Here at the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic we have to preserve lives and health of those who will restore Ukraine including IDPs and the citizens of Uzhhorod. This is our front line.<\/p>\n
The war in Ukraine caused massive mental disorders among the population of the country. It includes those who fled the \u201chottest\u201d regions and those who live in the safest areas due to the IDPs and wounded soldiers and, daily aid raids.<\/p>\n
For two years the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic has been providing free medicine and medical service to the IDPs of Uzhhorod but it was discovered that the number of specialists treating mental disorders lacks behind what is needed and Ukrainian GPs have become the focus of the state\u2019s attention. To overcome a gap in mental health treatment the Ministry of Health of Ukraine has introduced a course “Management of common mental disorders at the primary level of medical care using the<\/em>\u00a0mhGAP Guidelines<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n Having two years\u2019 experience in providing medical service to IDPs of Uzhhorod and some trained staff the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic has launched\u00a0UKRAINE MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT (UMHP)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has issued a manual for a short online mental health disorders education. After 30 hours of studies the participants get a Certificate.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the experts of the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic who took part in this online education have found out that these courses do not secure practical skills. The administration of the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic sent 3 of its GPs for offline studies to get practical skills and later to become trainers for other GPs first at the Clinic and later at other medical institutions of Uzhhorod and Transarpathean region.<\/p>\n The goal of the project is to teach all GPs of the clinic the basic skills of mhGAP Screening management and to provide evidence based mental health service<\/p>\n 1.At the first stage<\/u>\u00a0of the project the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic has initiated its own KNOW -HOW introducing the screening test to detect depression basing on psychosomatic complaints for 100% of patients. Having detected depression, our GPs used to initiate treatment, and in more complicated cases, sent the patient to a psychiatrist or psychotherapist from an institution \u201cPROLISOK\u201d, whose specialists started free behavior cognitive psychotherapy. This was a short treatment course, where a patient was taught how to handle stress, and regain some productivity in their lives.\u00a0 Unfortunately, by the end of 2023, \u201cPROLISOK\u201d has stopped receiving financing from UNICEF, and now the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d\u00a0Clinic psychological care is no longer available to the patients of<\/u>\u00a0\u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d and a need to employ a\u00a0psychotherapist, or psychologist\u00a0<\/strong>in collaboration with \u201cSOS\u201d charity foundation becomes urgent. The treatment course consists of 5-10 sessions and the cost of 1 session is 1,000 hryvnias ($27.00).<\/p>\n 2\u00a0At the second stage<\/u>\u00a0the goal is to teach all GPs of the clinic the basic skills of the mhGAP Screening management. The idea is once a month to provide practical seminars with case studies. If this pilot stage is successful, the clinic will be able to disseminate its experience among other clinics in Uzhgorod and Transcarpathea. We have about 600 GPs in the Thranscarpathean area and plan to have training of FDs in small groups.<\/p>\n 3.At the third stage<\/u>\u00a0using PR campaign it is planned to attract IDPs to be treated by the trained GPs of the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic in two directions:<\/p>\n After providing screening we are planning to use free antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs provided by international donors and the Ukrainian state to patients with moderate mental disorders<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Using psychotherapy methods for patients with anxiety and depression. The clinic is working on the\u00a0Open Label Placebo<\/strong>\u00a0research to treat moderate psychosomatic which are mental disorders of neurotic origin, when no objective organic cause can be identified. Such treatment aims to lower the burden of the extra post-negative effects on health and in cases when the cost of medicine is too high for a patient. It is provided only with the patient\u2019s consent and within the norms of ethics. Antidepressants can be used a month after open-labeled Placebo was proscribed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n The proposed by the \u201cINTERFAMILY\u201d Clinic\u00a0UKRAINE MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT (UMHP)<\/strong>\u00a0might help to solve problems regarding mental health care provision in Uzhgorod and Transcarpathean region if additional funding can be secured.<\/p>\n A number of our donors is constantly growing. Recently we have got the first contribution into our new UKRAINE MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT (UMHP).<\/p>\n We are grateful to all our good friends and donors who keep on supporting us and remind the account for donations in EURO\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Name: HABOR PETRO<\/p>\n Bank Address: 4800 Vasarosnameny, Szabadsag square 33.<\/p>\n Address of Recipient: 90202 BEREGOVE B.HMELNICKIY STR. 10\/A UKRAINE<\/p>\n IBAN: HU63 1177 5441 2884 8886 0000 0000<\/p>\n SWIFT: OTPVHUHB<\/p>\n Phone number: +380955772240<\/p>\n E-mail:gabor.peter1954@gmail.com<\/p>\n Purpose: Refugees in Uzhgorod, Pavlo Kolesnyk<\/p>\n \n Original : https:\/\/www.woncaeurope.org\/news\/view\/ukraine-mental-health-project-%28umhp%29-interfamily-clinic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a few days, it will be two years since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. 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