Table 2.
Summary of main themes
Factors influencing demand and access | Strategies to improve demand and access | |
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Health facility Level |
- Service availability: lack of senior staff and insufficient trained village health workers |
- Increasing training and resources |
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- Mistreatment within health centers |
- Building trust in services |
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- 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. |
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- Low mental health awareness across castes, negatively affecting detection and identification. |
- Awareness-raising: Public vs. private information channels |
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- Lack of information about services |
- Awareness-raising: Trusted and respected figures |
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- Conflicting roles of affected families: expected to support access but are in fact barriers. |
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- Cultural norms of visiting traditional healers. |
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- Religious practices (affecting women) |