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- Title
Financial Viability of a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Daycare Work Program in India.
- Authors
Roy, Amrita; Jayarajan, Deepak; Sivakumar, Thanapal
- Abstract
To the Editor, Work has multiple clinical and socioeconomic benefits for persons with mental illness and developmental disabilities (henceforth referred to as Persons with Mental Health Challenges [PwMHC]), such as having a daytime routine; enhancing physical and psychological well-being, self-esteem, and quality of life; promoting socialization, positive self-identity, and recovery; and decreasing symptom severity, rehospitalization rates, duration of hospital stay, and family burden.[1]-[5] Work programs form a vital component of psychiatric rehabilitation services at many Indian psychiatric rehabilitation settings, including daycare and residential centers, tertiary care psychiatric hospitals, and general hospital psychiatry units.[4]-[6] A daycare-based "profit-oriented" work program (named Green Skills Program [GSP]) was conceptualized at a tertiary care psychiatric hospital. Certain fundamental limitations concerning work culture, functioning-levels of PwMHC referred for the program, and product sales need to be addressed systematically to make GSP a sustainable model. Alternately, settings such as "sheltered workshops" or "vocational training centers" with productivity or "profit-oriented" work culture might be better suited for profitable and sustainable work programs run with PwMHC.
- Subjects
INDIA; DAY care centers; MENTAL health services; HEALTH facilities; PEOPLE with mental illness; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; ECONOMIC aspects of diseases
- Publication
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 4, p443
- ISSN
0253-7176
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/02537176221139143