International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Article	Citations
Prevalence of anxiety, depression, and psychological distress among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis	162
A meta-analysis of the problematic social media use and mental health	152
Spirituality, religiosity and the mental health consequences of social isolation during Covid-19 pandemic	123
A critical review of the definition of ‘wellbeing’ for doctors and their patients in a post Covid-19 era	73
Socio-economic inequalities in social network, loneliness and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Prevalence of burnout in medical students: A systematic review and meta-analysis	51
Mental health symptoms and coping strategies among Ukrainians during the Russia-Ukraine war in March 2022	45
Prevalence of smartphone addiction among Asian medical students: A meta-analysis of multinational observational studies	44
Mental health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on parents in high-risk, low income communities	42
Experiences and emotional strain of NHS frontline workers during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic	42
Health care providers and people with mental illness: An integrative review on anti-stigma interventions	35
Occupational stress, mental health, and self-efficacy among community mental health workers: A cross-sectional study during COVID-19 pandemic	34
Religious coping in the time of COVID-19 Pandemic in India and Nigeria: Finding of a cross-national community survey	30
Psychological response of children to home confinement during COVID-19: A qualitative arts-based research	29
Stigmatisation associated with COVID-19 in the general Colombian population	28
Emotional support received moderates academic stress and mental well-being in a sample of Afghan university students amid COVID-19	28
COVID-19 and the violence against women and girls: ‘The shadow pandemic’	26
Factors associated with mental health outcomes among health care workers in the Fangcang shelter hospital in China	26
Yoga and music intervention to reduce depression, anxiety, and stress during COVID-19 outbreak on healthcare workers	26
Posttraumatic growth after earthquake: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Excess suicides in Brazil: Inequalities according to age groups and regions during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Prevalence of smartphone addiction and its correlates in a sample of Egyptian university students	24
The prevalence of problematic internet use among a sample of Egyptian adolescents and its psychiatric comorbidities	22
Hikikomori and modern-type depression in Italy: A new phenotypical trans-cultural characterization?	22
Do you have to be mad to believe in conspiracy theories? Personality disorders and conspiracy theories	21

COVID-19 school closure and adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa	20
Suicide methods in South Asia over two decades (2001–2020)	20
The psychological effects of COVID-19 spread in young Canadian adults	19
Suicide deaths among medical students, residents and physicians in India spanning a decade (2010–2019): An exploratory study using on line news portals and Google database	19
Parental psychological distress associated with COVID-19 outbreak: A large-scale multicenter survey from Turkey	19
Evolution of intersectional perceived discrimination and internalized stigma during COVID-19 lockdown among the general population in Spain	18
The impact of confinement in the psychosocial behaviour due COVID-19 among members of a Brazilian university	18
A comparison of formal and informal help in the context of mental health recovery	18
National identification, a social cure for COVID-19? Evidence from 67 countries	17
Satisfaction with Telepsychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic: Patients’ and psychiatrists’ report from a University Hospital	17
Risk and protective factors for comorbidity of PTSD, depression, and anxiety among Somali refugees in Kenya	17
From panic to revenge: Compensatory buying behaviors during the pandemic	17
Gendered racial microaggressions, internalized racism, and suicidal ideation among emerging adult Asian American women	17
Psychosocial risk factors associated with mental health of adolescents amidst the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak	17
Gender in mental health: Comparison of the rate and social factors of depression, anxiety, and stress among young adult Filipino heterosexual cisgender men and women and LGBT+ individuals	16
Mental health outcomes in Syrian refugees: A systematic review	16
Which are the intermediate determinants of gender inequalities in mental health?: A scoping review	16
Network of burnout, depression, anxiety, and dropout intention in medical undergraduates	15
Moral injury, depression, and anxiety symptoms among health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of belongingness	15
Old dog, new tricks? Exploring the potential functionalities of ChatGPT in supporting educational methods in social psychiatry	15
Mental health of Turkish medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
The mediating role of knowledge on the contact and stigma of mental illness in Hong Kong	14
Unique and cumulative effects of lifestyle-related behaviors on depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents	14
The influence and enlightenment of five public health emergencies on public psychology since new century: A systematic review	14
Predicting rejection attitudes toward utilizing formal mental health services in Muslim women in the US: Results from the Muslims’ perceptions and attitudes to mental health study	14
Mental health literacy among Arab university students in Israel: A qualitative study	13
