Abstract:
Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the status of mental health and
social status of patients with neurological condition after rehabilitation program from
CRP and this study were to evaluate the overall mental health and social status of various
neurological patients after rehabilitation program.
Methodology: The cross-sectional study was chosen to carry out this study among 300
participants who were selected according to inclusion criteria from March 2022 to May
2022. All data were collected through a standard structured questionnaire having sociodemographic, General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) & Multidimensional Scale of
Perceived Social Support MSPSS, this used to assess the Mental health and social status
among all participants. Descriptive statistics using SPSS software version 22.0 were used
for data analysis.
Results: In this study, the mean age of the participants was (35 ± 11.048) years. Male
were about 71.7% (n = 215) and females were about 28.3% (n = 85). Among the
participants was highly distress of 143 (47.7%), 80 (26.7%) medium distress of them and
only low distress were 77 (25.7%). In this study, low perceived social support was 4
(1.3%), Medium perceived social support was 82 (27.3%) and most prominent
participants was high perceived social support of 214 (71.3%) from community. The
researcher found occupation, type of disease and vocational support are significant with
mental health status and gender, education are significant with social status.
Conclusion: This study provides a snapshot for level of mental health and social status
among all participants. Here, researchers tried to find out the relation between mental
health and social status with some sociodemographic factors, and the result was that there
were some relations between them, which were supported by some other studies.
Key words: Mental health status, Social status, Neurological condition.
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Description:
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
