Peer Mentor Training and Supervision for a Digital Adolescent Depression Treatment in South Africa and Uganda: Mixed Methods Evaluation

Zamakhanya Makhanya   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , MA, MPH ;   Bianca Moffett   ^{2 *} , MBChB, MSc ;   Julia R Pozuelo   ^{2, 4, 5} , DPhil ;   Meghan Davis   ⁶ , MPH ;   Joy Louise Gumikiriza-Onoria   ⁷ , MSc, PhD ;   Shayni Geffen   ⁸ , MSc ;   Tlangelani Baloyi   ⁹ , MA ;   Tholene Sodi   ¹⁰ , MA, PhD ;   Eugene Kinyanda   ⁷ , MBChB, MMed Psy, PhD ;   Michelle G Craske   ^{11, 12} , PhD ;   Christine Tusiime   ¹³ , MSc ;   Crick Lund   ^{14, 15} , MA, PhD ;   Alastair Van Heerden   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   Kathleen Kahn   ^{2, 17} , MBChB, PhD ;   Alan Stein   ^{2, 18, 19} , MBChB, FCPsych ;   Heather O'Mahen   ²⁰ , PhD ;   DoBAt and Ebikolwa Consortium   ²¹

¹ Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

² SAMRC/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

³ Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

⁴ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁶ Mind Ease, London, United Kingdom

⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

⁸ SA Federation for Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa

⁹ The Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics (VIDA) Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

¹⁰ SAMRC-DSI/NRF-UL SARChI Chair in Mental Health and Society, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa

¹¹ Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹² Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹³ Department of Psychology, Butabika Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

¹⁴ Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

¹⁵ Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹⁶ SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

¹⁷ Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

¹⁸ Africa Health Research Institute, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

¹⁹ Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

²⁰ Mood Disorders Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

²¹ See Acknowledgments

*these authors contributed equally