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A. N. Karam
Researcher at Saint George Hospital
Publications - 9
Citations - 5127
A. N. Karam is an academic researcher from Saint George Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 9 publications receiving 4566 citations.
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Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.
Koen Demyttenaere,Ronny Bruffaerts,Jose Posada-Villa,Isabelle Gasquet,Kovess,J P Lépine,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Sebastian Bernert,de Girolamo G,Pierluigi Morosini,G Polidori,Takehiko Kikkawa,Norito Kawakami,Y. Ono,Tadashi Takeshima,Hidenori Uda,Elie G. Karam,John Fayyad,A. N. Karam,Zeina Mneimneh,María Elena Medina-Mora,Guilherme Borges,Carmen Lara,de Graaf R,Johan Ormel,Oye Gureje,Shen Y,Y. Huang,Zhang M,Jordi Alonso,Josep Maria Haro,Gemma Vilagut,Evelyn J. Bromet,Semyon Gluzman,C. P. M. Webb,Ronald C. Kessler,Kathleen R. Merikangas,James C. Anthony,Von Korff Mr,Philip S. Wang,Traolach S. Brugha,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Sing Lee,Steven G. Heeringa,B. E. Pennell,Alan M. Zaslavsky,T. B. Üstün,Somnath Chatterji +47 more
TL;DR: Reallocation of treatment resources could substantially decrease the problem of unmet need for treatment of mental disorders among serious cases and careful consideration needs to be given to the value of treating some mild cases, especially those at risk for progressing to more serious disorders.
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Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode
Evelyn J. Bromet,Laura Helena Andrade,Irving Hwang,Nancy A. Sampson,Jordi Alonso,Giovanni de Girolamo,Ron de Graaf,Koen Demyttenaere,Chiyi Hu,Noboru Iwata,A. N. Karam,Jagdish Kaur,Stanislav Kostyuchenko,Jean-Pierre Lépine,Daphna Levinson,Herbert Matschinger,Maria Elena Medina Mora,Mark Anthony Oakley Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Maria Carmen Viana,David R. Williams,Ronald C. Kessler +21 more
TL;DR: Data is presented on the prevalence, impairment and demographic correlates of depression from 18 high and low- to middle-income countries in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative to investigate the combination of demographic risk factors that are most strongly associated with MDE in the specific countries included in the WMH.
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DSM–IV personality disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Yueqin Huang,Roman Kotov,Giovanni de Girolamo,Antonio Preti,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Corina Benjet,Koen Demyttenaere,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,A. N. Karam,Sing Lee,Jean Pierre Lepine,Herbert Matschinger,Jose Posada-Villa,Sharain Suliman,Gemma Vilagut,Ronald C. Kessler +16 more
TL;DR: Personality disorders are relatively common disorders that often co-occur with Axis I disorders and are associated with significant role impairments beyond those due to comorbidity.
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Temperament and suicide: A national study
Elie G. Karam,Lynn Itani,John Fayyad,Elie Hantouche,A. N. Karam,Zeina Mneimneh,Hagop S. Akiskal,Zoltan Rihmer +7 more
TL;DR: The anxious temperament plays a strong role in predicting suicide attempts in the community, in the presence and absence of diagnosable mental disorders.
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Determinants of treatment of mental disorders in Lebanon: barriers to treatment and changing patterns of service use.
Elie G. Karam,Georges Karam,Claudia Farhat,L. Itani,John Fayyad,A. N. Karam,Zeina Mneimneh,Ronald C. Kessler,Graham Thornicroft +8 more
TL;DR: A small fraction of Lebanese seek help for their mental health problems: female gender, higher education and income are predictors of positive attitudes to help seeking, and Severity and recognition of disorders seem to be the most important factors in determining help seeking.