SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY IN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
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2011
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Wilolud Journals
Abstract
The study was conducted to find out the socio-cultural factors affecting the delivery of mental health
services in Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Port Harcourt. Mental health care providers encounter in
everyday practice a diversity in socio-cultural beliefs and practices of their consumers which quite often
serve as barriers to their effective and efficient service delivery. 50 mental health care providers
participated in the study; five hypotheses were tested using chi-square measure at the significance level
of 0.05. The results showed that all the variables were significant indicating that socio-cultural factors
affect the service delivery of mental health care providers. Hence, it is hereby recommended that
clinicians must be well vast in the cultural diversities, to be culturally responsive to the needs of their
consumers and be aware of their own cultures in order to provide culturally relevant services to their
clients/patients and their relations