Global Mental Health Trials

Global mental health is a dynamic field of global health; a core aspect of the story which has led to its emergence has been the conduct of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating innovative delivery systems of packages of care for mental disorders in low-resource settings. Global Mental Health Trials brings together many of the world's leading researchers active in the fields of RCTs in low- and medium-resource counties and settings related to improving mental health care. It presents clear and practical information about how to conduct such trials in these settings, along with critical methodological and ethical issues related to such trials, learning from the positive and negative experiences of expert scientists in many counties worldwide who have completed such trials. This book serves as a valuable resource for practitioners in mental health - psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses nursing, psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists - as well as researchers in the areas of psycho-social treatments in mental health, mental health services research, and programme and systems evaluation.

Graham Thornicroft, Professor of Community Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry,Vikram Patel, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and Public Health Foundation of India, Goa, India

PART A: PRINCIPLES OF GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH TRIALS
1. The importance of trials for global mental health, Graham Thornicroft & Vikram Patel
2. The applicability of trials of complex mental health interventions, Lara Fairall, Merrick Zwarenstein, Graham Thornicroft
3. Developing mental health interventions, Abhijit Nadkarni, Mary J De Silva, Vikram Patel
4. Design issues in GMH trials in low resource settings, Helen Weiss
5. Defining Relevant Outcomes, Paul Bolton and Judith Bass
6. Economic evaluations in global mental health, Iris Mosweu and Paul McCrone
7. Working with vulnerable populations, Theresa S. Betancourt, William Beardslee, Catherine Kirk, Katrina Hann, Moses Zombo, Christine Mushashi, Fredrick Kanyanganzi, Morris Munyana, and Justin I. Bizimana
8. Ethical issues in global mental health trials, Athula Sumathipala & Buddhika Fernando
PART B: CASE STUDIES OF GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH TRIALS (VP leads section)
9. Trials of interventions for people with psychosis, Sudipto Chatterjee, Smita Naik, Hamid Dabholkar, Padmavati R, Sujit John, Mirja Koschorke, Rangaswamy Thara
10. Trials of interventions for people with depression, Neerja Chowdhary, Atif Rahman, Helena Verdeli, Vikram Patel
11. Trials of interventions for people with alcohol use disorders, Maria Elena Medina-Mora; Sairat Noknoy, Cheryl Cherpitel, Tania Real, Roman Perez Velasco, Rodrigo Marin Navarrete, Nancy Amador, Viviana E Horigian
12. Trials of interventions for people with dementia, Amit Dias, Dilip Motghare, Daisy Acosta, Jacob Roy, Jotheeswaran AT, Ralph N Martins
13. Mental disorders and conditions associated with stress, Wietse A. Tol; Mark J.D. Jordans; Dessy Susanty; Joop T.V.M. de Jong
14. Suicide prevention trials, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Melissa Pearson and Shuba Kumar
PART C: BEYOND TRIALS: REDUCING THE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT GAP
15. Economic modelling for global mental health, David McDaid
16. Evaluation of interventions in the real world, Mary J De Silva, Alex Cohen, Vikram Patel