@article{ref1,
title="Paramedic-conducted mental health counselling for abused women in rural Bangladesh: an evaluation from the perspective of participants",
journal="Journal of health, population, and nutrition",
year="2009",
author="Naved, Ruchira Tabassum and Rimi, Nadia A. and Jahan, Shamshad and Lindmark, Gunilla",
volume="27",
number="4",
pages="477-491",
abstract="This paper reports on evaluation of an initiative to use paramedics as the first-level mental health counsellors of abused women in rural Bangladesh (2003-2004) from the perspective of the abused women who participated in one or more counselling sessions. Thirty in-depth interviews, followed by a survey(n=372), targeted to cover all participants, were conducted in 2006. Overall, the arrangement, management of ethical issues, and skills of paramedics were rated favourably. Most (89%) abused women (n=372) considered the session useful; one-fourth of these women considered it very useful; and only a few abused women considered the session useless. Usefulness of the session was expressed mostly in terms of relief attained after talking about the issue. Most (87%) women reported being encouraged to be self-confident. In a context characterized by low self-confidence of women, lack of opportunity to talk about violence, and absence of professional mental health counselling services, this initiative is sufficiently promising to warrant further testing.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1606-0997",
doi="10.3329/jhpn.v27i4.3391",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jhpn.v27i4.3391"
}