Task-Sharing and Stepped-Care Mental Health Services in Angolan Higher Education: A Multi-Site Implementation Protocol (ANGOSAP)

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Alvaro Rodríguez-Mora and colleagues present ANGOSAP, an implementation protocol for building psychological support services inside four Angolan universities. Funded through Erasmus+, the project answers rising student mental health demand in a system short on specialists. Its model shares tasks beyond specialists and steps care up or down by need.

Each campus will run standard procedures for intake, triage, risk assessment, safeguarding, and referral, backed by competency-based training and supervision. Students get psychoeducation, brief interventions, and digital resources, with formal pathways into outside care. Early success will be judged by reach, waiting times, first-appointment uptake, and care-plan completion, plus symptom change on standard questionnaires. No clinical outcome data appear yet; the protocol's outputs are the pathway itself, a minimum monitoring dataset, and equity dashboards. The authors aim the design at national scale-up talks.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13560541