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Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India

INTRODUCTION: The high mental health treatment gap in India, necessitates mental health service delivery through the primary health care system. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) as frontline community health workers are a key member of the primary health care team. The ASHAs training needs...

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Autores principales: Kapanee, Aruna Rose Mary, Meena, K.S., Nattala, Prasanthi, Sudhir, Paulomi M.
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934675
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_764_21
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author Kapanee, Aruna Rose Mary
Meena, K.S.
Nattala, Prasanthi
Sudhir, Paulomi M.
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Nattala, Prasanthi
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description INTRODUCTION: The high mental health treatment gap in India, necessitates mental health service delivery through the primary health care system. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) as frontline community health workers are a key member of the primary health care team. The ASHAs training needs related to mental health, require to be determined in order to accordingly tailor capacity-building programs. In this context, the present study aims to examine the ASHAs mental health orientation utilizing a factorially validated Indian tool. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 91 ASHAs from a taluk of Bengaluru Urban District, responded to the self-administered Orientation towards Mental Illness (OMI) scale. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics viz. frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations. RESULTS: The ASHAs reported an overall unfavourable mental health orientation and the specific OMI factors on which unfavourable orientation was observed were Psychosocial stress, Non-restrained behaviour, Weak cognitive control, Fidgety behaviour, Bizarre behaviour, Psychosocial manipulation, and Hypo-functioning. CONCLUSION: The findings of the study suggest that capacity-building programs for ASHAs will need to first examine their orientation to mental health and collaboratively address an unfavourable orientation when present, as it would have a bearing on ASHAs mental health service delivery in the community.
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spelling pubmed-86534582021-12-20 Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India Kapanee, Aruna Rose Mary Meena, K.S. Nattala, Prasanthi Sudhir, Paulomi M. J Family Med Prim Care Original Article INTRODUCTION: The high mental health treatment gap in India, necessitates mental health service delivery through the primary health care system. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) as frontline community health workers are a key member of the primary health care team. The ASHAs training needs related to mental health, require to be determined in order to accordingly tailor capacity-building programs. In this context, the present study aims to examine the ASHAs mental health orientation utilizing a factorially validated Indian tool. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 91 ASHAs from a taluk of Bengaluru Urban District, responded to the self-administered Orientation towards Mental Illness (OMI) scale. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics viz. frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations. RESULTS: The ASHAs reported an overall unfavourable mental health orientation and the specific OMI factors on which unfavourable orientation was observed were Psychosocial stress, Non-restrained behaviour, Weak cognitive control, Fidgety behaviour, Bizarre behaviour, Psychosocial manipulation, and Hypo-functioning. CONCLUSION: The findings of the study suggest that capacity-building programs for ASHAs will need to first examine their orientation to mental health and collaboratively address an unfavourable orientation when present, as it would have a bearing on ASHAs mental health service delivery in the community. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8653458/ /pubmed/34934675 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_764_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kapanee, Aruna Rose Mary
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Nattala, Prasanthi
Sudhir, Paulomi M.
Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India
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title_fullStr Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India
title_full_unstemmed Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India
title_short Mental health orientation among ASHAs: A study from Karnataka State, India
title_sort mental health orientation among ashas: a study from karnataka state, india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934675
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_764_21
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