The Implementation of the WHO Mental Health Gap Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) in Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyz Republic

Irina Pinchuk, Yulia Yachnik, Oksana Kopchak, Kristine Avetisyan, Khachatur Gasparyan, Gayane Ghazaryan, Eka Chkonia, Lilya Panteleeva, Anthony Guerrero and Norbert Skokauskas
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Irina Pinchuk: Institute of Psychiatry of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine
Yulia Yachnik: Doctor Psychologist, University Clinic of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 03022 Kyiv, Ukraine
Oksana Kopchak: Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Physical Rehabilitation, Kyiv Medical University, 02000 Kyiv, Ukraine
Kristine Avetisyan: Medical Psychology Department, Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan 0025, Armenia
Khachatur Gasparyan: Medical Psychology Department, Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan 0025, Armenia
Gayane Ghazaryan: Medical Psychology Department, Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan 0025, Armenia
Eka Chkonia: Department of Psychiatry, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi 0159, Georgia
Lilya Panteleeva: Department of Psychiatry, Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek 720022, Kyrgyzstan
Anthony Guerrero: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
Norbert Skokauskas: Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Child Protection, Institute of Psychiatry, Trondheim Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: Despite the increasing burden of mental disorders, a lot of people worldwide suffer a gap in receiving necessary care in these countries. To close this gap, the WHO has developed mhGAP training modules aimed at scaling up mental health and substance use disorders services, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This article presents the experience of implementing the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) in Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, and Kyrgyz Republic. Data were gathered from an electronic questionnaire administered to representatives from higher educational institutions where the Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) was implemented in existing curricula for medical students, interns, and residents in family medicine and neurology, practicing physicians, and master’s program in mental health students. More than 700 students went through the programs that provided the feedback. Evaluations of program effectiveness mainly involved standard discipline tests or pre- and post-tests proposed in the mhGAP trainer manual. This finding suggested that mhGAP-IG can be successfully adapted and implemented both on undergraduate and on postgraduate education levels and among medical and nonmedical specialists. Future evaluations need to more definitively assess the clinical effectiveness of mhGAP-IG implementation.

Keywords: GAP; mental health; implementation; Intervention Guide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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