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  1. Nuancing null results: Why a soccer plus vocational training health promotion intervention did not improve outcomes for South African men
  2. Pedestrian safety: Motorists’ attitudes to the law and driving practices in South Africa
  3. Global knowledge-power asymmetries and student mental health in sub-Saharan Africa
  4. Treatment rates and barriers to mental health service utilisation among university students in South Africa
  5. Does Reducing Alcohol Use Among People with HIV Alleviate Psychological Distress and Symptoms of Depression? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Tshwane, South Africa
  6. A qualitative study of the perceived benefits of participating in a spinal cord rehabilitation intervention in a low-middle income country
  7. Load shedding and mental health in South Africa: Methodological challenges of establishing causal links
  8. Robotic locomotor training in a low-resource setting: a randomized pilot and feasibility trial
  9. Suicide postvention for staff and students on university campuses: a scoping review
  10. The coming global economic downturn and suicide: a call to action
  11. Operating in the margins: Women's lived experience of training and working in orthopaedic surgery in South Africa
  12. Anxious, Depressed, and Suicidal: Crisis Narratives in University Student Mental Health and the Need for a Balanced Approach to Student Wellness
  13. Prevalence and correlates of 30-day suicidal ideation and intent: Results of the South African National Student Mental Health Survey
  14. COVID-19 and common mental disorders among university students in South Africa
  15. Effectiveness of Social Inclusion Interventions for Anxiety and Depression among Adolescents: A Systematic Review
  16. Intention to use digital mental health solutions: A cross-sectional survey of university students attitudes and perceptions toward online therapy, mental health apps, and chatbots
  17. Willing and unwilling digital cyborg assemblages: University students talk about mental health apps
  18. South African university students’ experiences of online group cognitive behavioural therapy: Implications for delivering digital mental health interventions to young people
  19. The mental health of university students in South Africa: Results of the national student survey
  20. Healthcare Utilization 12 Months Prior to Fatal and Non-fatal Suicidal Behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa
  21. Public Health Approaches to Promoting University Students’ Mental Health: A Global Perspective
  22. How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses
  23. Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration
  24. Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries
  25. ‘They Sent Me Out to School, and I Came Back with a Baby’: Perinatal Women’s Experiences of Biographical Disruption and Nonfatal Suicidal Behaviour
  26. Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
  27. Liberalising cannabis legislation in South Africa: Potential public health consequences for adolescents and pregnant women
  28. Digital solutions to promote adolescent mental health: Opportunities and challenges for research and practice
  29. Content analysis of reports of student suicide deaths in South African print medium newspapers
  30. Childhood adversities and mental disorders in first-year college students: results from the World Mental Health International College Student Initiative
  31. Did Suicide Numbers Diverge from Pre-Existing Trends During the First 9-15 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Interrupted Time Series Analyses of Total and Sex- and Age-Specific Suicide Counts in 33 Countries
  32. COVID-19 and the global acceleration of digital psychiatry
  33. The digital therapeutic relationship: Retaining humanity in the digital age
  34. Correlates of viral non-suppression among South African antiretroviral therapy users: comorbidity of major depression, posttraumatic stress, and alcohol use disorders
  35. Understanding national trends in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Canada – April 2020 to March 2021
  36. Help-Seeking Intention in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Predictors and Barriers in South Africa
  37. Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
  38. Childhood adversities and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first-year college students: results from the WMH-ICS initiative
  39. A qualitative study of university students' experience of Internet‐based CBT for depression
  40. Associations between psychological distress and facets of mindfulness: Implications for campus-based university wellness services
  41. Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries
  42. Non-suicidal self-injury among first-year college students and its association with mental disorders: results from the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative
  43. Improving Detection of Depression in People Living with HIV: Psychometric Properties of the South African Depression Scale (SADS)
  44. Systematic review and narrative synthesis of suicide prevention in high-schools and universities: a research agenda for evidence-based practice
  45. A Web-Based Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Among University Students: Open-Label, Pragmatic Trial
  46. Better Enforcement Is Essential, but May Be Inadequate: Findings of a Survey on the Factors Affecting Payment of Speeding Fines in Cape Town, South Africa
  47. Motorists’ perceptions of factors that influence payment of speeding fines in Cape Town, South Africa: application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
  48. “I’m Not Afraid of Dying Because I’ve Got Nothing to Lose”: Young Men in South Africa Talk About Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior
  49. Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Caseness Using the PTSD Checklist for DSM‐5 Among Patients Receiving Care for HIV
  50. Motives for deliberate self-harm in a South African tertiary hospital
  51. Maltreatment during childhood and risk for common mental disorders among first year university students in South Africa
  52. Suicide Prevention in HIV Treatment Centres: Population Attributable Risk Analysis of Treating Common Mental Disorders
  53. Moving Beyond Text-and-Talk in Qualitative Health Research: Methodological Considerations of Using Multiple Media for Data Collection
  54. Reducing nonfatal suicidal behaviour among university students: actuarial analysis of potential effects of treating common mental disorders
  55. Predicting caseness of major depressive disorder using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-R) among patients receiving HIV care
  56. Mental health and academic failure among first-year university students in South Africa
  57. “I was like intoxicated with this positivity”: the politics of hope amongst participants in a trial of a novel spinal cord injury rehabilitation technology in South Africa
  58. Suicide Research, Prevention, and COVID-19
  59. Sources of Stress and Their Associations With Mental Disorders Among College Students: Results of the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Initiative
