开发基于技术的干预措施,以改善寻求帮助的困境中寻求帮助的非治疗的年轻人,他们有共同的心理健康问题
Prachi Sanghvi1, Seema Mehrotra1, Manoj Kumar Sharma1
1Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, IND.
Cureus
|June 19, 2023
概括
一项新的基于技术的干预措施旨在改善印度城市的年轻成年人寻求心理健康帮助. 这种低强度的方法可以通过引导个人向专业的心理健康服务来弥合治疗差距.
科学领域:
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 公共卫生干预 公共卫生干预
- 数字健康数字健康
背景情况:
- 对于改善陷入困境的年轻人寻求帮助的心理健康,存在有限的干预措施,特别是在印度城市.
- 需要一个具有成本效益的,有针对性的干预措施来缩小心理健康治疗差距,特别是在资源较低的环境中.
- 本研究通过开发基于技术的干预来解决对可访问的心理健康支持的需求.
研究的目的:
- 描述基于技术的寻求帮助干预的指导原则,理论框架和开发过程.
- 为那些目前没有寻求治疗的痛苦的年轻成年人创建一个简单,易于使用的干预措施.
- 为了帮助开发可扩展的解决方案,在服务不足的人群中提供心理健康支持.
主要方法:
- 检查了专业寻求帮助的行为模型,以建立一个理论框架.
- 与现场专家进行试点工作和内容验证.
- 根据年轻成年人的偏好和文献审查,开发了干预组件.
主要成果:
- 开发了一个由八个核心和一个可选组件组成的干预,基于选定的理论框架.
- 干预组件旨在提高对心理健康问题的认识,自我帮助,社会支持和寻求专业帮助.
- 该干预措施是在考虑年轻成年人的偏好和专家验证后制定的.
结论:
- 在传统环境之外提供基于技术的干预措施可以作为有效的低强度门户,将心理健康服务纳入主流.
- 需要进一步的研究来评估干预的可行性,可接受性和有效性,以减少障碍和促进寻求帮助的行为.
- 这种干预有可能改善印度城市困境中的年轻人获得心理健康支持的可能性.
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