Integration of a Technology-Based Mental Health Screening Program Into Routine Practices of Primary Health Care Services in Peru (The Allillanchu Project): Development and Implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite their high prevalence and significant burden, mental disorders such as depression remain largely underdiagnosed and undertreated.

Objective

The aim of the Allillanchu Project was to design, develop, and test an intervention to promote early detection, opportune referral, and access to treatment of patients with mental disorders attending public primary health care (PHC) services in Lima, Peru.

Methods

The project had a multiphase design: formative study, development of intervention components, and implementation. The intervention combined three strategies: training of PHC providers (PHCPs), task shifting the detection and referral of mental disorders, and a mobile health (mHealth) component comprising a screening app followed by motivational and rem

SUBMITTER: Diez-Canseco F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893885 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature