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Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis
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Background: Psychosocial interventions may contribute to reducing the burden of mental disorders in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries by improving social functioning, but the evidence has not been systematically reviewed. Aims: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in people with depression and schizophrenia in LAMI countries. Method: Studies were identified through database searching up to March 2011. Randomised controlled trials were included if they compared the intervention group with a control group receiving placebo or treatment as usual. Random effects meta-analyses were performed separately for depressive disorders and schizophrenia and for each intervention type. Results: Of the studies that met the inclusion criteria (n=24), 21 had sufficient data to include in the meta-analysis. Eleven depression trials showed good evidence for a moderate positive effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning (standardised mean difference (SMD)=0.46, 95% CI 0.24-0.69, n=4009) and ten schizophrenia trials showed a large positive effect on social functioning (SMD = 0.84, 95% CI 0.49-1.19, n=1671), although seven of these trials were of low quality. Excluding these did not substantially affect the size or direction of effect, although the precision of the estimate was substantially reduced (SMD = 0.89, 95% CI 0.05-1.72, n=863). Conclusions: Psychosocial interventions delivered in out-patient and primary care settings are effective at improving social functioning in people with depression and should be incorporated into efforts to scale up services. For schizophrenia there is an absence of evidence from high-quality trials and the generalisabilty of the findings is limited by the over-representation of trials conducted in populations of hospital patients in China. More high-quality trials of psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia delivered in out-patient settings are needed.
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“First, there is increasing evidence that service users place greater value on improvements in social functioning than improvements in clinical status54-56”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Implications
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- Could not verifycites [54] Read UM Adiibokah E Nyame S Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: an ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana. Glob Health 2009; 5: 13 PMC2770454 19825191 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results section (“Madness and the loss of social status”; page unavailable) describes the effects of mental illness on work and social standing. The Methods section (“Fieldwork”; page unavailable) says interviews covered social roles and treatment, but no passage found compares service users’ valuation of social-functioning improvements with clinical improvements. Searched for that comparison and for preferences concerning social roles versus symptom reduction. (LLM, conf=0.72)
- Not checked yetcites [55] Davidson L White W The concept of recovery as an organising principle for integrating mental health and addiction services. J Behav Health Serv Res 2007; 34: 104– 20 17351758 source
- Not matchedcites [56] Mental Health Gap Action Programme Scaling Up Care for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders. World Health Organization, 2008 26290926
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“The 24 included trials used 10 different scales to measure social functioning, confirming the previously reported lack of consensus on its measurement.16”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Measurement of social functioning
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- Not checked yetcites [16] Burns T Patrick D Social functioning as an outcome measure in schizophrenia studies. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2007; 116: 403– 18 17941964
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“There was evidence from three trials of a large, positive impact of IPT on social functioning (SMD = 0.84, 95% CI 0.40–1.29, P = 0.0002, I2 = 67%, n = 360).”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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“There was robust evidence from the six trials evaluating multicomponent interventions for a small improvement in social functioning (SMD = 0.35, 95% CI 0.11–0.59, P≤0.001, I2 = 89%, n = 3291).”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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“No trials were included from Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia.”
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“Only 17 of the 62 Cochrane reviews of psychosocial interventions to treat depression or schizophrenia include social functioning outcomes, with only a tiny fraction of the included trials from low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries”
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“There was not enough evidence to assess the effect of problem-solving therapy or Morita therapy as only one trial respectively assessed these interventions.”
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“In contrast to the depression trials, most (11/13) were conducted in China in hospital in-patient populations and only two used non-specialists to deliver the intervention.”
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“All 11 depression trials were suitable for inclusion in the meta-analysis.”
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“In contrast to the depression trials, most (11/13) were conducted in China in hospital in-patient populations and only two used non-specialists to deliver the intervention.”
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“Four of the trials were from Chile, three from China, and the remainder from India, Brazil and Uganda.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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“Excluding the one trial with a risk of bias did not affect this conclusion, and the magnitude of effect was the same for both short- and long-term follow-up.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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“The combined SMD for all interventions was 0.46 (95% CI 0.24–0.69, P≤0.001, I2 = 90%, n = 4009), indicating small to moderate improvements in social functioning based on the rule of thumb interpretation of SMDs whereby 0.2 represents a small effect, 0.5 a moderate effect and 0.8 a large effect.29”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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- Not checked yetcites [29] Cohen J Statistical Power Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (2nd edn). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988
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“The majority of trials were set in out-patient, primary care or community settings.”
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“Five of the trials used non-mental health specialists to deliver the intervention through task-sharing.”
