Integrating a brief mental health intervention into primary care services for patients with HIV and diabetes in South Africa: study protocol for a trial-based economic evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Depression and alcohol use disorders are international public health priorities for which there is a substantial treatment gap. Brief mental health interventions delivered by lay health workers in primary care services may reduce this gap. There is limited economic evidence assessing the cost-effectiveness of such interventions in low-income and middle-income countries. This paper describes the proposed economic evaluation of a health systems intervention testing the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of two task-sharing approaches to integrating services for common mental disorders with HIV and diabetes primary care services.

Methods and analysis

This evaluation will be conducted as part of a three-armed cluster randomised controlled trial of cl

SUBMITTER: Mutyambizi-Mafunda V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530312 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature