Melissa Harper Shehadeh

Biographic Data

ID7548175
NAMEMelissa Harper Shehadeh
GIVEN NAMESMelissa Harper
FAMILY NAMEShehadeh
SIGNATURESHEHADEH M H
AFFILIATIONSWorld Health Organization
ORCID0000-0001-8955-0399
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Improving mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in humanitarian settings

    Open AccessWietse A Tol, Alastair Ager et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2020

    Major knowledge gaps remain concerning the most effective ways to address mental health and psychosocial needs of populations affected by humanitarian crises. The Research for Health in Humanitarian Crisis (R2HC) program aims to strengthen humanitarian health practice and policy through research. As a significant portion of R2HC's research has focused on mental health and psychosocial support interventions, the program has been interested in stre…

  • Using a person-generated mental health outcome measure in large clinical trials in Kenya and Pakistan

    Open AccessMelissa Harper Shehadeh, Edith van’t Hof et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2020

    Health care should be informed by the physical, socioeconomic, mental, and emotional well-being of the person, and account for social circumstances and culture. Patient-generated outcome measures can contribute positively to mental health research in culturally diverse populations. In this study, we analysed qualitative responses to the Psychological Outcome Profiles (PSYCHLOPS) Questionnaire—a patient-generated outcome measure based on open-ende…

  • User-Centered App Adaptation of a Low-Intensity E-Mental Health Intervention for Syrian Refugees

    Open AccessSebastian Burchert, Mohammed Salem Alkneme et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Introduction: The aim of this study is to describe the initial stages of the iterative and user-centered mobile mental health adaptation process of Step-by-Step (SbS), a modularized and originally web-based e-mental health intervention developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Given the great need for improving the responsiveness and accessibility of health systems in host countries, the EU-funded STRENGTHS consortium studies the adaptati…

  • A qualitative evaluation of a brief multicomponent intervention provided by lay health workers for women affected by adversity in urban Kenya

    Open AccessEdith van’t Hof, Katie Dawson et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2018

    The findings across diverse stakeholders show that PM+ is largely acceptable in this Kenyan setting. The results indicated that when further implemented, PM+ could be of great value to people in communities exposed to adversities such as interpersonal violence and chronic poverty. Barriers to large-scale implementation were identified, of which the sustainability of the non-specialist health workforce was the most important one

  • 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

  • Effectiveness of a brief behavioural intervention on psychological distress among women with a history of gender-based violence in urban Kenya

    Open AccessRebecca A Bryant, Alison Schafer et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2017

    BACKGROUND: Gender-based violence (GBV) represents a major cause of psychological morbidity worldwide, and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although there are effective treatments for common mental disorders associated with GBV, they typically require lengthy treatment programs that may limit scaling up in LMICs. The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of a new 5-session behavioural treatment called Problem Ma…