Hikikomori Risk Inventory (HRI-24): A new instrument for evaluating Hikikomori in both Eastern and Western countries	13
Quality of media reporting of suicide in Iraq	13
The mediating effect of family health on the relationship between health literacy and mental health: A national cross-sectional survey in China	13
Cultural competency training for psychiatry residents and mental health professionals: A systematic review	13
Trends, challenges, and priorities for shared decision making in mental health: The first umbrella review	13
RETRACTED: Biopsychosocial intersections of social/affective touch and psychiatry: Implications of ‘touch hunger’ during COVID-19	12
‘It’s the economy, stupid’: Lessons of a longitudinal study of depression in Argentina	12
Knowledge, contact and stigma of mental illness: Comparing three stakeholder groups in Hong Kong	12
Technostress, anxiety, and depression among university students: A report from Paraguay	12
Financial indebtedness and suicide: A 1-year follow-up study of a population registered at the Swedish Enforcement Authority	12
Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness attending community mental health services in rural Greece	12
Phone-based outpatients’ follow-up in mental health centers during the COVID-19 quarantine	12
Interventions to support the mental health of survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking: A systematic review	12
Virtual connection, real support? A study of loneliness, time on social media and psychological distress among men	12
Perceived health, adversity, and posttraumatic stress disorder in Syrian and Iraqi refugees	11
Psychopathological effects of the Coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) imposed lockdown on vulnerable patients in treatment in a mental health outpatient department for migrants and individuals in poor socioecono	11
Current status and associated factors of psychological resilience among the Chinese residents during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	11
A comparative study of two Mobile Mental Health Units in different catchment rural areas in Greece	11
World of Change: Reflections within an educational and health care perspective in a time with COVID-19	11
Impact of financial crisis on mental health: A literature review ‘puzzling’ findings from several countries	11
Where is the social in the biopsychosocial model of suicide prevention?	11
Mental health-related stigma and attitudes toward patient care among providers of mental health services in a rural Chinese county	11
University students’ mental health amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia	11
Research on psychotic disorders in rural areas: Recent advances and ongoing challenges	10

Suicide literacy mediates the path from religiosity to suicide stigma among Muslim community adults: Cross-sectional data from four Arab countries	10
The plight of women in Iraq: Gender disparity, violence, and mental health	10
Political determinants of mental health	10
Mental health-related stigma in movies: A call for action to the cinema industry	10
A descriptive study of mental health and burnout among Nigerian medical students	10
Understanding health anxiety in the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Wellbeing, burnout and substance use amongst medical students: A summary of results from nine countries	10
Mental Health Underutilization by Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: Stigma-Related, Attitudinal, and Instrumental Barriers	10
Mental health differences between multiracial and monoracial college students in the United States: Emerging racial disparities	10
Mental health stigma among community members in Afghanistan: A cross-sectional survey	10
Childhood experiences and dissociation among high school students in China: Theoretical reexamination and clinical implications	10
Social anxiety and depression symptoms in Chinese left-behind children after the lifting of COVID-19 lockdown: A network analysis	10
Wellbeing and mental health amongst medical students in Canada	9
How effective is group intervention in the treatment for unaccompanied and accompanied refugee minors with mental health difficulties: A systematic review	9
Association of socioeconomic status with nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal ideation in young Korean adults	9
Behind the screen of voluntary psychiatric hospital admissions: A qualitative exploration of treatment pressures and informal coercion in experiences of patients in Italy, Poland and the United Kingdo	9
Trauma exposure and factors associated with ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Lithuanian general population	9
Refugee status is associated with double the odds of psychological distress in mid-to-late life: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	9
Home visiting support for people with hikikomori (social withdrawal) provided by experienced and effective workers	9
Social media fatigue: Causes and concerns	9
Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization among migrants in Italy: A matched sample study	9
Effect of national cultural dimensions and consumption rates on stigma toward alcohol and substance use disorders	9
Prevalence of hikikomori and associations with suicidal ideation, suicide stigma, and help-seeking among 2,022 young adults in Hong Kong	9
Internet addiction, insomnia, and violence tendency in adolescents	8
Analysis of the early mother-child relationship in schizophrenic patients	8
Mental health literacy among adolescents: Evidence from a community-based study in Delhi	8
Mental disorders in the media: A retrospective study of newspaper coverage in the Chilean Press	8
