PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH CARE: TRAINING COLLABORATIVE ACTIONS ON THE TELEHEALTH

The mental health gap alert launched challenges to human resource education regarding the relevance to improve access to mental health care. The aim of this study is to describe one primary mental health experience of Telehealth in Brazil, involving teleseminars. The seminars always included a mental health professional, a primary care professional and one facilitator in order to discuss in collaboration a mental health problem and solutions in a primary care setting. The seminars were broadcast on the Internet. To have access live or to the material recorded, professional needed to register on the University of Rio de Janeiro Telehealth platform. The 21 seminar’s subjects recorded were: Brazilian collaborative care; Severe mental disorders; Abusive use and alcohol dependence; Depression; Severe and chronic violence in deprived areas; Benzodiazepines Chronic use; Eating disorders; adherence of Chronic diseases treatment; Psychiatric emergencies; Palliative care; Motherhood; Groups; Mental health and HIV in Primary care; mental health access; Communitarian therapy; Mindfulness; Gender and sexuality; Communication abilities; Popular Education; Severe mental disorders and integrality and Global mental health and Brazilian aspects. 485 people accessed the live discussions; 1390 people watched the recordings; 618 certificates were produced; they reached 177 cities in all 5 regions in Brazil. Conclusion: Telehealth might be a relevant method to reach teams and professionals without access to discussions about primary mental health, especially from rural zones. Nevertheless, this method such as formatting and developing pedagogic tools, to improve the quality of information about Primary Mental health; ethical cyberspace aspects and evaluation.