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Carina Akemi Nakamura, PhD

Research Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine

Carina Akemi Nakamura, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

She holds a BSc and an MSc in Pharmacy from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and a PhD from the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK. Carina was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she worked as a research coordinator of randomized controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of task-shared and digital psychosocial interventions for depression among older adults in socioeconomically deprived areas. She has also served as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, and at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, UK. Additionally, Carina is a Lown Scholar in the Cardiovascular Health Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Item Pairing Predictiveness for Prescreening Depressive Symptomatology: Machine Learning Analysis.
Authors: Authors: Glavin D, Grua EM, Nakamura CA, Scazufca M, Ribeiro Dos Santos E, Wong GHY, Hollingworth W, Peters TJ, Araya R, Van de Ven P.
JMIR Ment Health
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Use of WhatsApp by older adults screened for depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, São Paulo State, Brazil: challenges and possibilities for telehealth.
Authors: Authors: Moretti FA, Scazufca M, Nakamura CA, Souza CHQ, Seward N, Araya R, Moreno-Agostino D.
Cad Saude Publica
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A task-shared, collaborative care psychosocial intervention for improving depressive symptomatology among older adults in a socioeconomically deprived area of Brazil (PROACTIVE): a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel-group, cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Scazufca M, Nakamura CA, Seward N, Moreno-Agostino D, van de Ven P, Hollingworth W, Peters TJ, Araya R.
Lancet Healthy Longev
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Digital psychosocial intervention for depression among older adults in socioeconomically deprived areas in Brazil (PRODIGITAL-D): protocol for an individually randomised controlled trial.
Authors: Authors: Nakamura CA, Scazufca M, Moretti FA, Didone TVN, de Sá Martins MM, Pereira LA, de Souza CHQ, de Oliveira GM, da Costa MO, Machado M, da Silva Bitencourt E, Dos Santos MS, Murdoch J, van de Ven P, Seward N, Hollingworth W, Peters TJ, Araya R.
Trials
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A Validation Study of the EQ-5D-5L and ICEpop Capability Measure for Older People Among Older Individuals With Depressive Symptoms in Brazil.
Authors: Authors: Nakamura CA, Mitchell PM, Peters TJ, Moreno-Agostino D, Araya R, Scazufca M, Hollingworth W.
Value Health Reg Issues
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Depressive and subthreshold depressive symptomatology among older adults in a socioeconomically deprived area in Brazil.
Authors: Authors: Nakamura CA, Scazufca M, Peters TJ, Fajersztajn L, Van de Ven P, Hollingworth W, Araya R, Moreno-Agostino D.
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry
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Acceptability and fidelity of a psychosocial intervention (PROACTIVE) for older adults with depression in a basic health unit in São Paulo, Brazil: a qualitative study.
Authors: Authors: Henrique MG, de Paula Couto MCP, Araya R, Mendes AV, Nakamura CA, Hollingworth W, van de Ven P, Peters TJ, Scazufca M.
BMC Public Health
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Watching TV and Cognition: The SPAH 2-Year Cohort Study of Older Adults Living in Low-Income Communities.
Authors: Authors: Fajersztajn L, Di Rienzo V, Nakamura CA, Scazufca M.
Front Neurol
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Correction to: A collaborative care psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, Brazil: the PROACTIVE cluster randomised controlled trial protocol.
Authors: Authors: Scazufca M, Nakamura CA, Peters TJ, Henrique MG, Seabra A, La Rotta EG, Franzin RM, Martins DF, Van de Ven P, Hollingworth W, Araya R.
Trials
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A collaborative care psychosocial intervention to improve late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Guarulhos, Brazil: the PROACTIVE cluster randomised controlled trial protocol.
Authors: Authors: Scazufca M, Nakamura CA, Peters TJ, Henrique MG, Seabra A, La Rotta EG, Franzin RM, Martins DF, Van de Ven P, Hollingworth W, Araya R.
Trials
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