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Research into the Needs of Asian Families Caring for Someone with a Mental Handicap
Author(s) -
Ellahi Rukhsana,
Hatfield Christine
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the british institute of mental handicap (apex)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 0261-9997
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1992.tb00676.x
Subject(s) - urdu , mental handicap , psychology , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , philosophy , linguistics
This article is a description of a questionnaire and its results, which was completed with 49 families who have come to live in High Wycombe mainly from Pakistan. They are all caring for someone with a mental handicap, the majority having a number of handicaps. The Community Mental Handicap Team had been aware that many services were not being used by these families and wanted to make the local services more applicable and accessible. One of the main findings was the importance of having a Punjabi speaking member of the Team, who comes from the same cultural group as the clients. This gives the families the confidence to consider which services they would like to use. Another finding was that it is no help to translate information into Urdu as people are generally not literate in Urdu or English. The results highlighted the importance of thinking about cultural issues in all our services such as the right diet and availability of single sex services for young women.