global mental health
EQUITY lab
Envisioning Quality Universal Integrated Treatment by Year 2030
Publications
Maharjan, S. M., Poudyal, A., Av, H., Byanjankar, P., Thapa, A., Islam, C., Kohrt, B.. & Hagaman, A. (2021). Passive sensing on mobile devices to improve mental health services with adolescent and young mothers in low-resource settings: the role of families in feasibility and acceptability. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 21, 117. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01473-2
Poudyal A, van Heerden A, Hagaman A, Islam C, Thapa A, Maharjan SM, Byanjankar P and Kohrt BA (2021) What Does Social Support Sound Like? Challenges and Opportunities for Using Passive Episodic Audio Collection to Assess the Social Environment. Front. Public Health 9:633606. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.633606
Byanjankar, P., Poudyal, A., Kohrt, B. A., Maharjan, S. M., Hagaman, A., & van Heerden, A. (2020). Utilizing passive sensing data to provide personalized psychological care in low-resource settings. Gates Open Research, 4(118), 118. (https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.13117.2)
Poudyal, A., van Heerden, A., Hagaman, A., Maharjan, S. M., Byanjankar, P., Subba, P., & Kohrt, B. A. (2019). Wearable digital sensors to identify risks of postpartum depression and personalize psychological treatment for adolescent mothers: protocol for a mixed methods exploratory study in rural Nepal. JMIR research protocols, 8(9), e14734. https://www.researchprotocols.org/2019/9/e14734
Kohrt BA, Rai S, Vilakazi K, Thapa K, Bhardwaj A, van Heerden A. Procedures to Select Digital Sensing Technologies for Passive Data Collection With Children and Their Caregivers: Qualitative Cultural Assessment in South Africa and Nepal. JMIR Pediatric and Parenting ( 2019); 2(1):e12366. DOI: 10.2196/12366
Comparison of mental health between former child soldiers and children never conscripted by armed groups in Nepal
BA Kohrt, MJD Jordans, WA Tol, RA Speckman, SM Maharjan, ...
Jama 300 (6), 691-702
Evaluation of a classroom‐based psychosocial intervention in conflict‐affected Nepal: a cluster randomized controlled trial
MJD Jordans, IH Komproe, WA Tol, BA Kohrt, NP Luitel, RD Macy, ...
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51 (7), 818-826
Nepali concepts of psychological trauma: the role of idioms of distress, ethnopsychology and ethnophysiology in alleviating suffering and preventing stigma
BA Kohrt, DJ Hruschka
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 34 (2), 322-352
Neuropsychological functioning as a moderator of the relationship between psychosocial functioning and the subjective experience of self and life in schizophrenia
JS Brekke, B Kohrt, MF Green
Schizophrenia Bulletin 27 (4), 697-708
Navigating diagnoses: Understanding mind–body relations, mental health, and stigma in Nepal
BA Kohrt, I Harper
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 32 (4), 462
Validation of cross-cultural child mental health and psychosocial research instruments: adapting the Depression Self-Rating Scale and Child PTSD Symptom Scale in Nepal
BA Kohrt, MJD Jordans, WA Tol, NP Luitel, SM Maharjan, N Upadhaya
BMC Psychiatry 11 (1), 127
Political violence and mental health: a multi-disciplinary review of the literature on Nepal
WA Tol, BA Kohrt, MJD Jordans, SB Thapa, J Pettigrew, N Upadhaya, ...
Social science & medicine 70 (1), 35-44
Social ecology of child soldiers: child, family, and community determinants of mental health, psychosocial well-being, and reintegration in Nepal
BA Kohrt, MJD Jordans, WA Tol, E Perera, R Karki, S Koirala, ...
Transcultural psychiatry 47 (5), 727-753
Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: literature review and research recommendations for global mental health epidemiology
BA Kohrt, A Rasmussen, BN Kaiser, EE Haroz, SM Maharjan, ...
International Journal of Epidemiology 43 (2), 365-406
Culture in psychiatric epidemiology: using ethnography and multiple mediator models to assess the relationship of caste with depression and anxiety in Nepal
BA Kohrt, RA Speckman, RD Kunz, JL Baldwin, N Upadhaya, NR Acharya, ...
Annals of Human Biology 36 (3), 261-280
Political violence and mental health in Nepal: prospective study
BA Kohrt, DJ Hruschka, CM Worthman, RD Kunz, JL Baldwin, ...
The British Journal of Psychiatry 201, 268-275
“Somatization” and “Comorbidity”: A Study of Jhum‐Jhum and Depression in Rural Nepal
BA Kohrt, RD Kunz, JL Baldwin, NR Koirala, VD Sharma, M Nepal
Ethos 33 (1), 125-147
Conflict and mental health: a cross-sectional epidemiological study in Nepal
NP Luitel, MJD Jordans, RP Sapkota, WA Tol, BA Kohrt, SB Thapa, ...
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 48 (2), 183-193
Distribution of distress in post-socialist Mongolia: a cultural epidemiology of yadargaa
BA Kohrt, DJ Hruschka, HE Kohrt, NL Panebianco, G Tsagaankhuu
Social science & medicine 58 (3), 471-485
Therapist competence in global mental health: development of the ENhancing Assessment of Common Therapeutic factors (ENACT) rating scale
BA Kohrt, MJD Jordans, S Rai, P Shrestha, NP Luitel, MK Ramaiya, ...
Behaviour research and therapy 69, 11-21
Validation of a Nepali version of the Beck Depression Inventory
BA Kohrt, RD Kunz, NR Koirala, VD Sharma, MK Nepal
Nepalese Journal of Psychiatry 2 (4), 123-130
Children and Revolution: The Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Child Soldiers in Nepal's Maoist Army
BA Kohrt, WA Tol, J Pettigrew, R Karki
The War Machine and Global Health: A Critical Medical Anthropological …
Gender and anxiety in Nepal: the role of social support, stressful life events, and structural violence
BA Kohrt, CM Worthman
CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 15 (3), 237-248
Detection of depression in low resource settings: validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and cultural concepts of distress in Nepal
BA Kohrt, NP Luitel, P Acharya, MJD Jordans
BMC psychiatry 16 (1), 58
Vulnerable social groups in postconflict settings: a mixed methods policy analysis and epidemiology study of caste and psychological morbidity in Nepal
BA Kohrt
Intervention 7 (3), 239-264
Cross-cultural gene− environment interactions in depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the cortisol awakening response: FKBP5 polymorphisms and childhood trauma in …
BA Kohrt, CM Worthman, KJ Ressler, KB Mercer, N Upadhaya, S Koirala, ...
International Review of Psychiatry 27 (3), 180-196
Adapting the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model of Police Mental Health Collaboration in a Low-Income, Post-Conflict Country: Curriculum Development in Liberia, West Africa
BA Kohrt, E Blasingame, MT Compton, SF Dakana, B Dossen, F Lang, ...
American journal of public health 105 (3), e73-e80
Impact of peer support on PTSD, hope, and functional impairment: a mixed-methods study of child soldiers in Nepal
CA Morley, BA Kohrt
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 22 (7), 714-734
When a Child is no Longer a Child: Nepali Ethnopsychology of Child Development and Violence
BA Kohrt, SM Maharjan
Studies in Nepali History and Society 14 (1), 107-142
Child abuse, disruptive behavior disorders, depression, and salivary cortisol levels among institutionalized and community‐residing boys in Mongolia
BA Kohrt, DJ Hruschka, HE Kohrt, VG Carrion, ID Waldman, ...
Asia‐Pacific Psychiatry 7, 7-19