dijk J, et al.
JAMA Netw Open . 2023 Jul; 6(7):e2323205. PMID: 37440230
Importance: Common mental disorders (CMD), which include depression and anxiety, are prevalent among people living with HIV and are associated with suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Objective: To assess the...
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An Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Among Perinatal Women in Malawi: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Bengtson A, Filipowicz T, Mphonda S, Udedi M, Kulisewa K, Meltzer-Brody S, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2023 Apr; 27(11):3559-3570. PMID: 37084104
Perinatal depression (PND) is common and an important barrier to engagement in HIV care for women living with HIV (WLHIV). Accordingly, we adapted and enhanced The Friendship Bench, an evidence-based...
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Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and validity of the Impact of Events Scale - Revised in primary care in Zimbabwe, a non-war-affected African country
Abas M, Muller M, Gibson L, Derveeuw S, Dissanayake N, Smith P, et al.
BJPsych Open . 2023 Feb; 9(2):e37. PMID: 36794523
Background: A critical step in research on the epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low-resource settings is the validation of brief self-reported psychometric tools available in the public domain,...