Knowledge and attitude of care givers regarding mental illness

Phase 1

Recruiting

• Conditions: Healthy care givers of patients with affective disorders

• Registration Number: CTRI/2015/09/006189
• Lead Sponsor: Ms Rani Rose Thomas Sr Ancilin

Brief Summary

People’s beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness set the stage for how they interact with, provide opportunities for, and help support a person. Attitudes and beliefs about mental illness are shaped by personal knowledge, knowing and interacting with someone living with mental illness, cultural stereotypes, and other factors. When such attitude and beliefs are expressed positively, they can result in sportive and inclusive behavior. When such attitudes and beliefs are expressed negatively, they may result in avoidance, exclusion from daily activities and in the worst case, exploitation and discrimination. In India, families represent the key resource persons in the care of patients with chronic mental illness. Mental health services have moved away from providing institutional care to community based care. So family members have increasingly found themselves becoming primary source of care and social support for relatives of persons suffering from affective disorders. Family member’s poor or lack of knowledge and negative attitude towards affective disorders threatens the effectiveness of patient care and rehabilitation. This can inhibit the decision to seek help and provide proper holistic care. Better knowledge often reported to results in improved attitude towards people with mental illness and a belief  that mental illness are treatable , can  encourage early  treatment seeking and promote better out come.

**Objectives**

·      To determine relationship between knowledge and attitude of care giver of patients with affective disorders.

·      To determine the association of knowledge and attitude with selected baseline variables of care givers.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-03-06
• Last Update Posted: 2015-06-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Open to Recruitment
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• Care givers who stayed with patient after diagnosis for at least six months.
• Care givers whose patients are diagnosed with manic episode, bipolar affective disorder, depressive episode, recurrent depressive disorder and persistent mood disorder.
• Care givers who communicate either in English, Kannada or Malayalam.
• Care givers in the age group of 21-60years.

Exclusion Criteria

Care givers who are diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge gain	30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Attitude	Two Years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Father Muller Medical College Hospital; 🇮🇳 Kannada, KARNATAKA, India

Father Muller Medical College Hospital

🇮🇳Kannada, KARNATAKA, India

Dr Sanjeev Rai

Principal investigator

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raibs11@gmail.com