"We find what we look for, and we look for what we know": factors interacting with a mental health training program to influence its expected outcomes in Tunisia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care physicians (PCPs) working in mental health care in Tunisia often lack knowledge and skills needed to adequately address mental health-related issues. To address these lacunas, a training based on the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide (IG) was offered to PCPs working in the Greater Tunis area between February and April 2016. While the mhGAP-IG has been used extensively in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to help build non-specialists' mental health capacity, little research has focused on how contextual factors interact with the implemented training program to influence its expected outcomes. This paper's objective is to fill that lack.

Methods

We conducted a case study with a purposeful sample of 18 trained PCPs. Da

SUBMITTER: Spagnolo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6302293 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature