Open AccessEvaluation of Proactive Community Case Detection to Increase Help Seeking for Mental Health Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Author(s) -
Mark J. D. Jordans,
Nagendra P. Luitel,
Crick Lund,
Brandon A. Kohrt
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychiatric services
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.517
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1557-9700
pISSN - 1075-2730
DOI - 10.1176/appi.ps.201900377
Subject(s) - medicine , mental health , population , randomized controlled trial , depression (economics) , psychiatry , vignette , mental illness , psychology , environmental health , surgery , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
The Community Informant Detection Tool (CIDT) is a vignette- and picture-based method of proactive case detection to promote help seeking for persons with depression, psychosis, alcohol use disorder, and epilepsy. The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the CIDT to increase help-seeking behavior in rural Nepal, where a district mental health care plan was being implemented.