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A Narrative-Gamified Mental Health App (Kuamsha) for Adolescents in Uganda: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Study

A Narrative-Gamified Mental Health App (Kuamsha) for Adolescents in Uganda: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Study

A Narrative-Gamified Mental Health App (Kuamsha) for Adolescents in Uganda: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Study

Julia R Pozuelo   1, 2, 3 , DPhil ;   Christine Nabulumba   4 , MA ;   Doreen Sikoti   4 , PGD ;   Meghan Davis   5 , MPH ;   Joy Louise Gumikiriza-Onoria   6 , MSCP ;   Eugene Kinyanda   7 , PhD ;   Bianca Moffett   3 , MSc, MD ;   Alastair van Heerden   8, 9 , PhD ;   Heather A O'Mahen   10 , PhD ;   Michelle Craske   11, 12 , PhD ;   DoBAt & Ebikolwa Consortium   13 * ;   Munshi Sulaiman   14 * , PhD ;   Alan Stein   2, 3, 15, 16 * , MB BCh

1 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

3 MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

4 BRAC, Kampala, Uganda

5 Mind Ease, London, United Kingdom

6 College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

7 Mental Health Project, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (MRC/UVRI), Kampala, Uganda

8 Centre for Community Based Research, Human Sciences Research Council, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

9 SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

10 Mood Disorders Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

11 Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

12 Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

13 See Acknowledgments, Oxford, United Kingdom

14 BRAC University, Kampala, Uganda

15 Africa Health Research Institute, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

16 Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally

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