Mental Health Literacy and Virtual Training Program Pilot Study for Primary Health Care Employees

The intervention tool of the project; It is a training program for primary health care professionals aimed at mental problems that are common in society. All of the trainers are academicians, have at least 10 years of professional experience in their field (Prof. and Associate Professor) Preparation of educational content A training program with different content will be prepared for the physician and family health workers group. For the physician group, it is planned to focus on early diagnosis, crisis intervention, rational use of mental health medications, counseling for mental health and cooperation with community mental health centers . The family health workers group is planned to include mental health awareness, crisis intervention, mental health counseling and cooperation with community mental health centers . The content of the training will be revised according to the preliminary test result and the request of the participants. In order to create the content of the training, a survey study will be conducted approximately 2 months before the intervention to determine the field need. According to the survey results, revisions will be made in the educational content. Presentation of educational content the prepared 2 different educational contents will be applied online to a physician group and an family health workers group. The training is planned to be held in 4 sessions (2 groups of family physician training and 2 groups of family health worker training are planned). Each training content will be given with 4 training modules of 35 minutes. After each training, 10-minute breaks will be given. A total of 3 hours of training is planned. The trainings will be provided in the form of live workshops through the video conferencing platform. It is planned to conduct the trainings during off-hours, to use online chat rooms to keep the interaction active and to keep the communication with the trainers on e-mail active. There will be 1 educator and a maximum of 50 participants in each training module. 1 person from the research team will take part in the follow-up of the preliminary and final tests of the module, recording the questions and answers in the training and technical support. The list of participants will be checked by the researcher providing technical support. Immediately before the presentation of the training content, the pre-test appropriate to the module content and the final test will be applied at the end of the module. One of the trainers will manage the online chat rooms to ensure that the topics are appropriate and provide support to the participants if necessary.