PRIME aims to generate knowledge which can be used to improve access to care for priority mental disorders (depression, alcohol abuse and psychoses) in primary and maternal health care contexts in low resource settings.
PRIME will be implemented in selected communities in five countries: Ethiopia, India, South Africa, Uganda and Nepal. In India, the program will be carried out in Madhya Pradesh, in a collaboration involving Sangath, Indian Institute of Public Health – Hyderabad and the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
The India programme will be implemented in close collaboration with all the other countries, and in particular with our collaborators in Nepal.
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PRIME will achieve its purpose by addressing its objectives in three overlapping phases:
Overview
A situation analysis report is being finalised alongside on-going formative research work. The team is analysing data from interviews and focus group discussions, and conducting framework analyses. A revised mental healthcare plan and packages were presented to a senior PRIME team.
The team has completed data collection under a community-level detection survey and has begun pilot implementation of mental health care plan packages in the district’s Bilkisganj community health centre and Bamulya primary health centre. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), medical officers and paramedical staff are receiving pilot training, while the team also conducts community mobilisation programmes and sensitisation workshops.
During the first year, PRIME involved three related activities to define the integrated mental health care plan. Synthesis of evidence and systematic reviews determined which are the most feasible, acceptable and cost-effective components of mental health care, and the optimal ways in which these can be delivered within primary health care.
Formative studies with decision makers helped select components considered to be the most feasible, acceptable and affordable for scaling up. Modeling the components of packages of mental health care were used to design an integrated mental health care plan.
Over the six years, we anticipate the following key outcomes of PRIME.
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