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Integrating self-help materials into mental health practice.

Elizabeth Church1, Peter Cornish, Terrence Callanan

  • 1Faculty of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University, 166 Bedford Hwy, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6. Elizabeth.Church@msvu.ca

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Canadian family physicians can use a self-help resource library to address mild to moderate mental health issues. This approach supplements practice and reduces physician demand, offering a promising model for primary care.

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Area of Science:

  • Primary Care
  • Mental Health
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Canadian family physicians increasingly manage patients' mental health concerns.
  • A lack of guidelines exists for effectively using self-help resources in primary care settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assist health professionals in integrating self-help materials into their mental health practice.
  • To provide a framework for utilizing self-help resources in family medicine.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a prescreened library of print and non-print self-help materials for common mental health issues.
  • Provided training for health professionals on integrating these resources into practice.
  • Monitored the utilization of the resource library by health professionals and community members.

Main Results:

  • The resource library was actively used, with high borrowing rates, especially for non-print materials.
  • Health professionals perceived the resources as valuable for supplementing care and managing workload.
  • Patients generally engaged with the self-help materials independently.

Conclusions:

  • The self-help resource library presents a promising strategy for family physicians to manage mild to moderate mental health problems.
  • Further research is needed to establish the effectiveness of self-help interventions within the family practice context.
  • Future implementations may benefit from tools like resource prescription pads and staged-care models.