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Protocol For Intervention Development To Improve Adolescent Perinatal Mental Health In Kenya And Mozambique: The Inspire Project, Kethakie Lamahewa, Sally Griffin, Nadine Seward, Marleen Temmerman, Jonathan West, Málica De Melo, Elizabeth Raby, Aline Alonso, Bethan Burnside, Fernando Chissale

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, East Africa

Introduction: Mental health interventions have traditionally been developed by clinicians and researchers without the meaningful engagement and partnership with those who would receive, deliver, and fund them. Recent progress has highlighted the importance of the co-design of interventions, through stakeholder participation, as a means of increasing the integration of mental health interventions into existing health, education, and social care systems. This protocol describes the pre-implementation phase of the INSPIRE (Innovative approaches to adolescent perinatal wellbeing) project which aims to identify challenges, and design and test interventions to promote mental wellbeing and good mental health of adolescent girls during pregnancy and …