Participants' perspectives of weekly telephonic mood monitoring in South Africa: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mood and anxiety disorders have a high lifetime prevalence, and their chronicity adds to the management burden of already scarce and strained mental health care resources, particularly in developing countries. Non-professional-assisted interventions and technology (such as weekly telephonic mood monitoring) could assist in the early identification of symptoms of relapse and hospitalization prevention. The present study aimed to determine participants' perspectives and the feasibility of weekly telephonic mood monitoring in order to inform the development of the full study.

Method

Semi-structured telephonic interviews (n = 37; 89.2% female; mean age = 33.1 years) were conducted as part of the full-scale feasibility study (N = 61; named the Bipolar Dis

SUBMITTER: Van der Watt ASJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5824463 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature