Adaptation and translation of a scalable measure for assessing health worker competence to deliver a brief psychological intervention: A case study from central India of its comparison to a performance-based measure.

ABSTRACT: Efforts to reduce the global burden of common mental disorders have focused on scaling up evidence-based training programs for non-specialist providers to deliver brief psychological interventions. To evaluate these provider training programs, appropriate and scalable assessments of competency need to be developed alongside them. We followed a systematic approach for the cultural adaptation and translation into Hindi of a valid, English, multiple-choice applied knowledge measure to assess non-specialists' competence to deliver a brief psychological intervention for depression in rural India. We then explored the relationship between the performance of 30 non-specialist providers on the same written measure compared with a structured performance-based measure consisting of two role-plays. T

SUBMITTER: Joshi U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11735022 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature