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Sing Lee is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and medicine, with specific emphasis on social psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health. Additional areas of study include experimental and cognitive psychology as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The scientist's main topics of work are diverse within mental health and psychological treatment frameworks. Key topics include mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, bipolar disorder and treatment, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, schizophrenia research and treatment, and anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative research are Fernando Navarro-Mateu, Jordi Alonso, Ronald C. Kessler, Oye Gureje, and José Posada-Villa. These collaborations contribute to a substantial body of work in mental health fields and related disciplines.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Sing Lee are the following:

  • Toward measuring effective treatment coverage: critical bottlenecks in quality- and user-adjusted coverage for major depressive disorder (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • Update on the Scientific Status of the Plasma Focus (2021), published in Plasma
  • Increased risks for mental disorders among LGB individuals: cross-national evidence from the World Mental Health Surveys (2022), published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Antidepressant use in low- middle- and high-income countries: a World Mental Health Surveys report (2021), published in Psychological Medicine
  • Patterns and correlates of patient-reported helpfulness of treatment for common mental and substance use disorders in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2022), published in World Psychiatry

Sing Lee's research contributions are frequently published in journals such as Psychological Medicine, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, BMC Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, and International Journal of Mental Health Systems.

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature

    Ronald C Kessler;G Paul Amminger;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso

  • Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

    Matthew K. Nock;Guilherme Borges;Guilherme Borges;Evelyn J. Bromet;Christine B. Cha

  • Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative.

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Robert Jin;Jian-Ping He;Ronald C. Kessler

  • 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 Angermeyer;James C Anthony;Ron De Graaf

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • The global burden of mental disorders : An update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Somnath Chatterji

  • Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys

    Philip S Wang;Philip S Wang;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    R. P. Auerbach;J. Alonso;W. G. Axinn;P. Cuijpers

  • Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Corina Benjet

  • Culture and stigma: adding moral experience to stigma theory.

    Lawrence Hsin Yang;Arthur Kleinman;Bruce G. Link;Jo C. Phelan

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative

    Ronald C Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • Common Chronic Pain Conditions in Developed and Developing Countries: Gender and Age Differences and Comorbidity With Depression-Anxiety Disorders

    Adley Tsang;Michael Von Korff;Sing Lee;Jordi Alonso

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys.

    K. C. Koenen;A. Ratanatharathorn;L. Ng;K. A. McLaughlin

  • Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries

    Graham Thornicroft;Somnath Chatterji;Sara Evans-Lacko;Michael Gruber

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges;Matthew K. Nock;Josep Maria Haro Abad;Irving Hwang

  • The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    John Fayyad;Nancy A Sampson;Irving Hwang;Tomasz Adamowski

  • Mental disorders among persons with chronic back or neck pain: results from the World Mental Health Surveys.

    Koen Demyttenaere;Ronny Bruffaerts;Sing Lee;José Posada-Villa

  • Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Philip S Wang;Matthias C Angermeyer;Guilherme Borges;Ronny Bruffaerts

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative: Screening for Serious Mental Illness

    Ronald C. Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje University of Ibadan
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Jose Posada-Villa
Jose Posada-Villa Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca
Giovanni de Girolamo
Giovanni de Girolamo Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli
Josep Maria Haro
Josep Maria Haro University of Barcelona
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola University of California, Davis
Nancy A. Sampson
Nancy A. Sampson Harvard University
Kate M. Scott
Kate M. Scott University of Otago

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