Implementation and Scale-Up of Integrated Depression Care in South Africa: An Observational Implementation Research Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with chronic general medical conditions who have comorbid depression experience poorer health outcomes. This problem has received scant attention in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of the ongoing study reported here is to refine and promote the scale-up of an evidence-based task-sharing collaborative care model, the Mental Health Integration (MhINT) program, to treat patients with comorbid depression and chronic disease in primary health care settings in South Africa.

Methods

Adopting a learning-health-systems approach, this study uses an onsite, iterative observational implementation science design. Stage 1 comprises assessment of the original MhINT model under real-world conditions in an urban subdistrict in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to infor

SUBMITTER: Petersen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8410621 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature