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Background, target group and rationale
Improving understanding of and responsiveness to people’s mental health needs
Intervention proposals
Participants will be recruited with the help of project partner agencies. Patients with mental illness and their families, who attend general practitioner’s clinic, hospitals or other institutions, will be offered information explaining the project and inviting them to participate. Information regarding the project will also be provided in community health centres. Patients and their partners who take interest in the participation of project will be recruited.
Sample size will depend on number of patients and their families showing their interest, usually maximum number of people will be tried to get advantage. Mostly patients between 16 to 64 years of age will be selected irrespective of gender. The main factor to be measured will be, at which stage is patient currently in. does health health promotion project will be handy to this patient and his/her family or not. Any attributable risk factors that can lead to development or worsening of mental disorder can be identified.
Harnois and Gabriel (2000) states that improvement in mental illness will always depend on how successful intervention strategies are applied during project. Educational campaigns will be launched in all the suburbs of South West Sydney. The project aim will be to reduce barriers to treatment and care by increasing awareness about the frequencies of mental disorders, their treat ability, the recovery process and human rights of people with mental disorders. According to Harnois and Gabriel (2000) the care choice should be available and their benefits should be widely disseminated so that responses from general population, professionals, media, policy makers and politician will be reflect the best available knowledge. People will be informed about risk factors of disease. Mental health policy and legislations will be essential in sustainability of this project. According to Brundtland (2001) Policies which discriminates the people with mental disorders should be avoided. Health insurance schemes which also cover people with mental disorders should be encouraged, and policies should be formulated regarding this.
Supported environment will be created for mentally ill patients by involving communities, families and consumers. Charles, Wallace, Tauber, and Wilde (1999) state that Patients who are at risk of developing mental disorder due to certain kind of frustration should be encouraged by providing them job opportunities and enhancing their personal skills by vocational training programs in community. Setting should be done like shifting patients from mental hospitals to community care centres, which are cost effective as well as respect the human rights. according to Charles, Wallace, Tauber, and Wilde (1999) mental health services should be provided in the community with all available resources, their by strengthening the community action as well as reorienting health service for mentally ill patients. This enable the patient to live in normal environment, like Italian city of Trieste has created an impressive network of community based services, protected apartments and co operatives employing mentally ill persons.
By developing personal skill of patients and their families will help them in their ability to make a informed decision about their health, and this will again help in treating the people regarding the nature of disease, treatment available and outcomes.
In this project mostly Beattle’s (1991) model (cited in Naiido and Willis, 2000) is covered, which includes health persuasion, legislative action, personal counselling and community development. This project also covers the traditional perspective of Caplan and Holland (1990) model.
