This document summarizes a research article that evaluated the knowledge and self-confidence of community healthcare providers in Tanzania in identifying, diagnosing, and treating adolescent depression. The study found that the providers had low levels of knowledge about depression in adolescents and lacked confidence in their ability to help young people with depression. As depression is projected to become a major health issue globally, it is important to improve training for community providers in low-income countries so they can properly address mental health problems like depression in young people. The results of this study can help inform the development of workforce training needed to enhance provider skills and capacity for caring for adolescents experiencing depression.

1. Archives of Depression &
Anxiety
ISSN: 2455-5460
Peertechz Journals

2. Research Article
Evaluating Community Health Care Providers Knowledge
and Self-Confidence in the Identification, Diagnosis and
Treatment of Adolescent Depression in Tanzania
 Stan Kutcher*, Yifeng Wei, Heather Gilberds, Adena Brown,
Omary Ubuguyu, Tasiana Njau, Norman Sabuni, Ayoub Magimba
and Kevin Perkins
 *Corresponding author: Stan Kutcher, Dalhousie University and the
Izaak Walton Killam (IWK) Health Centre, 5850 University Avenue, PO
Box 9700, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 6R8, Canada.
 Dates: Received: 28 May, 2016; Accepted: 15 June, 2016;
Published: 16 June, 2016;
 Citation: Kutcher S, Wei Y, Gilberds H, Brown A, Ubuguyu O, et al.
(2016) Evaluating Community Health Care Providers Knowledge and
Self-Confidence in the Identification, Diagnosis and Treatment of
Adolescent Depression in Tanzania. Arch Depress Anxiety 2(1): 026-
030. DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000011.

3. Abstract
 Background: Depression, which frequently onsets in
young people, is projected to become the largest single
burden of disease globally in the next decade. Its impact
may be disproportionally felt in low-income countries,
such as Tanzania, where availability of appropriate care
in the community is poor. As part of the development of
a health provider work force that can properly address
this issue, assessment of current mental health literacy,
focusing on knowledge about and self-confidence in the
identification, diagnosis and treatment of Depression in
young people by community health care providers is
needed. This study addresses that need.

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