Skip to main content
. 2014 Aug 2;14:22. doi: 10.1186/1472-698X-14-22

Table 2.

Summary of main themes

  Factors influencing demand and access Strategies to improve demand and access
Health facility Level
- Service availability: lack of senior staff and insufficient trained village health workers
- Increasing training and resources
 
- Mistreatment within health centers
- Building trust in services
 
 
- Protecting family status with increased confidentiality
Community level
- Mental health stigma in the wider community
- Reducing the mind-body dichotomy in treatment: working with local notions of stigma around medication specifically for the mind.
 
- Low mental health awareness across castes, negatively affecting detection and identification.
- Awareness-raising: Public vs. private information channels
 
- Lack of information about services
- Awareness-raising: Trusted and respected figures
 
- Conflicting roles of affected families: expected to support access but are in fact barriers.
 
 
- Cultural norms of visiting traditional healers.
 
  - Religious practices (affecting women)