Clinical trial NCT03165513: Dialogue to Empower Traditional and Faith Healers to Deliver mhGAP-IG Adapted Psychosocial Interventions in Kenya
Official title: Dialogue to Empower, Supervise, Support and Include the Traditional and Faith Healers to Deliver Evidence-based mhGAP-IG Adapted Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Treatment Gap in Kenya
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depressive Disorder, Major
Keywords: Traditional healer
faith healer
depression
mhGAP
Kenya
Lead sponsor: Africa Mental Health Foundation
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Grand Challenges Canada
First posted: 2017-05-24
Enrollment: 4081
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Descriptive study
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The project aimed to create a dialogue between the informal sector (traditional and faith healers) and the formal sector (trained health care workers) in order to increase synergy and communication between the two systems, by minimizing any harmful practices and enhancing complementary practices. The informal sector will also be trained on how to use WHO mhGAP-IG component on depression for routine screening in order to ameliorate functional and social outcomes and refer complicated cases to the formal sector for biological interventions

Detailed description: This study seeks to empower, supervise, support and include the informal traditional and faith healers to deliver evidence-based mhGAP-IG adapted psychosocial interventions to reduce mental health treatment gap in Kenya. This will be achieved through establishing a dialogue and collaboration between the formal and the informal sector and training the informal sector on the use of mental health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guideline (mhGAP-IG) to identify and manage depression. It will take place in Makueni County among 100 randomly selected TH/FH. A descriptive (prospective cohort) study will be used to determine the impact of training TH/FH on the use of mhGAP-IG in the identification and management of depression. A mental health specialist will also determine the accuracy of diagnosis made by the informal sector using randomly selected patients (true positives and true negatives for depression) by an independent person. Moreover, patients identified to have depression will be followed up at 6 and 12 weeks to assess their health outcomes using BECKs Depression Inventory Scale, Suicidality Scale and WHO quality of life.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Traditional and faith healers residing in Kibwezi West constituency
2. Traditional and faith healers who are willing to participate in the study.
3. Traditional and faith healers' patients' above 18 years who agree to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Traditional and faith healers not residing in Kibwezi West constituency
2. Traditional and faith healers who are not willing to participate in the study.
3. Traditional and faith healers' patients' above 18 years who do not agree to sign an informed consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Depression symptoms on the Becks Depression Inventory Scale
timeFrame: Baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Quality of life outcomes on the WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF)
timeFrame: baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Africa Mental Health Foundation
name: Christine W Musyimi, MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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