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Mapping mental health care services for children and youth population in Colombia’s Pacific: potential for boundary spanning between community and formal services
| العنوان: | Mapping mental health care services for children and youth population in Colombia’s Pacific: potential for boundary spanning between community and formal services |
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| المؤلفون: | Sanne Weber, Francy Carranza, Juan Roberto Rengifo, Camilo Romero, Sergio Arrieta, Karina Martínez, Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio, Sarah-Jane Fenton, Germán Casas, Paul Jackson, Juan Pablo Aranguren |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Mental Health Systems, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Colombia, Youth mental health, Interagency collaboration, Community health provision, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571 |
| الوصف: | Abstract Background Conflict and violence can impact on the mental health of children and young people, who are in a crucial stage of their personal growth. Not much is known about the provision of mental health care to young people in conflict-affected areas. Community-based care can be essential, as state-led services are often scarce in conflict contexts, like Colombia’s Pacific region where this research was conducted. According to the WHO, such care is ideally provided in the form of a network of interconnected services, offered by different actors beyond the formal health sector. This article describes the relationship between the formal and community mental health systems in Colombia’s Pacific region, and identifies ways of improving their interaction. Methods Qualitative data were collected through 98 semi-structured interviews with community organisations, schools, international organisations and state institutions. These interviews aimed to identify the strategies used to promote young people’s mental health and the interactions between the different providers. Boundary spanning theory was used to analyse how different actors and forms of mental health care provision could coordinate better. Results Community organisations and schools use a wide array of strategies to attend to the mental health of children and young people, often of a collective and psychosocial nature. State institutions offer more clinically focused strategies, which are however limited in terms of accessibility and continuity. International organisations aim to strengthen state capacity, but often struggle due to high staff turnover. Although mental health care pathways exist, their effectiveness is limited due to ineffective coordination between actors. Conclusions To make sure that the variety of strategies to improve young people’s mental health effectively reach their beneficiaries, better coordination is needed between the different actors. Mental health care pathways should therefore integrate community organisations, while community connectors can help to manage the coordination between different actors and forms of clinical and psychosocial support. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1752-4458 88601269 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1752-4458 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13033-024-00626-w |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/645b88601269413fb5e8c2715ee71228 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.645b88601269413fb5e8c2715ee71228 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s13033-024-00626-w |