Melanie Abas

Best Publications

• The Relationship of Trauma to Mental Disorders Among Trafficked and Sexually Exploited Girls and Women

  Mazeda Hossain;Cathy Zimmerman;Melanie A. Abas;Miriam Light

  535
  Citations

• Effect of a Primary Care-Based Psychological Intervention on Symptoms of Common Mental Disorders in Zimbabwe: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

  Dixon Chibanda;Helen A. Weiss;Ruth Verhey;Victoria Simms

  457
  Citations

• Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly (CANE). Development, validity and reliability.

  Tom Reynolds;Graham Thornicroft;Melanie Abas;Bob Woods

  446
  Citations

• Neuropsychological deficits and CT scan changes in elderly depressives

  Melanie A. Abas;Barbara J. Sahakian;Raymond Levy

  395
  Citations

• Problem-solving therapy for depression and common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: piloting a task-shifting primary mental health care intervention in a population with a high prevalence of people living with HIV

  Dixon Chibanda;Petra Mesu;Lazarus Kajawu;Frances Cowan;Frances Cowan

  359
  Citations

• Depression in developing countries: lessons from Zimbabwe

  Patel;Abas M;Broadhead J;Todd C

  325
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• Risk factors for mental disorders in women survivors of human trafficking: a historical cohort study

  Melanie A. Abas;Nicolae V. Ostrovschi;Martin Prince;Viorel I. Gorceag

  257
  Citations

• Depression and anxiety among women in an urban setting in Zimbabwe.

  Melanie A. Abas;Jeremy C. Broadhead

  218
  Citations

• Responding to the health needs of survivors of human trafficking: a systematic review

  Stacey Hemmings;Sharon Jakobowitz;Melanie A. Abas;Debra Bick

  204
  Citations

• Patient-reported barriers and facilitators to antiretroviral adherence in sub-Saharan Africa

  Natasha Croome;Monisha Ahluwalia;Lyndsay D. Hughes;Melanie Abas

  198
  Citations

• The Friendship Bench programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders delivered by lay health workers in Zimbabwe.

  Dixon Chibanda;Tarryn Bowers;Ruth Verhey;Simbarashe Rusakaniko

  195
  Citations

• Validation of screening tools for depression and anxiety disorders in a primary care population with high HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe

  Dixon Chibanda;Ruth Verhey;Lorna J. Gibson;Epiphania Munetsi

  188
  Citations

• Enhancing Psychosocial Support for HIV Positive Adolescents in Harare, Zimbabwe

  Webster Mavhu;Webster Mavhu;Jessica Berwick;Petronella Chirawu;Memory Makamba

  178
  Citations

• Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in people living with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries.

  Dixon Chibanda;Laura Benjamin;Helen A. Weiss;Melanie Abas

  177
  Citations

• Human Trafficking and Health: A Survey of Male and Female Survivors in England

  Sian Oram;Melanie Abas;Debra Elizabeth Bick;Adrian Boyle

  163
  Citations

• Prevalence of depression and anxiety among undergraduate university students in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review protocol

  James January;James January;Munyaradzi Madhombiro;Shalote Chipamaunga;Sunanda Ray

  158
  Citations

• Life Events, Difficulties and Depression Among Women in An Urban Setting in Zimbabwe

  Jeremy C. Broadhead;Melanie A. Abas

  148
  Citations

• Social support and antenatal depression in extended and nuclear family environments in Turkey: a cross-sectional survey

  Vesile Senturk;Melanie Abas;Oguz Berksun;Robert Stewart

  140
  Citations

• Depression in people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: time to act.

  Melanie Abas;Melanie Abas;Gemma Claire Ali;Gemma Claire Ali;Etheldra Nakimuli-Mpungu;Dixon Chibanda;Dixon Chibanda

  138
  Citations

• Prolonged internal displacement and common mental disorders in Sri Lanka: the COMRAID study.

  Chesmal Siriwardhana;Anushka Adikari;Gayani Pannala;Sisira Siribaddana

  126
  Citations