Mental Health Patients in Primary Health Care Services in Nepal
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Asia-Pacific journal of public health
- Vol. 3 (3), 224-230
- https://doi.org/10.1177/101053958900300309
Abstract
Patients attending two primary care settings in Nepal (a village health post and a district hospital outpatient department) were screened for psychiatric morbidity using the Self Reporting Questionnaire. Approximately one-quarter of all patients screened were found to have psychiatric morbidity. Women presenting were found to have higher frequency of “psychiatric caseness” than men. All these psychiatric patients presented with physical complaints, none with psychological, and the most common physical symptoms presented were abdominal pain, headache and cough. Health worker recognition of these cases was 29% in the health post and 0% in the hospital. Conclusions are drawn regarding the need for sufficient and relevant psychiatric teaching in health worker curriculaeKeywords
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