  60. Methods of deliberate self-harm in a tertiary hospital in South Africa
  61. Disability: The forgotten side of race science
  62. What more do we want from clinical psychology?
  63. The Benefits of Robust Debate About the Place of Qualitative Research in Suicide Prevention
  64. Testing the feasibility of a media multitasking self-regulation intervention for students: Behaviour change, attention, and self-perception
  65. Who can we reach and who can we keep? Predictors of intervention engagement and adherence in a cluster randomized controlled trial in South Africa
  66. Inequality and mental healthcare utilisation among first-year university students in South Africa
  67. Alcohol use predicts emergency psychiatric unit admission for non-fatal suicidal behaviour in the Western Cape (South Africa): a case–control study
  68. Gender Differences in the Utility of the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test in Screening for Alcohol Use Disorder Among HIV Test Seekers in South Africa
  69. Epidemiology of non-fatal suicidal behavior among first-year university students in South Africa
  70. Evaluation of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in predicting generalised anxiety disorder among individuals seeking HIV testing in the Western Cape province, South Africa
  71. Associations between violence, criminality, and cognitive control deficits among young men living in low resource communities in South Africa
  72. Testing the Feasibility of a Media Multitasking Self-regulation Intervention for Students: Behaviour Change, Attention, and Self-perception
  73. Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of common mental disorders among first-year university students in post-apartheid South Africa: implications for a public mental health approach to student wellness
  74. The Experiences of Young Men, Their Families, and Their Coaches Following a Soccer and Vocational Training Intervention to Prevent HIV and Drug Abuse in South Africa
  75. Mental health symptoms and disorders in Paralympic athletes: a narrative review
  76. Barriers of mental health treatment utilization among first‐year college students: First cross‐national results from the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative
  77. The Utility of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist as a Trans-Diagnostic Screening Instrument for Common Mental Disorders Among Persons Seeking HIV Testing
  78. Correlates and predictors of impulsivity in adults with methamphetamine use disorder
  79. “What Can We Learn From First-Person Narratives?” The Case of Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior
  80. Lifetime and 12‐month treatment for mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among first year college students
  81. Community context and individual factors associated with arrests among young men in a South African township
  82. Troubling stereotypes: South African elite disability athletes and the paradox of (self‐)representation
  83. Mental health care providers' suggestions for suicide prevention among people with substance use disorders in South Africa: a qualitative study
  84. Increasing intentions to use mental health services among university students. Results of a pilot randomized controlled trial within the World Health Organization's World Mental Health International College Student Initiative
  85. Mental disorder comorbidity and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys International College Student initiative
  86. The role impairment associated with mental disorder risk profiles in the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative
  87. Non-fatal suicidal behaviour, depression and poverty among young men living in low-resource communities in South Africa
