Online Counseling to Improve Mental Health among Midwives

Abstract

As one of vital agent in health services, midwives play a central role in promoting well-being of their patients, especially for women and the babies. Unfortunately, the fact that they have poor condition of mental health and well-being can affect their services to patients and also potentially cause their mental health status can be worsen if not handled properly. Based on literature review and prior research in this field, the extension of potential uses of internet has expanded at an astounding rate, that are related to or effected by developing technologies and online counseling has grown as a mental health services in the past 15 or so years.The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of online counseling to improve mental health used pretest-posttest control group design. Subjects answered the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and analyzed by t-test SPSS 20. Data analysis showed that there was significant difference between experimental and control group scores. Resulth proved that online counseling was effective to improve mental health. This finding also provide clearly articulated of online counseling that beginning to coalesce and numerous helpful resources to improving mental health of society. �����

Digitizing counselling practice: A study of student values and challenges associated with traditional face-to-face counselling and e-counselling modes

“…that may assess the counsellee issues (Ntshuntshe et al, 2016). E-counselling is a therapeutic intervention that occurs through telecommunication technologies (Awabil & Clifford, 2018;Hanley et al, 2017;Kolog et al, 2014;Sosialita, 2019;Zeren, 2015). Access to e-counselling has increased with time (Richards, 2009;Zainudin & Yusop, 2018).…”

Effectiveness of Ayah 3A (Asih Asuh Anak) as a Supportive Media for Parenting to Improve Family Mental Health

“…This supports an increase in the mental health status of fathers and children in general. Cited the results of previous studies that the provision of online interventions tends to be effective when combining synchronous and asynchronous methods (Sosialita, 2020), so this Ayah 3A (Asih Asuh Anak) program can be considered as one of the effective media in improving mental health. In addition, providing education regarding parenting also increases subject knowledge to contribute to improving mental health.…”

“…GHQ has four versions with different numbers of items for each performance. The full version of the GHQ-60 instrument contains 60 items, the short version of the GHQ-30 does not include questions about physical illness, the GHQ-28 consists of 28 items to detect somatic symptoms, anxiety, and insomnia, and the HQ-12 is the most concise version consisting of 12 items for detection and research (Witteman et al, 2011in Sosialita, 2020.…”

“…This study used GHQ-12 by considering the ability to detect psychological disorders and the more extended versions (Witteman et al, 2011in Sosialita, 2020. Items on the GHQ-12 contain questions that see the psychological conditions of the subject without questions about physical illness.…”

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“…Bidan berperan pertama kali saat berhadapan dengan pasien sebagai tenaga kesehatan nonspesialis yang memberikan pelayanan kesehatan mental sesuai dalam Piramida intervensi kesehatan mental. Penelitian terdahulu mengenai sikap pemeriksa kesehatan mental, bidan mengakui berperan pada periode perinatal termasuk pada deteksi dan memfasilitasi perawatan sehingga mempengaruhi kualitas layanan kesehatan serta berpotensi memperburuk status kesehatan bila tidak mendapat penanganan yang tepat (Noonan et al, 2017;Sosialita, 2019). Bidan bertugas memberikan pelayanan dasar pertama kali sebelum mendapatkan penanganan profesional (Surjaningrum et al, 2018).…”