TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging a Digitized Mental Wellness (DIGImw) Program to Provide Mental Health Care for Internally Displaced People
AU - Mootz, Jennifer J.
AU - Chantre, Catherine
AU - Sikkema, Kathleen
AU - Greene, M. Claire
AU - Lovero, Kathryn L.
AU - Gouveia, Lidia
AU - Santos, Palmira
AU - Suleman, Antonio
AU - Comé, Andrea Simone
AU - Feliciano, Paulino
AU - Uribe-Restrepo, José Miguel
AU - Sweetland, Annika C.
AU - Shelton, Rachel C.
AU - Kane, Jeremy
AU - Mello, Milena
AU - Fumo, Wilza
AU - Cadena-Camargo, Yazmin
AU - Weissman, Myrna
AU - Wainberg, Milton L.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - A local insurgency has displaced many people in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. The authors' global team (comprising members from Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States) has been scaling up mental health services across the neighboring province of Nampula, Mozambique, now host to >200,000 displaced people. The authors describe how mental health services can be expanded by leveraging digital technology and task-shifting (i.e., having nonspecialists deliver mental health care) to address the mental health needs of displaced people. These methods can serve as a model for other researchers and clinicians aiming to address mental health needs arising from humanitarian disasters in low-resource settings.
AB - A local insurgency has displaced many people in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. The authors' global team (comprising members from Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States) has been scaling up mental health services across the neighboring province of Nampula, Mozambique, now host to >200,000 displaced people. The authors describe how mental health services can be expanded by leveraging digital technology and task-shifting (i.e., having nonspecialists deliver mental health care) to address the mental health needs of displaced people. These methods can serve as a model for other researchers and clinicians aiming to address mental health needs arising from humanitarian disasters in low-resource settings.
KW - Armed conflict
KW - Internally displaced people
KW - Mental health systems
KW - Nonpsychiatric professionals
KW - Public health
KW - Sub-Saharan Africa
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181395210&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1176/appi.ps.202100552
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.202100552
M3 - Article
C2 - 37461818
AN - SCOPUS:85181395210
SN - 1075-2730
VL - 75
SP - 98
EP - 101
JO - Psychiatric Services
JF - Psychiatric Services
IS - 1
ER -
