G
Giovanni de Girolamo
Researcher at Academy for Urban School Leadership
Publications - 314
Citations - 35485
Giovanni de Girolamo is an academic researcher from Academy for Urban School Leadership. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Population. The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 272 publications receiving 29267 citations. Previous affiliations of Giovanni de Girolamo include National Institutes of Health & Centra.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts
Matthew K. Nock,Guilherme Borges,Evelyn J. Bromet,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Annette L. Beautrais,Ronny Bruffaerts,Wai Tat Chiu,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Ron de Graaf,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Yueqin Huang,Elie G. Karam,Ronald C. Kessler,Jean Pierre Lepine,Daphna Levinson,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,David R. Williams +21 more
TL;DR: There is cross-national variability in the prevalence of suicidal behaviours, but strong consistency in the characteristics and risk factors for these behaviours.
Journal ArticleDOI
Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Ronald C. Kessler,Katie A. McLaughlin,Jennifer Greif Green,Michael J. Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Corina Benjet,Evelyn J. Bromet,Somnath Chatterji,Giovanni de Girolamo,Koen Demyttenaere,John Fayyad,Silvia Florescu,Gilad Gal,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Norito Kawakami,Sing Lee,Jean-Pierre Lépine,Johan Ormel,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Adley Tsang,Bedirhan Üstün,Svetlozar Vassilev,Maria Carmen Viana,Daniel R. Williams +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined joint associations of 12 childhood adversities with first onset of 20 DSM-IV disorders in World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries and found strong associations with all classes of disorders at all life-course stages.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal Article
Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
Ronald C. Kessler,Matthias C. Angermeyer,James C. Anthony,Ron de Graaf,Koen Demyttenaere,Isabelle Gasquet,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Norito Kawakami,Aimee N. Karam,Daphna Levinson,Maria Elena Medina Mora,Mark Anthony Oakley Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Dan J. Stein,Cheuk Him Adley Tsang,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Jordi Alonso,Sing Lee,Steven G. Heeringa,Beth-Ellen Pennell,Patricia A. Berglund,Michael J. Gruber,Maria Petukhova,Somnath Chatterji,T. Bedirhan Üstün +27 more
TL;DR: The lifetime prevalence, projected lifetime risk, and age of onset of DSM-IV disorders were assessed with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), a fully-structured lay administered diagnostic interview as mentioned in this paper.
Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative RESEARCH REPORT
Ronald C. Kessler,Matthias C. Angermeyer,James C. Anthony,Ron de Graaf,Isabelle Gasquet,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Norito Kawakami,Aimee N. Karam,Daphna Levinson,Mark A. Oakley,J. Posada-Villa,Dan J. Stein,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Sing Lee,Steven G. Heeringa,Beth-Ellen Pennell,Patricia A. Berglund,Michael J. Gruber,Maria Petukhova,Somnath Chatterji +22 more
TL;DR: As many mental disorders begin in childhood or adolescents, interventions aimed at early detection and treatment might help reduce the persistence or severity of primary disorders and prevent the subsequent onset of secondary disorders.