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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ugne Grigaite

Citation names

  • Grigaite, Ugne

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CE1F-CB48-426A
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0767-9071

Email addresses

  • ugne.grigaite@nms.unl.pt (Professional)
  • grigaiteu@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Lithuanian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Russian Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/10 - 2025/03/18
Concluded
 PhD Programme in Global Public Health (Doutoramento)
Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Medical School, Portugal
"Responses to the Mental Health Care Needs of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence by Mental Health Services in Portugal and Lithuania" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Distinction
2017
Concluded
 Políticas e Serviços de Saúde Mental (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Medical School, Portugal
"Human Rights Conditions and Quality of Care in ‘Independent Living Homes’ for Adults, who have Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities, in Vilnius: Analysis of Good Practice Examples, Systemic Challenges and Recommendations for the Future" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19/20
2005/10 - 2008/07
Concluded
 BA(Hons) in Social Work (Bachelor)
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
 First Class Honours
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/10 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Comprehensive Health Research Centre, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020 - Current PhD Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/10/15 - 2024/10/14 Global Public Mental Health and Human Rights
UI/BD/151073/2021
10.54499/UI/BD/151073/2021
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Medical School, Portugal

Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Egle Sumskiene; Ugne Grigaite; Karile Levickaite; Jurga Mataityte-Diržiene; Jurate Charenkova; Karina Kamandulyte. Protection of Human Rights in Mental Healthcare Facilities. Lithuania: Vilnius University Press. 2025.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Grigaite, Ugne; Aginskaite, Simona; Pedrosa, Bárbara; Oyine Aluh, Deborah; Santos-Dias, Margarida; Silva, Manuela; Cardoso, Graça; Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida, José. "Experiences of women with disabilities in Lithuania when their gender, disability, domestic violence, and mental health services intertwine". Disability and Health Journal (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101837.
    In press • 10.1016/j.dhjo.2025.101837
  2. Grigaite, Ugne; Baltrušyte, Gabriele Marija; Sipko, Kotryna. "Access to Justice for Children with Disabilities who are Victims of Crime in Lithuania: A Qualitative Study". The International Journal of Children’s Rights 33 1 (2025): 107-135. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-33010005.
    Published • 10.1163/15718182-33010005
  3. Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Santos-Dias; Bárbara Pedrosa; Deborah Oyine Aluh; Manuela Silva; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Responses to the mental health care needs of survivors of intimate partner violence in Portugal: Perspectives of survivors and mental health professionals". Journal of Mental Health (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2478375.
    Published • 10.1080/09638237.2025.2478375
  4. Bárbara Pedrosa; Graça Cardoso; Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira; Ugne Grigaite; Deborah Aluh; Margarida Dias; Manuela Silva; José Caldas-de-Almeida. "Experiences and expectations of residents and professionals of supported accommodations for people with serious mental disorders in Portugal". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02818-2.
    10.1007/s00127-025-02818-2
  5. Grigaite, Ugne; Levickaite, Karile; Juodkaite, Dovile; Goštautaite-Midttun, Nijole. "Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments". International Journal for Quality in Health Care 37 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzae118.
    10.1093/intqhc/mzae118
  6. Bárbara Pedrosa; Graça Cardoso; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira; Deborah Aluh; Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Dias; Manuela Silva; José Caldas-de-Almeida. "Supported accommodations for people with serious mental disorders: Care pathways and predictors of age of entry and length of stay". International Journal of Social Psychiatry (2024): https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640241261171.
    10.1177/00207640241261171
  7. Deborah Aluh; Diego Diaz-Milanes; Barbara Pedrosa; Manuela Silva; Ugne Grigaite; Carolina Rocha Almeida; Maria Ferreira de Almeida Mousinho; et al. "Coercion in psychiatry: psychometric validation of the Portuguese Staff Attitudes to Coercion Scale (SACS)". Discover Mental Health (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44192-024-00083-4.
    10.1007/s44192-024-00083-4
  8. Ugne Grigaite; Greta Klidziute; Deborah Oyine Aluh; Bárbara Pedrosa; Margarida Santos-Dias; Manuela Silva; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Responding to the needs of survivors of intimate partner violence in Lithuania: perceptions of mental health and social care professionals". Women & Health (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2024.2382419.
    10.1080/03630242.2024.2382419
  9. Bárbara Pedrosa; Graça Cardoso; Sofia Mucharreira de Azeredo Lopes; M. Gonçalves-Pereira; Deborah Oyine Aluh; Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Santos-Dias; Manuela Silva; José Caldas-de-Almeida. "Supported Accommodations for People with Serious Mental Disorders: Staff’s Assessment of Work Challenges and Their Impact during COVID-19". Portuguese Journal of Public Health (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000539431.
    10.1159/000539431
  10. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Diego Diaz-Milanes; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Sofia Barbosa; Margarida Santos-Dias; Manuela Silva; Ugne Grigaite; et al. "Coercion in Psychiatry: Exploring the Subjective Experience of Coercion Among Patients in Five Portuguese Psychiatric Departments". The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-024-09890-7.
    10.1007/s11414-024-09890-7
  11. Ugne Grigaite; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Graça Cardoso; Bárbara Pedrosa; Deborah Oyine Aluh; Margarida Santos-Dias; Manuela Silva; Miguel Xavier; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Mental Health Conditions and Utilisation of Mental Health Services by Survivors of Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Portugal: Results from the WHO World Mental Health Survey". Psychiatry Research (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115801.
    10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115801
  12. Ugne Grigaite; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Egle Zeime; Paulius Yamin Slotkus; Maxi Heitmayer; Deborah Oyine Aluh; Bárbara Pedrosa; et al. "Prevalence and acceptability of psychological and/or economic intimate partner violence, and utilization of mental health services by its survivors in Lithuania". Journal of Public Health (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae015.
    10.1093/pubmed/fdae015
  13. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Barbara Pedrosa; Manuela Silva; Ugne Grigaite; Ana Rita Martins; Maria Ferreira de Almeida Mousinho; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Revisiting the psychometric properties of the McArthur admission experience survey: Validating the Portuguese version using a bifactor approach". Heliyon (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24114.
    10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24114
  14. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Margarida Santos-Dias; Manuela Silva; Barbara Pedrosa; Ugne Grigaite; Ricardo Caetano Silva; Maria Ferreira de Almeida Mousinho; et al. "Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care". International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 90 (2023): 101918-101918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101918.
    10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101918
  15. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Osaro Aigbogun; Blessing Onyinye Ukoha-Kalu; Manuela Silva; Ugne Grigaite; Barbara Pedrosa; Margarida Santos-Dias; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Beyond Patient Characteristics: A Narrative Review of Contextual Factors Influencing Involuntary Admissions in Mental Health Care". Healthcare (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11141986.
    10.3390/healthcare11141986
  16. Bárbara Pedrosa; Graça Cardoso; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Deborah Aluh; Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Dias; Manuela Silva; José Caldas de Almeida. "Experiences of care perceived by users of supported accommodations for people with serious mental disorders: Can they impact quality of life?". International Journal of Social Psychiatry (2023): https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640221127928.
    10.1177/00207640221127928
  17. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Olaniyi Ayilara; Justus Uchenna Onu; Barbara Pedrosa; Manuela Silva; Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Santos-Dias; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Use of coercion in mental healthcare services in Nigeria: Service providers’ perspective". Journal of Mental Health (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2023.2182426.
    10.1080/09638237.2023.2182426
  18. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Justus Uchenna Onu; Olaniyi Ayilara; Barbara Pedrosa; Manuela Silva; Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Dias; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "A qualitative integrative analysis of service users’ and service providers’ perspectives on ways to reduce coercion in mental health care". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00127-023-02435-x.
    10.1007/s00127-023-02435-x
  19. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Olaniyi Ayilara; Justus Uchenna Onu; Ugne Grigaite; Barbara Pedrosa; Margarida Santos-Dias; Graça Cardoso; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Experiences and perceptions of coercive practices in mental health care among service users in Nigeria: a qualitative study". International Journal of Mental Health Systems 16 1 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1186%2Fs13033-022-00565-4.
    10.1186/s13033-022-00565-4
  20. Deborah Oyine Aluh; Sofia Azeredo-Lopes; Graça Cardoso; Barbara Pedrosa; Ugne Grigaite; Margarida Dias; Miguel Xavier; José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida. "Social anxiety disorder and childhood adversities in Portugal: Findings from the WHO world mental health survey initiative". Psychiatry Research (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114734.
    10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114734
  21. Neringa Grigutyte; Karile Levickaite; Ugne Grigaite. "The Right to Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic". Psichologija 64 (2021): 38-52. https://doi.org/10.15388/Psichol.2021.39.
    10.15388/Psichol.2021.39
  22. Ugne Grigaite; Mazvydas Karalius; Margarita Jankauskaite. Corresponding author: Ugne Grigaite. "Between experience and social ‘norms’, identification and compliance: economic and sexual intimate partner violence against women in Lithuania". Journal of Gender-Based Violence 3 3 (2019): 303-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/239868019x15623411271876.
    10.1332/239868019x15623411271876
  23. Ugne Grigaite. "The Deinstitutionalization of Lithuanian Mental Health Services in Light of the Evidence-based Practice and Principles of Global Mental Health". Socialine teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika 15 (2017): 7-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/stepp.2017.15.10806.
    10.15388/stepp.2017.15.10806
  24. Egle Sumskiene; Margarita Jankauskaite; Ugne Grigaite. Corresponding author: Egle Sumskiene. "Intersection between a Social Gender and Disability: A Self-concept of Women with Disabilities in the Post-feminist Context". Considering Disability Journal (2016): https://cdjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/945.pdf.
    DOI: 10.17774/CDJ1.32016.1.20575874
Report
  1. Ugne Grigaite; Gabriele Marija Baltrušyte. 2024. National Briefing Paper: Linking Information for Adaptive and Accessible Child-Friendly Courts. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380825492_National_Briefing_Paper_Linking_Information_for_Adaptive_and_Accessible_Child-Friendly_Courts.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.26561.26729
  2. Ugne Grigaite; Gabriele Marija Baltrušyte. 2023. Institutional Responses to Gender-Based Violence against Women and Children with Disabilities in Lithuania: A National Research Report. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378498652_Institutional_Responses_to_Gender-Based_Violence_against_Women_and_Children_with_Disabilities_in_Lithuania_A_National_Research_Report.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.13418.53443
  3. Ugne Grigaite; Monika Guliakaite-Daniseviciene. 2023. Enhancing the Rights of Defendants and Detainees with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities: EU Cross-Border Transfers, Detention, and Alternatives (National Research Report: Lithuania). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375113076_Enhancing_the_Rights_of_Defendants_and_Detainees_with_Intellectual_andor_Psychosocial_Disabilities_EU_Cross-Border_Transfers_Detention_and_Alternatives_National_Research_Report_Lithuania.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.36627.59684
  4. Ugne Grigaite; Gabriele Marija Baltrušyte. 2023. Briefing Paper on Barriers Faced by Defendants with Intellectual and/or Psychosocial Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System in Lithuania. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375112879_Briefing_Paper_on_Barriers_Faced_by_Defendants_with_Intellectual_andor_Psychosocial_Disabilities_in_the_Criminal_Justice_System_in_Lithuania.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.16682.22720
  5. Ugne Grigaite; Erika Leonaite. 2022. Voices for Justice: Victims of Crime with Disabilities in Lithuania. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359817560_Voices_for_Justice_Victims_of_Crime_with_Disabilities_in_Lithuania.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.30545.85600
  6. 2018. Witchcraft Accusation and Persecution of Women in Nepal. http://vbplatforma.org/LT/biblioteka/524.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.20479.52647
  7. Ugne Grigaite. 2014. Access to Justice for Children with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities in Administrative, Civil and Criminal Law in Lithuania. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337705351_Access_to_Justice_for_Children_with_Psychosocial_or_Intellectual_Disabilities_in_Administrative_Civil_and_Criminal_Law_in_Lithuania.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.12090.91842
  8. 2014. Country Report on Lithuania for the Study on Member States Policies for Children with Disabilities. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2014/519201/IPOL_STU%282014%29519201_EN.pdf.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.33901.29928
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Responses to the Mental Health Care Needs of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence by Mental Health Services in Lithuania and Portugal". PhD, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Medical School, 2025. https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.11760.98563.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.11760.98563
  2. Grigaite, Ugne. "Human rights conditions and quality of care in ‘Independent Living Homes’ for adults, who have intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, in Vilnius : analysis of good practice examples, systemic challenges and recommendations for the future". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/26693.

