1. Mental health capacity building in Mali by training rural general practitioners and raising community awareness
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Pakuy Pierre Mounkoro, Oumar Poudiougou, Karamoko Nimaga, Pierre-Marie Preux, François Calas, Nicole Hanssen, Farid Boumediene, Lucie Petiteau, Pierre-Emile Bruand, Jean-Michel Gaglione, Clotilde Vincent, Arouna Togora, Djamirou Dossa, Mansour Sy, Amy Fall-Ndao, SANOFI Recherche, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-CHU Limoges-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de l'Information Médicale et de l'Évaluation [CHU Limoges] (SIME), CHU Limoges, Laboratoire de Biostatistique et d'Informatique Médicale, and Université de Limoges (UNILIM)
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Mental Health Services ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030231 tropical medicine ,education ,Psychological intervention ,Developing country ,Capacity building ,Mali ,Training (civil) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,general practitioners ,medicine ,Global health ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,training ,Primary Health Care ,business.industry ,Mental Disorders ,Public health ,Research ,mental health ,public awareness ,General Medicine ,Mental health ,3. Good health ,Family medicine ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Clinical Competence ,Rural Health Services ,business ,Open access journal - Abstract
Introduction:despite the high prevalence and significant burden of mental disorders, they remain grossly under-diagnosed and undertreated. In low-income countries, such as Mali, integrating mental health services into primary care is the most viable way of closing the treatment gap. This program aimed to provide a mental health training intervention to rural general practitioners (GPs), to organize community awareness activities, and to evaluate the impact on mental health knowledge and through the number of new patients diagnosed with mental disorders and managed by these general practitioners. Methods:a pre-test/post-test design and the monthly monitoring of the number of new patients diagnosed with mental disorders by the trained GPs were used to evaluate the effect of the training interventions (two face-to-face group training workshops followed by individual follow-up supervisions) and of the community awareness activities. Results:the mean knowledge score of the 19 GPs who completed the initial 12-day group training raised from 24.6/100 at baseline, to 61.5/100 after training (p
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- 2021
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