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Raising community awareness to improve access to mental health services in Bali

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

C.B.J. Lesmana ,
A. Bikker  and
N. Tiliopoulos
C.B.J. Lesmana*
Affiliation:
Udayana University, Psychiatry, Denpasar, Indonesia
A. Bikker
Affiliation:
The University of Edinburgh, Population Health Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
N. Tiliopoulos
Affiliation:
The University of Sydney, School Of Psychology, NSW, Australia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Changing attitudes and behaviour regarding mental health and help-seeking is a complex process, especially in poorer areas where access to mental health services is relatively new. Data from the Indonesian national health survey indicate that after the introduction of the Universal Health Coverage a large number of people suffering from mental illness remain untreated

Objectives

This study aims to address this issue by seeking the views of community leaders (i.e. village and banjars leaders) on ways to raise community awareness to improve access to mental health services, increase service utilisation rates and reduce the duration of untreated mental illness in Bali.

Methods

This is a qualitative study with community leaders (i.e. village and banjar leaders) in communities in Bali on barriers and facilitators of accessing mental health services for people.

Results

In Bali they still have faith in the traditional healer so if they see one and the mentally ill patient is getting better then they don’t think they need to go to the hospital. According to the community leaders the determinants for non-uptake of mental health services were mental health awareness should be integrated systematically starting at primary care and must be complemented by secondary care, and have linkages to informal community-based services and self-care. The community leaders can play a role in awareness-raising by empowerment the community and other logics in community care setting.

Conclusions

Community awareness can improve access to mental health services, increase service utilisation rates and reduce the duration of untreated mental illness in Bali

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

mental healthcommunity awarenessaccessBali
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S689
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