Wellbeing and mental health among medical students in Indonesia: A descriptive study	8
Affiliate stigma of mental illness in family caregivers of persons with mental illness in Hong Kong	8
Mental health and wellbeing of Indonesian medical students: A regional comparison study	8
Care at door-steps for persons with severe mental disorders: A pilot experience from Karnataka district mental health program	8
Community participation as a predictor of depressive symptoms among individuals with serious mental illnesses	8
Chhattisgarh community mental healthcare tele-mentoring program (CHaMP): Digitally driven initiative to reach the unreached	8
Prevalence and sociocultural correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder and complex PTSD among Chinese community health service users in Hong Kong	8
Evaluation of patient social support, caregiver burden, and their relationship with the course of the disease in patients with bipolar disorder	8
Online digital storytelling video on promoting men’s intentions to seek counselling for depression: The role of empathy	7
Treatment non-adherence pattern among persons with neuropsychiatric disorders: A study from a rural community mental health centre in India	7
Psychiatric morbidity and substance use in migrant workers: A population based study	7
The effects of climate change awareness on mental health: Comparison of climate anxiety and hopelessness levels in Turkish youth	7
The impact of trauma, substance abuse, and psychiatric illness on suicidal and self-harm behaviours in a cohort of migrant detainees: An observational, prospective study	7
Healthcare professionals’ knowledge, confidence and attitudes in relation to psychosis care: A systematic review	7
Effectiveness of social support-based interventions in preventing depression in people without clinical depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	7
Affiliate stigma and caregiving burden among family caregivers of persons with schizophrenia in rural China	7
Loneliness in the presence of others: A mixed-method study of social networks of caregivers of patients with severe mental disorders	7
Psychotherapy in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI): Preferences and expectations of the Kurdish host community, internally displaced- and Syrian refugee community	7
The psychological experiences of Lebanese ground zero front-line nurses during the most recent COVID-19 outbreak post Beirut blast: A qualitative study	7
Educational level and the use of mental health services, psychotropic medication and psychotherapy among adults with a history of physician diagnosed mental disorders	6
A mixed methods study examining perceptions by service-users of their involuntary admission in relation to levels of insight	6
Psychological wellbeing and mental health amongst medical undergraduates: A descriptive study assessing more than 1,000 medical students in Sri Lanka	6
Prevalence of burnout in medical students in Guatemala: Before and during Covid-19 pandemic comparison	6
The impact of employment programs on common mental disorders: A systematic review	6
Evaluation of bio-psycho-social and socio-cultural problems of Syrian elderly living in Turkey	6
Age, period and cohort effects in depression prevalence among Canadians 65+, 1994 to 2018: A multi-level analysis	6
The revolving door phenomenon in severe psychiatric disorders: A systematic review	6
Effectiveness of IADL interventions to improve functioning in persons with Schizophrenia: A systematic review	6
Personal meaning of recovery among persons with schizophrenia	6
Social relationship quality, depression and inflammation: A cross-cultural longitudinal study in the United States and Tokyo, Japan	6
Trauma exposure, social functioning, and common mental health disorders in Somali refugee male and female youth: An SEM analysis	6
War in the COVID-19 era: Mental health concerns in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh	6
Unequal outcomes: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and wellbeing among Hispanic/Latinos with varying degrees of ‘Belonging’	6
Hope and resilience among patients affected by unipolar and bipolar depression	6
Does workplace spirituality enhance motivation of hospitals social workers? The scrutiny in Iran	6
Perspectives of community members on homeless people with mental illness in Nsawam, Ghana	6
The relationship between religiosity/spirituality and quality of life among female Eritrean refugees living in Norwegian asylum centres	6
A focus on postpartum depression among Jordanian mothers	6
‘Modelling social exclusion in a diagnostically-mixed sample of people with severe mental illness’	6
Subjective experiences of dissociative and conversion disorders among adolescents in India	6
Traumatic events, post-traumatic stress disorders, and gender among Yazidi population after ISIS invasion: A post conflict study in Kurdistan – Iraq	6
The impact of burnout on turnover intention among Chinese general practitioners: The mediating effect of job satisfaction and the moderating effect of professional identity	6
Exploring the impact of a complex intervention for women with depression in contexts of adversity: A pilot feasibility study of COURRAGE-plus in South Africa	6
Stigma and mental health problems in an Indian context. Perceptions of people with mental disorders in urban, rural and tribal areas of Kerala	6
Task-sharing psychosocial interventions for the prevention of common mental disorders in the perinatal period in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Mental health problems in children & pandemic: Dangers lurking around the Corner and possible management	6
Hospitalizations in psychiatry during the month of Ramadan: A study at the Tunisian mental health hospital	6
