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Mental health in primary health care in a rural district of Cambodia: a situational analysis

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems, January 2018
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Title
Mental health in primary health care in a rural district of Cambodia: a situational analysis
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13033-018-0185-3
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Sofia Olofsson, Miguel San Sebastian, Bhoomikumar Jegannathan

Abstract

While mental and substance use disorders are common worldwide, the treatment gap is enormous in low and middle income countries. Primary health care is considered to be the most important way for people to get mental health care. Cambodia is a country with a long history of war and has poor mental health and limited resources for care. The aim of this study was to conduct a situational analysis of the mental health services in the rural district of Lvea Em, Kandal Province, Cambodia. A cross-sectional situational analysis was done to understand the mental health situation in Lvea Em District comparing it with the national one. The Programme for improving mental health care (PRIME) tool was used to collect systematic information about mental health care from 14 key informants in Cambodia. In addition, a separate questionnaire based on the PRIME tool was developed for the district health care centres (12 respondents). Ethical approval was obtained from the National Ethics Committee for Health Research in Cambodia. Mental health care is limited both in Lvea Em District and the country. Though national documents containing guidelines for mental health care exist, the resources available and health care infrastructure are below what is recommended. There is no budget allocated for mental health in the district; there are no mental health specialists and the mental health training of health care workers is insufficient. Based on the limited knowledge from the respondents in the district, mental health disorders do exist but no documentation of these patients is available. Respondents discussed how community aspects such as culture, history and religion were related to mental health. Though there have been improvements in understanding mental health, discrimination and abuse against people with mental health disorders seems still to be present. There are very limited mental health care services with hardly any budget allocated to them in Lvea Em District and Cambodia overall. There is dire need for scaling up and integrating mental health into primary health care to improve the population's access to and quality service of Cambodian mental care.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Researcher 12 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Other 6 5%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 51 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 14%
Psychology 15 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 11%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 53 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2018.
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#2,962,293
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#6
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