Other

Other output
  1. Women with Disabilities and Reproductive Health: A Research Report. 2023. Ugne Grigaite; Simona Aginskaite. https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.33272.15364.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.33272.15364
  2. Help-Seeking Experiences of Women with Disabilities who have Experienced Domestic Violence: A Qualitative Research Study. 2023. Ugne Grigaite; Simona Aginskaite. https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.29916.71047.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.29916.71047
  3. The Intersection between Gender-Based Violence and the Provision of Mental Health and Social Care Services for Women with Disabilities in Lithuania: An Overview of the Situation and Recommendations for Systemic Changes. 2023. Ugne Grigaite; Greta Klidziute. https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.17124.08328.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.17124.08328
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/04 Poster Presentation: Use of Mental Health Services by Survivors of Psychological Intimate Partner Violence in Lithuania 15th Conference of the European Network for Mental Health Services Evaluation (ENMESH)
(Versailles, France)
2024/03/21 Domestic Violence against Women with Disabilities: A Brief Global Overview and Lived Experiences of Survivors Transforming Communities to Respond to Violence against Women with Disabilities
Centre for Equality Advancement
2023/10/05 Providing mental health and social care services to women with disabilities who have experienced domestic violence: Presentation of research findings Domestic Violence against Women and Children with Disabilities: Results from an International Research Study and Discussion about Inter-Sectoral Collaboration
Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2023/04/11 WHO QualityRights Initiative: A Case Example of Lithuania Lisbon International Learning Programme – Mental Health Policy and Services
Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11 Responses to Mental Health Care Needs of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence by Mental Health Services in Lithuania and Portugal CHRC 3rd Annual Summit
Comprehensive Health Research Centre (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/11 Intimate Partner Violence in Lithuania BehaviouralHack 2021 #ItsNotOK: Collaborative Solutions to Transform Social Norms around Intimate Partner Violence
Behavioural Lab LT in partnership with the Human Rights Monitoring Institute of Lithuania, and partner institutions (Lithuania)
2021/06 Witchcraft Accusation and Persecution of Women in Nepal Sorcery Accusation and Related Violence in Papua New Guinea: the Harm and the Healing
National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea and Australian National University (Papua New Guinea)
2021/05 Mental Health and Well-being: Human Rights-Based Approach and Psycho-Social Factors Culture, Cohesion and Social Impact
Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (Porto, Portugal)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press
2017 - 2020 Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022 - Current Global Public Mental Health MultiPod Mentoring Programme