Dialogue to Empower, Supervise, Support and Include the Informal Traditional and Faith Healers to Deliver Evidence-Based mhGAP-IG Adapted Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Treatment Gap in Kenya (DIALOGUE)
Project Goal
To empower, supervise, support and include the informal traditional and faith healers to deliver evidence based mhGAP-IG adapted psychosocial interventions to reduce treatment gap in Kenya
Objectives
1. To facilitate dialogue between the two sectors; formal (conventional health care workers) and informal (traditional and faith healers) sectors towards synergy in the provision of mental health services. 2. To train the informal sector on the use of mhGAP-IG to provide psychosocial services for depression and the need to refer cases not responding to treatment to formal sector. 3. To determine accuracy of depression diagnosis made by the informal sector after training on mhGAP-IG for depression.
