Use of task-shifting to scale-up child mental health services in low-resource Ugandan schools: role of contextual factors on program implementation
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Date
2015
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Implementation Science
Abstract
Children in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are burdened by
significant unmet mental health needs, but this region
has limited access to mental health services to address
these needs. Despite the success of numerous interventions
for promoting child mental health, most evidencebased
programs (EBPs) are not available in SSA. This
study utilizes a task-shifting strategy and trains teachers
as community health workers (CHWs) to utilize EBP
strategies and provide basic child mental health services
in schools. This paper focuses on two implementation
objectives: 1) investigating the transportability of an EBP
(ParentCorps-a school-based mental health program)
from a developed country to a SSA country-Uganda by
evaluating quality of implementation; and 2) studying
the influences of contextual factors (i.e., agency setting,
individual characteristics) on implementation processes
and outcomes (e.g., CHWs’ level of engagement and utilization
of EBP strategies).
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Keywords
Child mental health services, Low-resource Ugandan schools
Citation
Huang et al.: Use of task-shifting to scale-up child mental health services in low-resource Ugandan schools: role of contextual factors on program implementation. Implementation Science 2015 10(Suppl 1):A23. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-10-S1-A23