Global Mental Health Trials / edited by Graham Thornicroft, Vikram Patel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global mental health is a dynamic field of global health; a core aspect of the story which has led to its emergence has been the conduct of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating innovative delivery systems of packages of care for mental disorders in low-resource settings. Global Mental Health Trials brings together many of the world's leading researchers active in the fields of RCTs in low- and medium-resource countries and settings related to improving mental health care. It presents clear and practical information about how to conduct such trials in these settings, along with critical methodological and ethical issues related to such trials, learning from the positive and negative experiences of expert scientists in many countries worldwide who have completed such trials. This book serves as a valuable resource for practitioners in mental health - psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses nursing, psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists - as well as researchers in the areas of psycho-social treatments in mental health, mental health services research, and programme and systems evaluation.

Pt. 1 Principles of global mental health trials -- 1. The importance of trials for global mental health / Vikram Patel -- 2. The applicability of trials of complex mental health interventions / Graham Thornicroft -- 3. Developing mental health interventions / Vikram Patel -- 4. Design issues in global mental health trials in low-resource settings / Helen Weiss -- 5. Defining relevant outcomes / Judith Bass -- 6. Economic evaluations in global mental health / Paul McCrone -- 7. Working with vulnerable populations / Justin I. Bizimana -- 8. Ethical issues in global mental health trials / Buddhika Fernando -- pt. 2 Case studies of global mental health trials -- 9. Trials of interventions for people with psychosis / Rangaswamy Thara -- 10. Trials of interventions for people with depression / Vikram Patel -- 11. Trials of interventions for people with alcohol use disorders / Viviana E. Horigian -- 12. Trials of interventions for people with dementia / Ralph N. Martins -- 13. Trials for people with mental disorders and conditions associated with stress / Joop T.V.M. de Jong -- 14. Suicide prevention trials / Shuba Kumar -- pt. 3 Beyond trials: reducing the mental health treatment gap -- 15. Economic modelling for global mental health / David McDaid -- 16. Evaluation of interventions in the real world / Vikram Patel.

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