Ashleigh Craig

Biographic Data

ID7549746
NAMEAshleigh Craig
GIVEN NAMESAshleigh
FAMILY NAMECraig
SIGNATURECRAIG A
AFFILIATIONSSouth African Medical Research Council
ORCID0000-0002-7641-5953
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Health literacy, multimorbidity and its effect on mental health in South African adults

    Open AccessAshleigh Craig, Khuthala Mabetha et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Objective and methods: Health literacy is a key determinant of physical and mental health outcomes, particularly in low- and middle-income settings like South Africa, where multimorbidity is increasingly common. Limited health literacy may hinder effective management of multiple chronic conditions and worsen mental health. Using repeated cross-sectional nationally representative data, this study examined the relationship between health literacy a…

  • Food insecurity and coping strategies associate with higher risk of anxiety and depression among South African households with children

    Open AccessSiphiwe N Dlamini, Asanda Mtintsilana et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2024

    Objective: To investigate food insecurity and related coping strategies, and their associations with the risk of anxiety and depression, among South African households with children. Design: Nationally representative cross-sectional study. Tools for assessing food insecurity, coping strategies, risk of anxiety and depression were assessed from the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project, Coping Strategies Index, Generalised Anxiety Diso…

  • Exploring the national prevalence of mental health risk, multimorbidity and the associations thereof

    Open AccessAshleigh Craig, Witness Mapanga et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Objective and methods: South Africans were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic hardships. As a result, mental health within this region may have worsened. Therefore, using large scale nationally representative data, we repeated the cross-sectional panel study to investigate mental health risk post COVID-19 to explore mental health and multimorbidity and to examine the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) …

  • Socioeconomic position, perceived weight, lifestyle risk, and multimorbidity in young adults aged 18 to 35 years

    Open AccessAshleigh Craig, Asanda Mtintsilana et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This study confirmed poorer health outcomes in those who perceived themselves as overweight. The findings from this study further emphasise the importance of targeted intervention strategies directed at raising weight-related awareness and potentiating risk factors, specifically in those who reside in lower economic developed countries

  • Food insecurity and coping strategies and their association with anxiety and depression

    Open AccessSiphiwe N Dlamini, Ashleigh Craig et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: To investigate food insecurity and related coping strategies among South African households and their associations with anxiety and depression. Design: Cross-sectional study. Food insecurity and coping strategies were assessed using a modified Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project and the Coping Strategies Index questionnaires. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 were used to assess anxiety…

  • The prevalence of probable depression and probable anxiety, and associations with adverse childhood experiences and socio-demographics

    Open AccessAshleigh Craig, Tamsen J Rochat et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Objective and methods Mental health problems among adults are a growing public health concern, and middle-income countries such as South Africa are disproportionally affected. Using a large scale nationally representative weighted survey, we assessed the prevalence of probable depression, probable anxiety, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and explored associations between probable depression, probable anxiety, ACEs, socio-economic status…