Table 1 Responses for helpful intervention options, referral options, recognition of problems and outcomes
Person in the vignette can be helped by | Number (%) depression | Number (%) social phobia | Number (%) in psychosis | Number (%) in diabetes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Helpful intervention options | Talking to him | 500 (49.9) | 499 (49.8) | 396 (39.5) | 195 (19.5) |
Physical exercise | 184 (18.4) | 210 (21.0) | 187 (18.7) | 251 (25.0) | |
Introducing him to a new hobby | 346 (34.6) | 282 (28.1) | 219 (21.9) | 145 (14.5) | |
Referral to a health service | 465 (46.5) | 417 (41.6) | 528 (52.7) | 698 (69.6) | |
By any other method | 128 (12.8) | 35 (3.5) | 214 (21.4) | 110 (11.0) | |
Did not answer | 12 (1.2) | 20 (2.0) | 24 (2.4) | 33 (3.3) | |
Referral options | Bodhi pooja | 299 (29.9) | 215 (21.5) | 318 (31.7) | 141 (14.1) |
Thovil ceremony | 86 (8.6) | 124 (12.4) | 158 (15.8) | 107 (10.7) | |
A doctor in the government sector | 483 (48.2) | 483 (48.2) | 486 (48.5) | 704 (70.4) | |
A native doctor | 229 (29.9) | 185 (18.5) | 206 (20.6) | 214 (21.4) | |
Another service | 153 (15.3) | 314 (31.3) | 179 (17.9) | 112 (11.2) | |
Did not answer | 23 (2.3) | 23 (2.3) | 26 (2.6) | 35 (3.5) | |
Recognition as a physical/mental/social/spiritual/other problem | A physical problem | 275 (27.2) | 265 (26.5) | 225 (22.5) | 586 (58.48) |
A mental problem | 824 (82.2) | 623 (62.3) | 689 (68.7) | 389 (38.82) | |
A social problem | 191 (19.1) | 269 (26.9) | 169 (16.9) | 98 (9.78) | |
A spiritual problem | 35 (3.5) | 36 (3.6) | 223 (22.3) | 49 (4.89) | |
A behavioural problem | 83 (8.3) | 164 (16.4) | 168 (16.8) | 87 (8.68) | |
Another problem | 35 (3.5) | 66 (6.6) | 82 (8.2) | 138 (13.77) | |
Did not answer | 23 (2.3) | 25 (2.5) | 27 (2.7) | 37 (3.69) | |
Responses regarding outcomes | Not be able to get back his usual lifestyle | 19 (1.9) | 27 (2.69) | 42 (4.2) | 40 (4.0) |
Will recover on his own | 58 (5.8) | 337 (33.6) | 202 (20.) | 130 (13.) | |
Will become better with treatment | 797 (79.5) | 636 (63.47) | 758 (75.6) | 816 (81.4) | |
Did not answer | 21 (2.1) | 60 (5.98) | 67 (6.7) | 54 (5.4) |