Ruth Verhey

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ruth Verhey is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Verhey has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Social Psychology, 22 papers in Clinical Psychology and 20 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Ruth Verhey's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (23 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (12 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (11 papers). Ruth Verhey is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (23 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (12 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (11 papers). Ruth Verhey collaborates with scholars based in Zimbabwe, United Kingdom and South Africa. Ruth Verhey's co-authors include Dixon Chibanda, Melanie Abas, Ricardo Araya, Helen A. Weiss, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, Epiphania Munetsi, Lorna J. Gibson, Soraya Seedat, Victoria Simms and Debra Machando and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Verhey

42 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Effect of a Primary Care–Based Psychological Intervention on Symptoms of Common Mental Disorders in Zimbabwe

2016 251 citations Dixon Chibanda, Helen A. Weiss et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Verhey Zimbabwe	18	526	488	427	309	200	46	1.1k
Anthony Morgan United States	12	302 0.6×	373 0.8×	294 0.7×	219 0.7×	326 1.6×	30	1.1k
Scholastic Ashaba Uganda	21	458 0.9×	433 0.9×	202 0.5×	322 1.0×	266 1.3×	83	1.2k
Victoria K. Ngo United States	19	682 1.3×	520 1.1×	533 1.2×	148 0.5×	175 0.9×	58	1.5k
Godfrey Zari Rukundo Uganda	22	603 1.1×	570 1.2×	275 0.6×	363 1.2×	288 1.4×	114	1.5k
Giuseppe Raviola United States	18	574 1.1×	342 0.7×	397 0.9×	126 0.4×	135 0.7×	49	1.1k
Sanjana Pampati United States	16	371 0.7×	368 0.8×	305 0.7×	230 0.7×	93 0.5×	47	1000
Sarah Skeen South Africa	21	630 1.2×	630 1.3×	226 0.5×	269 0.9×	216 1.1×	97	1.4k
Juliet Nakku Uganda	23	743 1.4×	509 1.0×	472 1.1×	314 1.0×	535 2.7×	59	1.6k
Hyunsan Cho United States	17	520 1.0×	628 1.3×	146 0.3×	179 0.6×	153 0.8×	36	1.4k
Celia M. Lescano United States	21	633 1.2×	972 2.0×	167 0.4×	489 1.6×	125 0.6×	50	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Verhey

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Gaynes, Bradley N., Trần Việt Hà, Kelsey R. Landrum, et al.. (2025). An Adapted Friendship Bench Counseling Intervention (FB) to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Outcomes Among People Living with HIV (PWH) Who Inject Drugs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Results from the VITAL Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior. 29(6). 1761–1774.

Simms, Victoria, Melanie Abas, Webster Mavhu, et al.. (2025). A cluster-randomized trial of interventions for adolescent mental disorders in Zimbabwe. BMC Psychiatry. 25(1). 673–673. 1 indexed citations

Velloza, Jennifer, Tessa Concepcion, Ruth Verhey, et al.. (2024). Integrating a mental health intervention into PrEP services for South African young women: a human‐centred implementation research approach to intervention development. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 27(S1). e26274–e26274. 3 indexed citations

Jack, Helen E., Ali Giusto, Alexandra L. Rose, et al.. (2024). Mutual capacity building model for adaptation (MCB-MA): a seven-step procedure for bidirectional learning and support during intervention adaptation. Global Health Research and Policy. 9(1). 25–25.

Verhey, Ruth, et al.. (2023). Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Optimize Implementation Strategies for the Friendship Bench Psychological Intervention in Zimbabwe. 3(3). 245–258. 3 indexed citations

Dambi, Jermaine M., Webster Mavhu, Rosemary Musesengwa, et al.. (2023). The impact of working alliance in managing youth anxiety and depression: a scoping review. PubMed. 2(1). 1–1. 8 indexed citations

Bengtson, Angela M., Michael Udedi, Kazione Kulisewa, et al.. (2023). An Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Among Perinatal Women in Malawi: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior. 27(11). 3559–3570. 8 indexed citations

Simms, Victoria, Sarah Bernays, Dixon Chibanda, et al.. (2021). Risk factors for HIV virological non‐suppression among adolescents with common mental disorder symptoms in Zimbabwe: a cross‐sectional study. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 24(8). e25773–e25773. 13 indexed citations

Haas, Andreas D., Stefanie Hossmann, Ruth Verhey, et al.. (2021). Symptoms of common mental disorders and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among adults living with HIV in rural Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 11(7). e049824–e049824. 5 indexed citations

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Seward, Nadine, Jamie Murdoch, Charlotte Hanlon, et al.. (2021). Implementation science protocol for a participatory, theory-informed implementation research programme in the context of health system strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET-ImplementER). BMJ Open. 11(7). e048742–e048742. 8 indexed citations

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Dambi, Jermaine M., et al.. (2021). Using a theory of change to develop an integrated intervention for depression, diabetes and hypertension in Zimbabwe: lessons from the Friendship Bench project. BMC Health Services Research. 21(1). 928–928. 11 indexed citations

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Willis, Nicola, et al.. (2021). It helps to talk: A guiding framework (TRUST) for peer support in delivering mental health care for adolescents living with HIV. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0248018–e0248018. 39 indexed citations

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Simms, Victoria, Ruth Verhey, Owen Mugurungi, et al.. (2020). Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe: protocol of a cluster-randomised trial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. e23–e23. 15 indexed citations

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Stockton, Melissa A., Michael Udedi, Kazione Kulisewa, et al.. (2020). The impact of an integrated depression and HIV treatment program on mental health and HIV care outcomes among people newly initiating antiretroviral therapy in Malawi. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0231872–e0231872. 43 indexed citations

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Mangezi, Walter, et al.. (2019). Depression among HIV positive pregnant women in Zimbabwe: a primary health care based cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 19(1). 53–53. 33 indexed citations

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Simms, Victoria, Helen A. Weiss, Ruth Verhey, et al.. (2018). Trained lay health workers reduce common mental disorder symptoms of adults with suicidal ideation in Zimbabwe: a cohort study. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 227–227. 26 indexed citations

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Chibanda, Dixon, Ruth Verhey, Lorna J. Gibson, et al.. (2016). Validation of screening tools for depression and anxiety disorders in a primary care population with high HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe. Journal of Affective Disorders. 198. 50–55. 124 indexed citations

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Chibanda, Dixon, et al.. (2016). Using a theory driven approach to develop and evaluate a complex mental health intervention: the friendship bench project in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 10(1). 16–16. 41 indexed citations

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Chibanda, Dixon, Frances M. Cowan, Ruth Verhey, et al.. (2016). Lay Health Workers’ Experience of Delivering a Problem Solving Therapy Intervention for Common Mental Disorders Among People Living with HIV: A Qualitative Study from Zimbabwe. Community Mental Health Journal. 53(2). 143–153. 42 indexed citations

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Chibanda, Dixon, Ruth Verhey, Simbarashe Rusakaniko, et al.. (2015). The Friendship Bench programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders delivered by lay health workers in Zimbabwe. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 9(1). 21–21. 100 indexed citations

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