Implementing civic engagement within mental health services in South East Asia: a systematic review and realist synthesis of current evidence.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Civic engagement (CE) has the potential to transform mental health services and could be particularly important for low and middle-income countries (LMICs), which are rapidly developing to respond to the burden of poor mental health. Research from high income countries has found many challenges associated with the meaningful implementation of CE in practice, but this has been underexplored in LIMCS and in South East Asia (SEA) in particular.

Methods

We completed a realist synthesis and systematic review of peer reviewed publications and grey literature to identify the context and actions which promote successful implementation of CE approaches in SEA. We used a theory-driven approach-realist synthesis-to analyse data and develop context-mechanism-outcome configu

SUBMITTER: James K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063827 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature