Relevance or excellence? Setting research priorities for mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings.

Harvard Review of Psychiatry
Wietse A TolCatherine Panter-Brick

Abstract

Humanitarian crises are associated with an increase in mental disorders and psychological distress. Despite the emerging consensus on intervention strategies in humanitarian settings, the field of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in humanitarian settings lacks a consensus-based research agenda. From August 2009 to February 2010, we contacted policymakers, academic researchers, and humanitarian aid workers, and conducted nine semistructured focus group discussions with 114 participants in three locations (Peru, Uganda, and Nepal), in both the capitals and remote humanitarian settings. Local stakeholders representing a range of academic expertise (psychiatry, psychology, social work, child protection, and medical anthropology) and organizations (governments, universities, nongovernmental organizations, and U.N. agencies) were asked to identify priority questions for MHPSS research in humanitarian settings, and to discuss factors that hamper and facilitate research. Thematic analyses of transcripts show that participants broadly agreed on prioritized research themes in the following order: (1) the prevalence and burden of mental health and psychosocial difficulties in humanitarian settings, (2) how MHPSS implementati...Continue Reading

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Nov 30, 2013·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines·Catherine Panter-BrickMark Eggerman
Oct 28, 2014·Medical Anthropology Quarterly·Sharon AbramowitzCatherine Panter-Brick
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