Development of a participatory drug addiction psychiatric patient service system of the Non Thai District network.

Abstract

     This research was participatory action research. The objective is to study the development of a drug addiction psychiatric patient care system. The participation of network partners in Non Thai District. The study period is 1 year, October 2021 - September 2022. The sample group is 286 community mental health networks. The sample group was selected by purposive sampling according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were collected from interviews, focus group discussions, and questionnaires. Descriptive data were analyzed using statistics, including percentages, means, and standard deviations, comparisons of means between before and after development using independent t-tests, and qualitative data by summarizing research ethics content.
     The results of the study found that after the development of the network, knowledge increased at a good level. The average participation score increased significantly (p<0.001). The participation of the network increased. The caregivers had less burden in caring for patients. Knowledge increased at a good level. The average score of patient care ability increased. The patient care after development had stable symptoms at 85.3 percent. The ability in daily activities at 48.4 percent. It was found that the situation and development of the network consisted of policies and factors entering the health service system for psychiatric and drug addicts, participation in the role of the network, participation in finding problems of psychiatric and drug addicts in the community, participation in the role, participation in monitoring and evaluation. Before and after the development, participation in the role of the network consisted of participation in finding problems of psychiatric and drug addicts in the community, participation in the role, participation in monitoring and evaluation.