PEERS (Promoting mEntal hEalth through peeR Supervision)
A digital innovation to scale up peer supervision for delivery of psychological treatments
Project Duration: Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
Background
- Depression is the leading mental health cause of the global burden of disease
- Brief psychological treatments are effective and are recommended as the first line of care
- Inadequate numbers and inequitable distribution of mental health specialists are major barriers to mental health service delivery;
- In India, fewer than 10% of patients with depression have access to adequate care
- This treatment gap is partly due to the reliance on mental health experts and in-person training and supervision
- Task-sharing involves training non-specialist providers (NSPs) in the provision of mental health services
- NSPs can effectively deliver brief psychological treatments for depression and other common mental health problems in a wide range of contexts.
Objectives
Aim: To scale-up a measurement-based peer supervision innovation to improve the quality of the Healthy Activity Program (HAP) treatment for depression, being delivered by NSPs This is accomplished by designing, refining and implementing the innovation through the CommCare (https://www.dimagi.com/commcare/) platform.
