Open AccessImpact evaluation of the community mental health program at Habra
Author(s) -
Kamlesh Kumar Sahu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.130487
Subject(s) - mental health , population , work (physics) , preparedness , focus group , data collection , psychology , medicine , medical education , environmental health , psychiatry , political science , sociology , engineering , social science , mechanical engineering , law , anthropology
It is a well-known fact that there is a huge gap between mental health service availability and needs of people in the community. Community Mental Health Program (CMHP) appears as a solution for it. Paripurnata (a non-governmental organization) has been running a CMHP at Habra, West Bengal, India since 2000. Since 2005 a psychiatric out-patient department is functioning and community work is focused on capacity building of different stakeholders. Several awareness camps, community preparedness workshops have been organized. However, the work is yet to be consolidated with initiatives from the community. It has to be facilitated more with an objective analysis of the situation. The need of the hour is to assess the previous work. So an evaluation study was planned.