Vinay Basavaraju, Manisha Murugesan, Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar, Guru S Gowda, Santhosh Kumar Tamaraiselvan, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Shashidhara Harihara Nagabhushana, Narayana Manjunatha, Suresh Bada Math, Rajani Parthasarathy, Vikram Arunachalam, Chetan Kumar Ks, Adarsha Am, Chandrashekar H
BACKGROUND: Public funded outreach services for persons with severe mental disorders (SMDs), a norm in developed nations, is non-existent in India. We share our pilot experience with an indigenous model named 'Care at Doorsteps' (CADs) for persons with SMDs who dropped out from clinical care of District Mental Health Program (DMHP) at three sites of Karnataka, a south Indian state. AIM: The objectives of this study were to identify the reasons for drop outs from routine care and to assess the burden of illness and disability after the intervention...
March 2022: International Journal of Social Psychiatry