Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Preeti Gupta ¹, Shayeed Akhtar ², Prem Prakesh ³, Pradeep Kumar ⁴, Dharmender Kumar Nehra ⁵

Affiliations
1 Eras Medical College and University, Lucknow, IN
2 Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, IN
3 RINPAS, Ranchi, IN
4 State Institute of Mental Health PGI-MS, Rohtak, Haryana, IN
5 State Institute of Mental Health, PGI-MS, Rohtak, Haryana, IN

Abstract

A large number of female patients who are married are recovered to have psychiatric illness only after the marriage. The arm of this study was to delineate the clinical and socio demography profile of the patient who have been deserted, divorced or separated judicially or my mutual consent.The socio-demographic profile, the age of on set of illness, the clinical profile, the duration, episodes of illness and the stated reason of desertion was noted. The burden of care scale was administered to the most significant caregiver as identified by consensus of the family. Most of the deserted females were schizophrenic, although manic episodes occurring after the marriage was also the cause. Mental retardation and severe OCD were also among the clinical profile. The caregiver had immense burden of care and their concern in respect of the life and future will be discussed later. Concealment of mental illness before marriage was the major cause of divorce or separation that has caused great burden on the care givers.

Keywords

Mental Illness, Socio-Demographic Profile, Family Burden, Deserted or Separated Female.

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Preeti Gupta ¹, Archana Shukla ², Surjit Prasad ³

Affiliations
1 Clinical Psychologist, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, IN
2 AIBAS and Dean, Amity University, Manesar, Havana, IN
3 RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, IN

Abstract

Literature has reported geographical variances and a number of affective and cognitive factors that play a critical role m the experience and management of pam sensations and also m the development and maintenance of stress or stress-related disorders like headaches. Finding out the effective coping is a requisite in management. Present paper tends to Identify the differences m passive-active as well as affective-cognitive coping techniques employed in tension type headache (TTH) and m migraine in Indian context. For this 30 patients with TTH and 30 patients with migraine diagnosed by consultant, psychiatrists were purposively selected from private and outpatient clinics of UP, India. They were assessed on pam coping inventory and significant differences were found among various coping styles adopted by each group. Findings also suggest a need for an individual module for strengthening active coping with an addition of cognitive therapy techniques to behavioral therapy.

Keywords

Tension Type, Migraine, Active, Passive Coping, Pain Coping.

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