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HEIndividual fellowship2022–2025

RE-SHIFT · Dismantling, REdialing, personalizing, and implementing task SHIFTing psychosocial interventions to treat and prevent common mental disorders in low-resource settings

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-10-01 → 2025-09-30
EU contribution
€273,943
Participants
2
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF

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Results in brief

Dismantling, REdialing, personalizing, and implementing task SHIFTing psychosocial interventions to treat and prevent common mental disorders in low-resource settings

RE-SHIFT addresses one of the leading causes of disability worldwide: the ever-increasing prevalence of anxiety and depression. It is known that psychological and social interventions are effective for the treatment of these disorders. In low-resource settings, though, for feasibility reasons, these interventions are not delivered by mental health professionals but by trained lay counselors, so that a wider audience can be reached at a lower cost. However, such interventions are compilations of different, possibly interacting, treatment components, usually delivered in different combinations. And it is not yet known which of these components or combinations thereof are most effective. So how to disentangle the efficacy of individual components and understand which of these works best for whom? This is the research question I am trying to address. To do this, RE-SHIFT implemented a sophisticated research design that identified the impact of participant-level prognostic factors and effect modifiers on intervention outcomes. Now that results have been automated into software, it is be possible to tailor interventions to the needs and preferences of people with depression and anxiety.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

RE-SHIFT focuses on preventing and treating common mental disorders in people living in low-resource settings. It aims at (a) dismantling psychosocial interventions delivered by non specialist providers into their components, (b) evaluating each component efficacy and redialing the most effective components into a novel task shifting psychosocial intervention, and (c) implementing findings through a worldwide coverage e-learning platform. RE-SHIFT will also develop a publicly available calculator to estimate the efficacy of each component based on individual participant characteristics. Starting from an analysis of individual participant data from all randomized controlled trials conducted in the field of global mental health available on the matter, RE-SHIFT will pioneer a sophisticated study design to unravel which components work best and for whom, identifying at the same time how participant, provider and delivery characteristics moderate the outcome and how beneficial effects of the psychosocial task shifting interventions are mediated. With this information it will be possible to tailor interventions according to the specific needs of diverse populations, allowing the ""RE-SHIFTing"" of available resources to the best of their use. A mainstay of RE-SHIFT is to activate ambitious implementation and dissemination measures to let a different range of stakeholders, lay people, organizations, general public, patient and family organization advocates to know about the project, its aims, deliverables, and potential impact of its findings on the society. Training activities will last for the entire duration of the project, and results will be presented in top-tier international conferences and submitted to high impact factor international peer-reviewed journals. RE-SHIFT is concrete and ambitious, its findings will be globally applicable and serve as a blueprint and impetus for other projects aiming at promoting mental health equity.""

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA · VeronaCoordinatorItaly
  • PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE · CambridgeUnited States

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union