Trial reportCommunity mental health journal2021
Task Sharing or Task Dumping: Counsellors Experiences of Delivering a Psychosocial Intervention for Mental Health Problems in South Africa.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Economic evaluation of psychological treatments for common mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Health policy and planning · 2023Pooled it
- Siyakhana: A hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation stepped-wedge trial to reduce stigma towards substance use and depression among community health workers in HIV/TB care in South Africa.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
- Exploring Organizational Barriers and Facilitators to a New Bachelor's-Level Behavioral Health Role.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2026Article
- Providers' Experiences in Implementation of Friendship Bench: A Problem-Solving Therapy-Based Mental Health Intervention Adapted for People on Methadone Maintenance Treatment Who Live with HIV in Vietnam.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Counselling within South Africa's public health system: Mental healthcare users' experiences.Journal of public health in Africa · 2026Article
- Delivering low-intensity psychological interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis of lay health workers' experiences.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Exploring patient perspectives on a new task-shared behavioral health role in Washington State.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Augmented Reality-Assisted Training Tool for Mental Health Task-Sharers: Pilot Mixed Methods Usability Study.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 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
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- Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Mental Health Task Sharing Among Older Chinese Adults: A Qualitative Study.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Article
- Identifying Priorities for Enhancing Village Health Volunteer's Mental Health Recovery Practices in Thai Rural Communities: A Nominal Group Technique Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
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- Incidence and prognostic factors of self-harm and subsequent unnatural death in South Africa: A cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- An integrated support model for lay health care workers to improve clients' retention in HIV care.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025Article
- A stakeholder-driven approach to designing a peer recovery coach role for implementation in community-oriented primary care teams in South Africa.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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- 'The community lives on sleeping medication and antidepressant[s]….': Health care workers' experiences of mental health service provision in rural South Africa.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- A stakeholder-driven approach to designing a peer recovery coach role for implementation in community-oriented primary care teams in South Africa.Research square · 2024Article
- Friendship Bench Intervention to Address Depression and Improve HIV Care Engagement Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Malawi: Study Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Given task-sharing mental health counselling to non-specialist providers is a recognised strategy to increase service capacity, ensuring that their training, supervision, and support needs are met is necessary to facilitate the sustainable delivery of a high-quality service. Using in-depth interviews, we qualitatively explored the experiences of 18 facility-based counsellors (FBCs) tasked with delivering a counselling intervention within chronic disease services offered within primary care facilities participating in the project MIND cluster randomised controlled trial. Findings show that project MIND training with a strong emphasis on role playing and skills rehearsal improved FBCs' confidence and competence, complemented by highly structured supervision and debriefing provided by a registered counsellor, were key strategies for supporting the implementation of task-shared mental health counselling. FBCs perceived many benefits to providing mental health counselling in primary healthcare but systemic interventions are needed for sustained implementation.
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