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The Friendship Bench Program: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Psychological Intervention for Common Mental Disorders Delivered by Lay Health Workers in Zimbabwe

A Lay Health Worker meeting her client. Children are always welcome as it is important that they experience their parents recovering from depression

A Lay Health Worker meeting her client. Children are always welcome as it is important that they experience their parents recovering from depression

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Start Date: 27/09/2012- End Date: 27/09/2015


Project Lead(s): Dixon Chibanda

The Friendship Bench Project is a task shifting mental health intervention delivered by lay health workers trained in screening and identification of common mental disorders. Supported by technological platforms such as ‘smart phones’ it has the potential of reaching out to millions of people needing public health services.

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  • A Lay Health Worker meeting her client. Children are always welcome as it is important that they experience their parents recovering from depression
  • Friendship Bench lay health workers, or community Grandmothers

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    Program

    Global Mental Health

    Institution

    University of Zimbabwe

    Institution Country

    Zimbabwe

    Implementation Country

    Zimbabwe

    Implementation Region

    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Priority

    Anxiety disorders, Depression, Economic, Mental Neurological and Substance Use Disorders, Non-communicable Diseases, Social Justice

    Platform

    Behaviour Change Communication, Community Health Worker Training, Information and Communications Technology, Service Delivery, Task-shifting

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