Leveraging Informal Caregiving Skills to Reach Rural Contexts: Results from Continued Pilot Testing of the Friends and Family for Mental Health Program.
Training informal caregivers can extend mental health support to rural areas where therapy is scarce, filling a critical care gap.
Psychological treatment is a pressing unmet need, especially in rural areas. One potential means of addressing this need is to enhance informal care, a form of care frequently relied on by rural adults with psychological symptoms.
What the study was
- Study design
- Observational/Descriptive
- Population
- Adult patients
- Sample size
- 150
- Category
- Drug Development
- Maturity
- Exploratory
- Journal
- Community mental health journal
Why it surfaced
Score 7/10: Observational/Descriptive, mixed model, Exploratory; flag=NOVEL_TREATMENT
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