Chetana

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The programme aims to make high quality and free mental healthcare accessible at the doorstep or close to home for the people of Canacona taluka in Goa.

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Goa

PROJECT DURATION

PROJECT GOAL

  • Implement an evidence-based community model of mental health care.
  • Implement a mental health promotion programme in the community.
  • Establish a monitoring and evaluation system for the two programme components described above.

 

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The Chetana community wellness program originally aimed to make high quality free mental health care accessible at the doorstep or close to home for the people of Canacona taluka in Goa. However, we had to pause our service providers work in Canacona due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not wanting these challenges to prevent us from reaching out to those in need, we now aim to create mental health awareness through video content on a wide range of mental health topics.

The videos are partially filmed in Canacona and feature people living in Canacona which will be disseminated through WhatsApp and other platforms by prominent stakeholders and community workers from Canacona. These videos will be in the Konkani language and supplemented by resources in Marathi and English.

KEY COMPONENTS

  • Case detection in the community: We are networking with a range of stakeholders who are integrated in the community and who will help identify potential patients and refer them to the programme. Examples of these stakeholders include community workers such as Anganwadi workers, school-based staff, etc.
  • Mental health outreach clinics: These clinics are manned by trained and supervised by Community Health Workers (CHWs), who will provide services such as screening, counselling, follow-up of patients, referral to specialist services if needed and home-based case management. These clinics will be based in routinely accessed (and locally acceptable) community-based organisations, such as the local panchayats, Anganwadi centres, etc. The counselling interventions delivered are those that have been developed and tested in Sangath.
  • Community-level programmes: This involves engagement with the community through mental health awareness programmes, such as, talks by experts, street plays, posters, documentaries etc.

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The Chetana community wellness program originally aimed to make high quality free mental health care accessible at the doorstep or close to home for the people of Canacona taluka in Goa. However, we had to pause our service providers work in Canacona due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not wanting these challenges to prevent us from reaching out to those in need, we now aim to create mental health awareness through video content on a wide range of mental health topics.

The videos are partially filmed in Canacona and feature people living in Canacona which will be disseminated through WhatsApp and other platforms by prominent stakeholders and community workers from Canacona. These videos will be in the Konkani language and supplemented by resources in Marathi and English.

Watch the videos here

“We are everyone’s ASHAs but who’s there for us?” a qualitative exploration of perceptions of work stress and coping among rural frontline workers in Madhya Pradesh, India

Ritu Shrivastava, Lochan Sharma, Mehak Jolly, Romi Ahuja, Radhika Sharma, John A Naslund, Jyotsna Agrawal, Rahul Shidhaye, Seema Mehrotra, Steve D Hollon, Vikram Patel, Deepak Tugnawat, Ananth Kumar, Anant Bhan, Ameya P Bondre

Soc Sci Med,

2023

Determinants of alcohol use among young males in two Indian states: A population-based study

Jan M. Heijdra Suasnabar, Abhijit Nadkarni, Benjamin Palafox

Wiley Online Library,

2023

Stress Alleviation Methods for community-Based Health ActiVists (SAMBHAV): Development of a digital program for stress reduction for community health workers in rural India

Ritu Shrivastava, Abhishek Singh, Azaz Khan, Shivangi Choubey, Juliana Restivo Haney, Eirini Karyotaki, Deepak Tugnawat, Anant Bhan, John A. Naslund

SSM-Mental Health,

2023

Closing the treatment gap for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

Abhijit Nadkarni, Yashi Gandhi, Urvita Bhatia and Richard Velleman

Cambridge University Press, Global Mental Health,

2022

A qualitative exploration of perceived needs and barriers of individuals with schizophrenia, caregivers and clinicians in using mental health applications in Madhya Pradesh, India

Ameya P. Bondre, Ritu Shrivastava, Harikeerthan Raghuram, Deepak Tugnawat, Azaz Khan, Snehil Gupta, Mohit Kumar, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Matcheri Keshavan, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Prabhat Kumar Chand, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Vikram Patel, John Torous, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, John A. Naslund, Anant Bhan

SSM - Mental Health,

2022

A pilot study to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of training mental health workers in India to select case-specific intervention procedures within a dynamic modular treatment designed for a low-resource setting

Kendra S. Knudsen MA, Kimberly D. Becker PhD, Karen Guan PhD, Resham Gellatly PhD, Vikram H. Patel MD, Kanika Malik PhD, Maya M. Boustani PhD, Sonal Mathur PhD, Bruce F. Chorpita PhD

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,

2022

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“We are everyone’s ASHAs but who’s there for us?” a qualitative exploration of perceptions of work stress and coping among rural frontline workers in Madhya Pradesh, India

Ritu Shrivastava, Lochan Sharma, Mehak Jolly, Romi Ahuja, Radhika Sharma, John A Naslund, Jyotsna Agrawal, Rahul Shidhaye, Seema Mehrotra, Steve D Hollon, Vikram Patel, Deepak Tugnawat, Ananth Kumar, Anant Bhan, Ameya P Bondre

Soc Sci Med,

2023

Determinants of alcohol use among young males in two Indian states: A population-based study

Jan M. Heijdra Suasnabar, Abhijit Nadkarni, Benjamin Palafox

Wiley Online Library,

2023

Stress Alleviation Methods for community-Based Health ActiVists (SAMBHAV): Development of a digital program for stress reduction for community health workers in rural India

Ritu Shrivastava, Abhishek Singh, Azaz Khan, Shivangi Choubey, Juliana Restivo Haney, Eirini Karyotaki, Deepak Tugnawat, Anant Bhan, John A. Naslund

SSM-Mental Health,

2023

Closing the treatment gap for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

Abhijit Nadkarni, Yashi Gandhi, Urvita Bhatia and Richard Velleman

Cambridge University Press, Global Mental Health,

2022

A qualitative exploration of perceived needs and barriers of individuals with schizophrenia, caregivers and clinicians in using mental health applications in Madhya Pradesh, India

Ameya P. Bondre, Ritu Shrivastava, Harikeerthan Raghuram, Deepak Tugnawat, Azaz Khan, Snehil Gupta, Mohit Kumar, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Matcheri Keshavan, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Prabhat Kumar Chand, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Vikram Patel, John Torous, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, John A. Naslund, Anant Bhan

SSM - Mental Health,

2022

A pilot study to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of training mental health workers in India to select case-specific intervention procedures within a dynamic modular treatment designed for a low-resource setting

Kendra S. Knudsen MA, Kimberly D. Becker PhD, Karen Guan PhD, Resham Gellatly PhD, Vikram H. Patel MD, Kanika Malik PhD, Maya M. Boustani PhD, Sonal Mathur PhD, Bruce F. Chorpita PhD

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,

2022

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