What Is Primary Prevention?

Primary prevention, also known as primary prevention, is to take measures before the problem has occurred to reduce the cause or cause of the disease and prevent or reduce the occurrence of psychological disorders. In a sense, primary prevention is real prevention, and it is the most active and proactive prevention. ^[1]

First, actively carry out health education, especially to strengthen

With the implementation of the "full-course treatment" strategy for the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of mental disorders, the tertiary prevention model fails to organically integrate the three aspects of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. To date, the etiology of most mental disorders is unknown, and although primary prevention is "most active and proactive", it lacks a clear concept. Mrazek and Haggerty proposed a more elaborate conceptual framework, which has certain operability and inspiration. The main contents are as follows: Prevention is only used for intervention before mental disorders, and secondary and tertiary prevention are replaced with treatment and rehabilitation So that the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of mental disorders are unified and become a continuum.

Prevention can be divided into 3 different levels:

1. Universal preventive interventions are targeted at the general public or the general population, such as publicizing and disseminating mental health knowledge to them, and improving the public's mental health.

2. Selective preventive interventions are targeted at sub-populations who are at risk for mental disorders, such as educating accompanied women to use condoms to avoid or reduce the risk of HIV infection. Mental disorders.

3. Indicated preventive interventions are targeted at individuals who have early manifestations of mental disorders or who have mental disorder qualities but who do not yet meet diagnostic criteria. Therefore, according to specific actual conditions and available resources, targeted preventive interventions are targeted at the entire population, subpopulations, and individuals. ^[3]