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Alcohol Use Disorder in Southwestern and Northern Uganda: Prevalence and associated factors

Article • PLOS Global Public Health, January 2026, PLOS

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Breaking the silence on suicide among pre-adolescent children

Article • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Examining suicidality and associated risk factors among refugee children and adolescents in Uganda

Article • BMC Psychiatry, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Alcohol consumption and awareness of its link to dementia development among adults in Uganda: a qualitative study

Article • Discover Public Health, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Elevated serum cortisol levels and associated factors among postpartum mothers in Mbarara district, rural south western Uganda

Article • Discover Medicine, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Counselling and depressive symptoms in older adults with HIV/AIDS in mbarara, Uganda

Article • BMC Psychology, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence and factors associated with the multiple morbidity of postpartum depression, diabetes mellitus and hypertension among mothers in Mbarara district, south western Uganda: A parallel convergent mixed methods study

Article • SSM - Mental Health, June 2025, Elsevier

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence of aggression and associated factors among inpatients with mental illness at tertiary hospitals in Southwestern Uganda

Article • BMC Psychiatry, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder among healthcare professionals in Mbarara city, southwestern Uganda: the relationship with professional quality of life and resilience

Article • BMC Public Health, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Transition from Hospital to Home-Based Care for Older Adults in Southwestern Uganda: Informal Caregiver’s Experiences

Article • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Impact of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Spatial Learning and Memory in Acrolein-Induced Alzheimer’s Disease-Like Hippocampal Neuronal Damage in Wistar Rats

Article • Cureus, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence of postpartum depression and its association with diabetes mellitus among mothers in public health facilities in Mbarara, Southwestern Uganda

Article • Psychology Health & Medicine, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Psychological distress among healthcare professionals in Mbarara, following the 2022 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Uganda: a mixed methods study

Article • BMC Psychiatry, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Body image, eating distress and emotional-behavioral difficulties among adolescents in Mbarara, Southwestern Uganda

Article • BMC Public Health, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Healthcare Workers’ Perspectives on the Utilization of the International HIV Dementia Scale for the Screening HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders: A Qualitative Study at TASO Centres in Central and Southwestern Uganda

Article • HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
A ‘hidden problem’: Nature, prevalence and factors associated with sexual dysfunction in persons living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

Article • PLOS One, March 2024, PLOS

Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Barriers and Facilitators to Screening for Kidney Disease Among Older Adults with Hypertension and Diabetes in Mbarara Southwestern Uganda: Healthcare Providers’ Perspective

Article • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Vagus nerve stimulation in dementia: A scoping review of clinical and pre-clinical studies

Article • AIMS Neuroscience, January 2024, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Planning for Hospital Discharge for Older Adults in Uganda: A Qualitative Study Among Healthcare Providers Using the COM-B Framework

Article • Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Physical and sexual victimization of persons with severe mental illness seeking care in central and southwestern Uganda

Article • Frontiers in Public Health, August 2023, Frontiers

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Gender differences in substance use and associated factors among urban refugees in Uganda

Article • European Journal of Psychotraumatology, August 2023, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
P119 Lived experiences of Ugandan women who had recovered from a clinical diagnosis of postpartum depression: a phenomenological study

Article • August 2023, BMJ

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
P42 Prevalence of postpartum depression and its associated factors among women in Mbarara and Rwampara districts of South Western Uganda

Article • August 2023, BMJ

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Editorial: Hopelessness and suicide among children and adolescents in low and middle income countries

Article • Frontiers in Sociology, June 2023, Frontiers

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Community perceptions and practices on quality and safety of drinking water in Mbarara city, south western Uganda

Article • PLOS Water, May 2023, PLOS

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Prevalence, Symptom Severity, and Caregiver Distress in South-Western Uganda—A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Study

Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, January 2023, MDPI AG

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Psychiatric comorbidities of Epilepsy and treatment gap among children and adolescents at Butabika National Referral Psychiatric Hospital of Uganda

Article • PAMJ - One Health, January 2023, Pan African Medical Journal

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Depression and Suicidal Ideations among Older Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Mbarara City, Southwest Uganda

Article • Open Journal of Psychiatry, January 2023, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Use Disorder among Adolescents in Ibanda District, South Western Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study

Article • Open Journal of Social Sciences, January 2023, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Screening HIV associated neurocognitive disorders using international HIV dementia scale: closing the gap through an educational intervention for healthcare workers

Article • Pan African Medical Journal, January 2023, Pan African Medical Journal

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Gardening activity and its relationship to mental health: Understudied and untapped in low-and middle-income countries

Article • Preventive Medicine Reports, October 2022, Elsevier

Herbert Ainamani, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Knowledge, attitudes, and experiences in suicide assessment and management: a qualitative study among primary health care workers in southwestern Uganda

Article • BMC Psychiatry, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Substance use disorder among adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda: Retrospective findings from a psychiatric ward registry

Article • PLOS One, May 2022, PLOS

Letizia Atim, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Suicide and Suicide Attempts Among Patients Attending Primary Health Care Facilities in Uganda: A Medical Records Review

Article • Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Correction to: Gambling-related suicide in East African Community countries: evidence from press media reports

Article • BMC Public Health, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Gambling-related suicide in East African Community countries: evidence from press media reports

Article • BMC Public Health, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Electroencephalogram utilization and psychiatric comorbidities among children and adolescents with epilepsy in rural Southwestern Uganda

