Accordingly, we drew pragmatically on a range of perspectives and techniques that have previously been used in CE for addressing health issues. No single off‐the‐shelf approach met the needs of the programme. We undertook an extensive critical literature review of existing approaches. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 The diverse aims and methods involved have led to a profusion of approaches, models and toolkits. Has become a routine practice in many areas of health and public service provision and in some areas of research. It involves changing power structures to remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in the issues that affect their lives’ 9 ‘building active and sustainable communities based on social justice, mutual respect, participation, equality, learning and cooperation. This paper provides an overview of the rationale behind the CE model adopted to meet the aims of the wider Access to Mental Health in Primary Care (AMP) Programme 8 and describes its implementation and evaluation.īackground: design for Community Engagement in the context of a complex interventionĬommunity engagement, which has been defined as: Drawing on a systematic reviews, 3, 4 secondary analysis of existing data sets 5, 6 and a conceptual review, 7 we developed a complex intervention to improve access to mental health in primary care comprising three inter‐related components: community engagement (CE), promoting well‐being (comprising offer of a psychosocial therapeutic intervention) and improving quality of primary care provision. 1, 2 However, many groups with high levels of mental distress are disadvantaged because care is not available to them in the right place and time, or when they access it, their interaction with caregivers deters help seeking or diverts it into forms that do not address their needs.
A wide range of interventions are effective in improving outcomes of common but disabling mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.
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