1. Sharma V.K, Lepping P, Cummins AGP, Copeland JRM, Parhee R, Mottram P. The Global Mental Health Assessment Tool- Primary Care Version (GMHAT/PC). Development, reliability and validity. World psychiatry (2004) 3(2) 115-19.

2. Vimal K Sharma, Peter Lepping, Murali Krishna, Shazia Durrani, John R. M. Copeland, Patricia Mottram, RashmiParhee, Bennett Quinn, Steven Lane and Anthony Cummins. Mental health diagnosis by nurses using the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool: a validity and feasibility study. British Journal of General Practice, (2008) 58 (551), 411-416,

3. Vimal Kumar Sharma and John RM Copeland. Detecting mental disorders in primary care. Mental Health in Family Medicine (2009) 6:11-13

4. Murali Krishna , Peter Lepping, Vimal K Sharma, John RM Copeland, Lorraine Lockwood and Margaret Williams. Epidemiological and clinical use of GMHAT-PC (Global Mental Health assessment tool- primary care )in cardiac patients. Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health (2009) 13;5:7

5. Sharma VK, Jagawat S, Midha A, Jain A, Tambi A, Mangwani LK, Sharma B, Dubey P, Satija V, Copeland JRM, Lepping P, Lane S, Krishna M, Pangaria A. The global mental health assessment tool-validation of GMHAT/PC in Hindi: A validity and feasibility study. Indian Journal of Psychiatry 2010; 52(4): 316-19.

6. Vimal K Sharma, Murali Krishna, Peter Lepping, Vikram Palanisamy, Sen V Kallumpuram, Patricia Mottram, Steven Lane, Keneth Wilson and John R. M. Copeland Validation and feasibility of Global Mental Health Assessment Tool – Primary care version (GMHAT/PC) in the elderly population. Age Aging 2010; 39(4):496-9

7. Sharma BB, Singh S, Sharma VK, Choudhary M, Singh V, Lane S, Lepping P, Krishna M, Copeland J. Psychiatric morbidity in chronic respiratory disorders in an Indian service using GMHAT/PC. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2013 Jan;35(1):39-44.

8. V.K. Sharma, S. Durrani, M. Sawa, J.R.M. Copeland, M.T. Abou-Saleh, S. Lane and P. Lepping  Arabic version of the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool—Primary Care version (GMHAT/PC): a validity and feasibility study. 2013; 19 (11)

9. Vimal K Sharma, Murali Krishna, Peter Lepping, Vikram Palanisamy, Sen V Kallumpuram, Patricia Mottram, StevenLane, Keneth Wilson and John R. M. Copeland Validation and feasibility of Global Mental Health Assessment Tool – Primary care version (GMHAT/PC) in the elderly population. Age Aging 2010; 39(4):496-9

10. Tendolkar VD, Behere PB, Sharma VK, Abhay Gaidhane, Quazi S Zahir. Diagnostic Accuracy of GMHAT-PC Marathi: A Cross Sectional Study in Rural Maharashtra. JOJ Nurse Health Care. 2018; 6(1): 555679. DOI: 10.19080/JOJNHC.2018.06.555679.

11. Paola Tejadaa, Luís Eduardo Jaramillob, JeffersonGarcíab, Vimal Sharma The Global Mental Health Assessment Tool Primary Care and General Health Setting Version (GMHAT/PC) – Spanish version: A validity and feasibility study Eur. J. Psychiat. 2016. Vol. 30 (3): 195-204

12. Paola Tejada, Gilberto J. Polo, Luís Eduardo Jaramillo & Vimal Kumar Sharma (2017) Psychiatric morbidity in medically ill patients by means of the Spanish version of the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool - Primary Care (GMHAT/PC), International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 10:1, 82-89, DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2016.1264001

13. Dhami, Shankar & Thapa, Poshan & Bhatt, Laxman. (2019). Validation of Global Mental Health Assessment Tool in Western Development Region, Nepal: A Cross Sectional Study Background. 10.13140/RG.2.2.22431.20642.

14. The Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT) pilot evaluation: Final report Research report 108 Carrie Hough, Emily O’Neill, Florence Dyer, Katharine Beaney (Migration and Border Analysis, Home Office Analysis and Insight), Alison Crawshaw (Public Health England) April 2019
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cacbb5bed915d3a839e1e6d/global-mental-health-assessment-tool-pilot-evaluation-horr108.pdf

15. Majgi SM, Mal NM, Krishna M, Suresh H, Ebuenyi ID, Jones S. Screening for mental illness using GMHAT App of patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus at a teaching institute hospital in India - A cross sectional study. J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Oct;11(10):5924-5929. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_277_22. Epub 2022 Oct 31. PMID: 36618250; PMCID: PMC9810936.

16. Kasturkar P, Sebastian ST, Gawai J, Dukare KP, Uke T, Wanjari MB. Assessing the Efficacy of Mental Health Assessment Training for Accredited Social Health Activists Workers in Rural India: A Pilot Study. Cureus. 2023 Apr 19;15(4):e37855. doi: 10.7759/cureus.37855. PMID: 37213998; PMCID: PMC10199160.

17. Zhang H, Yu D, Wang Z, Shi J, Qian J. What Impedes General Practitioners' Identification of Mental Disorders at Outpatient Departments? A Qualitative Study in Shanghai, China. Ann Glob Health. 2019 Nov 11;85(1):134. doi: 10.5334/aogh.2628. PMID: 31799127; PMCID: PMC6857524.

18. Ture P, Dambhare DG, Mundra A, Raut AV, Maliye CH, Deshmukh PR, Gupta SS, Bharambe MS, Garg BS. Magnitude and determinants of psychological morbidities among pregnant women: Results from a pregnancy cohort in rural Central India. Med J Armed Forces India. 2024 Mar-Apr;80(2):210-216. doi: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2022.05.008. Epub 2022 Jul 11. PMID: 38525463; PMCID: PMC10954507.

19. S.D. Gupta, Vimal Sharma, Nutan Prabha Jain, Vidya Bhushan Tripathi, Chhabil Kumar, & Matadin Sharma. (2026, March 31). An Implementation Research for Mental Health Care Delivery in the Rural Areas Using the Digital Technology Tool GMHAT.

20. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09720634261424998
Stephanas, L., October, J., & Sertimer, S. (2025). Screening for Mental Disorders Using GMHAT-PC Among Chronic Disease Patients at a Primary Health Center in Guyana. Journal of Nursing Practices and Research (JNPR), 5(2).