In West Africa, most people with serious mental illness receive care from traditional or faith healers at prayer camps. The stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a dual-pronged intervention package comprised of a mobile health program designed to train healers to deliver evidence-based psychosocial interventions combined with pharmacotherapy delivered directly to the patients at their prayer camps via a visiting nurse in Ghana.
Aged 18 years or older
Speaks Twi or English
Current inpatient staying at a study prayer camp
A diagnosis of psychosis, mania, or depression
Serious physical illness or in need of urgent medical attention
University of Washington
Lead sponsor
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Collaborator