Sithabisile Gugulethu Gigaba

Biographic Data

ID5418538
NAMESithabisile Gugulethu Gigaba
GIVEN NAMESSithabisile Gugulethu
FAMILY NAMEGigaba
SIGNATUREGIGABA S G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
ORCID0000-0003-1919-1241
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Adapting the emotional dysregulation questionnaire for South Africa

    Open AccessRachel Jewkes, Esnat Chirwa et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2026

    Purpose: Emotional dysregulation is an important aspect of psychopathology, especially borderline personality disorder, and is prevalent in populations exposed to multiple traumas, like South Africa. We describe adaptation of the emotional dysregulation questionnaire (EDQ) for South Africa and its psychometric performance. Methods: We enrolled 58 ethnically-diverse women, who had experienced severe intimate partner violence, in eight group discus…

  • The feasibility of a Community Mental Health Education and Detection (CMED) tool in South Africa

    Open AccessMerridy Grant, Arvin Bhana et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    Background: Poor mental health literacy, misinformation about treatment and stigma result in low demand for mental health services in low-and middle-income countries. Community-based interventions that raise mental health awareness and facilitate detection of mental health conditions, are instrumental in increasing demand through strengthened mental health literacy, as well as supply of available mental health services through strengthened detect…

  • Impact of South Africa’s April 2022 floods on women and men’s lives and gender relations in low-income communities

    Open AccessRachel Jewkes, A Gibbs et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    In 2022, South Africa faced devastating flooding which resulted in the loss of at least 425 lives and widescale destruction of property. Using qualitative methods, we describe the gendered impact of the floods on homes and lives of women and men from very low-income housing areas. We conducted 16 in-depth interviews with women, and eight single-sex narrative group discussions and with 35 women and 15 men from flood-affected areas. The women were …

  • Strengthening integrated depression services within routine primary health care using the RE-AIM framework in South Africa

    Open AccessInge Petersen, Christopher G Kemp et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Integration of mental health into routine primary health care (PHC) services in low-and middle-income countries is globally accepted to improve health outcomes of other conditions and narrow the mental health treatment gap. Yet implementation remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to identify implementation strategies that improve implementation outcomes of an evidence-based depression care collaborative implementation model integrated wi…

  • Management of Depression in Chronic Care Patients Using a Task-Sharing Approach in a Real-World Primary Health Care Setting in South Africa

    Open AccessTasneem Kathree, M Bachmann et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2023Cited by: 1References: 42

    Depressive symptoms are common in South African primary care patients with chronic medical conditions, but are usually unrecognised and untreated. This study evaluated an integrated, task-sharing collaborative approach to management of depression comorbid with chronic diseases in primary health care (PHC) patients in a real-world setting. Existing HIV clinic counsellors provided a manualised depression counselling intervention with stepped-up ref…

  • Pushing the bench

    Open AccessChristopher G Kemp, Ntokozo Mntambo et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2021

    OBJECTIVE: Integration of mental health and chronic disease services in primary care could reduce the mental health treatment gap and improve associated health outcomes in low-resource settings. Low rates of nurse identification and referral of patients with depression limit the effectiveness of integrated mental health care; the barriers to and facilitators of identification and referral in South Africa and comparable settings remain undefined. …

  • The development of a Community Mental Health Education and Detection (CMED) tool in South Africa

    Open AccessMerridy Grant, Zamasomi Luvuno et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2021

    Background: Low demand for mental health services in sub-Saharan Africa is driven by poor mental health literacy, stigma, and poor service availability. Objective: To develop a Community Mental Health Education and Detection (CMED) Tool for adults for use by community health teams in South Africa aligned with their roles of health promotion, screening and linkage to care. Methods: Formative evaluation methods involving four processes: (1) Ongoing…

  • Patient-level predictors of detection of depressive symptoms, referral, and uptake of depression counseling among chronic care patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Open AccessChristopher G Kemp, Ntokozo Mntambo et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2020

    Nurses detected patients with depressive symptoms at rates comparable to primary care providers in high-resource settings, though gaps in referral and uptake persist. Nurses were more likely to detect symptoms among patients in more severe mental distress. Implementation strategies for integrated mental health care in low-resource settings should target improved rates of detection, referral, and uptake