Problem-solving therapy for depression and common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: Piloting a task-shifting primary mental health care intervention in a population with a high prevalence of people living with HIV

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chibanda, Dixon ^a   Mesu, Petra ^b   Kajawu, Lazarus ^a,b   Cowan, Frances ^a,c   Araya, Ricardo ^d   Abas, Melanie A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b Counselling Services Unit ^*  (Zimbabwe)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology (CAiTE)   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DEPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 80755126963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-828     Document Type: Article

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