Usual Care
depression, psychiatric, depressive symptoms
Usual care procedures for addressing depression in the participating ANC clinics (and other public ANC clinics across the country) are limited to referral of patients exhibiting severe depressive symptoms to a mental health specialist (typically a psychiatric nurse) either at the facility or at the District or Regional Referral Hospital. In addition, each study site (like most public ANC clinics in Uganda) offers Family Support Groups (FSG) to clients living with HIV to provide psychosocial support, instruction and education to support prenatal and post-partum care, including PMTCT adherence [