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By
SARITA UPADHYAYA
MAY 2019
A QUALITATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE PSYCHOSOCIAL
PROBLEMS FACED BY PRIMARY CARETAKERS OF
MENTALLY ILL PERSON IN SELECTED
HOSPITAL OF DELHI
BY
Ms. SARITA UPADHYAYA
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI,
MAY 2019
CERTIFICATE
Certified that this is the bonafide work of Ms. SARITA UPADHYAYA
at
Holy Family College of Nursing
University of Delhi
_________________________
Roll No. 2468
Prof.(Dr.) Raminder Kalra
M.Sc.Nursing
R.N.,R.M.,M.N.,PhD
Semester IV
Principal
Practical Paper No. IV
Holy Family College Of Nursing
Dissertation
Okhla Road, New Delhi
By
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI,
MAY 2019
"Dedicated to my
loving parents and
my siblings"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost praises and thanks to the Almighty God for His blessings and
His enlightening force behind all my efforts in making this study a success.
This study has been accomplished under the expert guidance of Prof. (Dr.)
Raminder Kalra, Principal Holy Family College of Nursing and Mrs. Jibanlata
Devi, Assistant Professor, Holy Family College of Nursing. I express my sincere
gratitude to both of them for their constant valuable guidance, constructive
criticism, encouragement and interest in completing the study.
I express my regards and respect to Prof. (Dr.) Raminder Kalra for her unending
support and motivating me to take the Qualitative study as a challenge and her
guidance which provided me the enthusiasm to complete this research project. I
consider myself very fortunate to be associated with her as a student. Also,
thankful to her valuable feedback which enabled me to complete the research
study.
I also take this opportunity to thank Director Rev. Fr. George PA and Dr. S. Warsi,
Medical Superintendent, Holy Family Hospital for granting ethical approval for
the conduct of the study.
I am obliged to all faculty and non faculty members and all the experts who
validated the tool of the study. Also I am grateful to the head of the department of
psychiatry and ethical committee of VIMHANS Hospital, New Delhi for granting
permission to conduct this study in their hospital. My words of thanks to Mr.
Sujeet, Nurse Educator, Department of Psychiatry, VIMHANS Hospital, Mrs.
Geetu, Nurse Educator,
Department of Psychiatry, VIMHANS Hospital and Ms. Kritiza, Clinical
Psychologist,VIMHANS Hospital, for facilitating me during the data collection
procedure.
I express my sincere thanks and gratitude to all the experts who spent their
valuable time for the validation of tools and to all the faculty members of college
teaching and non teaching staff for their encouragement and useful suggestions in
completion of this study.
I thank my friends who were there for me in all ups and downs. I owe a great
thanks to all my study participants in the study, for being such an amazing group
of people and willingly contributing to the study; I could not have done this
without you. Thanks to everyone who helped me in the process of data collection
for being so kind and helpful.
I express my sincere thank to my valuable librarians of Holy Family College of
Nursing without whom this thesis would not be completed so systematically. I
thank Mrs. Molsi Abraham for her continuous help and prayers, Ms.Farha Sultan
for her encouragement and Sr.Lucy Joseph and Mrs.Lubna Vardha for their help.
I dedicate this research study to my father Shree Ram Upadhyaya, my mother
Mrs. Uma Devi Adhikari, my brothers Mr. Basu Dav Upadhyaya and Ananda
Adhikari and my loving sister Shanti Upadhyaya. I am fortunate to have them in
my life. I would not have reached anywhere without their immense support and
guidance.
I thank my uncle Mr. Rajkumar Khanna for his support and continuous
encouragement throughout my academic journey.
My heartfelt thanks to Mr. Bharat for his unforgettable support and continuous
encouragement throughout my academic journey and always help me to achieve
the goal.
My sincere thanks and acknowledgement are extended to all my well wishers, and
all others who assisted, guided and cooperated directly or indirectly for the
completion of the present study.
I INTRODUCTION
Background 1
Need for the study 7
Problem statement 12
Research Questions 12
Assumptions 12
Delimitations 12
Operational definitions 13
Summary 14
II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Summary 32
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III METHODOLOGY
Research Approach 33
Research Design 35
Setting of the study 40
Population 40
Sample 41
Sampling technique 41
Sample size 42
Inclusion and exclusion criteria 42
Development and description of tool 43
Content validity of tool 45
Tool translation 46
Ethical consideration 46
Pilot study 48
Data collection procedure 49
Problems faced in data collection 51
Plan for data analysis 51
Standards for evaluation of the qualitative studies 52
Summary 55
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VERBATISM
V DISCUSSION
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
LIST OF TABLES
to Mental Illness
S.NO. APPENDIX
VI List of Experts
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