Dr. Debra Machando

Qualifications:

PhD: 2020 UCT South Africa, MSc Clinical Psychology, UZ BSc Hon Psychology UZ, BSc Psychology ZOU, O’ Level.

Academic Appointments:

Lecturer

Research Interests:

Mental Health

Faculty: Social And Behavioural Sciences

Department: Applied Psychology

Research Category: Behavioral Sciences

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Publications:

1. Siddique, H., Maweni Jr, R. M., Lupi, M., Woods, S., Shirazi, S., Foley, R. W., & Machando, D. (2024). Resilience and burnout of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Nursing, 33(3), 144-150.

2. Kidia, K., Machando, D., Dzoro, V., Chibanda, D., Abas, M., Manda, E., ... & Jack, H. (2024). Rural Friendship Bench: A qualitative study in Zaka district, Zimbabwe. Social Science & Medicine, 348, 116791.

3. Machando, D. (2020). Neurocognitive screening following acquired brain injury: an adaptation of the Birmingham Cognitive Screen for Zimbabwe (Zim-BCoS).

4. Marima, P., Gunduza, R., Machando, D., & Dambi, J. M. (2019). Correlates of social support on report of probable common mental disorders in Zimbabwean informal caregivers of patients with stroke: a cross-sectional survey. BMC research notes, 12, 1-7.

5. Machando, D., Maasdorp, V., Wogrin, C., Javangwe, G., & Muchena, K. C. (2019). Professional caregivers: Stress and coping in the face of loss and trauma. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 19 (2).

6. Lovett, A., Kwon, H. R., Kidia, K., Machando, D., Crooks, M., Fricchione, G., ... & Jack, H. E. (2019). Mental health of people detained within the justice system in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 13, 1-41.

7. Jack, H. E., Fricchione, G., Chibanda, D., Thornicroft, G., Machando, D., & Kidia, K. (2018). Mental health of incarcerated people: a global call to action. The Lancet Psychiatry, 5(5), 391-392
8. Zarova, C., Chiwaridzo, M., Tadyanemhandu, C., Machando, D., & Dambi, J. M. (2018). The impact of social support on the health-related quality of life of adult patients with tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional survey. BMC research notes, 11, 1-7.

9. Kidia, K., Machando, D., Mangezi, W., Hendler, R., Crooks, M., Abas, M., ... & Jack, H. (2017). Mental health in Zimbabwe: a health systems analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 4(11), 876-886.

10. Chibanda, D., Cowan, F., Verhey, R., Machando, D., Abas, M., & Lund, C. (2017). Lay health workers’ experience of delivering a problem solving therapy intervention for common mental disorders among people living with HIV: a qualitative study from Zimbabwe. Community mental health journal, 53, 143-153.

11. Chibanda, D., Verhey, R., Gibson, L. J., Munetsi, E., Machando, D., Rusakaniko, S., ... & Abas, M. (2016). Validation of screening tools for depression and anxiety disorders in a primary care population with high HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe. Journal of affective disorders, 198, 50-55.

12. Abas, M., Bowers, T., Manda, E., Cooper, S., Machando, D., Verhey, R., ... & Chibanda, D. (2016). ‘Opening up the mind’: problem-solving therapy delivered by female lay health workers to improve access to evidence-based care for depression and other common mental disorders through the Friendship Bench Project in Zimbabwe. International journal of mental health systems, 10, 1-8.

13. Liu, G., Jack, H., Piette, A., Mangezi, W., Machando, D., Rwafa, C., ... & Abas, M. (2016). Mental health training for health workers in Africa: a systematic review. The Lancet Psychiatry, 3(1), 65-76

14. Hendler, R., Kidia, K., Machando, D., Crooks, M., Mangezi, W., Abas, M., ... & Jack, H. (2016). “We are not really marketing mental health”: mental health advocacy in Zimbabwe. PLoS One, 11(9), e0161860.

15. Kidia, K., Machando, D., Bere, T., Macpherson, K., Nyamayaro, P., Potter, L., ... & Abas, M. (2015). ‘I was thinking too much’: experiences of HIV‐positive adults with common mental disorders and poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 20 (7), 903-913.