Awareness of Primary Care Givers of Mentally Ill Patients Regarding Mental Health Services
Abstract
Results: Findings of the study reveals that the majority of the primary caregivers 73(73%) have inadequate level of awareness on mental health services and remaining 27(27%) were having moderate awareness. The mean score of the mental health services was found to be 9.25 (37%) with the standard deviation of 3.15. Conclusion: The study concluded that the primary caregivers of mentally ill patients have inadequate awareness on mental health services and there is a necessity to improve the awareness to prevent mental health services and with this aim the researcher has provided the information booklet regarding the available mental health services.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijnn.v3i2.405
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