An Evaluation of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Facilities for Homeless Mentally Ill in India

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Title

An Evaluation of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Facilities for Homeless Mentally Ill in India

Subject

Homeless mentally ill
Rehabilitation facilities
Rehabilitation outcomes

Description

Homelessness due to chronic mental illness has become amajor burden for most of the resource poor countries. TheKerala State in India has witnessed the efforts from thefaith based organizations and religiously oriented familiesin the care and rehabilitation of the homeless mentally ill.This paper explores the processes used by these facilitiesfor the care and rehabilitation of homeless mentally ill.Data were collected from the chief functionary ofrehabilitation facilities, persons with mental illnessresiding in the rehabilitation centers, and volunteer careproviders using interview schedules for the study ofrehabilitation processes and profile of chief functionaryand care providers. Otehre tools were, WHO QoL tomeasure the quality of life and level of functioning scaleand Global Assessment of Functioning Scale formeasuring the functioning. The care providers’orientation to mental illness was assessed usingOrientation to Mental Illness Scale (Prabhu, 1983). 65% ofthe centers displayed above average patient care serviceswhereas 25% had poor overall quality of patient careservices. The residents showed moderate level of qualityof life in the area of physical health, psychological health,social relationships and high level of quality of life in the domain of environment. The research has also identifiedseveral gaps in functioning of the facilities.

Creator

Anish, K R

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 12 No. 2 (2013): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 1-19
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Date

2013-04-01

Rights

Copyright (c) 2016 Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Text

Identifier

Citation

K Anish R, An Evaluation of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Facilities for Homeless Mentally Ill in India, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2013, accessed November 22, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/139

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