Yvonne B. Feeney

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The Care of Older People With Depression in Nigeria: Qualitative Exploration of the Experience of Lay Providers in Primary Care Settings

Sep 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Akin Ojagbemi |Stephanie Daley |Yvonne B. Feeney |Oye Gureje

There is a large treatment gap for mental health conditions in sub-Saharan Africa where most patients who receive any care do so from lay primary health care workers (PHCW). We sought to examine the experiences of PHCW who provide care for older people with depression in Nigerian primary health care (PHC) settings. Qualitative study design. A total of 24 PHCW participated.
Participatory development of a home‐based depression care model with lived experience older Nigerians and their caregivers: A theory of change

Nov 1, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Akin Ojagbemi |Stephanie Daley |Yvonne B. Feeney |Olufisayo Elugbadebo

There is a huge treatment gap for late-life depression in sub-Saharan Africa. Building on prior work to scale-up mental healthcare with the aid of the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide electronic version (emhGAP-IG), this study aims to involve older people in the iterative development of innovations to overcome challenges in the detection and clinical management of late-life depression by frontline non-specialist primary healthcare workers (PHCW) in Nigeria.

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