Building resilient families: Developing family interventions for preventing adolescent depression and HIV in low resource settings.

ABSTRACT: Depression contributes significantly to the global burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. In South Africa, individuals may be at elevated risk for depression due to HIV and AIDS, violence, and poverty. For adolescents, resilience-focused prevention strategies have the potential to reduce onset of depression. Involving families in promoting adolescent mental health is developmentally appropriate, but few existing interventions take a family approach to prevention of adolescent depression. We conducted a qualitative investigation from 2013-2015 to inform the development of a family intervention to prevent adolescent depression in South Africa among families infected or at risk for HIV. Using focus groups with adolescents and parents (eight groups, n = 57), and interviews (n =

SUBMITTER: Kuo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391217 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature