Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Risal, Ajay"

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    • Adapting World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 for Nepal 

      Risal, Ajay; Kunwar, Dipak; Karki, Eliza; Adhikari, Shambhu Prasad; Bimali, Inosha; Shrestha, Barsha; Khadka, Subekshya; Holen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Disability is a vital public health issue for health care programs. Affluent countries usually prioritize disability-related research, while often it remains neglected in resource-poor countries like Nepal. The ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Major Disorders of the Brain in Nepal:Prevalence, Associations, Interactions and Public-Health Implications 

      Risal, Ajay (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:221, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Utbredte hjerne-relaterte sykdommer i Nepal: prevalens, assosiasjoner, interaksjoner og implikasjoner for folkehelsen: Innledning: Hodepine, angst og depresjon er blant de hyppigst sykdomsgrupper med utgangspunkt i hjernen ...

    • 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 ...

    • Structured Q1 headache services as the solution to the ill-health burden of headache: 1. Rationale and description 

      Steiner, Timothy J.; Jensen, Rigmor; Katsarava, Zaza; Stovner, Lars Jacob; Uluduz, Derya; Adarmouch, Latifa; Al Jumah, Mohammed; Al Khathaami, Ali M.; Ashina, Messoud; Braschinsky, Mark; Broner, Susan; Eliasson, Jon H.; Gil-Gouveia, Raquel; Gómez-Galván, Juan B.; Gudmundsson, Larus S.; Herekar, Akbar A.; Kawatu, Nfwama; Kissani, Najib; Kulkarni, Girish Baburao; Lebedeva, Elena R.; Leonardi, Matilde; Linde, Mattias; Luvsannorov, Otgonbayar; Maiga, Youssoufa; Milanov, Ivan; Mitsikostas, Dimos D.; Musayev, Teymur; Olesen, Jes; Osipova, Vera; Paemeleire, Koen; Peres, Mario F. P.; Quispe, Guiovanna; Rao, Girish N.; Risal, Ajay; de la Torre, Elena Ruiz; Saylor, Deanna; Togha, Mansoureh; Yu, Shengyuan; Zebenigus, Mehila; Zewde, Yared Zenebe; Zidverc-Trajković, Jasna; Tinelli, Michela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      In countries where headache services exist at all, their focus is usually on specialist (tertiary) care. This is clinically and economically inappropriate: most headache disorders can effectively and more efficiently (and ...

    • 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 ...