Summary of the project implemented by EKO EHO Center for education and promotion of healthy life
Postpartum depression is the most common complication after childbirth, about 20% of women suffer from depression-anxiety problems during the postpartum period.
The goal of the project is to educate and empower health workers in charge of screening for postpartum depression.
The conditions in which doctor’s work are challenging and difficult, and the stress level of this profession is extremely high. Our goal is to provide them with support, therefore, as part of one-day events, in addition to the educational session, we will also organize workshops that detect burnout syndrome, because helping professions, including medicine, are the most affected by burnout syndrome.
Project goals
- Educate health workers and provide them with relevant information about the nature and frequency of postpartum depression, about the importance of timely intervention, how to conduct screening, about the details of testing and how to evaluate.
- To empower family doctors through workshops on the prevention and recognition of burnout syndrome.
Beneficiaries
Doctors working in family medicine clinics.
Main activities
- Preparation of the education program.
The first part of this program is educational, during which EKO EHO will inform those present about the frequency of postpartum depression and its consequences for the baby and mother, as well as the method of screening and its importance. The second part will be a workshop dedicated to the empowerment and support of the participants, recognition of burnout syndrome with the aim that the participants leave the workshop with greater knowledge and a better awareness of their own needs and limits, in order to protect themselves and prevent burnout at work in time. This one-day event will be hold in four more cities. - Meetings with the representatives of the Banjaluka Health Center, the Bijeljina Health Center, the Prijedor Health Center and the Doboj Health Center. The first will be held live, and the other three online.
- Two separate trainings will be held in Banja Luka, each of which will have a maximum of twenty participants. The reason for two educational sessions in Banja Luka is that the number of doctors is much higher than in other cities.
- Educations un Bijeljina, Doboj and Prijedor in groups of 20 doctors at each workshop.
- The online campaign to raise public awareness of the importance and need for screening the mental health of mothers and pregnant women, as well as reproductive mental health in general.
- Media campaign.
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