The Feasibility of Adapted Group-Based Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) for the Treatment of Depression by Community Health Workers Within the Context of Task Shifting in South Africa.

Within the context of a large treatment gap for depression and a scarcity of specialist resources, there is a need for task shifting to scale up mental health services to address this gap in South Africa. This study assessed the feasibility of an adapted manualized version of grouped based Interpers...

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Publicado en:Community Mental Health Journal Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 336 - 342
Autores principales: Petersen, I., Bhana, A., Baillie, K.
Formato: Report
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2012
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        Mental depression
        Therapeutics
        Group psychotherapy
        Evaluation of medical care
        Task performance
        Community health workers
        Probability theory
        Research funding
        Pilot projects
        Thematic analysis
        Descriptive statistics
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