Table 4.

Details of intervention delivery including provider characteristics.

Author	Integration into mother and child health centre	Intervention delivery				Intervention provider
		Location	Format	Duration	Treatment target -	Name	Qualification/s	Training duration	Supervision	NSHW characteristics/issues
Aracena M, 2009 [21]		Home	Individual	Average 12, hour-long sessions from third trimester to 1 year after delivery.	Mother and child	Health educators	Previous experience and they should haveraised children themselves.		By two nurse-midwives, 1 h per week.
Baker-Henningham, 2005 [22]	Integrated into a nutrition and positive parenting programme.	Home	Individual	Weekly for half an hour over 1 year	Mother, child and other caregivers when available	Community health aides	Para-professionals employed in government health centres.	6 weeks; 4 weeks training on health and nutrition and 2 weeks training in child development, parenting issues.	The supervisor observed each aide conducting visits once a month and visited the health centre every fortnight to discuss the programme and review the records of each visit.
Cooper PJ, 2009 [23]	Integrated into a child development programme.	Home	Individual	16 sessions starting antenatally at weekly, fortnightly and monthly intervals ending at 5 months Postpartum.	Mother-infant relationship	Lay community health workers	No formal specialist qualifications; all were mothers selected in consultation with the local community council.	4-month training in basic parenting and counselling skills and the specific mother-infant intervention.	An experienced community clinical psychologist provided session by session supervision in the group format, supervision, weekly.	NSHW had a focused task(rather than responsibility for comprehensive community health) and had strong community support.
Futterman D, 2013 [24]	Integrated into a PMTCT program for HIV positive women.	Clinic	Group	Eight sessions	Mother	Mothers; two mothers - mentor mothers	Mentor mothers who were alsoHIV-positive, had a child recently, had used PMTCTservices, and were coping positively.
Gao L, 2012 [25]	Integrated with routine childbirth education sessions.	Two clinic based and one telephone session.	Group	Three sessions: Two 90-min antenatal group sessions; one telephone follow up session within 2 weeks of delivery.	Mother	Midwife educator		Intensive training and supervision (not described).
Rahman A, 2008 [27]	Integrated into a community health programme.	Home	Individual	16 sessions from the last month of pregnancy until 10 months postpartum.	Focus on mother and infant health	Lady health worker	Mostly high-school completers	2-day training workshop and 1-day refresher after 4 months.	Monthly supervision by mental health specialists in group format for half a day. Emphasis on experiential learning through shared experiences of the group.	NSHW were from the same community as patients, and understand the socio-cultural context of their problems. Their existing job included visiting household and talking to the family about primary prevention. Many were trusted ‘health educators' within their community and thus are able to adopt the CBT therapist's role and access the families with relative ease.
Rojas G, 2007 [26]		Clinic	Group	Groups consisted of 1 session per week for 8 weeks, each session lasting 50 mins.		Midwives or nurses		8 h	Weekly, by a designated trained, non-professional person who monitored attendance at consultations and groupsessions and provided support and advice.
Tezel A , 2006 [28]		Home	Individual	6 weekly sessions	Mother	Nurse researcher			Study was part of doctoral thesis of the nurse researcher and was supervised. No details.	Nurse had two professional roles: that of a caregiver and an educator.
Tripathy P, 2010 [29]		Community	Group	20 monthly meetings	Mother and child		A local woman, selected on the basis of criteria (including speaking the local language and having the ability to travel to meetings) identified by the community.	a 7-day residential training course	Fortnightly meetings with district co-ordinators.

NSHW, non-specialist health workers; PMTCT, prevention of mother-to-child transmission.