NCT06484205

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the World Health Organization QualityRights Training in Italy

Promoting Human Rights in Mental Health: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the World Health Organization QualityRights Training in Italy Among Caregivers of People With Psychosocial Disabilities

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Cagliari · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The research aims to promote human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities. The design will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two groups. The intervention will consist of participation in an online training, with a central focus on the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities. The measured outcomes will be knowledge of human rights, caregivers' attitudes towards people with psychosocial disabilities as rights holders, caregiver burden, depressive symptoms, and quality of life.

Detailed description

Throughout the world, people with psychosocial disabilities are frequently exposed to human rights violations, such as discrimination and exclusion from society, inability to access health services, physical, sexual and psychological abuse, violence, neglect and denial of the right to legal capacity. Another obstacle to access to care, to social inclusion and which encourages violations of the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities is represented by the stigma and discrimination it entails. Furthermore, caregivers themselves can also be the recipients of stigma, and previous research suggests it affects more than half of them. This stigmatization represents a real burden, especially in emotional terms, for caregivers and can reduce access to support, resources and opportunities in the social sphere with an impact that also has repercussions on the person with psychosocial disabilities for whom they take care. treatment. The importance of providing positive support to caregivers in their supporting role emerges; an increasingly broad evidence base underlines the benefits of caregiver involvement on the well-being of their family member, in particular it is associated with an improvement in the quality of life, a reduction in symptoms, the risk of relapses and hospital admissions. In this context, Internet-based interventions can be a useful tool to increase the knowledge of caregivers of people with psychosocial disabilities and to reduce the physical and psychological consequences resulting from burden and stigma. The implementation of a mental health human rights literacy intervention among caregivers is of crucial importance in the current context. This type of initiative aims to provide caregivers with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, respect, defend and promote the human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities and can help caregivers identify situations where the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities could be violated. Such action can contribute to the empowerment of caregivers and people with mental health conditions and can help combat the stigma and discrimination associated with mental disorders. The specific objective of the research is to conduct a randomized controlled trial in Italy to evaluate the effectiveness of the World Health Organization QualityRights training compared to a control intervention (another online training program) in improving human rights knowledge and caregivers' attitudes towards people with psychosocial disabilities as rights holders.

Conditions

• Caregiver Burden

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	WHO QualityRights e-training	WHO QualityRights training provides the necessary skills to support people with psychosocial disabilities in advocating for their rights. The QualityRights online course includes six main modules: 1) Human Rights; 2) Human rights, mental health and disability; 3) Legal capacity and the right to decide; 4) Stop coercion, violence and mistreatment; 5) Quality services and inclusion in the community; 6) Mental health, well-being and recovery and it will take approximately 8 hours for completion. QualityRights course modules can be completed at each participant's pace and needs. The training is considered concluded once the quizzes provided at the end of each of the six modules have been successfully completed and upon completion of the course it will be possible to download your official WHO certificate from the QR platform.
OTHER	Emotional intelligence e-training	This course offers caregivers resources and knowledge so that they are able to manage their emotions and gain quality in the care they provide to others and in their own lives. The course duration is similar to that of the QualityRights online course and is intended for caregivers of people with disabilities and others interested

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-06-26
• Primary completion: 2025-06-26
• Completion: 2025-12-06
• First posted: 2024-07-03
• Last updated: 2024-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy