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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Published in:	Community Mental Health Journal Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 336 - 342
Main Authors:	Petersen, I., Bhana, A., Baillie, K.
Format:	Report
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2012
Subjects:	South Africa 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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