Depression in the Time of Conflict: Evaluating Community-Based Models of Psychosocial Care in Kayin, Myanmar
Project overview
What are the individual- and community-level effects of non-specialist psychosocial service delivery on mental health, social cohesion, and economic outcomes? What modes of psychosocial service delivery are best suited to humanitarian contexts?
Countries
Myanmar
Organisations
Innovations for Poverty Action
Partners
Community Partners International (CPI), Myanmar Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Area of funding
Humanitarian Research
Grant amount
£478,802
Start date
01
July
2020
End date
01
December
2024
Project length (in months)
53
Funding calls
R2HC Annual Funding Call
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Status
Live
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Expected outcomes
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Alexandra Hartman
Co-Investigator (UCL)
We hope participants in the programme will find themselves more resilient to the multifaceted challenges they face, and that the study will help fill the evidence gap about how best to provide psychosocial first aid in remote and conflict-affected settings
Principal Investigators: Alexandra Hartman (UCL), Giuseppe Raviola (Harvard Medical School), Jonathan Weigel (LSE) & Kyaw Zay Ya (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)
Purpose
Mental disorders are the leading cause of morbidity worldwide, and yet up to 90% of people with common and severe mental disorders in low-income countries receive no treatment. The gap between morbidity and care is greater still in humanitarian contexts. Although community-based non-specialist models of care have shown great promise in closing this gap, the evidence base is limited on several critical questions.
This study will first ask, what are the individual- and community-level effects of non-specialist psychosocial service delivery on mental health, social cohesion, and economic outcomes in remote, conflict-affected areas? Second, what modes of psychosocial service delivery are best suited to humanitarian contexts, given both the burden of disease and operational challenges of working in fragile contexts?
We are studying these questions in collaboration with Community Partners International (CPI) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Kayin, Myanmar. We will evaluate CPI’s Mental Health &; Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) programme, as well as a low-cost self-help group alternative, randomised on the village level in Kayin.
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