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OUR ANCHOR.

RESEARCH

“If we can't measure what we're doing then we really don't know if it's working."

Dixon Chibanda

2007-2021
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3 March 2021

Adolescents living with HIV have poor treatment outcomes, including lower rates of viral suppression, than other age groups. Emerging evidence suggests a connection between...

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December 2018

Background: Suicidal ideation may lead to deliberate self-harm which increases the risk of death by suicide. Globally, the main cause of deliberate self-harm is depression. 

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27 December 2016

Depression and anxiety are common mental disorders globally but are rarely recognized or treated in low-income settings. 

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11 May 2016

‘Opening up the mind’: PST delivered by female LHW to improve access to evidence-based care for depression and other common mental disorders through the Friendship Bench Project in Zimbabwe

The objective of this study was to develop an indigenous measure of common mental...

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23 May, 2015

In 2014 close to 10 million people living with HIV (PLWH) in sub-Saharan Africa were on highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). 

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13 November 2007

The objective of this study was to develop an indigenous measure of common mental disorders (CMD) in the Shona language in Zimbabwe. 

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22 April 2021

Adolescents and young people globally are highly vulnerable to poor mental health especially depression, and they account for 36% of new HIV infections in Eastern and Southern Africa...

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27 May 2020

Background: There is a dearth of validated tools measuring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low and middle-income countries in SSA....

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December 2018

Background: There is a dearth of validated tools measuring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in low and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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22 July 2016

Post‐traumatic stress disorder is pervasive in low‐ and middle‐income countries. There is evidence to suggest that post‐traumatic stress disorder

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01 July, 2016

We validated three screening tools: the Shona Symptom Questionnaire for common mental disorders (SSQ-14), the Patient Health Questionnaire for depression (PHQ-

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8 February 2021

There is growing evidence that lay health workers providing counselling is a feasible approach of addressing the universally large treatment gap for mental disorders

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10 June 2019

This study investigated the experience of lay health workers (LHWs) delivering problem-solving therapy (PST) for CMD....

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August 2017

Mental, neurological and substance use disorders (MNS) are a leading cause of disability in Africa. In response to the large treatment gap for MNS, a growing body of evidence-based treatments...

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29 February, 2016

There is a paucity of data on how to deliver complex interventions that seek to reduce the treatment gap for mental disorders, 

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07 March 2015

To assess the effectiveness of structured psychological interventions against common mental disorders (CMD) in people living...

2024

Published 18/01/24

Effect of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders on HIV viral suppression: A non-randomised controlled study of the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe

LINK: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001492

2023

Published 16/08/23

Applying the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Optimize Implementation Strategies for the Friendship Bench Psychological Intervention in Zimbabwe

LINK: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43477-023-00093-4

2022

Published 17/01/22 
HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (ASSET) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care: protocol for pre-implementation phase studies 
LINK: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16549716.2021.1987044

 

Published 18/03/22 

Barriers to the provision of non-communicable disease care in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study of primary health care nurses

LINK: https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-022-00841-1

 

Published 08/07/2022 
Adaptation of a Problem-solving Program (Friendship Bench) to Treat Common Mental Disorders Among People Living With HIV and AIDS and on Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Vietnam: Formative Study 
LINK: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35802402/

 

Published 08/2022 
A mixed-methods evaluation of Inuka, a Friendship Bench digital mental health intervention in the treatment of common mental health disorders in Zimbabwean adults in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a feasibility and acceptability pilot study.  
LINK: https://mental.jmir.org/2022/10/e37968  

 

Published 22/11/2022 
Using the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the implementation of scaling-up the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe – a quantitative observational study 
LINK: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08767-9  

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