Participatory development of a home-based depression care model with lived experience older Nigerians and their caregivers: A theory of change.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is a huge treatment gap for late-life depression in sub-Saharan Africa. Building on prior work to scale-up mental healthcare with the aid of the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide electronic version (emhGAP-IG), this study aims to involve older people in the iterative development of innovations to overcome challenges in the detection and clinical management of late-life depression by frontline non-specialist primary healthcare workers (PHCW) in Nigeria.

Methods

There were 43 participants in the study. We conducted formative qualitative research using 15 in-depth key informant interviews with persons who were 60 years or older and had a recent experience of depression. We also conducted two focus group discussions comprising 13 of their

SUBMITTER: Ojagbemi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7615294 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature