This project seeks to supplement widely available smartphone technology to support the acquisition of clinical skills and to develop the capacity of Community Health Workers for detecting and referring patients suffering from Severe Mental disorder with focus on Schizophrenia in primary care settings in rural...
Health Service Providers (HSPs) are vulnerable, while providing critical health services in adversities such as the ongoing pandemic or disasters. During this pandemic, HSPs have been experiencing high work pressure, depression, anxiety, fear of infection, social isolation worsened by long duty hours, essential supplies’ constraints...
This study aimed to qualitatively explore the experiences of survivors of domestic violence in families affected by a relative’s drinking, in order to ultimately inform the development of effective and culturally acceptable interventions for this population. As such, we aimed to listen and respond to...
Millions of family members across the world are affected by the addictive behaviour (alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc) of a relative, which usually has a highly stressful impact on these affected family members or AFMs (AFMs are the parents, siblings, spouse, children of the individuals suffering...
In Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), Alcohol Use Disorders or AUDs account for high levels of disability. In India, there are disproportionately high rates of AUDs and alcohol-attributable mortality relative to the volume of alcohol consumed per capita. Despite the magnitude of the problem, there...
Alcohol consumption and HIV/AIDS are both major public health concerns in India. Both of these have been found to be closely related in different parts of the world. Heavy drinking may lead to an increase in sexual risk behaviour. However, in India, we have very...
QAAD addressed the key public health issue of illicit drug use in the adolescent population (ages 18-24). Through interviews with adolescents and healthcare providers, this study investigated the understudied landscape of drug use behaviours, with the purpose of analysing the characteristics of illicit drug use...
PRIME aims to generate knowledge which can be used to improve access to care for priority mental disorders (depression, alcohol abuse and psychoses) in primary and maternal health care contexts in low resource settings. PRIME will be implemented in selected communities in five countries: Ethiopia, India,...
Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders are important public health problems worldwide with high prevalence rates, high levels of disability and potentially fatal consequences through suicide, road traffic accidents or health complications such as liver cirrhosis. Psychological treatments such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Depression and...
MAV aimed to develop a culturally relevant, male-led intervention for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) that has the potential to facilitate a change in local attitudes about GBV and reduce the experience of GBV among local women in rural Rajasthan, India. The premise of MAV was that...
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