Anisha Lazarus

TL;DR: This study supports the wider use of filmed social contact interventions to reduce stigma about mental illness by testing the hypotheses that DVD and live interventions will be equally effective and the interventions with social contact (DVD/live) will be more effective than the lecture.

TL;DR: THPP had a moderate effect on remission from perinatal depression over the 6-month postnatal period and is relatively cheap to deliver and is cost-saving through reduced health-care, time and productivity costs.

TL;DR: Evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Thinking Healthy Programme delivered by peers for women with moderate to severe perinatal depression in rural and urban settings in Pakistan and India has the unique opportunity to overcome the shortage of human resources in global mental health.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates the feasibility of using peers to provide interventions for perinatal depression in two South Asian settings and shows that peers can be a potential resource to deliver evidence-based psychosocial interventions.

TL;DR: Peers from the same community were the most preferred delivery agents of a community-based psychosocial intervention in both sites and there were contextual similarities and differences between the two sites.