Lay health worker‐led psychosocial interventions vs enhanced usual care: Functional impairment
- Population
- women with perinatal depression
- Intervention
- Lay health worker‐led psychosocial interventions
- Comparison
- enhanced usual care
- Outcome
- Functional impairment
Lay health worker‐led psychosocial interventions showed no clear difference in functional impairment ‐ intermediate term (1 to 6 months post… compared with enhanced usual care (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Lay health worker‐led psychosocial interventions vs enhanced usual care Functional impairment ‐ intermediate term (1 to 6 months post intervention) Global assessment of functioning scale, WHODAS (higher score = higher functional impairment) · women with perinatal depression Lay health worker‐led psychosocial interventions showed no clear difference in functional impairment ‐ intermediate term (1 to 6 months post… compared with enhanced usual care (low certainty). Primary‐level worker interventions for the care of people living with mental disorders and distress in low‐… (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 4 studies · 1856 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary‐level worker interventions for the care of people living with mental disorders and distress in low‐ and middle‐income countries 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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How reviews are matched to this question
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