Objective: To describe the experience and evaluations of workers from Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) in Peru who received training and support to use the mental health module of the Electronic Health Record Information System (SIHCE). Materials and methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive study during the implementation of the SIHCE in CMHCs. Participants included facilitators and workers from 55 prioritized CMHCs nationwide. Facilitators were first trained both in-person and virtually, and then replicated the knowledge thus acquired to the workers in their respective CMHCs. The variables of interest, collected through surveys and analyzed descriptively, included assessments of the training and support processes. Results: Data from 96 facilitators (both clinical and non-clinical) and 53 CMHC workers were analyzed. Most clinical facilitators (54.2%) rated the virtual and in-person ...

The present study aims at the identification of Positive Mental Health in students of the Pre-University Center of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos for which an accidental sample of 938 students of which 436 are male and 502 are female_ Adapting Positive Mental Evaluation Scale (EESMP), obtaining a validity between 268 to .649 and a reliability between, 637 to 791 The results indicate that there are differences as a function of sex in factors F2, F3 and F5_ As for the shift in which they study, differences are observed in F1, F2, F4 and F5. As far as the Educational Institution from which they come, there are no differences In the Professional Ares where they postulate there are differences in F1, F3 and F4; Sex there are no differences and the correlation between the factors show significant posítive and negative relationships between low. and moderate.

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo la identificación de la Salud Mental Positiva en los alumnos del Centro Pre-universitario de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, para lo cual se seleccionó una muestra accidental de 938 alumnos, donde 436 son del sexo masculino y 502 del sexo femenino. Se adaptó la Escala de Evaluación Mental Positiva (EESMP), obteniéndose un índice de validez de .649 y una confiabilidad entre .637 a .791. Los resultados indican la existen de diferencias en función al sexo en los factores F2, F3 y F5. En cuanto al turno en el que estudian se observa diferencias en F1, F2, F4 y F5; en cuanto a la Institución Educativa de donde provienen no existen diferencias; en el Área profesional donde postulan existen diferencias en los F1, F3 y F4; en el género de pertenencia no existen diferencias, y la correlación entre los factores muestra relaciones sign...

IMPORTANCE: Depression is a leading contributor to disease burden globally. Digital mental health interventions can address the treatment gap in low- and middle-income countries, but the effectiveness in these countries is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of a digital intervention in reducing depressive symptoms among people with diabetes and/or hypertension. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Participants with clinically significant depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-9 [PHQ-9] score ≥10) who were being treated for hypertension and/or diabetes were enrolled in a cluster randomized clinical trial (RCT) at 20 sites in São Paulo, Brazil (N=880; from September 2016 to September 2017; final follow-up, April 2018), and in an individual-level RCT at 7 sites in Lima, Peru (N=432; from January 2017 to September 2017; final follow-up, March 2018). INTERVENTION...