capacity building – integrating mental health into primary care
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Capacity Building – Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care. Dr Pamela Smith – Fall 2014. Mental Health Capacity Building. Definition = development of resources necessary to provide mental health care within a given setting or community Function = to increase access to mental health care - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Capacity Building – Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care
Dr Pamela Smith – Fall 2014
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Definition = development of resources necessary to provide mental health care within a given setting or community
Function = to increase access to mental health care
Means for building MH capacity = integrating mental health care into primary care settings
Mental Health Capacity Building
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Definition: health care at a basic rather than specialized level for people making an initial approach to a doctor or nurse for treatment.
General practitioners (GPs); family doctors; nurses, midwives
Primary Care
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Reasons Why Integrating MH care
into Primary Care Settings
Makes Good Sense
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An estimated 450 million people worldwide are affected by mental disorders.
1. High Prevalence of MH disorders Worldwide
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Global studies indicate: Depression – associated with diabetes, high
blood pressure (hypertension), and cardiac disease (heart attack)
Panic attacks – asthma Having some type of mental disorder –
HIV/AIDS
2. Mental & physical health issues are inter-related
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Gap is significant in all countries
Factors contributing to gap: Inadequate primary care services for MH Failure to detect mental conditions (staff
w/limited training; patients w/limited awareness of symptoms)
Limited health system financial & human resources
Social stigma, discrimination, misconceptions
3. Gap between MH disorders and treatment is large
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Convenience - access to MH services closer to home; keeps families together; daily activities can be maintained.
Increases early identification & treatment of conditions
Increased opportunities for family & community education
4. MH present in primary care setting increases access to care
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Closure of outdated institutions – decreased inappropriate, involuntary admissions, inadequate living conditions, & unreported abuses.
Stigma is minimized – MH patients are treated in same manner as other clinic patients
5. MH in primary care setting facilitates respect of human rights
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Inconvenience & cost of lengthy travel - associated people dropping out of treatment
Health workers and equipment are less expensive at primary care level
Cost (i.e. health care budget expenditure) of providing mental health care for 1 person in the primary care setting in low/low-mid income countries < $6
6. MH provided in primary care setting is cost-effective
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Global studies indicate anxiety, depression, & etoh abuse have been treated effectively by primary care clinicians
7. MH in primary care setting has been associated with good health outcomes
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PUSKESMAS
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Guiding Principles for Integrating MH into Primary Care
Settings
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In order to provide knowledge and, if necessary, to shift negative attitudes and resistance
Key arguments for MH Supporting in Primary Care:
High prevalence of mental disorders burden of untreated MH conditions human rights violations often occurring in
psychiatric hospitals existence of effective primary care-based
treatments
1. Collaboration w/Leaders & Advocacy
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Formal policy and legislation concretizes commitment to MH in primary care
2. Revision of policy, plans, & legislation to include mental health as a part of primary care
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Financial resources for facilities, specialists (mental health professionals) and additional primary care personnel (if needed) are required to establish and maintain services.
3. Financial and Human Resources
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Local team who directs and coordinates development of a MH program (administration, training, care services)
Steers programs around challenges facilitating continuation of the integration process.
4. Local Mental Health Team
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Training primary care workers to identify mental distress and provide basic interventions
Follow-up supervision by mental health specialists
5. Adequate training of primary care workers is required
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Primary care workers tend to function best when their mental health tasks are limited and doable.
6. Primary care tasks must be limited and doable
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If available, local psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, & psychiatrists w/i community facilities and other settings to provide supervision, support, and management of severe situations
Local assistance should always be utilized before seeking outside (expatriate) assistance
7. Local Specialist Mental Health Professionals
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Distribute psychotropic medicines to primary care facilities instead of through psychiatric hospitals.
Revised legislation and regulations to allow primary care workers (e.g. specially trained nurses) to prescribe medications where MH specialists and physicians are scarce.
8. Essential psychotropic medications must be available
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Village and community health workers – used to identify and refer people to MH care
Community-based nongovernmental organizations (NGO) – programs to improve psychosocial function & decrease need for hospitalization.
9. Collaboration w/Community Resources
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Lingering skepticism and resistance can take time to overcome.
Major changes in budgets and re-distribution of financial resources can take time
Providing comprehensive MH training to designated health workers is time consuming
10. Integration Takes Time
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Program Models
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General physicians (GPs) diagnose mental disorders & prescribe medications where required
Mental health community centre - supervision for GPs; psychologists (individual, family ,group therapy); family health team (support/advocacy)
Health service data= more people with mental disorders have been identified and successfully treated at the MH community centre.
Model 1: Chile: integrated primary care for mental health in the Macul District of Santiago
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States if India
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Trained medical officers w/i primary care centers diagnose and treat mental disorders
District mental health team – psychosocial services; mgmt of complex cases; & training medical officers and other primary care workers.
Primary care centers - evolving; able to provide mental health services independently with minimal district support
MH services in primary care centers – treatment received
in communities, reducing expenses and time spent travelling to hospitals.
Model 2: India: integrated primary care for mental health in the Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala State
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Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide basic mental health services
A community mental health clinics – psychosocial services and training for PCPs
People with mental disorders, who otherwise would have been undetected or hospitalized, are now treated within the community.
Model 3: Saudi Arabia: integrated primary care for mental health in the Eastern Province
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Two distinct service models:
1) Trained nurse - designated to see all patients with mental disorders within the primary care clinic.
2) Primary care worker - Mental disorders are managed as any other health problem
Clinics adopt the model that best accommodates
their available resources and local needs
Model 4: South Africa: Integrated primary care services for mental health in the Ehlanzeni District,Mpumalanga Province