ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2018
Translation, adaptation, and pilot of a guided self-help intervention to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.
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- Development of the South Sudan Mental Health Assessment Scale.Transcultural psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial.The Lancet. Global health · 2020Trial
- Forced migrant fathers' experiences of pregnancy and childbirth: a hermeneutic phenomenological study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Attempted suicide: lived experiences of refugees in Rhino Camp, West Nile, Uganda.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Mental health interventions for refugees in Africa: a scoping review of implementation and motivations.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Nonrandomized Open Trial of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Selective Preventive Mobile Health Intervention for Forcibly Displaced People.Mindfulness · 2025Article
- "My home is (now) at peace": Evaluating the relevance, acceptability and potential scalability of a guided self-help intervention for male refugees in Uganda.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
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- Social validity of acceptance-based workplace mental health training for use in a low resource setting. A qualitative study with Ugandan mental health providers.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
- Mental health and psychosocial support programmes for displaced populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A systematic review of process, perspectives and experiences.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Combining a guided self-help and brief alcohol intervention to improve mental health and reduce substance use among refugee men in Uganda: a cluster-randomized feasibility trial.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Stress Alleviation Methods for community-Based Health ActiVists (SAMBHAV): Development of a digital program for stress reduction for community health workers in rural India.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
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- Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry representative survey.BMJ mental health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn this period of unprecedented levels of displacement, scalable interventions are needed to address mental health concerns of forced migrants in low-resource settings. This paper describes the adaptation and piloting of a guided, multi-media, self-help intervention, Self-Help Plus (SH+), which was developed to reduce psychological distress in large groups of people affected by adversity.
methodsUsing a phased approach that included community consultations, cognitive interviewing, facilitator training, pilot implementation, and a qualitative process evaluation, we adapted SH+ for use among South Sudanese refugees in a refugee settlement in northern Uganda.
resultsThe SH+ materials, including audio-recorded sessions and an accompanying illustrated manual, were translated into Juba Arabic. Cognitive interviewing primarily resulted in adaptations to language with some minor adaptations to content. Facilitator training and supervision led to further suggested changes to delivery methods. An uncontrolled pilot study (
conclusionsWe found that this potentially scalable, guided self-help intervention could be adapted for and feasibly implemented among female South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda. These findings lay the groundwork for a future rigorous evaluation of SH+ in this context.
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