Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support-Foundational Helping Skills
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Psychological Distress
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: N/AIntervention Model: Single Group AssignmentIntervention Model Description: This study is a single group, multi-site, uncontrolled before- and-after trial, which will evaluate the effectiveness of a training intervention to improve foundational helping skills in non-specialists naïve to mental health and psychosocial support. We will compare change in trainees' foundational helping skills competency scores from pre-training (baseline) to post-training, as well as knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy scores. We will also explore the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived benefit of the Foundational Helping Skills training package for remote and in-person delivery. The study will be conducted in three country settings, Nepal, Perú and Uganda. The study design will be the same in all three country sites.Masking: None (Open Label)Masking Description: Raters of competency will watch video-taped role plays and they will be blinded as to whether the role plays were conducted pre- or post-training.Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
The World Health Organization Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support program is currently developing a Universal Foundational Helping Skills Training package. This training package will be freely available for use by all health professionals and other service providers seeking to develop basic sk...
The World Health Organization Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support program is currently developing a Universal Foundational Helping Skills Training package. This training package will be freely available for use by all health professionals and other service providers seeking to develop basic skills in mental health and psychosocial support. These foundational helping skills are based upon common factors in the mental health and psychological services, which have been widely researched and identified as essential and universal prerequisites for the effective delivery of any psychosocial or psychological components in health interventions. These are also foundational skills are also part of the competencies for non-specialists to deliver psychological interventions in global mental health. Competent use of these skills by providers improves outcomes for people accessing all fields of health services--ranging from surgery to pain clinics--support greater treatment adherence. A foundational helping skills training curriculum is needed to promote competency in the provision of warm and trusting relationships between health care providers and people accessing health services. Other foundational helping skills include rapport building, the demonstration of empathy, using culturally or age-appropriate terminology and concepts for distress, and ensuring communication of hope. This training guidance will fill the gap many training programs for providers who are not mental health specialists, and the training guidance will be feasible for implementation in low-resource settings. The training will be aligned with the World Health Organization competency framework for the health sector that is under development, which stipulates foundational helping skills as essential for all health cadres. The World Health Organization Universal Foundational Helping Skills Training package has the potential to improve competency for basic mental health and psychosocial support services delivered by any health cadres. This training package, alongside other quality improvement activities, will lead to more effective delivery of quality care for clients and will be one step closer to achieving the global communities' and World Health Organization's goal of universal health care. The goal of this study is to conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of the Foundational Helping Skills curriculum by observing outcomes for trainees in the program who not have prior mental health and psychosocial support skills training.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04511156
- Collaborators
- World Health Organization
- Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation
- Socios En Salud Sucursal, Peru
- HealthRight International
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Alison Schafer, PhD World Health Organization
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