Jinane Abi Ramia

Biographic Data

ID6577285
NAMEJinane Abi Ramia
GIVEN NAMESJinane Abi
FAMILY NAMERamia
SIGNATURERAMIA J A
AFFILIATIONSMinistry of Public Health
ORCID0000-0003-2132-1324
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • From research to real-life implementation

    Open AccessJinane Abi Ramia, Sally Khoury et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Digital mental health interventions offer a promising approach for addressing the global mental health treatment gap. However, concerns remain regarding their effectiveness and scalability in real-world settings, particularly in crisis-affected low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Following randomized clinical trial research, the World Health Organization's Step-by-Step (SbS) guided digital self-help intervention for depression …

  • Feasibility and uptake of a digital mental health intervention for depression among Lebanese and Syrian displaced people in Lebanon

    Open AccessJinane Abi Ramia, Racha Abi Hana et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: Digital interventions are increasingly regarded as a potential solution for the inaccessibility of mental health treatment across low-and-middle-income settings, especially for common mental disorders. Step-by-Step (SbS) is a digital, guided self-help intervention for depression found effective in two Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in Lebanon. For research implementation and further scale-up, this paper reports the results of a…

  • Step-by-Step, an E-Mental Health Intervention for Depression

    Open AccessMelissa Joanne Harper Shehadeh, Jinane Abi Ramia et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Step-by-Step skills and techniques, model of service integration, and its non-specialist support element are acceptable. Though the sample was small and non-controlled and drop-out was high, results suggest that it may be effective in reducing depression and anxiety symptoms and increasing well-being. Lessons learned will inform content revision, the development of an app version of Step-by-Step, and the research methodology of upcoming effective…

  • Community cognitive interviewing to inform local adaptations of an e-mental health intervention in Lebanon

    Open AccessJinane Abi Ramia, Melissa Harper Shehadeh et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2018

    These findings promote and advocate the use of community-driven adaptation of evidence-based psychological interventions. Some of the phenomena recorded mirror findings from other research about barriers to care seeking in the region and so changes made to the intervention should be useful in improving utility and uptake of 'Step-by-Step

  • Upscaling the recruitment and retention of human resources for health at primary healthcare centres in Lebanon

    Open AccessM Alameddine, Hiba Khodr et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2015Cited by: 2References: 1

    The sustainability of primary healthcare (PHC) worldwide has been challenged by a global shortage in human resources for health (HRH). This study is a unique attempt at systematically soliciting and synthesising the voice of PHC and community stakeholders on the HRH recruitment and retention strategies at the PHC sector in Lebanon, the obstacles and challenges hindering their optimisation and the recommendations to overcome such obstacles. A qual…