Abstract

Background: Mental Health Literacy states to the awareness or attitudes of a person regarding psychiatric illnesses that help their identification, prevention, or management. Psychiatric health awareness contains the capacity to identify particular conditions, information on how to look for knowledge on mental health, understanding danger factors or sources, treatment of self, or manageable medical support or behaviors that facilitate proof of identity or finding effective help.
 Aim: study aims to assess the effectiveness of selected mass media intervention (poster, leaflet, and booklet) for improving mental health literacy among rural women.
 Objective: 1. To assess the existing mental health literacy among rural women. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of selected mass media intervention (poster, leaflet, and booklet) for improving mental health literacy among rural women. 3. To associate post-test scores of mental health literacy among rural women with their selected demographic variables of an experimental and control group.
 Methodology: It is an experimental research design and the sample will be selected as per inclusion criteria. The convenience sampling technique will be selected. Data will be collected by using a self-structure questionary and modified mental health literacy scale and rating scale used for comparison of a poster, leaflet, and booklet, and the time limit will be allotted 30 minutes to each participant for fill-up the tools. the literature review was identified through Pub MED, Medline, Cochran, computerized, books, library.
 Results: A critical review of the investigator has reviewed 522 published articles and the recorded of duplicate articles 218/11 original articles that included.
 Conclusion: The conclusion will be drawn from the statistical analysis.

Highlights

  • The idea of literacy in mental health was developed from health literacy, that seeks to improve client information of physical health, diseases and treatments

  • 15 million young people in our country are detected with a mental health condition [1] psychiatric health is a vital and necessary aspect of wellbeing, strengthening the skills of persons or groups to accomplish their self-determined aims [2]

  • Jorm's established psychiatric health literacy was first used by the term MHL in 1997 as an 'awareness or views about psychiatric illnesses this support their identification, management, or prevention

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Summary

Introduction

The idea of literacy in mental health was developed from health literacy, that seeks to improve client information of physical health, diseases and treatments. Psychiatric health awareness contains the capacity to identify particular conditions, information on how to look for knowledge on mental health, understanding danger factors or sources, treatment of self, or manageable medical support or behaviors that facilitate proof of identity or finding effective help. Aim: study aims to assess the effectiveness of selected mass media intervention (poster, leaflet, and booklet) for improving mental health literacy among rural women. Literacy in mental health is an essential determinant of psychiatric health or can recover the health of together the child or the community Suggestion suggests in this enhanced understanding of psychiatric health or psychiatric condition, improved knowledge of in what way to obtain assistance or care, and decreased stigma toward psychiatric condition at specific, public or organized levels can facilitate primary recognition of the psychiatric condition, recover psychiatric health results, or growth the use of health facilities [8] For mental health practitioners and educators alike, enhancing mental health awareness for young people is a subject of growing importance.

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