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Petersen, Inge, Kemp, Christopher G., Rao, Deepa, Wagenaar, Bradley H., Sherr, Kenneth, Grant, Merridy, Bachmann, Max O. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1770-3506, Barnabas, Ruanne V., Mntambo, Ntokozo, Gigaba, Sithabisile, van Rensburg, Andre, Luvuno, Zamasomi, Amarreh, Ishmael, Fairall, Lara, Hongo, Nikiwe N. and Bhana, Arvin
(2021)
Implementation and scale-up of integrated depression care in South Africa: An observational implementation research protocol.
Psychiatric Services, 72 (9).
pp. 1065-1075.
ISSN 1075-2730
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Abstract
Background: People with chronic general medical conditions who have comorbid depression experience poorer health outcomes. This problem has received scant attention in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of the ongoing study reported here is to refine and promote the scale-up of an evidence-based task-sharing collaborative care model, the Mental Health Integration (MhINT) program, to treat patients with comorbid depression and chronic disease in primary health care settings in South Africa. Methods: Adopting a learning-health-systems approach, this study uses an onsite, iterative observational implementation science design. Stage 1 comprises assessment of the original MhINT model under real-world conditions in an urban subdistrict in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to inform refinement of the model and its implementation strategies. Stage 2 comprises assessment of the refined model across urban, semiurban, and rural contexts. In both stages, population-level effects are assessed by using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) evaluation framework with various sources of data, including secondary data collection and a patient cohort study (N=550). The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research is used to understand contextual determinants of implementation success involving quantitative and qualitative interviews (stage 1, N=78; stage 2, N=282). Results: The study results will help refine intervention components and implementation strategies to enable scale-up of the MhINT model for depression in South Africa. Next steps: Next steps include strengthening ongoing engagements with policy makers and managers, providing technical support for implementation, and building the capacity of policy makers and managers in implementation science to promote wider dissemination and sustainment of the intervention.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collaborative care,depression,implementation science,mental health,multi-morbidity,south africa,psychiatry and mental health,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2738 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Norwich Institute for Healthy Aging Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Apr 2021 23:48 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2023 02:57 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79852 |
| DOI: | 10.1176/appi.ps.202000014 |
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