ReviewHarvard review of psychiatry
Digital Technology for Building Capacity of Nonspecialist Health Workers for Task Sharing and Scaling Up Mental Health Care Globally.
Review in Harvard review of psychiatry. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06017414 (Systemic Psychotherapy-informed Self-help and Paraprofessional Training in a Naturalistic Setting), which is not on this map. Cited by 78 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Systemic Psychotherapy-informed Self-help and Paraprofessional Training in a Naturalistic Setting
Who cites it
78 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of User Self-Led and Human-Supported Digital Health Interventions for People With Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- The effectiveness of mental health interventions involving non-specialists and digital technology in low-and middle-income countries - a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Digital tools for direct assessment of autism risk during early childhood: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Pooled it
- Feasibility of mHealth interventions for depressive symptoms in Latin America: a systematic review.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Digital Training for Non-Specialist Health Workers to Deliver a Brief Psychological Treatment for Depression in Primary Care in India: Findings from a Randomized Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- The CARE implementation study: scaling group-based psychoeducational trauma therapy across healthcare organizations in Canada.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Evaluating the costs of developing a digital supervision tool for task-shared depression care: findings from a multi-site study in India.BJPsych open · 2026Article
- From Solution Traps to Solution Patchwork: Easing Tensions in Designing Digital Health in the Global Context.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of WHO mhGAP-IG in identification and management of depression by primary level non-specialist health workers - protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial from India.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Early Deployment of an Integrated Digital Platform (shamiriOS) for Scalable Youth Mental Health Service Delivery in Kenya: Development and Usability Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
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- Co-designing eCap-CoDe: A mobile health application for primary health care-based dementia care in rural Uganda.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Understanding the Contours of a Successful Digitally Driven Capacity Building Program for Primary Care Doctors: A Mixed Method Study from a High-performing District of Southern India.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Article
- A Pan India Digitally Driven Capacity Building Program to Strengthen Primary Mental Healthcare: Summary of Its Implementation and Performance Evaluation.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring the Interpretive Clarity of the TCCNI-RePract and Identifying Conceptual Barriers Encountered by Japanese Psychiatric Nurses: A Concurrent Mixed-Methods Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Feasibility, usability, and acceptability of the asynchronous trauma-focused CARE training program for healthcare providers: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- A Survey of Health Workers in Ghana and Nigeria on the Potential Burden and Local Assessment of Executive Dysfunction Among Children.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2026Article
- Use of digital health in task-sharing for prevention and management of non-communicable diseases in Africa: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Global, regional, and national burden of schizophrenia: epidemiological trends, decomposition, joinpoint analysis, and projections to 2036 based on GBD 2021.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Barriers and facilitators to tele-support psychotherapy versus standard in-person mental health services for youth (15-30 Years) with depression in Kampala District, Uganda.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Workforce shortages pose major obstacles to delivering adequate mental health care and scaling up services to address the global treatment gap. Mounting evidence demonstrates the clinical effectiveness of having nonspecialist health workers, such as community health workers, lay health workers, midwives, or nurses, deliver brief psychosocial treatments for common mental disorders in primary care settings. With rapidly increasing access to, and use of, digital technology worldwide, new opportunities are available to leverage these emerging digital technologies to support nonspecialist health workers and increase mental health workforce capacity. This Perspectives article considers the potential that digital technology holds for supporting nonspecialist health workers in delivering evidence-based mental health care. Specifically, from our search of the academic literature, we identified seven promising examples from primary care settings in different low- and middle-income countries (India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Peru, China, and Nigeria) where digital platforms are being used to support delivery of mental health care from a variety of nonspecialist providers by offering training, providing digital tools for diagnosis, guiding treatment, facilitating supervision, and integrating services. We summarize these examples and discuss future opportunities to use digital technology for supporting the development of a trained, effective, and sustainable mental health workforce. We also consider the potential to leverage these technologies for integrating mental health care into existing health systems in low-resource settings.
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