Effect of a stepped-care intervention delivered by lay health workers on major depressive disorder among primary care patients in Nigeria (STEPCARE): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

• Main Authors: Oye Gureje, ProfDSc (Author), Bibilola D Oladeji, MSc (Author), Alan A Montgomery, ProfPhD (Author), Toyin Bello, MSc (Author), Lola Kola, PhD (Author), Akin Ojagbemi, PhD (Author), Dan Chisholm, PhD (Author), Ricardo Araya, ProfPhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Little is known about how to scale up care for depression in settings where non-physician lay workers constitute the bulk of frontline providers. We aimed to compare a stepped-care intervention package for depression with usual care enhanced by use of the WHO Mental Health Gap A...