Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries

Bauer, Annette; Garman, Emily; McDaid, David; Avendaño, Mauricio; Hessel, Philipp; Díaz, Yadira; Araya, Ricardo; Lund, Crick; Malvasi, Paulo Artur; Matijasevich, Alícia; Park, A‐La; Paula, Cristiane Silvestre de; Ziebold, Carolina; Zimmerman, Annie; Evans‐Lacko, Sara

doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(20)30382-5

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“…Policy decisions about the amount, duration and administration of cash transfers could also influence mental health, and optimising their role might benefit from cross-sectoral collaboration. Our findings support recent recommendations 27 for relatively low-cost policy changes, such as cash volume, targeting and predictability and duration of payments, which could enhance the mental health impacts of cash transfers for young people.…”

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“…This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted as part of the CHANCES-6 study, which focuses on understanding the relationship between poverty interventions, mental health and the life chances of children and young people in six LMICs. 27 The primary objective of this study was to review the literature on the effect of cash transfers programmes on the mental health of children and young people (0-24 years old) in LMICs. The secondary objective was to understand whether different types of cash transfer programmes have different effects on children and young people's mental health.…”

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The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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IntroductionAlthough cash transfer programmes are not explicitly designed to improve mental health, by reducing poverty and improving the life chances of children and young people, they may also improve their mental health. This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the evidence on the effectiveness of cash transfers to improve the mental health of children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries.MethodsWe searched Pubmed, EBSCOhost, Scientific Electronic Library Online, ISI Web of Science and Social Sciences Citation Index and grey literature (from January 2000 to July 2020) for studies which quantitatively assessed the impact of cash transfers on mental health in young people (aged 0–24 years), using a design that incorporated a control group. We extracted Cohen’s d effects size and used a random-effects model for the meta-analysis on studies that measured depressive symptoms, I2 statistic and assessment of study quality.ResultsWe identified 12 116 articles for screening, of which 12 were included in the systematic review (covering 13 interventions) and seven in the meta-analysis assessing impact on depressive symptoms specifically. There was high heterogeneity (I2=95.2) and a high risk of bias (0.38, 95% CIs: −5.08 to 5.85; p=0.86) across studies. Eleven interventions (85%) showed a significant positive impact of cash transfers on at least one mental health outcome in children and young people. However, no study found a positive effect on all mental health outcomes examined, and the meta-analysis showed no impact of cash transfers on depressive symptoms (0.02, 95% CIs: −0.19 to 0.23; p=0.85).ConclusionCash transfers may have positive effects on some mental health outcomes for young people, with no negative effects identified. However, there is high heterogeneity across studies, with some interventions showing no effects. Our review highlights how the effect of cash transfers may vary by social and economic context, culture, design, conditionality and mental health outcome.

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The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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“…79 The existing literature evidenced that scholars conducted many studies to investigate how the public seeks, creates, and shares health information through the online source in the health emergency crisis. 54,[78][79][80][81] Earlier studies in this stream of health crisis mainly centered on users' channel selection. 82 They identified that people had a greater tendency to rely on traditional media to seeking health information in health crisis events and routine contexts.…”

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The Role of Social Media in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis Management, Mental Health Challenges and Implications

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Background: This study focuses on how educating people through social media platforms can help reduce the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 to manage the global health crisis. The pandemic has posed a global mental health crisis, and correct information is indispensable to dispel uncertainty, fear, and mental stress to unify global communities in collective combat against COVID-19 disease worldwide. Mounting studies specified that manifestly endless coronavirusrelated newsfeeds and death numbers considerably increased the risk of global mental health issues. Social media provided positive and negative data, and the COVID-19 has resulted in a worldwide infodemic. It has eroded public trust and impeded virus restraint, which outlived the coronavirus pandemic itself. Methods: The study incorporated the narrative review analysis based on the existing literature related to mental health problems using the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) approach to minimize the COVID-19 adverse consequences on global mental health. The study performed a search of the electronic databases available at PsycINFO, PubMed, and LISTA. This research incorporates the statistical data related to the COVID-19 provided by the WHO, John Hopkins University, and Pakistani Ministry of Health. Results: Pakistan reported the second-highest COVID-19 cases within South Asia, the fifthhighest number of cases in Asia after Iran, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the 14th highest recorded cases, as of October 14, 2020. Pakistan effectively managed the COVID-19 pandemic in the second wave. It stands at the eighth-highest number of confirmed cases in Asia, the 3rd-highest in South Asia, and the 28th-highest number of established patients globally, as of February20, 2021. Conclusion:The COVID-19 has resulted in over 108.16 million confirmed cases, deaths over 2.374 million, and a recovery of 80.16 million people worldwide, as of February 12, 2021. This study focused on exploring the COVID-19 pandemic's adverse effects on global public health and the indispensable role of social media to provide the correct information in the COVID-19 health crisis. The findings' generalizability offers helpful insight for crisis management and contributes to the scientific literature. The results might provide a stepping-stone for conduct future empirical studies by including other factors to conclude exciting developments.

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“…Globally, numerous studies have reported the psychological impact of lockdown and other restrictions since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (Blanco et al, 2020;Brooks et al, 2020), alerting policy makers to the mental health problems associated with the situation and calling on governments and institutions to attend to these issues when assessing programmes and measures. Recommendations have also been made on how to shift the focus of cash transfers in a way that also allows policy makers to address the potential long-term consequences of the pandemic on youth mental health and ultimately their future life chances (Bauer et al, 2021).…”

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Effects of COVID-19 on the economy and mental health of young people in South Africa: opportunities for strengthening social protection programmes by integrating mental health

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Garman

Lund

2021

South African Journal of Psychology

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The majority of COVID-19 cases in sub-Saharan Africa are found in South Africa, where one third of young people are not in employment, education or training. As the world continues to fight the COVID-19 virus spread, an increasing volume of studies are analysing and trying to predict the consequences of the pandemic on the economy and on physical and mental health. This article describes the economic and psychological impact of COVID-19 in South Africa’s youth specifically, the efforts made to tackle these issues, and the opportunities to integrate mental health into the country’s social protection measures, such as the Child Support Grant.

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Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low-income and middle-income countries

Cited by 57 publications

References 52 publications

The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The Role of Social Media in the Advent of COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis Management, Mental Health Challenges and Implications

Effects of COVID-19 on the economy and mental health of young people in South Africa: opportunities for strengthening social protection programmes by integrating mental health

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