Combining mHealth and Nurse-delivered Care to Improve the Outcomes of People With Serious Mental Illness in West Africa
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.
Conditions studied
Psychosis, Mania, Depression
About this study
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.
Interventions
- Behavioral: mHealer — MHealer is a software application installed on smartphones that provides psychosocial treatment support and patient condition tracking.
Primary outcomes
- Psychiatric symptoms (Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
- Depressive symptoms (Baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks)
Eligibility information
Study locations
- University of Ghana, Accra, GP4236 Ghana
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov. Record last refreshed by Varda Clinical: 2026-10-22.