10:30-12:10 | Room 703 Sunday Onsite Presentation Session 1

Mental Health

Session Chair: Piyaorn Wajanatinapart

10:30-10:55

67505 | Development of a Character-Strengths Based Coaching Program for Health Workers to Address Their Work Stress and Burnout in Rural India

Azaz Khan, Sangath India, India

Lochan Sharma, Sangath India, India

Surbhi Agrawal, Sangath India, India

Sneha Rani Nayak, Sangath India, India

Ameya Bondre, Sangath India, India

Deepak Kumar Tugnawat, Sangath India, India

While frontline workers in India such as the ‘Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)’ delivering primary health care at the village-level, experience high levels of work-related stress and burnout, we know little about the potential of interventions leveraging individual characterstrengths to help them respond to stress. Our study describes a systematic approach to designing and developing a character-strengths based coaching program (workshop) for ASHAs to help reduce their burnout and improve their delivery of routine services. Over 11 months, we conducted formative work, developed the program blueprint, coaching content, a ‘pre-pilot’ workshop with ASHAs and focus groups discussions(by a separate team) with workshop participants, followed by thematic analysis to inform program modifications. The final material consisted of a ‘content manual’ (for ASHAs) with four modules including character-strengths based ‘strategies’ to address challenges/ stressors arising out of various situations at the health facilities, village communities and domestic/home settings; and ‘facilitator manual’ having session-wise detailed instructions, list of ‘energizers’, and plans for the workshop operations. Consistent efforts were made to tailor the case-examples and session activities (e.g., roleplays, videos, reflections or discussion-based activities) to the local culture and context. This study illustrates a step-wise methodology to combine the evidence-based character-strengths approaches with iterative feedback from stakeholders (ASHAs) to develop a face-to-face coaching program aiming to reduce their stress and burnout, tailored to a rural low-resource setting. Further research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of this program in reducing burnout among ASHAs, while considering whether its development can be replicated in similar global settings.

10:55-11:20

67771 | A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of Orphanhood Towards Adults on Life Success

Kathleen Joy Carizo, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Clarissa

Delariarte, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Orphans wholly experience devastating life challenges. The effects of parental loss made and continuously make enormous changes in their beings resulting in multidimensional psychological problems. Several studies explain that becoming an orphan gives adverse negative impacts on one’s well-being in various aspects. Considering this, the researcher sought to know that since literature says that orphan children develop poor well-being due to orphanhood, how come there are still some who become successful adults in later years? This study investigated thoroughly the lived experiences of double orphan children who turned out to be successful adults later on in life. The researcher explored indepth the experiences of four (4) orphaned adults who lost both parents during their childhood. Participants were aged 30 to 60 years old and had a stable life – in terms of their physiological, social, mental, psychological, financial, and professional needs already being established. Qualitative Research with Phenomenology was utilized as a research design. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used as a data analysis procedure with a retrospective approach. Preliminary analyses have revealed that – although true that double orphans experienced multidimensional psychological distress (as a consequence of parental loss in early life), faith (in God, and in self) served a principal role in their survival and eventual success in life. This reveals that Filipino beliefs and values related to spirituality and faith help to transform one's difficulties into life success. These results will help devise a program proposal centralized in addressing the needs of current Filipino orphan children.

11:20-11:45

68134 | Reported Psychological Difficulties and Social Alienation Through Pandemic Years Among College Instructors and Students in Philippines

Paul DuongTran, California State University Dominguez Hills, United States

Gina Casi, Baguio Central University, Philippines

Hilario Sanglay, Baguio Central University, Philippines

Purpose Nearly three years after the emergence of a virulent SARS-2 virus (or COVID-19) from the Wuhan epicenter, very little is known of the pandemic’s impact on the coping resources, psychological stress, and mental health outcomes among university students and instructors starting from the first public-health quarantines in early 2020. This presentation will demonstrate the profound and severe effects on the mental well-being and social functioning of university students and instructional faculty in the northern province of the Luzon island of the Philippines. Methods Instructors (N = 25) and students (N = 221), enrolled at Baguio Central University, responded to a web-based questionnaire designed to assess: financial resources and difficulties, knowing family or friend suffered or treated for infection, mental and physical health concerns and appropriate care, worries about COVID-19 threats and their coping skills. These questions were framed to the major time events related the pandemic: before quarantines began in 2020, from 2020 to end of 2021, early 2022 to present. The timeframe attempts to capture the multiple infectious waves leading to the full quarantine removals in February of 2022. Results and Implications We will present descriptive and inferential statistics to demonstrate the incidence rates of mental health problems and their relationships to gender, work/student status, financial resources. Social functioning will also be examined. For example, 86% of students who were depressed, between 2020 and end of 2021, knew someone depressed during the same period. We will discuss the important implications from the research findings to guide planning.

11:45-12:10

68697 | Mental Health Literacy and Perceived Intrinsic Motivation About Mental Health Care of Village Health Volunteers in Thailand

Piyaorn Wajanatinapart, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand

Village health volunteers (VHVs) as frontlines who live and provide care for people in the community. They work with health care providers in primary care settings to screen and promote health knowledge. The VHVs usually focus on physical health promotion and prevention. For example, they check blood pressure of people for screening hypertension. However, some of the VHVs feel unconfident and lack knowledge of mental health care. The experimental research was developed to examine the effectiveness of the mental health program to promote mental health literacy and perceived intrinsic motivation about mental health care before, immediately after, and after program 1 month and 3 months of the VHVs. The mean age of the VHVs was 53.35 years (SD = 8.17). Most of the VHVs did not have experiences to provide care for psychiatric persons (93.3%). They were randomly divided to two groups (30 persons per group). The experimental group received the mental health program. The VHVs had mental health literacy at the good level. The experimental group perceived intrinsic motivation about mental health care significantly different from the control group immediately after at.01 and after 1 month at .05. But, mental health literacy of both groups had not significantly different. In conclusion, the metal health program would be helpful to enhance perceived intrinsic motivation about mental health care of the VHVs. Moreover, the VHVs should improve belief, perception, and management of mental health problems to promote mental health well-being of people in communities.