'Restoring the person's life': a qualitative study to inform development of care for people with severe mental disorders in rural Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

In low-income countries, care for people with severe mental disorders (SMDs) who manage to access treatment is usually emergency-based, intermittent or narrowly biomedical. The aim of this study was to inform development of a scalable district-level mental health care plan to meet the long-term care needs of people with SMD in rural Ethiopia.

Methods

The present study was carried out as formative work for the Programme for Improving Mental health CarE which seeks to develop, implement and evaluate a district level model of integrating mental health care into primary care. Six focus group discussions and 25 in-depth interviews were conducted with service planners, primary care providers, traditional and religious healers, mental health service users, caregivers and commu

SUBMITTER: Mall S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6998647 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature