Table 3.
Summary of articles with description of intervention only (N = 9).
| References | Country; setting | Description of training and capacity building intervention |
|---|---|---|
| Lakshminarayanan et al. (59) | India; Bangalore, Khed, Khagaria, & Sahibganj, primary care facility |
• Participants: Lay counsellors • Intervention: • Content: Perinatal mental health (preventative and promotive approaches, screening, referrals, facilitating mental health literacy, engaging families and communities to deliver mental health services for pregnant mothers) • Duration: 1 month • Mood of delivery: Online video conferencing, instant messaging and screen sharing • Delivered by: Multi-disciplinary team of health professionals. • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Jayaram et al. (60) | India; Mugalur rural primary care facility |
• Participants: Community health workers • Intervention: • Content: Screening and treatment of common medical conditions, and mental health stigma by street play • Duration: Unavailable • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face • Delivered by: Psychiatrists and medical social workers • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Malhotra et al. (61) | India; Chandigarh tertiary care facility |
• Participants: Psychologists, social workers, general medical practitioners and psychiatrists • Intervention: • Content: Diagnosis and management of mental health disorders (depression, psychosis, anxiety, substance abuse) using Clinical decision support system (CDSS) tool • Duration: 2 days • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face sessions and online video-conferencing using Skype • Delivered by: Psychologists who were supervised by psychiatrists at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Varghese et al. (62) | India; south tertiary care facility |
• Participants: Nurses • Intervention: • Content: Identification and management of delirium • Duration: 42 days • Mood of delivery: Unavailable • Delivered by: Unavailable • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Chowdhury et al. (63) | India; rural West Bengal primary care facility |
• Participants: Community health workers • Intervention: • Content: Identifying mental health illness (schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and depression, epilepsy, harmful effects of alcohol, and drug dependency and domestic violence) and to provide counselling and monitoring • Duration: 5 days • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face • Delivered by: Multi-disciplinary team of doctor, consultant, and clinical psychologist • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Chowdhury et al. (64) | India; Sundarban, Majarajganj, Kolkata tertiary care facility |
• Participants: Local Healthcare Providers, Integrated Child Development Scheme workers, multi-Purpose healthcare workers • Intervention: • Content: Mental health and illness including self-harm, symptoms of common neuro-psychiatric disease, counselling, and monitoring suitable cases • Duration: 2 days • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face • Delivered by: a consultant psychiatrist, a trainee psychiatrist and a psychologist • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Mahmuda et al. (65) | Bangladesh; Cox's Bazar Rohingya refugee camps |
• Participants: Psychology students with 6-months mental health experience • Intervention: • Content: Group Integrative adapt therapy(IAT) on refugee mental health problems, psychological and psychosocial treatments, adaptation and integration of ADAPT model: reducing the gap between individual and psychosocial responses in refugees, IAT background, theory and adaptation among the Rohingya Muslims, knowledge on IAT components and administration, how to test the IAT with Rohingya refugees to assess the feasibility and acceptability of IAT, cultural adaption on mental health and psychosocial assessment tools, safety management for field personnel, key ethical issues professionalism and fidelity of intervention trials with refugees and gender and intimate partner violence among the refugees • Intervention: Duration: 10-day • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face classroom based with field visits • Delivered by: Developer of Group Integrative Adapt Therapy (IAT), advisor of UNHCR, and wo Bangladeshi clinical psychologists • Control: None • No further information is provided. |
| Ventevogel et al. (8) | Afghanistan; Rural Eastern Nangarhar primary care facility |
• Participants: General medical practitioners, nurses, Midwives, village health volunteers, Traditional birth attendants • Intervention: • Content: Doctors, nurses, and midwives were trained on general introduction to the basic concepts, principles of diagnosis and (psychopharmacological), and non-pharmacological treatment of mental health and mental illness, the effects of psychosocial problems on mental health, and to health education and health promotion • The village health volunteers and traditional birth attendants were trained on the basic knowledge of mental health and mental illness, detection of the mental problem related people and follow-up of patients with a chronic mental illness, based upon instructions of the doctors and nurses from the basic health centres • Duration: 2 months • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face through multimedia projector, series of handouts, video, group work • Delivered by: Mental health consultant • Control: None • No further information is provided |
| Jordan (66) | Sri Lanka; Colombo & Batticaloa tertiary care facility |
• Participants: Mental health professionals, general medical practitioners, pastor, teacher-counsellor, health volunteer • Intervention: • Content: Basics of trauma assessment, family and community responses, reactions (acute stress disorder and PTSD), bereavement over the life cycle, threats of suicide, child and substance abuse; personal, pre-disposing, peri disposing, post-disposing, and preventive factors • Duration: Unavailable • Mood of delivery: Face-to-face through lectures, discussion, & role-play • Delivered by: Trained mental health volunteer • Control: None • No further information is provided |