Open AccessPathway of care among psychiatric patients attending a mental health institution in central India
Author(s) -
Chandrakant Lahariya,
Shyam Singhal,
Saurabh Gupta,
A. K. Mishra
Publication year - 2010
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 - 10.4103/0019-5545.74308
Subject(s) - psychiatry , medicine , psychiatric hospital , mental health , specialty , test (biology) , population , stigma (botany) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , family medicine , health care , paleontology , environmental health , economics , biology , economic growth
Only a limited proportion of patients with psychiatric disorders attend the healthcare facilities, and that too when the condition becomes severe. Treatment from unqualified medical practitioners and faith healers is a common practice, and is attributable to the delay in proper treatment.