The effect of co-morbid anxiety on remission from depression for people participating in a randomised controlled trial of the Friendship Bench intervention in Zimbabwe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of data from low- and middle-income countries on whether anxiety independently predicts a more chronic course for depression.

Methods

We undertook secondary data analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial in Zimbabwe which had tested the effectiveness of the Friendship Bench intervention for common mental disorders compared to enhanced usual care. Inclusion for the current study was participants from the trial who had probable major depression at baseline, defined as scoring => 11 on the locally validated Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9). This emerged to be 354 of the original 573 (61.78%) of the original trial sample. Anxiety was measured using the locally validated cut-point on the Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7). Persistent

SUBMITTER: Abas MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329733 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature