Understanding depression treatment and perinatal service preferences of Kenyan pregnant adolescents: A discrete choice experiment

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 18; no. 3; p. e0273274
• Main Authors: Kumar, Manasi, Tele, Albert, Kathono, Joseph, Nyongesa, Vincent, Yator, Obadia, Mwaniga, Shillah, Huang, Keng Yen, McKay, Mary, Lai, Joanna, Levy, Marcy, Cuijpers, Pim, Quaife, Matthew, Unutzer, Jurgen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.03.2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Analysis; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Caregivers; Caregivers - psychology; Child; Child & adolescent mental health; Choice Behavior; Consumer preferences; Depression - therapy; Depression, Mental; Design; Diagnosis; Distribution; Female; Health care; Health care facilities; Health services; Heterogeneity; Humans; Intervention; Kenya; Literature reviews; Logit models; Maternal & child health; Mathematical models; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental health; Mothers; Nurses; Patient outcomes; Patient Preference - psychology; People and Places; Preferences; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women - psychology; Prevention; Primary care; Psychiatric services; Psychological aspects; Psychotherapy; Questionnaires; Social Sciences; Statistics; Task forces; Teenage pregnancy; Teenagers; Travel; Kenya

Understanding mental health treatment preferences of adolescents and youth is particularly important for interventions to be acceptable and successful. Person-centered care mandates empowering individuals to take charge of their own health rather than being passive recipients of services. We conduct...