  88. WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and distribution of mental disorders.
  89. Gender-specific HIV and substance abuse prevention strategies for South African men: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  90. Utility of the Beck Depression Inventory in measuring major depression among individuals seeking HIV testing in the Western Cape, South Africa
  91. Understanding HIV Risk Behaviors Among Young Men in South Africa: A Syndemic Approach
  92. Chronic substance use and self-harm in a primary health care setting
  93. Utility of the Posttraumatic Stress Scale–Self-report version in screening for posttraumatic stress disorder among persons seeking HIV testing
  94. Fitting in and looking pretty: experiences of students with visual impairment participating in ‘inclusive’ ballroom dance classes
  95. Substance use and suicidal ideation and behaviour in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
  96. Common mental disorders and psychological adjustment among individuals seeking HIV testing: a study protocol to explore implications for mental health care systems
  97. Substance use and self-harm: a cross-sectional study of the prevalence, correlates and patterns of medical service utilisation among patients admitted to a South African hospital
  98. Mental health care providers talk about their experiences preventing suicide in people with substance use disorders in South Africa: implications for clinical practice
  99. Health professionals talk about the challenges of suicide prevention in two correctional centres in South Africa
  100. Social Inclusion Through Parasport
  101. Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among First-Year College Students: Results From the WMH-ICS Project
  102. When Ethical Procedures Can’t Do the Job: Ethical Dilemmas of Undertaking Critical Organisational Ethnographies in Social and Health Research
  103. The pull of soccer and the push of Xhosa boys in an HIV and drug abuse intervention in the Western Cape, South Africa
  104. Human rights and mental health in post-apartheid South Africa: lessons from health care professionals working with suicidal inmates in the prison system
  105. Substance Use and Self-Harm: Case Studies From Patients Admitted to an Urban Hospital Following Medically Serious Self-Harm
  106. “Our lifestyle is a mix-match”: Traditional healers talk about suicide and suicide prevention in South Africa
  107. The relationship between symptoms of common mental disorders and drug and alcohol misuse among persons seeking an HIV test
  108. Mental health care providers’ perceptions of the barriers to suicide prevention amongst people with substance use disorders in South Africa: a qualitative study
  109. A case study of lessons learnt from implementing a routine outcome monitoring system for psychotherapy in a South African community clinic
  110. ‘Don’t push me aside, Doctor’: Suicide attempters talk about their support needs, service delivery and suicide prevention in South Africa
  111. Health Care Utilization after Suicide Attempts in a Tertiary Hospital in South Africa
  112. The cultural turn in critical suicidology: What can we claim and what do we know?
  113. Criterion Validity of Self-Reports of Alcohol, Cannabis, and Methamphetamine Use Among Young Men in Cape Town, South Africa
  114. Chronic traumatic stress and chronic pain in the majority world: notes towards an integrative approach
  115. Prevalence of Traumatic Events and Symptoms of PTSD Among South Africans Receiving an HIV Test
  116. Epistemology and Ethnography in Health Systems Research
  117. Perinatal suicidal ideation and behaviour: psychiatry and adversity
  118. Suicidal ideation and behaviour among persons seeking HIV testing in peri-urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa: a lost opportunity for suicide prevention
  119. Disconnection, reconnection and autonomy: four young South African men’s experience of attempting suicide
  120. “A More Equitable Society”: The Politics of Global Fairness in Paralympic Sport
  121. Distress, depression and anxiety among persons seeking HIV testing
  122. “They don’t understand that we also exist”: South African participants in competitive disability sport and the politics of identity
  123. Young men in post-apartheid South Africa talk about masculinity and suicide prevention
  124. Suicide and poverty in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review
  125. The Prevalence of Common Mental Disorders Among South Africans Seeking HIV Testing
  126. Symptoms of posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety as predictors of suicidal ideation among South African university students
  127. Counselling psychology in South Africa
  128. ‘This place is making me more depressed’: The organisation of care for suicide attempters in a South African hospital
  129. Professional boundaries and the identity of counselling psychology in South Africa
  130. Poverty and suicide research in low- and middle-income countries: systematic mapping of literature published in English and a proposed research agenda
  131. Disability and Global Health
  132. THE CHALLENGES OF SCHOOL-BASED YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION: EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS
  133. Developing Programmes to Promote Participation in Sport among Adolescents with Disabilities: Perceptions Expressed by a Group of South African Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy
  134. When they call me cripple: a group of South African adolescents with cerebral palsy attending a special needs school talk about being disabled
  135. I Would Rather Just Go Through With It Than Be Called a Wussy
  136. “There is soccer but we have to watch”: the embodied consequences of rhetorics of inclusion for South African children with cerebral palsy
  137. Masculinity and Mayhem
  138. Barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity: The experiences of a group of South African adolescents with cerebral palsy
  139. Epidemiology of suicide in South Africa: Setting an agenda for future research
  140. The Development and Utilisation of a Suicide Risk Assessment Interview Schedule