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A Study of the Perceived Role of Accompanying Relatives to the Psychiatric Department at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) - Kumasi
Abstract
The perceived role of (23) twenty-three relatives comprising parents, siblings, uncles and aunts who accompanied their wards to the Psychiatric Department , KATH, Kumasi has been described. The patients were found to be suffering from a whole spectrum of psychiatric disorders namely: Anxiety-Depressive States, Schizophrenia, Hypomania, Scluzo-Affective Disorders and Acute Psychotic Disorders. The perceived role in accompanying their relatives obtained through verbal interviews had been described. Further research using qualitative assessment for such roles to remove social desirability bias had been discussed.
