Simone Honikman

Datos Biográficos

ID181574
NOMBRESimone Honikman
NOMBRESSimone
APELLIDOHonikman
FIRMAHONIKMAN S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0002-7045-5532
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Community health intervention through musical engagement (CHIME) in South Africa

    Open AccessSiphumelele Sigwebela, Bonnie B Mcconnell et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    In South Africa, perinatal depression, stress or anxiety affect an estimated 16% to 50% of women posing serious concerns for both mothers and infants. The vast majority of women receive no perinatal mental healthcare through the public health system, partly due to high levels of stigma and a lack of culturally sensitive mental health care. South African musical traditions such as group singing are culturally significant for supporting social conn…

  • The intergenerational legacies of research disinvestment, aid retrenchment and transactional compacts on global women’s health

    Open AccessRoxanne Keynejad, Abigail M Hatcher et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Global health funding by the United States government declined precipitously in 2025, triggering a cascade of international disinvestment in women’s health in low and middle-income countries, followed by a new era of ‘America First’ aid policy. Successive budget cuts by other high-income countries compounded the effects of these abrupt policy and geopolitical changes on women’s health, safety, and access to life saving and health assuring prevent…

  • Strategies for spreading, scaling, and sustaining perinatal mental health interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) – A scoping review and thematic synthesis

    Open AccessKatie Rose M Sanfilippo, Musa Krubally et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2026

    There is a significant global burden of common perinatal mental health conditions (CPMHC), the most common complications of childbearing, with about one in five women being affected in LMICs.Health systems in these settings have not scaled, spread or sustained perinatal mental health services despite the evidence for effectiveness of several interventions.This is, in part due to a range of systems-level factors.Previous work on perinatal mental h…

  • Problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence

    Open AccessRoxanne Keynejad, Tesera Bitew et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Evidence for the feasibility of brief psychological interventions for pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural, low-income country settings is scarce. In rural Ethiopia, the prevalence of antenatal depressive symptoms and lifetime IPV are 29% and 61%, respectively. We aimed to assess the feasibility and related implementation outcomes of brief problem-solving therapy (PST) adapted for pregnant women experiencing IPV (P…

  • A mixed-methods feasibility study of Nyamekela4Care

    Open AccessStephan Rabie, Christina Laurenzi et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2022

    In South Africa, health and care service providers (SPs) face many interconnected challenges at work, including inadequate training and supervision and high levels of burnout. Nyamekela4Care (N4C) was developed as an integrated intervention for SP teams, to support their ability to provide high-quality care through providing a structure for operating regular team meetings that includes training, empathic skills development, administration, case s…

  • Costs of common perinatal mental health problems in South Africa

    Open AccessAnnette Bauer, Emily Garman et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2022

    Whilst important progress has been made in South Africa with regards to mental health policies and interventions that include assessment and management of perinatal mental health problems, substantial underinvestment prevents progress. Findings from this study strengthen the economic case for investing in perinatal mental health care

  • Food Insecurity, Maternal Mental Health, and Domestic Violence

    Open AccessChristina Laurenzi, Sally Field et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

  • The Secret History method and the development of an ethos of care

    Open AccessSimone Honikman, Sally Field et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatry2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 36

    South Africa, like many low-and-middle-income countries, is integrating mental health services into routine Primary Health Care (PHC) through a task-shifting approach to reduce the gaps in treatment coverage. There is concern, however, that this approach will exacerbate nurses' abuse of patients currently common within PHC in the country. To address this concern, the Perinatal Mental Health Project developed its Secret History method, a critical …

  • The development of an ultra-short, maternal mental health screening tool in South Africa

    Open AccessThandi van Heyningen, Landon Myers et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2019

    This novel screening tool is the first measure of CPMD developed in South Africa to include depressed mood, anxiety symptoms and suicidal ideation. While the tool requires further investigation, it may be useful for the early identification of mental health symptoms and morbidity in the perinatal period

  • Validation of a brief mental health screening tool for pregnant women in a low socio-economic setting

    Open AccessZulfa Abrahams, Marguerite Schneider et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2019

    Cognitive interviewing enabled testing and refining of the language and constructs of an ultra-brief screening tool. The shortened, 3-item tool is well understood and effective at identifying pregnant women with symptoms of CMD, across the three most commonly spoken languages and cultures in Cape Town

  • ‘First 1000 days’ health interventions in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessRené English, Nazia Peer et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: In South Africa (SA), despite adoption of international strategies and approaches, maternal, neonatal and child (MNC) morbidity and mortality rates have not sufficiently declined. OBJECTIVES: To conduct an umbrella review (UR) that identifies interventions in low- and middle-income countries, with a high-quality evidence base, that improve MNC morbidity and mortality outcomes within the first 1000 days of life; and to assess the incor…

  • Patterns of use of a maternal mental health service in a low-resource antenatal setting in South Africa

    Open AccessEmily Baron, Sally Field et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2014Referencias: 2

    The prevalence of perinatal common mental disorders in South Africa is high, yet little is known about mental health service use among pregnant and postnatal women. This paper reports on pregnant women's patterns of use of a counselling service at a primary level obstetric facility in Cape Town, South Africa, between January 2010 and December 2011. It investigates whether these are associated with demographics, severity and risk of depressive sym…

  • Prime

    Open AccessCrick Lund, Mark Tomlinson et al.ARTICLEPLoS Medicine2012

    The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving