Recruitment and Baseline Characteristics of Participants in the Social, Emotional, and Economic Empowerment Through Knowledge of Group Support Psychotherapy Study (SEEK-GSP): Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychosocial characteristics, including self-esteem, perceived social support, coping skills, stigma, discrimination, and poverty, are strongly correlated with depression symptoms. However, data on the extent of these correlations among persons living with HIV and the associations between psychosocial characteristics and HIV treatment outcomes are limited in sub-Saharan Africa.

Objective

This paper aims to describe the recruitment process and baseline characteristics associated with depression in a sample of HIV-positive people in a cluster randomized trial of group support psychotherapy (GSP) for depression delivered by trained lay health workers (LHWs).

Methods

Thirty eligible primary care health centers across three districts in Uganda were randomly allo

SUBMITTER: Nakimuli-Mpungu E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6682267 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature