Is Research on Mental Health Relevant to Culture and Context?

Copyright: © 2014 Kalyva E. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Everybody agrees that mental health constitutes an important parameter of well-being and that it should be researched worldwide. In fact, there has been an attempt in the past decades to conduct more studies in non-western populations and in countries other than the USA and the UK that represent the greatest percentage of published papers. This is a welcoming change, since it has been widely acknowledged that mental health is perceived and treated differently in various contexts both across and within countries. Any successful intervention or prevention mental health programs should take these variations into consideration.