Leveraging a Digitized Mental Wellness (DIGImw) Program to Provide Mental Health Care for Internally Displaced People

Jennifer J. Mootz; Catherine Chantre; Kathleen Sikkema; M. Claire Greene; Kathryn L. Lovero; Lidia Gouveia; Palmira Santos; Antonio Suleman; Andrea Simone Comé; Paulino Feliciano; José Miguel Uribe-Restrepo; Annika C. Sweetland; Rachel C. Shelton; Jeremy Kane; Milena Mello; Wilza Fumo; Yazmin Cadena-Camargo; Myrna Weissman; Milton L. Wainberg

doi:10.1176/appi.ps.202100552

Leveraging a Digitized Mental Wellness (DIGImw) Program to Provide Mental Health Care for Internally Displaced People

Jennifer J. Mootz
, Catherine Chantre
, Kathleen Sikkema
, M. Claire Greene
, Kathryn L. Lovero
, Lidia Gouveia
, Palmira Santos
, Antonio Suleman
, Andrea Simone Comé
, Paulino Feliciano
, José Miguel Uribe-Restrepo
, Annika C. Sweetland
, Rachel C. Shelton
, Jeremy Kane
, Milena Mello
, Wilza Fumo
, Yazmin Cadena-Camargo
, Myrna Weissman
, Milton L. Wainberg

Columbia University

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	98-101
Number of pages	4
Journal	Psychiatric Services
Volume	75
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100552
State	Published - 01 Jan 2024
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Armed conflict
Internally displaced people
Mental health systems
Nonpsychiatric professionals
Public health
Sub-Saharan Africa

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Mootz, J. J., Chantre, C., Sikkema, K., Greene, M. C., Lovero, K. L., Gouveia, L., Santos, P., Suleman, A., Comé, A. S., Feliciano, P., Uribe-Restrepo, J. M., Sweetland, A. C., Shelton, R. C., Kane, J., Mello, M., Fumo, W., Cadena-Camargo, Y., Weissman, M., & Wainberg, M. L. (2024). Leveraging a Digitized Mental Wellness (DIGImw) Program to Provide Mental Health Care for Internally Displaced People. Psychiatric Services, 75(1), 98-101. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100552

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