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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1439997
This article is part of the Research Topic Exploring Mental Health in Vulnerable Populations in Developing Countries View all 32 articles

Development of a Remote Implementation Support Strategy to Enhance Integration of Depression Treatment into Primary Care Settings in Rural India

Provisionally accepted
Gloria A. Pedersen Gloria A. Pedersen 1,2*Juliana Restivo Haney Juliana Restivo Haney 2,3Abhishek Singh Abhishek Singh 4Shivangi Choubey Shivangi Choubey 4Ameya Bondre Ameya Bondre 4Vorapat Vorapanya Vorapat Vorapanya 5Anant Bhan Anant Bhan 4Deepak Tugnawat Deepak Tugnawat 4Vikram Patel Vikram Patel 2,6John Naslund John Naslund 2Rohit Ramaswamy Rohit Ramaswamy 5,7
  • 1 Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
  • 2 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 3 Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
  • 4 Sangath, Goa, India
  • 5 Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
  • 6 Department of Global Health and Population, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • 7 James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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    The focus on integrating mental health services into primary care is important, especially in resource-limited settings. This study highlights a pressing issue i.e. mental health integration into non-communicable disease (NCD) programs and advocate digital-based intervention (video/phone calls and WhatsApp), which is contextually appropriate for lowresource settings with limited face-to-face support. Many congratulations to the project team and authors.We thank the Reviewer for this helpful feedback and enthusiasm for our work. This is greatly appreciated.Adding a section on the limitations of the study would indeed enhance its transparency and provide readers with a more complete understanding of the context in which the technical assistance strategy was developed. Even methodological limitations can also be mentioned. Author may include if they found it appropriate.

    Keywords: Depression, Mental Health, global health, implementation science, Primary Care

    Received: 28 May 2024; Accepted: 11 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Pedersen, Restivo Haney, Singh, Choubey, Bondre, Vorapanya, Bhan, Tugnawat, Patel, Naslund and Ramaswamy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Gloria A. Pedersen, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

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