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Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar

Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar

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Psychology

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Overview

Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar is affiliated with the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore. Their research primarily spans psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and health.

Their work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar has contributed to multiple research publications. Some recent papers include:

  • Independent and combined associations of sleep duration and sleep quality with common physical and mental disorders: Results from a multi-ethnic population-based study, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • A cross-sectional study on the perceived barriers to physical activity and their associations with domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviour, 2022, BMC Public Health
  • The association of mental disorders with perceived social support, and the role of marital status: results from a national cross-sectional survey, 2020, Archives of Public Health
  • Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates and associations of adverse childhood experiences with mental illnesses: Results from the Singapore Mental Health Study, 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure, 2023, BMC Public Health

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Vaingankar include Mythily Subramaniam, Siow Ann Chong, Edimansyah Abdin, Saleha Shafie, and Rajeswari Sambasivam.

Their research outputs have been published often in venues such as:

  • Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Asian Journal of Psychiatry
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Best Publications

  • Economic burden of multimorbidity among older adults: impact on healthcare and societal costs

    Louisa Picco;Evanthia Achilla;Edimansyah Abdin;Siow Ann Chong

  • Resilience and burden in caregivers of older adults: moderating and mediating effects of perceived social support

    Hui Lin Ong;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Edimansyah Abdin;Rajeswari Sambasivam

  • Stigma towards people with mental disorders and its components - a perspective from multi-ethnic Singapore

    M. Subramaniam;E. Abdin;L. Picco;S. Pang

  • Tracking the mental health of a nation: prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the second Singapore mental health study.

    Mythily Subramaniam;Edimanysah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Saleha Binte Shafie

  • A population-based survey of mental disorders in Singapore.

    Siow Ann Chong;Edimansyah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Derrick Heng

  • Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help: Factor Structure and Socio-Demographic Predictors.

    Louisa Picco;Edimanysah Abdin;Siow Ann Chong;Shirlene Pang

  • Prevalence of dementia in people aged 60 years and above: Results from the WiSE study

    Mythily Subramaniam;Siow Ann Chong;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Edimansyah Abdin

  • Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Impact of the Disorder and of Treatment

    Mythily Subramaniam;Pauline Soh;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Louisa Picco

  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder: prevalence, correlates, help-seeking and quality of life in a multiracial Asian population

    Mythily Subramaniam;Edimansyah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Siow Ann Chong

  • Internalized stigma among psychiatric outpatients: Associations with quality of life, functioning, hope and self-esteem

    Louisa Picco;Shirlene Pang;Ying Wen Lau;Anitha Jeyagurunathan

  • Prevalence and determinants of gambling disorder among older adults: A systematic review

    Mythily Subramaniam;Peizhi Wang;Pauline Soh;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar

  • Care participation and burden among informal caregivers of older adults with care needs and associations with dementia.

    Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Siow Ann Chong;Edimansyah Abdin;Louisa Picco

  • Evaluating DSM-5 Insomnia Disorder and the Treatment of Sleep Problems in a Psychiatric Population.

    Lee Seng Esmond Seow;Swapna Kamal Verma;Yee Ming Mok;Sunita Kumar

  • Perception of the public towards the mentally ill in developed Asian country.

    Siow Ann Chong;Swapna Verma;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Yiong Huak Chan

  • Attitudes to Mental Illness and Its Demographic Correlates among General Population in Singapore.

    Qi Yuan;Edimansyah Abdin;Louisa Picco;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar

  • Gender differences in major depressive disorder: findings from the Singapore Mental Health Study.

    Louisa Picco;Mythily Subramaniam;Edimansyah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar

  • Perceived unmet needs of informal caregivers of people with dementia in Singapore.

    Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Mythily Subramaniam;Louisa Picco;Goi Khia Eng

  • The positive mental health instrument: development and validation of a culturally relevant scale in a multi-ethnic asian population

    Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Mythily Subramaniam;Siow Ann Chong;Edimansyah Abdin

  • Measuring health-related quality of life among adults in Singapore: population norms for the EQ-5D

    Edimansyah Abdin;Mythily Subramaniam;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Nan Luo

  • Psychometric properties of the short Warwick Edinburgh mental well-being scale (SWEMWBS) in service users with schizophrenia, depression and anxiety spectrum disorders.

    Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Edimansyah Abdin;Siow Ann Chong;Rajeswari Sambasivam

  • Minding the treatment gap: results of the Singapore Mental Health Study.

    Mythily Subramaniam;Edimansyah Abdin;Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Saleha Shafie

  • Prevalence of frailty and its association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and resource utilization in a population of Singaporean older adults.

    Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar;Siow Ann Chong;Edimansyah Abdin;Louisa Picco

Frequent Co-Authors

Mythily Subramaniam
Mythily Subramaniam Institute of Mental Health
Siow Ann Chong
Siow Ann Chong National University of Singapore
Daniel S. S. Fung
Daniel S. S. Fung Institute of Mental Health
Yik Ying Teo
Yik Ying Teo National University of Singapore
Denny Borsboom
Denny Borsboom University of Amsterdam

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