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“Building back better”: Task shifting is the way forward for Sri Lanka to address maternal mental health in the economic crisis

  • Mental Health
  • Journal Article

Key to successful global health collaborations: research, ethics and community engagement and involvement

  • Bioethics, Community Engagement And Involvement
  • Journal Article

Anticipated and experienced stigma and discrimination in the workplace among individuals with major depressive disorder in 35 countries: qualitative framework analysis of a mixed-method cross-sectional study

  • Mental Health
  • Journal Article

The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (COTASS): Piloting the Feasibility of Collecting Nutritional Data and Extension of the Sample to Include Children of Twins

  • Food, Twin Research
  • Journal Article

Frequency of Consumption of Food Groups and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: A Genetically Informative Twin Study in Sri Lanka

  • Food, Twin Research
  • Journal Article

All you Need is Trust? Public Perspectives on Consenting to Participate in Genomic Research in the Sri Lankan District of Colombo

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article

The aftermath of war; mental health, substance use and their correlates with social support and resilience among adolescents in a post-conflict region of Sri Lanka

  • Mental Health
  • Journal Article

Ethics and research in psychiatry: Consent, capacity, and bioethics

  • Bioethics
  • Book Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of the principles underlying ethical procedures in psychiatric research, with a specific focus on populations with mental disorders and research

The relationship between independent and dependent life events and depression symptoms in Sri Lanka: a twin and singleton study

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article
Life events have been associated with a variety of mental health conditions including depression. There is a scarcity of research in South Asia exploring the

Ethics, a critical friend of research

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Ethics is perceived by some at least, as an opponent of research, or as a barrier or even a hindrance. Ethicists and researchers seem to

The association between emotional eating and depressive symptoms: a population-based twin study in Sri Lanka

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article
This study investigated the genetic and environmental contributions to emotional overeating (EOE) and depressive symptoms, and their covariation, in a Sri-Lankan population, using genetic model-fitting

Agreement between subjective and objective measures of sleep duration in a low-middle income country setting

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article
Describe sleep duration in adult Sri Lankans and determine the bias and agreement of self-report and actigraphic assessments.

The Colombo Twin and Singleton Follow-up Study: a population based twin study of psychiatric disorders and metabolic syndrome in Sri Lanka

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article
The disease burden related to mental disorders and metabolic syndrome is growing in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). The Colombo Twin and Singleton Study (COTASS) is

Education in Twins and Their Parents Across Birth Cohorts Over 100 years: An Individual-Level Pooled Analysis of 42-Twin Cohorts

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article
Whether monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins differ from each other in a variety of phenotypes is important for genetic twin modeling and for inferences

Genetic and other risk factors for suicidal ideation and the relationship with depression

  • Suicide
  • Journal Article
There is a genetic contribution to the risk of suicide, but sparse prior research on the genetics of suicidal ideation.

A systematic review of the Dementia Research in Sri Lanka

  • Systematic Reviews
  • Journal Article
The aim of this systematic review is to describe dementia research in Sri Lanka. This information will inform on dementia prevalence, person with dementia and

Integrating mental health into primary care for post‑conflict populations: A pilot study

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Mental health care in post-conflict settings is often not prioritized, despite its important public health role. There is a salient gap in integrating mental health

Discrimination in the workplace, reported by people with major depressive disorder: a cross-sectional study in 35 countries

  • Common Mental Disorders
  • Journal Article
Whereas employment has been shown to be beneficial for people with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) across different cultures, employers’ attitudes have been shown to be

Exposure to conflict and disaster: A national survey on the prevalence of psychotic experiences in Sri Lanka

  • Disaster Management, Tsunami
  • Journal Article
Recent research conducted in high-income countries suggests psychotic experiences are common in the general population, but evidence from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) remains limited.

Zygosity Differences in Height and Body Mass Index of Twins From Infancy to Old Age: A Study of the CODATwins Project

  • Twin Research
  • Journal Article
A trend toward greater body size in dizygotic (DZ) than in monozygotic (MZ) twins has been suggested by some but not all studies, and this

Promotion and Reporting of Research from Resource-Limited Settings

  • Capacity Building
  • Journal Article
Driven by global burden of disease and inequalities in health care, research activities in resource-poor settings have radically increased. However, a corresponding increase in reporting

Mental health of displaced and returnee populations: Insight from the Sri Lankan post-conflict experience

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
The month of May 2015 marked the sixth year since the end of conflict in Sri Lanka. The cause of death, destruction and displacement, three

Ethics of Public Mental Health in Developing Societies

  • Bioethics
  • Book Chapter
Half of the world’s population lives in countries with one psychiatrist to serve 200,000 people and in low and middle income countries (LAMICs), even most

Rethinking Vulnerability and Research: Defining the Need for a Post-Research Ethics Audit

  • Bioethics
  • Journal Article
Vulnerability of research populations is a fundamental area of interest and debate in bioethics. Based on mental health research in a humanitarian setting context, I

Impact of Economic Labour Migration: A Qualitative Exploration of Left-Behind Family Member Perspectives in Sri Lanka

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Sri Lanka is a major labour sending country in Asia, with a high proportion of female labour migrants employed as domestic housemaids in the Middle

Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
https://www.ird.lk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Risk-of-mental-health-and-nutritional-problems.pdf

Changes in mental disorder prevalence among conflict-affected populations: a prospective study in Sri Lanka (COMRAID-R)

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
Longitudinal data are lacking on mental health trajectories following conflict resolution and return migration. COMRAID-R is a follow-up study of Muslims displaced by conflict from

Common mental disorders among adult members of ‘left-behind’ international migrant worker families in Sri Lanka

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
A total of 410 IMW families were recruited (response rate: 95.1%). Both spouse and a non-spouse caregiver were recruited for 55 families with a total

Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants

  • Common Mental Disorders, Migration Research
  • Journal Article
One-in-ten Sri Lankans are employed abroad as International Labor Migrants (ILM), mainly as domestic maids or low-skilled laborers. Little is known about the impact their

Dynamics of resilience in forced migration: A 1-year follow-up study of longitudinal associations with mental health in a conflict-affected, ethnic Muslim population

  • Migration Research
  • Journal Article
The concept of ‘resilience’ is of increasing interest in studies of mental health in populations facing adversity. However, lack of longitudinal data on the dynamics