TY - JOUR
T1 - Mental health awareness programmes to promote mental well-being at the workplace among workforce in the low-income and middle-income countries
T2 - a scoping review protocol
AU - Luberenga, Ibrahim
AU - Kasujja, Rosco
AU - Vasanthan, Lenny Thinagaran
AU - Nyende, Adam
AU - Tumwebaze, Eunice
AU - Henry Joseph, Leonard Joseph
PY - 2023/7/5
Y1 - 2023/7/5
N2 - Introduction: An understanding of the mental health awareness programmes among workforces in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) is lacking significantly in literature. Such understanding is crucial for the employers, government agencies and other stakeholders to initiate strategies to promote mental health and well-being at the workplace. Objective: The main aim of this study is to conduct a scoping review to systematically map the research on the mental health awareness programmes among workforces in LMICs. Methods: A comprehensive search strategy for the articles published between 2000 and 2022 will be conducted in MEDLINE, PubMed, EBSCOhost, Wiley Online Library, Cochrane and JSTOR. Various study designs such as randomised control trials, non-randomised control trials, systematic reviews, scoping reviews and observational studies that report evidence on mental health awareness programmes among workforce in LMICs will be identified through specific strategy. Search outcomes will be exported to Endnote and duplication of studies will be removed. From the list of included studies, data such as characteristics of mental health programmes, common outcome measures and domains, and motivations underlying the establishment of existing mental health awareness programmes will be extracted and analysed. Analysis: The search outcomes will be presented in a Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses flow chart. The characteristics of the research studies on mental health programmes will be outlined using tables. The various outcome domains and outcome measures reported in the studies will be presented in a bubble chart showing different outcome measures categorised and collated under a specific outcome domain. The findings on the motivations and justifications underlying the establishment of mental health awareness programmes will be summarised using a thematic analysis. Trial registration number: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WPURK.
AB - Introduction: An understanding of the mental health awareness programmes among workforces in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) is lacking significantly in literature. Such understanding is crucial for the employers, government agencies and other stakeholders to initiate strategies to promote mental health and well-being at the workplace. Objective: The main aim of this study is to conduct a scoping review to systematically map the research on the mental health awareness programmes among workforces in LMICs. Methods: A comprehensive search strategy for the articles published between 2000 and 2022 will be conducted in MEDLINE, PubMed, EBSCOhost, Wiley Online Library, Cochrane and JSTOR. Various study designs such as randomised control trials, non-randomised control trials, systematic reviews, scoping reviews and observational studies that report evidence on mental health awareness programmes among workforce in LMICs will be identified through specific strategy. Search outcomes will be exported to Endnote and duplication of studies will be removed. From the list of included studies, data such as characteristics of mental health programmes, common outcome measures and domains, and motivations underlying the establishment of existing mental health awareness programmes will be extracted and analysed. Analysis: The search outcomes will be presented in a Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses flow chart. The characteristics of the research studies on mental health programmes will be outlined using tables. The various outcome domains and outcome measures reported in the studies will be presented in a bubble chart showing different outcome measures categorised and collated under a specific outcome domain. The findings on the motivations and justifications underlying the establishment of mental health awareness programmes will be summarised using a thematic analysis. Trial registration number: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WPURK.
KW - Review Literature as Topic
KW - health education
KW - Research Design
KW - mental health
KW - Workplace
KW - Developing Countries
KW - Workforce
KW - Mental Health
KW - Systematic Reviews as Topic
KW - Psychological Well-Being
KW - public health
KW - Humans
KW - occupational & industrial medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85164005820&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073012
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073012
M3 - Article
C2 - 37407035
SN - 2044-6055
VL - 13
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
IS - 7
M1 - e073012
ER -