PEERS (PROMOTING EFFECTIVE MENTAL HEALTHCARE THROUGH PEER SUPERVISION)

PROJECT OVERVIEW

PEERS aims to test a peer-supervision mobile application and understand the impact of this on the quality of therapy delivered by non-specialist community healthcare workers, and finally impact of improved therapy quality on patient outcomes.

 

Supervision is particularly relevant for treatments delivered by non-specialist workers. However, the reliance on mental health specialists to supervise them in-person is not scalable because specialists are not readily available and existing in-person methods are expensive, time-intensive and lack generalizable metrics. This project generates new knowledge on digital peer supervision of NSP to deliver evidence-based psychological care to people with depression.

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LOCATION

Bhopal

PROJECT DURATION

July 2021 – June 2024

PROJECT GOAL

  • Develop a digital peer supervision
  • Develop a Peer supervision protocol for the Health Activity Program
  • Develop a e-course on Peer supervision

KEY IMPACT

This Implementation Research project generates new knowledge on digital peer supervision of NSP to deliver evidence-based psychological care to people with depression. The project findings would enable policymakers, researchers and implementers of similar settings to adapt the intervention to supervise the work of NSPs for quality delivery of depression care and other health care services.

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Healthy Activity Program (HAP)* counsellors trained to use the PEERS application, which captures patient data and session audio recordings that can be rated later by specialists

TEAM

Dr. Daisy Singla

Principal Investigator

Dr. Abhijit Nadkarni

Site-Principal investigator

Dr. Anant Bhan

Site-Principal investigator

Ankita Shah

Project Coordinato

Luanna Fernandes
Research Coordinator

For further details please write to Luanna Fernandes, Research Coordinator, luanna.fernandes@sangath.in

FUNDERS

PARTNERS

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RESOURCES

Ritu Shrivastava, Lochan Sharma, Mehak Jolly, Romi Ahuja, Radhika Sharma, John A Naslund, Jyotsna Agrawal, Rahul Shidhaye, Seema Mehrotra, Steve D Hollon, Vikram Patel, Deepak Tugnawat, Ananth Kumar, Anant Bhan, Ameya P Bondre

Soc Sci Med,

2023

Jan M. Heijdra Suasnabar, Abhijit Nadkarni, Benjamin Palafox

Wiley Online Library,

2023

Ritu Shrivastava, Abhishek Singh, Azaz Khan, Shivangi Choubey, Juliana Restivo Haney, Eirini Karyotaki, Deepak Tugnawat, Anant Bhan, John A. Naslund

SSM-Mental Health,

2023

Abhijit Nadkarni, Yashi Gandhi, Urvita Bhatia and Richard Velleman

Cambridge University Press, Global Mental Health,

2022

Ameya P. Bondre, Ritu Shrivastava, Harikeerthan Raghuram, Deepak Tugnawat, Azaz Khan, Snehil Gupta, Mohit Kumar, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Matcheri Keshavan, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Prabhat Kumar Chand, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Vikram Patel, John Torous, Abhijit R. Rozatkar, John A. Naslund, Anant Bhan

SSM - Mental Health,

2022

Kendra S. Knudsen MA, Kimberly D. Becker PhD, Karen Guan PhD, Resham Gellatly PhD, Vikram H. Patel MD, Kanika Malik PhD, Maya M. Boustani PhD, Sonal Mathur PhD, Bruce F. Chorpita PhD

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,

2022

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