Background Task-sharing is a promising strategy to expand mental healthcare in low-
resource settings, especially in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Research on how …

Purpose Rural areas persistently face a shortage of mental health specialists. Task shifting,
or task sharing, is an approach in global mental health that may help address unmet mental …

Task-sharing has frequently been proposed as a strategy to overcome human resource
shortages in order to scale up mental health care. Although evidence suggests this …

Importance Task sharing, the training of nonspecialist workers with no formal experience in
counseling, is a promising strategy for addressing the large gap in treatment for depression …

There is limited evidence on the acceptability, feasibility and cost-effectiveness of task-
sharing interventions to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders in sub-Saharan …

Background Task sharing mental health care through integration into primary health care
(PHC) is advocated as a means of narrowing the treatment gap for mental disorders in low …

Purpose This review aimed to evaluate interventions led by peer counselors (PCs) for adults
with common mental disorders in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) along indices of …

Background In the context of a large treatment gap for common mental disorders (CMDs)
and shortage of mental health specialists in low-and middle-income countries, there is …

Background There is mounting evidence supporting the effectiveness of task-shifted mental
health interventions in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, there has been …

Background Little is known about the interventions required to build the capacity of mental
health policy-makers and planners in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). We …