Guided self-help intervention reduces refugees’ psychological distress and improves wellbeing in humanitarian crises

Guided self-help intervention reduces refugees’ psychological distress and improves wellbeing in humanitarian crises “First randomised trial of its kind finds multimedia guided self-help intervention can be delivered rapidly to large numbers of people in low-resource humanitarian settings by non-specialists with minimal training. […] The study is the first randomised trial of a guided self-help group intervention in a low-resource humanitarian setting. Although longer follow-up is needed to determine the long-term effects of the intervention, the authors say that guided self-help could be a promising first-line strategy to address the vast gap in mental health support in areas where humanitarian access is difficult, such as South Sudan and Syria.

Key wordsdisaster / forced migration / Guided self-help+ / humanitarian crises / mental health / post-traumatic stress disorder / psychological distress / psychosocial intervention / refugees / treatment

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