Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries
Abstract
Overall, NSHWs and teachers have some promising benefits in improving people's outcomes for general and perinatal depression, PTSD and alcohol-use disorders, and patient- and carer-outcomes for dementia. However, this evidence is mostly low or very low quality, and for some issues no evidence is available. Therefore, we cannot make conclusions about which specific NSHW-led interventions are more effective.
Citation
van Ginneken, N.; Tharyan, P.; Lewin, S.; Rao, G.N.; Meera, S.M.; Pian, J.; Sudha Chandrashekar; Patel, V. Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2013) (11) CD009149. [DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009149.pub2]