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Understanding the association of civil violence with mental disorders is important for developing effective post conflict recovery policies.
Despite their efficacy, many patients stop antidepressant medication (ADM) without a doctor's advice. This report examines patient-reported reasons, patterns, and predictors of ADM discontinuation.
Mental health service providers are interested in patient perspectives. We examined rates and predictors of patient-reported satisfaction and perceived helpfulness in a cross-national survey of adults with DSM-IV disorders who sought mental health care.
The standard method of generating disorder‐specific disability scores has lay raters make rankings between pairs of disorders based on brief disorder vignettes.