ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2018
Does mhGAP training of primary health care providers improve the identification of child- and adolescent mental, neurological or substance use disorders? Results from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda.
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TREAT Child Alcohol Use Disorder (C-AUD) in Eastern Uganda: Screening, Diagnostics, Risk Factors and Handling of Children Drinking Alcohol
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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Abstract
backgroundIntegrating child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) into primary health care (PHC) using the WHO mental health gap action program (mhGAP) is recommended for closing a mental health treatment gap in low- and middle-income countries, but PHC providers have limited ability to detect CAMH disorders. We aimed to evaluate the effect of PHC provider mhGAP training on CAMH disorder identification in Eastern Uganda.
methodsThirty-six PHC clinics participated in a randomized controlled trial which compared the proportion of intervention (
resultsNearly two thirds (63.8%, 23/36) of all clinics identified and recorded at least one non-epilepsy CAMH diagnosis from 40 692 clinic visits of patients aged 1-18 recorded over 4 months. The proportion of clinics with a non-epilepsy CAMH diagnosis prior to training was 27.7% (10/36, similar between study arms). Training did not significantly improve intervention clinics' non-epilepsy CAMH diagnosis (13/18, 72.2%) relative to the control (7/18, 38.9%) arm,
conclusionIn this setting, mhGAP CAMH training of PHC providers increases PHC clinics' identification and reporting of non-epilepsy CAMH cases but this increase did not reach statistical significance.
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