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“Three trials did not contain sufficient data to be included in the meta-analysis,30-32 and as we were unable to obtain this information from the authors, these trials are included in the qualitative synthesis of results only.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat schizophrenia
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- Not checked yetcites [30] Xiang M Ran M Li S A controlled evaluation of psychoeducational family intervention in a rural Chinese community. Br J Psychiatry 1994; 165: 544– 8 7804673 source
- Not matchedcites [31] Cui Y Yang W Weng Y Effectiveness of social skills training in patients with chronic schizophrenia [in Chinese]. Chin Ment Health J 2004; 18: 799– 805
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Xiong W Phillips MR Hu X Wang R Dai Q Kleinman J Family-based intervention for schizophrenic patients in China. A randomised controlled trial. Br J Psychiatry 1994; 165: 239– 47 7953039 source
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“In total 11 trials assessed the effect of interventions to treat depression, 6 assessed multicomponent collaborative care interventions, three interpersonal therapy (IPT), 1 problem-solving therapy, and 1 Morita therapy.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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“Thirteen trials assessed the effect of interventions to treat schizophrenia: 3 trials assessed the effect of family psychoeducation, 1 patient psychoeducation, 1 social skills training, 1 art therapy, 4 multicomponent structured psychotherapies and 3 community-based care interventions.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat schizophrenia
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“A total of 9592 unique records were obtained, of which 24 trials met the inclusion criteria.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results
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“Only one trial was assessed as having an overall risk of bias and nine had long-term follow-up of more than 6 months.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
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“Excluding the seven trials with a risk of bias did not substantially affect the size or direction of effect, although the precision of the estimate was substantially reduced due to the smaller pooled sample sizes (SMD = 0.89, 95% CI 0.05–1.72, P≤0.001, I2 = 91%, n = 863).”
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“In contrast to clinical improvements that are often observed early in the intervention, improvements in social functioning were sometimes only evident at later stages (for example Li & Arthur33 and Pang et al42).”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Main findings
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- Not checked yetcites Li & Arthur33
- Not checked yetcites Pang et al42
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“This resulted in the identification of a substantial body of previously largely uncited work from China that significantly adds to the body of knowledge particularly on the effectiveness of schizophrenia interventions.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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“Although both the depression and the schizophrenia reviews show that intervention effects were sustained over greater than a 6- or 12-month period respectively”
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- Rests on an assumption: The social functioning outcome measures used across the included trials are sufficiently comparable to be combined in a meta-analysis.
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“Three of these trials had a low risk of bias and a sensitivity analysis restricted to these trials did not affect this finding.”
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“A total of 11 depression trials from 5 countries and 13 schizophrenia trials from 3 countries were included in this review.”
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“The combined SMD for all interventions was 0.84 (95% CI 0.49–1.19, P≤0.001, I2 = 89%, n = 1671), indicating large improvements in social functioning.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat schizophrenia
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“The effect of the interventions on social functioning increased over time, with moderate effect sizes at less than 12 months' follow-up (SMD = 0.71, 95% CI 0.36–1.06, P≤0.001, I2 = 88%, n = 1718), increasing to a large effect on social functioning at more than 12 months' follow-up (SMD = 0.93, 95% CI 0.37–1.49, P≤0.001, I2 = 95%, n = 1409).”
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“There was weak evidence from two trials with a high risk of bias41,42 of a small increase in social functioning as a result of community-based interventions (SMD = 0.33, 95% CI 0.10–0.55, P = 0.004, I2 = 88%, n = 316), despite neither trial showing an effect on clinical outcomes.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat schizophrenia
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Li X Li X Ma X Ni Y Effects of social rehabilitation on late-onset schizophrenia [in Chinese]. Chin Ment Health J 2002; 16: 711– 3
- Not checked yetcites [42] Pang Y Huang S Li X Hu L Lin C The effect of health education on compliance of patients with paranoid schizophrenia in their follow-up therapy [in Chinese]. Chin Ment Health J 2002; 16: 348– 50
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“Risk of bias was assessed both at the study level (for example sequence generation and allocation concealment) and at the outcome level (for example losses to follow-up for the social functioning outcome).”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Method > Selection of studies
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“The methods and results in this paper are presented according to the PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews.8”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Moher D Liberati A Tetzlaff J Altman DG Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med 2009; 6: e1000097 19621072 PMC2707599 source
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“The quality of included studies was assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool14 by two authors.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Method > Selection of studies
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Higgins JPT Green S Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0. The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011
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“To control for study quality, trials that had a risk of bias for allocation concealment, or for whom allocation concealment could not be assessed but who had a risk of bias for sequence generation and/or masking of outcome assessment, were excluded from the meta-analysis.”
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“Data for the meta-analyses were extracted by H.L.L. and double checked by M.J.D.S.”
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“Lastly, funnel plots for the primary meta-analyses were generated to assess possible publication bias.”
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“Data were extracted by two authors using a standard data extraction form including inclusion criteria for participants, intervention and control groups, outcome measures and effect estimates.”
