Piloting a mental health training programme for community health workers in South Africa: an exploration of changes in knowledge, confidence and attitudes

Piloting a mental health training programme for community health workers in South Africa: an exploration of changes in knowledge, confidence and attitudes

Abstract Background There is a shortage of trained mental health workers in spite of the significant contribution of psychiatric disorders to the global disease burden. Task shifting, through the delegation of health care tasks to less specialised health workers such as community health workers (CHW...

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Main Authors: Goodman Sibeko, Peter D. Milligan, Marinda Roelofse, Lezel Molefe, Deborah Jonker, Jonathan Ipser, Crick Lund, Dan J. Stein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2018-06-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
Subjects:
Task shifting
Community health workers
Mental health
Training
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-018-1772-1

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