Dixon Chibanda

Biographic Data

ID145924
NAMEDixon Chibanda
GIVEN NAMESDixon
FAMILY NAMEChibanda
SIGNATURECHIBANDA D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zimbabwe
ORCID0000-0003-2505-8607
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Awareness, utility and preferences of campus-based mental health services at tertiary institutions in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Open AccessOmega Mukubvu, Gamuchirai C Tonono et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Mental health (MH) disorders are highly prevalent among university students, with multi-level impacts. Although campus-based mental health services (CBMHS) are available, awareness and utilisation rates remain low. This study examined the awareness and utilisation of CBMHS among Zimbabwean tertiary students, including the barriers, facilitators, and preferences that influence their access to services. This descriptive cross-sectional study recrui…

  • Recognition of depression by nurses in primary healthcare in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessSakios Muduma, Malinda Kaiyo-Utete et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2026

    Depression is underrecognized in primary care, which is a barrier to treatment. For the last decade, Zimbabwe has invested in increasing access to depression treatment within primary healthcare. This study describes depression recognition by nurses and referral to treatment in four primary care clinics in Zimbabwe. Research staff screened 200 patients after they attended a primary care visit at a study clinic. They assessed depression using the P…

  • Acceptability of an Integrated Model of Mental Health and PrEP Service Delivery for South African Adolescent Girls

    Open AccessLisa Mills, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) at elevated HIV risk often experience common mental disorders (CMD), which are linked to lower PrEP adherence. We piloted a CMD intervention, the Youth Friendship Bench SA (YFB), and delivered alongside PrEP to improve CMD symptoms and PrEP adherence among South African AGYW. From April 2023-February 2024, 116 AGYW (18-25 years) with CMD symptoms were randomized to YFB plus standard of care (SOC) or SOC alo…

  • Predictors of physical activity among pregnant women in Harare, Zimbabwe

    Open AccessAnotida R Hove, Eleanor N Sithambuli et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The extensive benefits of physical activity (PA) are well known. However, PA participation among pregnant women remains low. This study evaluated PA levels and associated factors, including barriers and facilitators in pregnant women in Harare, Zimbabwe. This cross-sectional study recruited 517 pregnant women receiving antenatal care across ten primary healthcare clinics. Data were collected using the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PP…

  • Physical activity prevalence and associated factors among Zimbabwean undergraduate students

    Open AccessLynne T Makuzo, Paidamoyo Monalisa Chakandinakira et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Many university students worldwide are physically inactive, negatively affecting their mental health and academic performance. Group-based physical activity (GBPA) can effectively increase physical activity levels. This study assessed the physical activity (PA) levels and related factors, knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of GBPA in a cross-sectional study of 1217 Zimbabwean undergraduates from three universities. Data were collected using the…

  • Validation of Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ-14), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) in Unguja Island, Zanzibar

    Open AccessDiana Ceccolini, Jermaine M Dambi et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2025

    Due to the dearth of resources in low- and middle-income countries, the use of culturally appropriate and psychometrically robust screening tools for common mental disorders (CMDs) administrable by lay health workers (LHWs) is critical to both identifying people that need care and collecting prevalence data to inform policy decisions. The Shona Symptom Questionnaire (SSQ-14), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalised Anxiety Disorder S…

  • We Need Gentleness”

    Open AccessTeresa Filipowicz, Tran Viet Ha et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

  • Effect of a brief psychological intervention for common mental disorders on HIV viral suppression

    Open AccessVictoria Simms, Melanie Abas et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Background For people living with co-morbid HIV and common mental disorders (CMD), it is not known whether a brief psychological intervention for CMD can improve HIV viral suppression. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study in eight primary care clinics in Harare, Zimbabwe, enrolling adults with co-morbid HIV and CMD. Six clinics provided the Friendship Bench (FB), a brief psychological intervention for CMD based on problem-solving thera…

  • Beyond survival

    Open AccessLaura Fitzgerald, Shanon McNab et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Two alarming and consequential truths were exposed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. First, a global mental health crisis endangers the well-being of families, communities, countries, and the personnel that support them. This crisis has particularly damaging implications for adolescents, pregnant and postpartum women, mothers, and health care workers Second, improvements in the health, survival, and well-being of pregnant, childbearing, a…

  • Living with psychosis in West and Southeast Africa

    Open AccessOlubukola Omobowale, Rachel Neff Greenley et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2024

    As part of the formative work of the SUCCEED Africa consortium, we followed a participatory process to identify existing gaps and resources needed for the development and implementation of a rights-based intervention for people with lived experience of psychosis in Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. In 2021, we conducted a desk review of published and grey literature on psychosis in the four SUCCEED countries. Using an adapted version of…

  • Perceived benefits and barriers to exercise and associated factors among Zimbabwean undergraduate students

