ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2017
Reducing the treatment gap for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in Africa: lessons from the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe.
Article in Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06789523 (Friendship Bench for Women Who Use Methamphetamine in Vietnam), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Implementation outcomes of the waves for change community-based task-shared prevention intervention for adolescent mental health in South Africa.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Evaluating implementation research outcomes for a task-sharing mental health intervention: A systematic review of the Friendship Bench.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Review
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- Testing the Effectiveness of a Community-Based Peer Support Intervention to Mitigate Social Isolation and Stigma of Adolescent Motherhood in Zimbabwe.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
- Phone-based psychosocial counseling for people living with HIV: Feasibility, acceptability and impact on uptake of psychosocial counseling services in Malawi.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Access to psychosocial support for church-going young people recovering from drug and substance abuse in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Ten game-changers in mental health for South Africa.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2023Article
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Abstract
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 (EBTs) is emerging from Africa; however, there is a dearth of knowledge on how to scale up EBT. The Friendship Bench intervention is a brief psychological treatment delivered through the primary health care system in Zimbabwe by trained lay health workers. It has contributed significantly towards narrowing the treatment gap for common mental disorders in Zimbabwe where it has been scaled up to over 70 primary health care facilities. A three-pronged approach consisting of community engagement, use of EBTs and a government endorsed scale-up plan is described as part of the key strategy leading to the scale up of the Friendship Bench.
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