Table 1 Feasibility objectives, outcome, and indicators
Objectives | Outcome assessor |
|---|---|
To generate a continuum of collaboration between community health infrastructure, university faculty, and student volunteers to screen, detect, and refer the people with mental illness | Human resource identification, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the institutions to collaborate, and developing linkages with mental health service providers to establish referral pathways |
To train the student volunteers and ASHAs to screen, diagnose, recommend appropriate stepped referral pathways, and introduce supervisory systems and processes | The competency for accurate diagnose and ability to recommend the detected patients to appropriate referral services |
To test the accuracy and acceptability of community screening | Comparability of study results with similar studies and number of detected people accepting the referral recommendations |