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Migration and mental health
  • D. Bhugra
  • Psychology, Medicine
    European Psychiatry
  • 1 April 2004
TLDR
The aim of this review is to distil existing information on how migration influences individuals’ mental state and how it determines help seeking as well as pathways to care.
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Migration, cultural bereavement and cultural identity.
  • D. Bhugra, M. Becker
  • Psychology
    World psychiatry : official journal of the World…
  • 1 February 2005
TLDR
The complex interplay of the migration process, cultural bereavement, cultural identity, and cultural congruity, along with biological, psychological and social factors, is hypothesized as playing a major role in the increased rates of mental illness in affected migrant groups.
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Psychosis, victimisation and childhood disadvantage
TLDR
In people with psychosis, there is a marked excess of victimising experiences, many of which will have occurred during childhood, which is suggestive of a social contribution to aetiology.
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Migration, distress and cultural identity.
  • D. Bhugra
  • Sociology
    British medical bulletin
  • 1 June 2004
TLDR
A new hypothesis is proposed suggesting that when sociocentric individuals from sociOCentric cultures migrate to egocentric societies they may feel more alienated, and the clinicians need to be aware of the pathways into migration.
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The development of the Short Explanatory Model Interview (SEMI) and its use among primary-care attenders with common mental disorders
TLDR
The SEMI was employed to study the explanatory models of subjects with common mental disorders among Whites, African-Caribbean and Asians living in London and was also used in Harare, Zimbabwe, demonstrating its capacity to show up differences in these varied settings.
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The Global Prevalence of Schizophrenia
  • D. Bhugra
  • Psychology, Medicine
    PLoS medicine
  • 1 May 2005
Bhugra discusses the implications of a new study in PLoS Medicine that challenges widely held assumptions about the epidemiology of schizophrenia.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence, comorbidity, impact, and help-seeking in the British National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of 2000.
TLDR
A rare yet severe mental disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder is an atypical neurosis, of which the public health significance has been underestimated and requiring further investigation of barriers to care and interventions to encourage help-seeking.
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Psychiatric and social aspects of suicidal behaviour in prisons
TLDR
Analysis of the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in the ONS National Prison Survey and their association with the presence of psychiatric disorders, personality disorder, substance abuse and social risk factors found that suicidal thoughts and attempts were commoner in prisons than in the general population.
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Incidence and outcome of schizophrenia in Whites, African-Caribbeans and Asians in London
TLDR
Comparison of environmental factors in these groups may identify factors that contribute to the aetiology of schizophrenia, and African-Caribbeans differed from the other two groups only on unemployment.
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Challenging Behaviour: Analysis and Intervention in People With Severe Intellectual Disabilities
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