Applications of Gandhian concepts in psychology and allied disciplines

Kool, V. K.

doi:10.4103/0019-5545.105541

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“…Most Indian studies have used checklists (Barrowclough et al,.1987, Naik et al ,.1996, Boral et al,. 1980 to assess the reasons for discontinued psychiatric treatment.…”

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Schedule of Factors Influencing Adherence (SOFIA) to Psychiatric Treatment in Persons with Schizophrenia: Validity and Pilot Testing

Shanivaram

Reddy

Thirthalli

et al. 2013

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Qualitative research has highlighted the complexinterplay of multiple factors that preclude persons withschizophrenia in rural Indian settings for discontinuedpsychiatric treatment. In this context, this paper aims toestablish the face and content validities of an interviewschedule titled „Schedule of Factors InfluencingAdherence (SOFIA) to Psychiatric Treatment in Personswith Schizophrenia‟ which comprehensively assessesfactors for discontinued psychiatric treatment and thefeasibility of its administration of the schedule. SOFIAcontains 16 factors. This schedule involves three phases of interviewing patients and family members. This wasgiven to twelve experts who used likert scales to rate eachitems wells as the dimensions of the schedule. Later on,fifteen persons with schizophrenia were interviewed withSOFIA to test the feasibility of administration. The resultsshowed that Fourteen items were rated as eithersatisfactory (score=4) or very much satisfactory (score=5)by all twelve experts; remaining two were rated as 4 or 5by 11 experts. Regarding comprehensiveness of thefactors, scoring methods and general instructions given tothe interviewers, all provided scores > 4; regardingmethod of interviewing, 11 provided score of > 4; withregard to overall interview schedule, all experts providedscores > 4. Pilot testing revealed that it took 60 minutes toadminister SOFIA.

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“…Most Indian studies have used checklists (Barrowclough et al,.1987, Naik et al ,.1996, Boral et al,. 1980 to assess the reasons for discontinued psychiatric treatment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%