The Mental Health and Psycho Social (MHPSS) indicators are designed to monitor the accessibility to and quality of the available MHPSS services provided by MHPSS non-governmental and humanitarian actors.
The main purposes of these indicators are:
- To monitor the access of persons with mental disorders to doctors trained on Mental Health Gap Action Program (mhGAP), psychologists and psychiatrists
- To monitor the trend of mental health diagnosis
- To follow-up on specific vulnerable groups and decrease risk of relapses and suicide
- To empower the persons with mental disorders and their caregivers
- To increase reporting of persons benefiting from psychosocial activities through reporting on some Child Protection (CP) indicators related to PSS activities
- To increase the number of staff trained on evidence based mental health interventions
- To increase the number of staff benefiting from staff care activities MHPSS indicators- V1.4