Global burden, Context, and Objectives
For adolescents in this region, mental health is a huge issue.
What is Subsaharan Africa?
The number of weeks the program lasts
What is four weeks?
The primary outcomes of the study
This intervention led to a significant reduction in these symptoms.
What is depression and anxiety?
Because group leaders delivered both treatment and control sessions, this type of bias couldn't be fully avoided.
What is experimenter bias?
The implemented intervention used in this study
What is Shamiri?
The three psychological components that form the core content of Shamiri
What are growth mindset, gratitude, and value affirmations?
The languages that the sessions were delivered in
What are English and Kiswahili?
This study led to improvements in a state of health, happiness, and prosperity which incorporates physical, mental, emotional, and social factors.
What is well-being?
This government action disrupted data collection and contributed to attrition at long-term follow up.
What is the government research ban?
The type of proof of concept trial conducted with the 51 Kenyan youth with anxiety and depressive symptoms
What is Proof of Concept Randomized Trial?
The amount of time adolescents met each week.
What is one hour/sixty minutes?
The minimum score the participants needed in the depression and anxiety questionnaires in order to be eligible for the study
What is >=10?
Because of its low cost and non-specialist, community rooted nature, the study is...
what is a scalable and easily implementable intervention?
This type of brief, low-cost intervention was shown to produce reductions in depression and anxiety, even in low-resource settings.
What is a low-burden intervention?
This percentage represents how much adolescent depression and anxiety contribute to the global burden of disease in youths 10-24.
What is 45%?
The three psychological components that form the core content of the intervention.
What are growth mindset, gratitude, and value affirmation?
The study design
What is RCT?
Participants reported increases in...
What is overall well-being/social support?
Because formal care is limited here, researchers emphasized interventions that are low-cost, scalable, and delivered by these non-specialists.
What are lay-persons?
This barrier prevents many Kenyan adolescents from seeking formal mental health help, even if symptoms are severe.
What is stigma?
The word that means "thrive" in Kiswahili
What is Shamiri?
The time periods the follow-up data were collected
What are 2 weeks and 7 months post intervention?
Although not the focus of this study, improvements in this were noted.
What is academic functioning for the Shamiri group relative to controls?
Measures like PHQ-8 and GAD-7 were developed in WEIRD contexts, raising this concern.
What is cross-cultural validity/non-generalizable implications?