Provision of community mental health care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A time series analysis in Peru	5
Geopsychiatry, global vulnerability, mitigation and psychiatry	5
Women health: Psychological and most prominent somatic problems in 3-year follow-up in Bosnian refugees	5
The association of mental health with positive behaviours, attitudes and virtues in community-dwelling older adults: Results of a population-based study	5
Burnout prevalence and degree among undergraduate medical students in Indonesia during 1 month of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional descriptive survey	5
COVID-19 and mental health challenges among the hijra people in Bangladesh	5

Mental distress and substance use among rural Black South African youth who are not in employment, education or training (NEET)	5
The portrayal of mental health in Irish mainstream news media	5
Self-stigma in patients with major depressive disorder: An exploratory study from India	5
RETRACTED: ‘Weighty woes’: Impact of fat talk and social influences on body dissatisfaction among Indian women during the pandemic	5
Perceived public stigma and perceived public exposure by persons living with bipolar disorder: A qualitative study	5
Quality of life of family primary caregivers of individuals with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in south of Brazil	5
The current pandemic, a complex emergency? Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on highly vulnerable communities in Guatemala	5
Distrust in government and its relationship with mental health after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident	5
Trends in medical students’ health over 5 years: Does a wellbeing curriculum make a difference?	5
The burden of care and burn out syndrome in caregivers of an Egyptian sample of schizophrenia patients	5
How does trust affect help-seeking for Depression in Russia and Australia?	5
Who is coercively admitted to psychiatric wards? Epidemiological analysis of inpatient records of involuntary psychiatric admissions to a University General Hospital in Greece for the years 2008–2017	5
Burnout, mental health, physical symptoms, and coping behaviors in healthcare workers in Belize amidst COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide cross-sectional study	5
Diabetes, disability, and dementia risk: Results from the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE)	5
Putting cultural difference in its place: Barriers to access to health services for parents of children with intellectual disability in an urban African setting	5
Schizoaffective disorder in homeless patients: A systematic review	5
The biopsychosocial-spiritual factors influencing relapse of patients with schizophrenia	5
Therapeutic work with clients living in poverty	5
Psychotic experiences as a health indicator: A provisional framework	5
Compulsory and voluntary admissions in comparison: A 9-year long observational study	5
Pathways to mental health consultations: A study from a tertiary care setting in India	5
Patients’ attitudes toward conventional and herbal treatments for depression and anxiety: A cross-sectional Israeli survey	5
From darkness to light: Barriers and facilitators to mental health recovery in the South African context	5
Religiosity as a moderator of ADHD-related antisocial behaviour and emotional distress among secular, religious and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel	5
Depression and suicidal ideations in relation to occupational stress in a sample of Egyptian medical residents	5
Attitudes toward mental illness among medical students and impact of temperament	4
Factors associated with homelessness referrals for an acute young adult psychiatric unit	4
Reducing stigma associated with mental health problems among university students in the Asia-Pacific: A video content analysis of student-driven proposals	4
Mental deterioration of refugees and asylum seekers with uncertain legal status in Australia: Perceptions and responses of legal representatives	4
Well-being: Diversified perspectives in search of operational definitions	4
Fixating on the future: An overview of increased astrology use	4
Employment and suicidal rates during economic recession: A country-targeted integrative review	4
The efficacy of online parenting interventions in addressing emotional problems in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	4
How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect individuals with schizophrenia from Turkey?	4
Analysis of YouTube content on substance use disorder treatment and recovery	4
A call for improved mental health workforce in low-income countries	4
Changes in household debt due to COVID-19 and mental health concerns among adults in Ontario, Canada	4
Trend and gender-based association of the Bangladeshi student suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic: a GIS-based nationwide distribution	4
Decreasing public interest in social psychiatry: An infodemiological study of worldwide Google search volumes from 2004 to 2021	4
The relationship between climate change anxiety and psychotic experiences is mediated by death anxiety	4
Caregiver burden experiences of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative inquiry	4
A descriptive study of welfare and mental health issues among health-related sciences undergraduate students at the Medical University of Gdansk	4
‘Even a smile helps’: Exploring the interactions between people experiencing homelessness and passersby in public spaces	4
Social determinants of mental health and adolescent anxiety and depression: Findings from the 2018 to 2019 National Survey of Children’s Health	4