    Open AccessBeatrice K Shava, Blessed Vhudzijena et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2024Cited by: 1References: 51

    BackgroundDespite the well-documented benefits of regular physical activity (PA), many university students are physically inactive. Personal, socio-economic, and environmental factors predict PA engagement behaviours in university students. There is a need to understand context-specific perceived barriers and benefits to exercise engagement and physical activity levels amongst university students from low-income settings. This study primarily eva…

  • Rural Friendship Bench

    Open AccessKhameer Kidia, D Machando et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024References: 39

  • Global health reciprocal innovation to address mental health and well-being

    Open AccessJanet M Turan, Comisión Central de Monumentos et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Over the past two decades there have been major advances in the development of interventions promoting mental health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), including delivery of care by non-specialist providers, incorporation of mobile technologies and development of multilevel community-based interventions. Growing inequities in mental health have led to calls to adopt similar strategies in high-income countries (HIC), learni…

  • Reliability and validity of the Shona version of the Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scale in Zimbabwean adult people living with HIV/Aids

    Open AccessJermaine M Dambi, B W Domínguez et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    This study demonstrates the validity and reliability of the EBBS-Shona version in Zimbabwean PLHIV. The EBBS-Shona version can be used for research and clinical purposes to glean data to inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of bespoke PA interventions for PLHIV

  • An Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Among Perinatal Women in Malawi

    Open AccessAngela M Bengtson, Teresa Filipowicz et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

  • Time for united action on depression

    Open AccessHelen Herrman, Vikram Patel et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

  • The neglect of culture in global health research and practice

    Open AccessJudi Aubel, Dixon ChibandaARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

  • Principles for delivery of youth lay counsellor programs

    Open AccessMerrian J Brooks, Nicola Willis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    There is accumulating evidence that lay counsellors can effectively provide structured, evidence-based counselling interventions to improve mental health outcomes [1–4]. Lay counsellors help alleviate overburdened health systems that have limited numbers of mental health professionals through ‘task-shifting,’ a process of referring straightforward, or common mental health illness to lay workers who have received counselling training [...]

  • HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (Asset) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care

    Open AccessNadine Seward, C Hanlon et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    To achieve universal health coverage, health system strengthening (HSS) is required to support the of delivery of high-quality care. The aim of the National Institute for Health Research Global Research Unit on HeAlth System StrEngThening in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET) is to address this need in a four-year programme, with three healthcare platforms involving eight work-packages. Key to effective health system strengthening (HSS) is the pre-implem…

  • The Friendship Bench as a brief psychological intervention with peer support in rural Zimbabwean women

    Open AccessShamiso Fernando, Tim Brown et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2021

    VHW-delivered problem-solving therapy and peer-support was acceptable and showed promising results in this pilot evaluation, leading to quantitative and qualitative improvements in mental health among rural Zimbabwean women. Scale-up of the Friendship Bench in rural areas would help close the treatment gap for common mental disorders

  • A community health volunteer delivered problem-solving therapy mobile application based on the Friendship Bench ‘Inuka Coaching’ in Kenya

    Open AccessAsmae Doukani, Robin Van Dalen et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2021

    To our knowledge, this report is the first to pilot a PST intervention that is delivered by CHVs through a locally developed mobile application in Kenya, to which clinically meaningful improvements were found. However, a randomised-controlled trial is required to robustly evaluate this intervention

  • Enhancing science preparedness for health emergencies in Africa through research capacity building

    Open AccessSamson Kinyanjui, Sharon Fonn et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

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  • Developing sustainable capacity-building in mental health research

    Open AccessHenry Jack, Christopher Merritt et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    Less than 1% of biomedical research papers originate in Africa. Locally relevant mental health research, including synthesis of existing evidence, is essential for developing interventions and strengthening health systems, but institutions may lack the capacity to deliver training on systematic reviewing for publication in international journals. This paper describes the development and implementation of a training-of-trainers (ToT) course on sys…

  • Mental health research capacity building in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessDixon Chibanda, Melanie Abas et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2020

    Mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders are a leading, but neglected, cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The treatment gap for MNS is vast with only 10% of people with MNS disorders in low-income countries accessing evidence-based treatments. Reasons for this include low awareness of the burden of MNS disorders and limited evidence to support development, adaptation and implementation of effective and feasible …

  • Effectiveness of a peer-led adolescent mental health intervention on HIV virological suppression and mental health in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessSilindweyinkosi Chinoda, Abigail Mutsinze et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2020

    This trial evaluates the effectiveness of peer-delivery of mental health care on mental health and HIV viral load among ALHIV. If effective this intervention has the potential to be scaled-up to improve these outcomes.Trial registration: PACTR201810756862405. 08 October 2018