Psychiatrist, Community Psychiatry Unit, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore-560 029.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1981 Apr;23(2):174-8.
As a part of designing a suitable model for mental health care delivery in rural India, a study of detection and management of priority mental disorders was carried out in 120 villages around rural mental health centre, Sakalwara in Bangalore District. During three and a half year period, the team attempted to manage 51 schizophrenics, 30 acute psychotics, 27 M. D. P. and 268 epileptics in the community with minimum number of drugs. The experiences and outcome of this attempt is presented and discussed here.
作为在印度农村设计合适的精神卫生保健模式的一部分，在班加罗尔地区萨卡尔瓦拉农村心理健康中心周围的 120 个村庄进行了一项关于优先精神障碍的发现和管理的研究。在三年半的时间里，该团队试图用最少数量的药物在社区中管理 51 名精神分裂症患者、30 名急性精神病患者、27 名酒精依赖患者和 268 名癫痫患者。这里介绍和讨论了这一尝试的经验和结果。
