Association between severity of symptoms and minimum mental health treatment duration in humanitarian contexts: a retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding and optimising mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions in humanitarian crises is crucial, particularly for the most prevalent mental health conditions in conflict settings: anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. However, research on what is the most appropriate length of psychological intervention is lacking in this setting. We aimed to establish which factors are most closely related to improvement and to determine the required number of consultations needed to achieve this improvement.

Methods

We retrospectively analysed records from 9028 patients allocated to treatment for anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic symptoms from the MHPSS programme in Borno State, Nigeria, from January 2018 to December 2019. Pat

SUBMITTER: Torre SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730340 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature