A descriptive study to assess social functioning and internalized stigma among patients with mental illness with a view to prepare guidelines on healthy living in selected hospitals of jalandhar, punjab
International Journal of Development Research
A descriptive study to assess social functioning and internalized stigma among patients with mental illness with a view to prepare guidelines on healthy living in selected hospitals of jalandhar, punjab
Received 14th June, 2017:Received in revised form24th July, 2017:Accepted 23rd August, 2017:Published online 30th September, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Sujata Thakur and Baljinder Kaur. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A quantitative research approach and descriptive research design was used and research setting comprised of Civil Hospital, Jalandhar, Punjab and Ashoka Neuro Psychiatric Hospital & De-addiction Centre, Jalandhar, Punjab. The study sample comprised of 60 patients with mental illness. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select sample. Self structured rating scale containing 24 items and self structured likert scale containing 30 items was used to evaluate the social functioning and internalized stigma respectively among patients with mental illness. Results depicts that mean social functioning score among patients with mental illness was 28.20 and mean internalized stigma score among patients with mental illness was 47.38. Hence, it was inferred that patients with mental illness had average social functioning and moderate internalized stigma.
