Feasibility and acceptability of a contextualized brief psychological intervention for people with bipolar disorder in rural Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a very large unmet need for appropriate psychological interventions for bipolar disorder (BD) for use in low- and middle-income countries. We developed a psychological intervention for BD in a primary health care (PHC) setting in Ethiopia using the Medical Research Council's framework for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity of this newly developed psychological intervention for BD in a PHC setting in south-central Ethiopia.

Method

A total of 12 euthymic people with bipolar disorder and five caregivers participated in five 20-min weekly sessions of the psychological intervention. We conducted a mixed-method evaluation, including in-depth qualitative in

SUBMITTER: Demissie M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273223 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature