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We are evidence based. See the following for publications, articles, annual impact reports, and/or data.
Published 05/2024Evaluation of the Friendship Bench’ Circle Kubatana Tose (CKT): an add-on support group intervention – a mixed-methods pilot interventional cohort study protocolhttps://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/7/e079842Published 05/2024Rural Friendship Bench: A qualitative study in Zaka district, Zimbabwehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116791Published 04/2024Implementation strategies to build mental health-care capacity in Malawi: a health-economic evaluationhttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00597-1/fulltext Published 18/01/2024Effect of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders on HIV viral suppression: A non-randomised controlled study of the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwehttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001492
Published 08/2024Adaptation of a Problem-solving Program (Friendship Bench) to Treat Common Mental Disorders Among People Living With HIV and AIDS and on Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Vietnam: Formative Studyhttps://doi.org/10.2196/37211Published 07/2024A Digital Mental Health Intervention (Inuka) for Common Mental Health Disorders in Zimbabwean Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot Studyhttps://doi.org/10.2196/37968Published 07/2024Peer-led counselling with problem discussion therapy for adolescents living with HIV in Zimbabwe: A cluster-randomised trialhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003887
Published 07/2020Adaptation of a Problem-solving Program (Friendship Bench) to Treat Common Mental Disorders Among People Living With HIV and AIDS and on Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Vietnam: Formative Studyhttps://doi.org/10.2196/37211
Published 08/2020Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe: protocol of a cluster-randomised trialhttps://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2020.14
Published 05/2020The impact of an integrated depression and HIV treatment program on mental health and HIV care outcomes among people newly initiating antiretroviral therapy in Malawihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231872
Published 02/2020Perceptions of HIV-related trauma in people living with HIV in Zimbabwe's Friendship Bench Program: A qualitative analysis of counselors' and clients' experienceshttps://doi.org/10.1177/1363461519850337
Published 12/2016Effect of a Primary Care-Based Psychological Intervention on Symptoms of Common Mental Disorders in Zimbabwe: A Randomized Clinical Trialhttps://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.19102
Published 05/2016The Friendship Bench programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders delivered by lay health workers in Zimbabwehttps://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-015-0013-y
Published 05/2016'Opening up the mind': problem-solving therapy delivered by female lay health workers to improve access to evidence-based care for depression and other common mental disorders through the Friendship Bench Project in Zimbabwehttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0071-9
Published 10/2011Problem-solving therapy for depression and common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: piloting a task-shifting primary mental health care intervention in a population with a high prevalence of people living with HIVhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27408619/
Published 11/2023Global health reciprocal innovation to address mental health and well-being: strategies used and lessons learnthttps://gh.bmj.com/content/8/Suppl_7/e013572Published 09/2023Erratum: A community health volunteer delivered problem-solving therapy mobile application based on the Friendship Bench 'Inuka Coaching' in Kenya: A pilot cohort study - CORRIGENDUMhttps://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2023.54Published 05/2023Depressed mood as a transdiagnostic target relevant to anxiety and/or psychosis: a scoping review protocolhttps://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077695Published 4/2023An Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Among Perinatal Women in Malawi: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trialhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10461-023-04070-8Published 1/2023Effect of the Friendship Bench intervention on antiretroviral therapy outcomes and mental health symptoms in rural Zimbabwe: A cluster randomized trial https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001492
Published 11/2021"Seeing a Brighter Future" - Experiences of Adolescents with Common Mental Disorders Receiving the Problem-Solving Therapy "Youth Friendship Bench" in Zimbabwehttps://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2021.1924323
Published 09/2021The Experiences of Counsellors Offering Problem-Solving Therapy for Common Mental Health Issues at the Youth Friendship Bench in Zimbabwehttps://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2021.1879977Published 09/2021A Mixed-Methods Process Evaluation: Integrating Depression Treatment Into HIV Care in Malawihttps://doi.org/10.9745/ghsp-d-20-00607Published 09/2021Optimising implementation strategies of the first scaleup of a primary care psychological intervention for common mental disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed methods study protocol for the optimised Friendship Bench (OptFB)https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045481
Published 09/2021Potential Resilience to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Common Mental Disorders among Lay Health Workers Working on the Friendship Bench Programme in Zimbabwehttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/802281
Published 08/2021Risk factors for HIV virological non-suppression among adolescents with common mental disorder symptoms in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional studyhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34402199/
Published 04/2021Impact of Friendship Bench problem-solving therapy on adherence to ART in young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: A qualitative studyhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250074
Published 03/2021A community health volunteer delivered problem-solving therapy mobile application based on the Friendship Bench 'Inuka Coaching' in Kenya: A pilot cohort studyhttps://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2021.3
Published 02/2018Trained lay health workers reduce common mental disorder symptoms of adults with suicidal ideation in Zimbabwe: a cohort studyhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5117-2
Published 05/2015The Friendship Bench programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders delivered by lay health workers in Zimbabwehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27408619/