A prospective investigation of protective factors for moral injury and psychiatric symptomatology among Israeli combatants: A Latent Class Analysis approach	4
Prescribing stigma in mental disorders: A comparative study of Portuguese psychiatrists and general practitioners	4
Psychotic symptoms associate inversely with social support, social autonomy and psychosocial functioning: A community-based study	4
Time for hard choices: A new global order for mental health	4
The role of spirituality and religiosity on the suicidal ideation of medical students	4
The United Kingdom’s Rwanda asylum policy and the European Court of Human Rights’ Interim Measure: Challenges for mental health and the importance of social psychiatry	4
Community sadness: Clinical recommendations for working with grieving Arab American families	4
To what extent do post-traumatic mental health and other problems reflect pre-existing problems? Findings from the prospective comparative population-based VICTIMS-study	4
Wellbeing, psychiatric morbidity and psychological distress amongst medical students in Denmark	4
The impact of covid-19: Anxiety, depression, and wellbeing among medical students	4
Managing depression in India: Opportunities for a targeted smartphone app	4
Psycho-education on racism: Psychiatry’s role and responsibility in dismantling institutional racism	4
Attitudes and beliefs of Tunisian High-School teachers about schizophrenia: The impact of vignette gender	4
Prevalence of loneliness and its correlates among patients with schizophrenia	4
The stigma of mental health problems: A cross-sectional study in a representative sample of Spain	4
Lived experiences of mental health conditions in Singapore: A constructivist grounded theory study	4
Cultural idioms of distress among displaced populations: A scoping review	4
Training non-mental health professionals to assess and manage suicide risk: Community level intervention for suicide prevention in Guatemala	4
Personality and attachment in the homeless: A systematic review	4
Do online media adhere to the responsible suicide reporting guidelines? A cross sectional study from India	4
Changes of stressful life events, coping strategies and mental health among youths in the pre- and post-coronavirus 2019 pandemic era: A cross-sectional study	4
Implementation of a computer-assisted face-to-face intervention for mapping the social support networks of patients with severe mental illness in routine clinical practice: Analysis of the appropriate	4
Burdens in mental health recovery: Causal beliefs and their relation to stigma and help seeking recommendations	4
The Personal Sociability and Connections Scale (PeSCS): Development and initial assessment at a primary care facility	4
Exploring the phenomenon of suicidal behaviour (SB): An explanatory, mixed-method study in rural Pakistan	4
The level of formal support received by people with severe mental illness living in supported accommodation and participation: A systematic review	4
Immigrant generation, acculturation, and mental health literacy among former Soviet Union immigrants in Israel	4
Family functioning but not social capital is associated with better mental health in adolescents affected by violence and displacement by armed conflict in Colombia	4
Geopsychiatry, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and geopolitical challenges for global mental health	4
Challenges faced when living with schizophrenia in the community: A narrative inquiry	3
How does the British public understand mental health? A qualitative analysis of open-text responses	3
Do carers of adolescents at first episode psychosis have distinctive psychological needs? A pilot exploration	3
Mental health help-seeking among Brazilian medical students: Who suffers unassisted?	3
The longitudinal impact of war exposure on psychopathology in Syrian and Iraqi refugee youth	3
Online gaming and tilting: Psychosocial exploration for promotion of emotional regulation	3
Multiple trajectories of depressive symptoms among Chinese in middle and late life: Characterization and risk factors	3
The impact of family engagement in opioid assisted treatment: Results from a randomised controlled trial	3
Risk assessment and its influencing factors of involuntary admission in patients with mental disorders in Shanghai, China	3
Exploring views of relatives and mental health professionals to inform the cultural adaptation of a family intervention for schizophrenia in Oman: A qualitative study	3
Perceived discrimination and mental health in the Japanese general population	3
Youths’ attitudes toward open discussion of suicide, preferred contexts, and the impact of Internet use: An exploratory sequential mixed-methods study in Hong Kong	3
Determinants of depression and anxiety in homeless people: A population survey of homeless people in Hong Kong	3
Gender differences in Syrian refugees in Jordan: Psychological, self-esteem, family function, marital satisfaction, and life satisfaction	3
Knowledge, stigma, and beliefs toward mental illnesses among schoolteachers in Damascus	3
Youth suicide and hospital-presenting suicide attempts: Examination of risk factors for multiple suicide attempts in adolescence	3
Anxiety and depression in Covid-19 frontline health care workers in China	3
Patients who complain of autonomic dysregulation: A cross-sectional study of patients with somatic symptom disorder	3
Mental health and wellbeing among Iranian medical students: a descriptive study	3
Quality of Life of people with Schizophrenia: A meta-analysis	3
Outcomes of psychosocial interventions for homeless individuals with mental illness: A systematic review	3
Suicidal ideation in older Ghanaian women: The roles of bodily pain, functional limitation, and chronic health conditions	3