Integrating community mental health within primary care in southern Malawi: A pilot educational intervention to enhance the role of health surveillance assistants.

CONCLUSION: The HSAs' focus on the psychosocial concerns of individuals' 'distress' and 'risk' prepared the way for a practical set of culturally sensitive and therapeutic interventions and offers a potential path towards increasing the capacity of primary care mental health provision that is responsive to local understandings and experiences of distress. PMID: 23399989 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research