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“Although a visual inspection of the plots shows them to be somewhat asymmetrical, this asymmetry may have been caused by heterogeneity in intervention type rather than publication bias, as indicated by the large I2 for the combined effect estimates.”
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“For schizophrenia, interventions demonstrated a strong effect, but the interpretation of these findings is tempered by the risk of bias associated with seven of the ten trials.”
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“We used a wide-ranging search strategy with no limitations set on date, publication type or language.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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“It is likely that improvements in social functioning happen more slowly and subsequently to clinical improvements”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Main findings
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“Providing interventions that improve patient social functioning will not only reduce the burden of mental disorders by enabling people to fulfil a productive social role, but may also be the most effective way to combat stigma.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Implications
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“We conducted a meta-analysis of similar trials, using outcomes measured at similar time points and with comparable control groups to test the size of the effect of the interventions on social functioning, and examined heterogeneity by study quality.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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“Some asymmetry may also have been caused by the tendency in this review for the poorer quality trials to show larger effects, as documented elsewhere.44”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Publication bias
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- Not checked yetcites [44] Schulz KF Chalmers I Hayes RJ Altman DG Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials. JAMA 1995; 273: 408– 12 7823387 source
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“Parental functioning was only measured in two of the ten scales used by the included trials, leading to potential underestimates of the effect of the intervention on social functioning in these trials.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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“Additional limitations of the evidence included in this review include the short follow-up in a third of trials, potentially not allowing sufficient time to detect improvements in functioning in the intervention group.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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“but maternal depression has been shown to affect child health47 and growth.48”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [47] Rahman A Malik A Sikander S Roberts C Creed F Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2008; 372: 902– 9 18790313 PMC2603063 source
- Not checked yetcites [48] Surkan PJ Kennedy CE Hurley KM Black MM Maternal depression and early childhood growth in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. Bull World Health Organ 2011; 89: 608– 15 21836759 PMC3150769 source
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“On the other hand, the methods used for this review were strong.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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“As four trials were assessed as having a high overall risk of bias (two because the risk of bias was unknown due to lack of information in the published paper), the level of evidence for psychoeducation is currently weak.”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat schizophrenia
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“as not only are they at a higher risk for depression,5”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Methodological limitations
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Patel V Simon G Chowdhary N Kaaya S Araya R Packages of care for depression in low- and middle-income countries. PLoS Med 2009; 6: e1000159 19806179 PMC2747016 source
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Psychosocial interventions may reduce the burden of mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries by improving social functioning.
“Psychosocial interventions may contribute to reducing the burden of mental disorders in low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries by improving social functioning”
The paper relies on this without support.
Impairment of social functioning is a major reason for the high levels of stigma and disability associated with depression and schizophrenia.
“Impairment of social functioning, defined as ‘an individual's ability to perform and fulfil normal social roles’,3 is a major reason for the high levels of stigma and disability associated with these mental disorders.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The social functioning outcome measures used across the included trials are sufficiently comparable to be combined in a meta-analysis.
“We conducted a meta-analysis of similar trials, using outcomes measured at similar time points and with comparable control groups to test the size of the effect of the interventions on social functioning”
The paper relies on this without support.
The results from the included trials are generalisable to LAMI countries.
“This review provides strong evidence for depression and weaker evidence for schizophrenia in support of the use of a range of psychosocial interventions, with or without concurrent pharmacological interventions5,6 in LAMI countries.”
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“However, most psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy trials in depression have focussed on the reduction of depressive symptoms, rather than improvement of social functioning (Silva et al., 2013).”
From Social functioning in major depressive disorder (2016) · cites this paper as Silva et al., 2013
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§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Abstract
“For schizophrenia there is an absence of evidence from high-quality trials”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Discussion > Main findings
“However, there was good evidence from three high-quality trials that a combination of structured psychological therapies (for example psychoeducation, social skills training and IPT), delivered in combination with antipsychotic medication, leads to large improvements in patient social functioning compared with medication alone.”
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§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat schizophrenia
“most (11/13) were conducted in China in hospital in-patient populations”
§ Effect of psychosocial interventions on social functioning in depression and schizophrenia: meta-analysis > Results > Effect of psychosocial interventions to treat depression
“| Hospital in-patient | 2 | 7 | 9 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- De Silva, M. J., Cooper, S., Li, H. L., Lund, C., & Patel, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 202
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 253-260
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- PMC
- PMC3613719
- OpenAlex
- W2107904541
- Semantic Scholar
- e65e7f3bd43af038ab3888f1ff9076d3bc74d1c5
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 1.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (091834)
- Department for International Development (HRPC10)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- psychosocial interventions, social functioning, depression, schizophrenia, low- and middle-income countries, outpatient mental health services, primary care, mental health service delivery
- MeSH terms
- Depression, Humans, Poverty, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Social Behavior, Publication Bias
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