Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.; Background: Data from the World Mental Health (WMH) surveys on the coverage cascade has underscored the importance of perceived need for seeking treatment of mental disorders. However, little research has focused on treatment contact after adjusting for perceived need. We do so here in analysis of WMH data. Methods: The WMH data considered here come from 25 community ...
Funding Information: Financial support in the form of doctoral fellowships was provided to Ugn\u0117 Grigait\u0117 and B\u00E1rbara Pedrosa by the FCT \u2013 Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia (UI/BD/151073/2021 and UI/BD/151072/2021). Interviews were organised with support from the Lithuanian Disability Forum, funded by the Department for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities under the Mi...
Funding Information: The World Mental Health Survey collaborators are Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD; Ali Al-Hamzawi, MD; Jordi Alonso, MD, PhD; Yasmin A. Altwaijri, PhD; Laura Helena Andrade, MD, PhD; Lukoye Atwoli, MD, PhD; Corina Benjet, PhD; Guilherme Borges, ScD; Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD; Ronny Bruffaerts, PhD; Brendan Bunting, PhD; Jose Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida, MD, PhD; Gra\u00E7a Cardoso, MD, PhD; Stephan...
Funding Information: The study did not receive any specific funding. Deborah Oyine Aluh is a PhD student receiving the support of a PhD fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation ( LCF/BQ/DI20/11780013 ). Barbara Pedrosa and Ugnė Grigaitė are PhD students receiving financial support from the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia ( UI/BD/151073/2021 and UI/BD/151072/2021 ) Publisher Copyright: © 2024; Cultural...
Funding Information: Funding for this study was provided by Funda\u00E7\u00E3o Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia, IP national support through CHRC (UIDP/04923/2020). Authors B\u00E1rbara Pedrosa, and Ugn\u0117 Grigait\u0117 are PhD candidates funded by Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia (FCT) (UI/BD/151072/2021, and UI/BD/151073/2021, accordingly) and author Deborah Aluh is a PhD candidate funded by ...
Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Background: There is a growing recognition that staff attitudes toward coercion in mental health care may influence its application. This study presents the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Staff Attitudes towards Coercion Scale (SACS) and describes mental health professionals’ attitudes towards coercion in Portugal. Methods: Mental health prof...
The World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative is supported by the United States National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH; R01 MH070884), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, the United States Public Health Service (R13-MH066849, R01-MH069864, and R01 DA016558), the Fogarty International Center (FIRCA R03-TW006481), the Pan American Health Organiz...
Publisher Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press.; Background Around the world, people living in objectively difficult circumstances who experience symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) do not qualify for a diagnosis because their worry is not 'excessive' relative to the context. We carried out the first large-scale, cross-national study to explore the impli...
The ESEMeD project is funded by the European Commission (Contracts QLG5-1999-01042; SANCO 2004123 and EAHC 20081308). The Portuguese Mental Health Study was carried out by the Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, with collaboration of the Portuguese Catholic University, and was funded by Champalimaud Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation, Foundation for Science and Te...
Funding Information: The Argentina survey − Estudio Argentino de Epidemiología en Salud Mental (EASM) − was supported by a grant from the Argentinian Ministry of Health (Ministerio de Salud de la Nación) − (Grant Number 2002–17270/13–5). The São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey is supported by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Grant 03/00204–3. The Colombian National Study ...