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Cureus | Raising Capacity to Address Mental Health Concerns in Costa Rica

Background

A family medicine team based out of Mayo Clinic, Rochester assembled in 2019 to provide home visits and direct care to underserved populations of patients in La Cruz, Costa Rica. In addition to the provision of direct patient care, our team was interested in conducting a community needs-based assessment to identify an area for provider education efforts and the local providers on a chronic health issue using local feedback and physician data. Suicide awareness and prevention were identified as a priority based on rising suicide rates as well as limited psychiatry services in the area, with some major providences having ~0.60 psychiatrists available per 100,000 people. Our group provided a half-day educational course on mental health topics related to suicide awareness for local health workers. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate any lasting changes in practice, confidence, and knowledge among local health workers attributable to our training and add t ....

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