A process evaluation exploring the lay counsellor experience of delivering a task shared psycho-social intervention for perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Munodawafa, Memory ^a   Lund, Crick ^a,b   Schneider, Marguerite ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers; Community health worker; Facilitators; Perinatal depression; Process evaluation; Task sharing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; COUNSELOR; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERINATAL DEPRESSION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TASK PERFORMANCE; DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COUNSELING; COUNSELORS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOCIAL WORK; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85021679087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-017-1397-9     Document Type: Article

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