Réponse aux besoins importants de santé mentale : Poursuivre l'évaluation des retombées du modèle Recovery College

Our societies are facing significant mental health challenges, accentuated by the Covid-19 (C-19) pandemic. While all citizens are affected, large segments of the population, such as women, students, people of gender diversity, health workers and people with mental or chronic illnesses, are at greater risk of experiencing a deterioration in their mental health. To mitigate these risks and strengthen protective factors, innovative strategies for the prevention and promotion of mental health have had to be implemented. For the past two years, in response to the C-19 context, our team has adapted and evaluated a mental health education intervention based on the Recovery College (RC) model, adapted to a brief, online intervention. Initially implemented in England, and since then in more than twenty countries, the RC model promotes an educational approach in the community where everyone has free access to training on well-being and mental health. The results of the pilot study support positive impacts on the mental health of all groups of participants: women, students, health service providers, people with mental or chronic illness, caregivers, as well as members of the general population. The objective of the study is to continue the evaluation of these impacts with a larger sample of learners, to identify the impacts according to the different groups of learners and according to the number of training courses followed. The adaptation of the RC model leads to benefits for the different groups of learners. It is important to continue its evaluation, in order to demonstrate that this brief intervention can make a difference in the protection and deterioration of the mental health of the population.