Evaluation of a mental health training project in the Republic of the Sudan using the Mental Health Gap Action Programme curriculum.

Journal: International psychiatry : bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

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Affiliated Institutions:  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada, email sherese.ali@uhn.ca. Regional Advisor, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Division of Health Promotion and Protection, World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt. Consultant Psychiatrist, Springfield University Hospital, London, UK.

Abstract summary 

This paper reports on the training of primary care physicians in the family medicine programme at the University of Gezira, Sudan, using the World Health Organization's Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG). The training had a positive impact on their knowledge of and attitudes to mental disorder. More field tests of the mhGAP-IG would be useful to make further recommendations on its cultural relevance and its adaptation for use in low- and middle-income countries. Distance supervision of training of primary care physicians by internal facilitators is seen as critical for the sustainability of the intervention.

Authors & Co-authors:  Ali Sherese S Saeed Khalid K Hughes Peter P

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Citations :  Edgell, H. G. (1970) Medical assistants and psychiatric care. Psychopathologie Africaine, 6, 83–87.
Authors :  3
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SSN : 1749-3676
Study Population
Male,Female
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Country of Study
Sudan
Publication Country
England