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 A RESEARCH STUDY ON ATTITUDE OF NURSES TOWARDS RELAPSE PREVENTION AMONG PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS IN FEDERAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL

ABSTRACT

When a hospital’s target objective is not accomplished, there is an issue with health care providers, patients, or the broader public. To improve the patients’ health and keep them fitter over time. The reason for such lapses must be sought and addressed in order for the institution to fulfil its goals. This study is based on nurses’ attitudes towards relapse prevention among mental patients at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Barnawa Kaduna. The goal of this project is to find long-term solutions to this problem. It also seeks to actively involve the hospital’s management, particularly in the implementation of modern and scientific approaches to holistic patient care. Data was collected through interviews and questionnaires, which were then presented in tabular form, bar chart, pie chart, and percentages. The investigation was conducted using nurses. The data gathered were analysed. The findings revealed that several factors influence the effect of relapse. All of these can be avoided with proper education, family-oriented therapies, strong social support, compliance, and keeping follow-up appointments.

Chapter one

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

For millennia, psychiatric disease has interested and perplexed physicians, scientists, and philosophers; its symptoms have been attributed to possession by demons, deemed divine punishment for evil done, or accepted as evidence of the inhumanity of its victims.

As a result of this reasoning, persons who were diagnosed with such diseases faced long-term stigma. Much of the stigma persists today, owing to society’s inability to bear the enormous cost involved with mental illness rather than demonic possession.

Relapse is one of the most serious issues facing mental health carers. It affects around 1.3% of all previously treated cases of mental illness, or more than two million persons (USDHHS 1999). Its economic cost is enviable.

The direct cost of relapse treatment charges for most psychiatric illnesses was projected to be 2.5% of the entire treatment budget for first-hand mental illness care in 1998 (American Psychiatric Association [APA] 2000).

The latest year for which these data were available (USDHHS 1999). In 1997, this accountant was responsible for $23.6 billion in mental health care spending. The indirect cost, including missed pay, early death, and jail, was projected to be $46 billion in the first half of 1998 (APA, 2000).

Furthermore, unemployment among people with persistent disabilities is 10% (APA 1998). The cost of relapse in terms of personal and familial pain is likely incalculable.