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Dean Medical College, EA

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Medicine and Health Sciences

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Self-reported Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms among university students ...

East African Medical Journal (2010)

Lukoye Atwoli, P. Owiti, G. Manguro and D. NDAMBUKI

Objective: To determine the prevalence of self-reported attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms among university students in Eldoret, Kenya. ...

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Neuroleptic induced tardive dyskinesa in a patient on treatment for ...

East African Medical Journal (2009)

Lukoye Atwoli, G. MANGURO, P. OWITI and D. NDAMBUKI

In this case, a thirty six year old patient on treatment for schizophrenia is described with severe tardive dyskinesia. The ...

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Post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and generalised anxiety disorder ...

East African Medical Journal (2018)

Florence Jaguga, Ann Mwangi, Mary Mahugu, Rogers Songole, et al.

Background:Little research exists in Sub-Saharan Africa on the rates of mental disorders following terror attacks. Available studies have examined Post-Traumatic ...

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Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys

Psychological Medicine (2017)

K C Koenen, A Ratanatharathorn, L Ng, K A McLaughlin, et al.

Background: Traumatic events are common globally; however, comprehensive population-based cross-national data on the epidemiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the ...

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Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with natural and human-made disasters in ...

Psychological medicine (2017)

Evelyn J Bromet, Lukoye Atwoli, Norito Kawakami, Fernando Navarro-Mateu, et al.

Background: Research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following natural and human-made disasters has been undertaken for more than three decades. ...

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Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with life-threatening motor vehicle collisions in ...

BMC psychiatry (2016)

Dan J Stein, Elie G Karam, Victoria Shahly, Eric D Hill, et al.

Background: Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are a substantial contributor to the global burden of disease and lead to subsequent post-traumatic ...

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Posttraumatic stress disorder associated with unexpected death of a loved ...

Depress Anxiety (2016)

Lukoye Atwoli, Dan J Stein, Andrew King, Maria Petukhova, et al.

Background: Unexpected death of a loved one (UD) is the most commonly reported traumatic experience in cross‐national surveys. However, much ...

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Epidemiology of posttraumatic stress disorder: prevalence, correlates and consequences

Current Opinion in Psychiatry (2015)

Lukoye Atwoli, Dan Stein, Karestan C. Koenen and Katie A Mclaughlin

Purpose of review: This review discusses recent findings from epidemiological surveys of traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) globally, ...

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Symptoms of depression among patients attending a diabetes care clinic ...

Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology (2015)

Kristen Shirey, Simon M Manyara, Lukoye Atwoli, Ryan Tomlin, et al.

Objective: The prevalence of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa is rising, but its relationship to depression is not well-characterized. This report ...

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Association between traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder: results from ...

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (2015)

B Olaya, J Alonso, Lukoye Atwoli, R C Kessler, et al.

Background: The relative importance of traumatic events (TEs) in accounting for the social burden of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) could ...

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DSM‐5 and ICD‐11 definitions of posttraumatic stress disorder ...

Depress & Anxiety (2014)

Dan J Stein, Katie A McLaughlin, Karestan C Koenen, Lukoye Atwoli, et al.

Background: The development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-5) and ICD-11 has led to ...

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The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among sexually abused children ...

East African medical journal (2013)

C. A. OMBOK, A. Obondo and Lukoye Atwoli

Background: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develops following some stressful events. There has been increasing recognition that children who have been ...

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Substance use service availability in HIV treatment programs: Data from ...

PLoS ONE (2020)

Angela M. Parcesepe, Kathryn Lancaster, E. Jennifer Edelman, Raquel DeBoni, et al.

Background: Substance use is common among people living with HIV and has been associated with suboptimal HIV treatment outcomes. Integrating ...

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Khat use and psychotic symptoms in a rural Khat growing ...

BMC Psychiatry (2019)

Linnet Ongeri, Fredrick Kirui, Erastus Muniu, Veronica Manduku, et al.

Background:Khat is an amphetamine like psychostimulant chewed by over 10 million people globally. Khat use is thought to increase the ...

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Substance use and universal access to HIV testing and treatment ...

Journal of Virus Eradication (2018)

Kathryn E. Lancaster, Angela Hetrick, Antoine Jaquet, Adebola Adedimeji, et al.

As universal testing and treatment for HIV, or ‘treat all’, expands across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), substance use will likely have ...

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Evaluation of alcohol screening and community-based brief interventions in rural ...

Alcohol and alcoholism (2018)

Risa Takahashi, Calistus Wilunda, Karani Magutah, Wanja Mwaura-Tenambergen, et al.

Aims:To assess the effectiveness of community-based alcohol brief interventions (ABI) implemented by community-health workers with and without motivational talks (MT) ...

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Substance use among inmates at the Eldoret prison in Western ...

BMC psychiatry (2013)

Daniel WC Kinyanjui and Lukoye Atwoli

Background:Criminal activity and social problems are recognized as important outcomes of substance use and abuse. Little research has been carried ...

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The journey of addiction: Barriers to and facilitators of drug ...

PLoS One (2013)

Lonnie Embleton, Lukoye Atwoli, David Ayuku and Paula Braitstein

This mixed-methods study examined barriers to and facilitators of street children’s drug use cessation in Eldoret, Kenya utilizing a cross-sectional ...

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Knowledge, attitudes, and substance use practices among street children in ...

Substance use & misuse (2012)

Lonnie Embleton, David Ayuku, Lukoye Atwoli, Rachel Vreeman, et al.

The study describes the knowledge of and attitudes toward substance use among street-involved youth in Kenya, and how they relate ...

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Prevalence of substance use among college students in Eldoret, western ...

BMC psychiatry (2011)

Lukoye Atwoli, Prisca A Mungla, Moses N Ndung'u, Kiende C Kinoti, et al.

Background: Substance use among college and university students predicts substance related problems in later life. Few studies on this phenomenon ...

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The associations of earlier trauma exposures and history of mental ...

Molecular psychiatry (2018)

Ronald C Kessler, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Evelyn J Bromet, et al.

Although earlier trauma exposure is known to predict post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after subsequent traumas, it is unclear if this ...

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Associations between lifetime potentially traumatic events and chronic physical conditions ...

BMC psychiatry (2016)

Lukoye Atwoli, Jonathan M Platt, Archana Basu, David R Williams, et al.

Background: This study examined the association between the type, and cumulative number of lifetime potentially traumatic events (PTEs), and chronic ...

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The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the ...

Psychological medicine (2016)

Corina Benjet, E Bromet, E G Karam, R C Kessler, et al.

Background: Considerable research has documented that exposure to traumatic events has negative effects on physical and mental health. Much less ...

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Association between witnessing traumatic events and psychopathology in the South ...

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2015)

Lukoye Atwoli, Jonathan Platt, David R Williams, Dan J Stein, et al.

Background: The high burden of witnessing traumatic events has been demonstrated in previous research in South Africa. However, previous work ...

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Impact of domestic care environment on trauma and posttraumatic stress ...

PLoS One (2014)

Lukoye Atwoli, David Ayuku, Joseph Hogan, Julius Koech, et al.

Objective:The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the domestic care environment on the prevalence of potentially ...

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Psychiatric Epidemiology (18)

PTSD (10)

Substance Use (8)

Trauma (8)