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Scaling-up Psychological Interventions With Syrian Refugees in Switzerland
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Problem Management Plus for Distress and 6 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 59 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The current refugee crisis across the Middle East and Europe has large effects on individual refugees' psychological well-being, as well as on the healthcare systems of countries hosting refugees. For example, in Switzerland patients sometimes have to wait up to 12 months for the specific psychological treatment due to a lack of specialists. To address this problem the WHO has developed Problem Management Plus (PM+), a brief (five sessions), low-intensity psychological intervention, delivered by paraprofessionals, that addresses common mental disorders in people in communities affected by adversity. The feasibility of PM+ has never been examined in Switzerland before, this is the aim of the current pilot study.
Study Details
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Interventions
PM+ is a new, brief, psychological intervention program based on CBT techniques that are empirically supported and formally recommended by the WHO. The full protocol was developed by the WHO and the University of New South Wales, Australia. The manual involves the following empirically supported elements: problem solving plus stress management, behavioural activation, facing fears, and accessing social support. These elements have been recommended in recent WHO guidelines.