District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) Dimapur organized awareness training on mental health for medical doctors on Wednesday at the conference hall, CMO office Dimapur.
During the training, while delivering introduction and objectives of training and on psychiatry in health management, DMHP nodal officer, Dr. Chikrozho Kezo said that as per cross-cultural study at 14 centers of World Health Organization (WHO) across the world found that 25% of the attendees at GP/PHC suffered from one or more diagnosable psychiatric disorder.
He also informed that Indian centre of the WHO cross-cultural study at Bengaluru found that 22.4% of the attendees at GP/PHC suffered from one or more diagnosable psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Kezo said that at the most 10% alone received active psychiatric assistance or help. Based on uneven distribution of needs & services, national mental health programme was formulated in 1982, said Dr.Kezo.
Launching of DMHP was in 1996- 1997 in four districts, one each in Andra Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, added Dr. Kezo.
He spoke about the aims and implementation of DMHP which would ensure availability and accessibility of mental health care to the most under-privileged and vulnerable section of society and also integration of basic mental health care with general health services. Dr Kezo said that it would promote community participation and stimulate efforts towards self-help for generating awareness about mental health in general public.
While explaining about the symptoms of psychiatric illnesses, he also called upon the physicians not to be reluctant to broach the subject of suicidal tendencies in patients. He said that this was proactive questioning which may be life saving.
Clinical psychologist, Kikruwheno Terhuja while speaking on “psychology in clinical practice” said that it was the specialization of diagnosis, causes and treatment of mental disorders with minimum two years’ clinical training in a hospital set-up after master’s degree. He informed that psychotherapy involved a confiding interaction between a trained therapist and a patient.
Mentioning on clinical history, he said the record of the patient’s life was very important which should include chronology of symptom formation as well as picture of the patient’s personality, socio-cultural factors and family dynamics involved.
Speaking on the topic “role of community nurse in our community”, community nurse, Rubica Wotsa said that the concept of community was a group of people who shared some important feature of their lives and used some common agencies and institution.
She also said that health was a balanced state of well-being resulting from harmonious interaction of body, mind and spirit. She informed that community mental health nurse should be responsible in meeting the needs of a community by identifying problem and managing interactions within the community.
On the topic “psychiatric social worker in psychiatric patient management”, psychiatric social worker, Neimhanu Kulnu explained in brief about the role and intervention, case work and intervention strategy, counseling, therapy, art therapy and group therapy of psychiatric social worker.
While speaking on the topic “nursing management of psychiatry patients” psychiatric nurse, Kezhano Kenna-o said psychiatric nursing in general arose from the need for hospitals to provide socially acceptable levels of care to patients.
She also said that the development of standards for nursing practice was a beginning step towards the attainment of quality nursing care.
Earlier, welcome speech was delivered by MS, DHD, Dr. C.W.Tungoe, while vote of thanks was pronounced by CMO Dimapur, Dr.M.A. Wati.