"Seeing a Brighter Future" - Experiences of Adolescents with Common Mental Disorders Receiving the Problem-Solving Therapy "Youth Friendship Bench" in Zimbabwe

Johansson, Björn Axel (författare): Lund University,Lunds universitet,Barn- och ungdomspsykiatri,Sektion IV,Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Lund,Medicinska fakulteten,Utvecklingsrelaterade störningar, affektiv sjukdom och ångestsyndrom i barn- och ungdomspsykiatri,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,Section IV,Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund,Faculty of Medicine,Disorders in clinical child and adolescent psychiatry,Lund University Research Groups,Skåne University Hospital

Verhey, Ruth (författare)

Landgren, Kajsa (författare): Lund University,Lunds universitet,Barns och familjers hälsa,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Child and Family Health,Lund University Research Groups,Region Skåne

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2021-05-28
2021
Engelska.
Ingår i: Issues in Mental Health Nursing. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1096-4673 .- 0161-2840. ; 42:11, s. 1019-1029

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In Zimbabwe common mental disorders are prevalent among adolescents and the treatment gap is large. The recently introduced Youth Friendship Bench intervention (YouFB) addresses this gap by task-shifting youth lay health workers to offer a culturally contextualised, manual-based, six-session problem-solving therapy to adolescents, 16-19 years of age. The aim of this study was to explore participants´ experiences of YouFB to attain a first insight into this novel intervention. Interviews with nine adolescents were analysed using qualitative content analysis on a latent level. The experience of YouFB was positive, perceived to offer hope and relief from feelings of isolation and uncertainty, increase manageability of problems, and contribute to feelings of autonomy, resulting in a feeling of optimism about the future. The notion among participants that this brief intervention had such a positive influence on their lives, sparks interest because of its applicability in low-resource settings.

In Zimbabwe common mental disorders are prevalent among adolescents and the treatment gap is large. The recently introduced Youth Friendship Bench intervention (YouFB) addresses this gap by task-shifting youth lay health workers to offer a culturally contextualised, manual-based, six-session problem-solving therapy to adolescents, 16-19 years of age. The aim of this study was to explore participants´ experiences of YouFB to attain a first insight into this novel intervention. Interviews with nine adolescents were analysed using qualitative content analysis on a latent level. The experience of YouFB was positive, perceived to offer hope and relief from feelings of isolation and uncertainty, increase manageability of problems, and contribute to feelings of autonomy, resulting in a feeling of optimism about the future. The notion among participants that this brief intervention had such a positive influence on their lives, sparks interest because of its applicability in low-resource settings.

Av författaren/redakt...: Broström, Sander; Johansson, Björn ...; Verhey, Ruth; Landgren, Kajsa

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MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP: MEDICIN OCH HÄLS ...; och Hälsovetenskap; och Omvårdnad

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP: MEDICIN OCH HÄLS ...; och Klinisk medicin; och Psykiatri

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