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Community-Based Learning Club for Women’s Health and Infant Development in Rural Vietnam

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Perinatal mental health problems are a burden for women and a risk for the healthy development of children. In resource constrained settings stand-alone interventions are effective in treating common perinatal mental disorders, but there is little impact on early childhood development. There is, also only limited evidence available about the impact of integrating mental health interventions into multicomponent programs to improve the health of women and infants in low- and middle-income countries. In this chapter we describe the adaptation and implementation process of integrating mental health sessions into a multicomponent intervention for women’s health and early child development in rural Vietnam. Pilot testing of the intervention demonstrated that it was acceptable, feasible, and well aligned with strategic context, and provided preliminary evidence of impact in Vietnam.

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  1. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Trang Nguyen, Tuan D. Tran & Jane Fisher

  2. Research and Training Centre for Community Development, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Trang Nguyen, Ha Tran & Tuan Tran

  3. Department of Medicine and Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Sarah Hanieh & Beverley-Ann Biggs

  4. Department of Population Health, The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya

    Stanley Luchters

  5. Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Stanley Luchters

  6. International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Stanley Luchters

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Nguyen, T. et al. (2021). Community-Based Learning Club for Women’s Health and Infant Development in Rural Vietnam. In: Okpaku, S.O. (eds) Innovations in Global Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70134-9_37-1

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