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Digital delivery of behavioural activation therapy to overcome depression and facilitate social and economic transitions of adolescents in South Africa (the DoBAt study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial

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  • Bianca D Moffett MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julia R Pozuelo MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alastair van Heerden Center for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Heather A O'Mahen Mood Disorders Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michelle Craske Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USADepartment of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tholene Sodi Psychology, University of Limpopo, Sovenga, Limpopo, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Crick Lund Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South AfricaCentre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kate Orkin Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Emma J Kilford Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaDepartment of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mahreen Mahmud Department of Economics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Eustasius Musenge MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Meghan Davis Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Zamakhanya Makhanya MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tlangelani Baloyi Department of Psychology, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel Mahlangu MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gabriele Chierchia Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sophie L Fielmann Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • F Xavier Gómez-Olivé MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Imraan Valodia Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephen Tollman MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaUmeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Universitet, Umea, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kathleen Kahn MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaUmeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Universitet, Umea, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alan Stein MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Bianca D Moffett; bianca.moffett{at}wits.ac.za
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Moffett BD, Pozuelo JR, van Heerden A, et al
Digital delivery of behavioural activation therapy to overcome depression and facilitate social and economic transitions of adolescents in South Africa (the DoBAt study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial
BMJ Open 2022;12:e065977. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065977

Publication history

  • Received June 22, 2022
  • Accepted December 5, 2022
  • First published December 30, 2022.
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December 30, 2022
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