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Improving access to psychological treatments: lessons from developing countries.

Vikram Patel1, Neerja Chowdhary, Atif Rahman

  • 1Department of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. vikram.patel@lshtm.ac.uk

Behaviour Research and Therapy
|July 27, 2011
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Task-shifting psychological treatments to community health workers and adapting them for cultural contexts significantly improves access and recovery rates for mental disorders in low-resource settings.

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Area of Science:

  • Global Mental Health
  • Health Services Research
  • Psychological Interventions

Background:

  • The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends psychological treatments for mental disorders, but access remains limited globally.
  • Key barriers to accessing evidence-based psychological treatments include a shortage of skilled professionals and cultural acceptability issues.
  • Resource-poor developing countries face particular challenges in implementing and scaling up mental health services.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize experiences from programs developing and evaluating psychological treatments for depression in three resource-poor developing countries.
  • To explore strategies for overcoming human resource limitations and cultural acceptability barriers in psychological treatment delivery.
  • To assess the effectiveness of adapted psychological interventions delivered by non-specialist health workers.

Main Methods:

  • Training lay or community health workers to deliver psychological treatments, addressing the human resource barrier.
  • Systematically adapting treatments to contextual factors to enhance cultural acceptability.
  • Evaluating program outcomes by comparing recovery rates with usual care in real-world settings.

Main Results:

  • All evaluated programs demonstrated significant improvements in depression recovery rates compared to usual care.
  • Training community health workers proved effective in delivering psychological interventions.
  • Culturally adapted treatments were successfully implemented and well-received.

Conclusions:

  • Task-shifting psychological treatments to community health workers is a viable strategy to overcome human resource shortages.
  • Systematic cultural adaptation is crucial for the acceptability and effectiveness of psychological interventions in diverse settings.
  • These findings have significant implications for improving global access to essential psychological treatments, particularly in low-resource environments.