Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Manandhar, Kedar"
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Anxiety and depression in Nepal: Prevalence, comorbidity and associations
Risal, Ajay; Manandhar, Kedar; Linde, Mattias; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Background Anxiety and depression are two important contributors to the global burden of disease. In many developing countries, including Nepal, their prevalences are yet to be assessed. Methods A nationwide ... -
Comorbidities of psychiatric and headache disorders in Nepal: implications from a nationwide population-based study
Risal, Ajay; Manandhar, Kedar; Holen, Are; Steiner, Timothy J.; Linde, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Headache disorders, anxiety and depression – the major disorders of the brain – are highly comorbid in the western world. Whether this is so in South Asia has not been investigated, but the question is of ... -
Descriptive epidemiology and burden estimations of headache disorders in Nepal: A nationwide population-based study
Manandhar, Kedar (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:222, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Norsk sammendrag (Summary in Norwegian) Bakgrunn: Hodepine, særlig migrene og hodepine av spenningstype (HST) tilhører de mest utbredte og belastende sykdomstilstander i verden. Medikamentoverforbrukshodepine (MOH) er en ... -
Diagnosis, prevalence estimation and burden measurement in population surveys of headache: presenting the HARDship questionnaire
Steiner, Timothy J.; Gururaj, Gopalakrishna; Andree, Colette; Katsarava, Zaza; Ayzenberg, Ilya; Yu, Shengyuan; Al Jumah, Mohammed A; Tekle-Haimanot, Redda; Birbeck, Gretchen; Herekar, Arif; Linde, Mattias; Mbewe, Edouard; Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Jensen, Rigmor; Queiroz, Luiz Paulo; Scher, Ann; Wang, Shuu-Jiun; Stovner, Lars Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)The global burden of headache is very large, but knowledge of it is far from complete and needs still to be gathered. Published population-based studies have used variable methodology, which has influenced findings and ... -
Estimating prevalence and burden of major disorders of the brain in Nepal: cultural, geographic, logistic and philosophical issues of methodology
Risal, Ajay; Manandhar, Kedar; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are; Koju, Rajendra; Linde, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background Headache, anxiety and depression are major disorders of the brain in terms of their prevalence and the burdens and costs they impose on society. Nationwide population-based studies of these disorders are ... -
Estimating the prevalence and burden of major disorders of the brain in Nepal: methodology of a nationwide population-based study
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are; Koju, Rajendra; Linde, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background The major disorders of the brain (MDBs), in terms of their prevalence and the burdens of ill health, disability and financial cost that they impose on individuals and society, are headache, depression and ... -
Health-care utilization for headache disorders in Nepal: A population-based door-to-door survey
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Linde, Mattias; Steiner, Timothy J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Headache disorders are an important global public-health problem, but under-diagnosed, undertreated and under-prioritized. Deficiencies in health care for headache, present everywhere, are likely to be greater ... -
Nepali Version of Geriatric Depression Scale-15 - A Reliability and Validation Study
Risal, Ajay; Giri, E; Shrestha, Oshin; Manandhar, Sabina; Kunwar, Dipak; Amatya, R; Manandhar, Nirmala; Manandhar, Kedar; Holen, Are (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Geriatric depression is a significant problem in both the developed and the developing world. To identify this condition, Geriatric Depression Scale has been used in different languages and cultural settings; ... -
Prevalence of geriatric depression in the Kavre district, Nepal: Findings from a cross sectional community survey
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Shrestha, Oshin; Manandhar, Nirmala; Kunwar, Dipak; Koju, Rajendra; Holen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background The increasing elderly population worldwide is likely to increase mental health problems such as geriatric depression, which has mostly been studied in high-income countries. Similar studies are scarce in ... -
The prevalence of primary headache disorders in Nepal: a nationwide population-based study
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Steiner, Timothy J.; Holen, Are; Linde, Mattias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background:Headache disorders are among the most prevalent and burdensome global public-health problems.Within countries, health policy depends upon knowledge of health within the local populations, but the South-East Asia ... -
The burden of headache disorders in Nepal: estimates from a population-based survey
Manandhar, Kedar; Risal, Ajay; Linde, Mattias; Steiner, Timothy J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Headache disorders, particularly migraine and tension-type headache (TTH), are among the most prevalent global public-health problems. Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is a common sequela of mismanagement of ...