Publications by authors named "Ponnuchamy L"
Development and validation of a supported housing programme for homeless women with severe mental illness.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The bidirectional link between homelessness and mental illness in India creates challenges for homeless women with severe mental illness, leading to reliance on institutional care while losing access to essential resources.
- The study aims to develop and validate a supported housing program specifically for these women in Bengaluru, utilizing feedback from the affected individuals and mental health professionals.
- A qualitative analysis identified key themes and sub-themes related to homelessness and reintegration, which informed the design of the program's interventions across different settings (tertiary care, transit home, and community).
Background: The prevalence of compassion fatigue (CF) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) has been studied with a predominant focus on medical care professionals, indicating a significant presence of STS and CF among them. The present study has identified a dearth in the representation of mental healthcare professionals (MHPs), grouped by psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatry nurses, and psychiatric social workers within the Indian context.
Aim: To assess the degree of CF and STS and the subsequent coping mechanisms adopted by MHPs.
Background: Persons with bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) need long-term care and support. As most of the expenses for this are met personally by the caregivers, it will have financial implications for them. However, we do not know how much financial well-being is associated with the caregivers' burden as compared to the illness severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with psychiatric disorders have varied psychosocial realities embedded in the community context. Help-seeking behavior is extremely crucial in determining the prognosis and outcome of interventions.
Objectives: (1) To assess the levels of quality of life, perceived social support, and decision to first seek help.
Background: Treatment gap for common mental health problems, especially of the depressive disorders is consequential in developing countries like India. Positive mental health domains like resilience and self-compassion have been long hailed as protective factors against depression and viable for use in therapeutic aspects. The objectives were to find an association between resilience, self-compassion, and depression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial support among persons with depressive disorders during COVID-19 pandemic.
J Family Med Prim Care
June 2022
Context: The extent of depressive disorders is wide in the Indian population as reported by epidemiological studies, warranting a necessary area of intervention to cover the rampant treatment gap. Social support is known to vary as per the community-level changes, which may be attributed to events kickstarted by COVID-19.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the social support among persons with depressive disorders.
Background: Support groups for families of persons with mental illness are emerging as significant components in psychosocial rehabilitation programmes.
Aim: To ascertain the expectations of family members who attend family support group meetings and to find out the efficacy of such programmes.
Methods: The data were collected from support group members using a semi-structured interview schedule.