A transdiagnostic community-based mental health treatment for comorbid disorders: development and outcomes of a randomized controlled trial among Burmese refugees in Thailand.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Existing studies of mental health interventions in low-resource settings have employed highly structured interventions delivered by non-professionals that typically do not vary by client. Given high comorbidity among mental health problems and implementation challenges with scaling up multiple structured evidence-based treatments (EBTs), a transdiagnostic treatment could provide an additional option for approaching community-based treatment of mental health problems. Our objective was to test such an approach specifically designed for flexible treatments of varying and comorbid disorders among trauma survivors in a low-resource setting.

Methods and findings

We conducted a single-blinded, wait-list randomized controlled trial of a newly developed transdiagnostic ps

SUBMITTER: Bolton P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4227644 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature