Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe: Baseline and Endline questionnaires

Simms, V and Chinoda, S. 2021. Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe: Baseline and Endline questionnaires. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002142.

Simms, V and Chinoda, S. Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe: Baseline and Endline questionnaires [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2021. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002142.

Simms, V and Chinoda, S (2021). Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe: Baseline and Endline questionnaires. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002142.

Description

Adolescents living with HIV have poor virological suppression and high levels of common mental disorders. In Zimbabwe the Zvandiri adolescent peer support programme is effective at improving ART adherence and virological suppression. We assessed the effect of training peer supporters in problem-solving therapy (PST) using a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Sixty clinics stratified by district were randomised 1:1 to either normal Zvandiri peer support or a peer supporter trained in PST by Friendship Bench. We enrolled 842 adolescents aged 11-19. The primary outcome was virological non-suppression, defined as viral load ≥1000 copies. Secondary outcomes were symptoms of common mental disorder measured with the Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ, cutpoint 8/14) and depression measured with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9, cutpoint 10/27), and health utility score using the EQ-5D (range 0-1, cutpoint 1). Analysis was at the individual level with a random effect for clustering. Case reviews and focus group discussions were used for qualitative analysis to determine feasibility. This item contains baseline and endline questionnaires used for data collection

Methods

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face

Data Collection Period

From	To
2 January 2019	21 March 2019

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

29 March 2021

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
-17.65	31.783	-22.22	26.5

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Simms, V and Chinoda, S
Associated roles	Willis, N (Principal Investigator), Chibanda, D (Principal Investigator) and Weiss, H (Co-Investigator)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Research Group	International Statistics and Epidemiology Group
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Friendship Bench, Zimbabwe, Africaid, Harare, Zimbabwe

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
Operations research to measure the effectiveness of a peer-led mental health intervention on virological suppression and mental health among adolescents with HIV in Zimbabwe	Children's Investment Fund Foundation	UNSPECIFIED	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010409