Mental Health Literacy and Virtual Training Program Pilot Study for Primary Health Care Employees

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Mental Health Literacy; Public Health - Health promotion/education; Mental Health - Anxiety; Mental Health - Depression; Mental Health - Other mental health disorders; Public Health - Other public health

• Registration Number: ACTRN12622001223729
• Lead Sponsor: Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2022-09-12
• Last Update Posted: 19 September 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 853

Inclusion Criteria

1-To be working as a general practitioner family physician in family medicine affiliated to Kayseri Provincial Health Directorate.
2-To work as a family health worker in family medicine affiliated to Kayseri Provincial Health Directorate
3-To have an infrastructure that can access online education during the training hours
4-To participate in at least 90% of the training program
5-To agree to participate in the survey for research

Exclusion Criteria

1. Not to accept to enter the training and survey application for research.
2. Not participating in more than 10% of the training program
3. Becoming a family doctor specialist

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
A questionnaire will be applied to all family physicians and family health workers working in primary health services in Kayseri Province (control and experimental groups) to determine the content of education and to reveal their mental health literacy status.The survey content will include demographic data, frequently encountered psychiatric problems, information about mental illnesses and emergency situations, attitude and behavior questions.<br>[First test 2 months before training, 2. the test will be applied 3 months after training ];The mental health literacy of physicians and family health workers will be evaluated by Göktas et al. (2019) using the Turkish Mental Health Literacy Scale (RSOY).[First test 2 months before training, 2. the test will be applied 3 months after training ]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In order to assess the attitude of physicians and family health workers towards mentally troubled individuals, the Social Attitude Scale for Individuals with Mental Problems, the validity and reliability of which was studied in Turkish by Bag and Ekinci in 2006, will be applied.[First test 2 months before training, 2. the test will be applied 3 months after training ];In order to evaluate the beliefs of physicians and family health workers about mental illnesses, the Beliefs Scale About Mental Illness, which was conducted by Bilge, in a Turkish validity and reliability study in 2008, will be applied.[First test 2 months before training, 2. the test will be applied 3 months after training ];The Rational Mental Health Drug Use Knowledge and Behavior of Primary Care Physicians questionnaire about the rational use of psychiatric drugs, which was specially prepared by the researchers for this study, will be applied.[First test 2 months before training, 2. the test will be applied 3 months after training ]