Table 6.

Indicators for monitoring progress in the District Mental Health Program.

• The number of new human resources trained and located in the PHCs.

• The number of cases of long-standing (>1 year duration) who had previously not been in contact with health services now in contact.

• The estimated coverage of core MNDs based on expected number of cases and the number identified and in care.

• The number and type of prescriptions for psychotropic medicines delivered through PHCs.

• The number/proportion of people living below the poverty line, or from socially or economically disadvantaged sections of the community, who access the DMHP.

• The number/proportion of people from different economic strata, and gender, who are diagnosed with an MND, who receive mental health interventions or referrals.

• The number of people with MND receiving community-based care/rehabilitation services.

• The evaluation by users of health services of the quality of care (for example, adequacy of time spent with the health worker, satisfaction with the explanation given regarding the symptoms).

• Relapses in people who have had contact with the programme.

• The number of suicides each year.

DMHP: District Mental Health Program; MND: mental and neurological disorders; PHC: primary health centre.