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ArticleBJPsych open2025

The role of economic empowerment for mental health in the Global South.

Monika Müller, Soumitra Pathare, Abhijit Nadkarni

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Article in BJPsych open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Monika MüllerFaculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-8227
Soumitra PathareCentre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune, Maharashtra, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9311-9024
Abhijit NadkarniCentre for Global Mental Health, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5832-5236

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Abstract

There is a great potential for carefully designed economic empowerment programmes to improve mental health in recipients and their significant others. Onono and colleagues interviewed 62 caregiver-adolescent dyads on the effect of an economic empowerment intervention consisting of microcredits to purchase farming implements and a water pump to irrigate crops throughout the year combined with agricultural and financial training. Their intersectoral economic empowerment intervention decreased parental stress, parental absenteeism as well as harsh parenting and disciplining practices. This translated to better caregiver-adolescent communication and improved household dynamics, thus increasing the psychological well-being of adolescents. The research contributes to a growing evidence base on the importance of economic empowerment interventions for mental health by generating hypotheses on mechanisms of action.

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cash plus programmeseconomic empowermentlivestock transferLow- and middle-incomemental health services

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