The Application of the Participating Training Program for Care and Help on the Patients Depressive and Risky to commit Suicide at Phichit Province : In 2007

Abstract

The research aims to access the efficiency of the participating training program dealing with care and help for the person who looks depressive and risky to commit suicide. There are 130 attending government officers sampled from several hospitals in Phichit province, primary health care units, district and sub-district  health care stations.The study was design to be quasi-experimental using. Questionair, evaluation form, observing, group discussion and data were analysed using SPSS program for windows including percentile, mean, standard deviation. Pre and post training tests are also done with t-test, statistically. The impact following to the program is also monitored.

The results showed that most of the program-attending officers were female. The ones at the ages between 31-40 years were 73.08% The 51.54% were the person with a marital status. The 79.23% finished the bachelor degree from graduate schools. The 36.15% had experience directly on that field of work between 6 and 10 years. The 80% of the attending officers had ever undertaken the mental health training courses. It was also found that the program attending governmental officers got more knowledge after training as compared with before-training (at 0.001 levels statistically).

For the attitude of the training attending officers , after the training , they paid more attention to the patients who got depressive and risk to commit suicide as compared with before training.

According to their skill, it showed that for 6 months after training, the number of 118 officers (90.76%) have worked on care and help for the mentioned patients. Moreover, from and evaluation in the community area there were 2,714 people who became risky to be depressive. The number of 1,060  (39.06%)  had been depressed which the 316 (29.81%)  were risky to commit suicide. They received encouragement with getting good care continuously for 6 months and no suicide was reported. Consequently, the 115 of the trained officers (88.46%) achived the  high satisfactory level.

Key word : Participating training program, Depressive disorder.