Article • The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, January 2022, SAGE Publications

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Refugee Stigma and Its Association with Depression Symptom Severity: Findings from Urban Refugees Living in Mbarara City, Southwestern Uganda

Article • Open Journal of Psychiatry, January 2022, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Lived experiences of Ugandan women who had recovered from a clinical diagnosis of postpartum depression: a phenomenological study

Article • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Effect of suicidality on clinical and behavioural outcomes in HIV positive adults in Uganda

Article • PLOS One, August 2021, PLOS

Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Patients’ perspectives on the experience of absconding from a psychiatric hospital: a qualitative study

Article • BMC Psychiatry, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Depression and HIV associated neurocognitive disorders among HIV infected adults in rural southwestern Uganda: a cross-sectional quantitative study

Article • BMC Psychiatry, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence of postpartum depression and associated factors among women in Mbarara and Rwampara districts of south-western Uganda

Article • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Suicide among Ugandan university students: evidence from media reports for 2010–2020

Article • BJPsych International, April 2021, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Child maltreatment, cognitive functions and the mediating role of mental health problems among maltreated children and adolescents in Uganda

Article • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Cannabis-Induced Mania Following COVID-19 Self-Medication: A Wake-Up Call to Improve Community Awareness

Article • International Medical Case Reports Journal, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
An Adolescent’s Use of Veterinary Medicines: A Case Report Exploring Addiction

Article • Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
A Collaborative Approach to the Development of Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Services for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Uganda

Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, November 2020, Frontiers

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Projected mental health effects of COVID-19 in Uganda

Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, October 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

Herbert Ainamani, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Caring for people with dementia in rural Uganda: qualitative study of caregiving burden experienced by informal and formal caregivers

Article • Journal of Global Health Reports, June 2020, Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd

Herbert Ainamani, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Exploring pathways to Hospital Care for Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in rural South Western Uganda

Article • BMC Health Services Research, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Elialilia Okello, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Community perceptions about dementia in southwestern Uganda

Article • BMC Geriatrics, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric comorbidities and associated factors among refugees in Nakivale camp in southwestern Uganda

Article • BMC Psychiatry, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Caregiving burden and mental health problems among family caregivers of people with dementia in rural Uganda

Article • Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

Herbert Ainamani, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents with active epilepsy in southwestern Uganda

Article • PAMJ - One Health, January 2020, Pan African Medical Journal

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
The magnitude of postpartum depression among mothers in Africa: a literature review

Article • Pan African Medical Journal, January 2020, Pan African Medical Journal

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Dementia assessment and diagnostic practices of healthcare workers in rural southwestern Uganda: a cross-sectional qualitative study

Article • BMC Health Services Research, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders in Rural Southwestern Uganda

Article • Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, September 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence and factors associated with suicide among medical professionals in low/middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol

Article • BMJ Open, August 2019, BMJ

Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence and associated factors of mental disorders among prisoners in Mbarara municipality, southwestern Uganda: a cross-sectional study

Article • BMC Psychiatry, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Jimmy Forry, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Parents’ and caretakers’ perceptions and concerns about accessibility of antenatal services by pregnant teenagers in Mbarara Municipality, Uganda

Article • Midwifery, May 2019, Elsevier

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence, correlates for early neurological disorders and association with functioning among children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

Article • BMC Psychiatry, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
A systematic review protocol of stigma among children and adolescents with epilepsy

Article • Systematic Reviews, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

Jimmy Forry, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Crime, recidivism and mental disorders among prisoners in Mbarara municipality, southwestern Uganda

Article • International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, January 2019, Elsevier

Jimmy Forry, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Knowledge and practice of testicular self-examination among secondary students at Ntare School in Mbarara District, South western Uganda

Article • Pan African Medical Journal, January 2019, Pan African Medical Journal

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
A systematic review of the risk factors for suicidal ideation, suicidal attempt and completed suicide among children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa between 1986 and 2018: protocol for a systematic review of observational studies

Article • Systematic Reviews, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Exploration of the understanding and etiology of ADHD in HIV/AIDS as observed by adolescents with HIV/AIDS, caregivers and health workers- using case vignettes

Article • African Health Sciences, August 2018, African Journals Online (AJOL)

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Perceived stigma and associated factors among children and adolescents with epilepsy in south western Uganda: A cross sectional study

Article • Seizure, April 2018, Elsevier

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Prevalence and correlates for ADHD and relation with social and academic functioning among children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

Article • BMC Psychiatry, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Cross-cultural adaptation of the Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory-5 (CASI-5) for use in central and south-western Uganda: the CHAKA project

Article • Tropical Doctor, August 2017, SAGE Publications

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Clinical correlates of suicidality among individuals with HIV infection and AIDS disease in Mbarara, Uganda

Article • African Journal of AIDS Research, September 2016, Informa UK Limited

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Psychological correlates of suicidality in HIV/AIDS in semi-urban south-western Uganda

Article • Tropical Doctor, January 2016, SAGE Publications

Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Burden of Suicidal Ideation and Attempt among Persons Living with HIV and AIDS in Semiurban Uganda

Article • AIDS Research and Treatment, January 2016, Wiley

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Maternal depression and malnutrition in children in southwest Uganda: a case control study

Article • BMC Public Health, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo
Antenatal services for pregnant teenagers in Mbarara Municipality, Southwestern Uganda: health workers and community leaders’ views

Article • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

Professor (Associate) Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Dr. Godfrey Zari Rukundo