Leveraging a Digitized Mental Wellness (DIGImw) Program to Provide Mental Health Care for Internally Displaced People
Jennifer J Mootz1, Catherine Chantre1, Kathleen Sikkema1
1Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City (Mootz, Sweetland, Mello, Weissman, Wainberg) Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven (Chantre, Sweetland); Departments of Sociomedical Sciences (Sikkema, Lovero, Shelton) and Epidemiology (Kane, Weissman), Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City; Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City (Greene); Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique (Gouveia, Santos, Suleman, Comé, Feliciano, Fumo); Social and Preventive Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (Uribe-Restrepo, Cadena-Camargo).
Abstract:
A local insurgency has displaced many people in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. The authors' global team (comprising members from Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States) has been scaling up mental health services across the neighboring province of Nampula, Mozambique, now host to >200,000 displaced people. The authors describe how mental health services can be expanded by leveraging digital technology and task-shifting (i.e., having nonspecialists deliver mental health care) to address the mental health needs of displaced people. These methods can serve as a model for other researchers and clinicians aiming to address mental health needs arising from humanitarian disasters in low-resource settings.
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