Urbanization and emerging mental health issues

A Ventriglio, J Torales, JM Castaldelli-Maia… - CNS …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Rapid urbanization worldwide is associated to an increase of population in the urban
settings and this is leading to new emerging mental health issues. This narrative mini-review …

Hospital presentations for self-poisoning during COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: an interrupted time-series analysis

D Knipe, T Silva, A Aroos, L Senarathna… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background There is widespread concern over the impact of public health measures, such
as lockdowns, associated with COVID-19 on mental health, including suicide. High-quality …

Suicide prevention in the Southeast Asia region

L Vijayakumar, C Daly, Y Arafat, E Arensman - Crisis, 2020 - econtent.hogrefe.com
This chapter provides an update on suicide and suicide prevention in the Southeast Asia
Region, which covers 11 low-and middle-income countries, accounting for 26% of the …

Addressing psychosocial vulnerabilities through antenatal care—depression, suicidal ideation, and behavior: a study among urban Sri Lankan women

A Palfreyman - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
An absence of data persists for common perinatal mental disorders and suicidal ideation
and/or behaviors (SIB), particularly from low-and middle-income countries and from the …

Evaluating the programme and behavior change theories of a community alcohol education intervention in rural Sri Lanka: a study protocol

JB Sørensen, KSK Lee, A Dawson, A Dawson… - Global Health …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Risky alcohol use is a major public health problem globally and in Sri Lanka. While a
reduction in alcohol consumption can result in physical, mental, and social benefits …

Cross-national examination of adolescent suicidal behavior: a pooled and multi-level analysis of 193,484 students from 53 LMIC countries

A Abio, PN Owusu, JP Posti, T Bärnighausen… - Social psychiatry and …, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Suicide is a leading cause of adolescent mortality worldwide. We aimed to
estimate the prevalence and identify individual-level and country-level factors which might …

[HTML][HTML] Attempted suicide in Sri Lanka–An epidemiological study of household and community factors

DW Knipe, D Gunnell, M Pearson, S Jayamanne… - Journal of affective …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background An individual's suicide risk is determined by personal characteristics, but is also
influenced by their environment. Previous studies indicate a role of contextual effects on …

'We lost because of his drunkenness': the social processes linking alcohol use to self-harm in the context of daily life stress in marriages and intimate relationships in …

JB Sørensen, T Agampodi, BR Sørensen… - BMJ global …, 2017 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Harmful alcohol use has been found to cause detriment to the consumers and
those around them. Research carried out in Sri Lanka has described the socioeconomic …

Socio-demographic and economics factors associated with suicide mortality in Iran, 2001–2010: application of a decomposition model

H Haghparast-Bidgoli, G Rinaldi, H Shahnavazi… - International journal for …, 2018 - Springer
Background Suicide is a major global health problem, especially among youth. Suicide is
known to be associated with a variety of social, economic, political and religious factors, vary …

Intimate partner violence, suicide and self-harm in Sri Lanka: Analysis of national data

P Bandara, A Page, T Rajapakse, D Knipe - PLoS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
There is increasing evidence from South Asia and internationally that intimate partner
violence (IPV) is strongly associated with self-harm, however its association with suicide and …