Socio-demographics, Follow-up Status and Psychiatric Disability Scores of Patients with Mental Disorders in Sausar Tehsil located in Central India

This data contains variables (categorized and anonymized) concerned with socio-demographics (age, gender, employment, education, marriage, annual family income and caste), follow-up status, treatment history and psychiatric disability scores (measured on India Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale) of more than 570 patients with mental disorders suffering from mental illness, epilepsy and mental retardation/intellectual disability collected between July, 2014 and Feb, 2019. Primarily this data was obtained from GASVS' (https://gasvs.org/) health information systems primary objective of which is to maintain patient records for efficient disposal of mental health services. Hence, this data doesn't contain any control groups or negatives. This data was used for a cross-sectional study where psychiatric disability, help-seeking and accessibility of resources were statistically assessed in order to find the prime factors involved in delivery of mental health services.

本数据集包含经分类与匿名化处理的变量，涉及2014年7月至2019年2月间收集的570余名精神障碍患者的相关信息，这些患者罹患精神疾病、癫痫及智力障碍/精神发育迟滞（mental retardation/intellectual disability），变量涵盖社会人口统计学特征（年龄、性别、职业、教育程度、婚姻状况、家庭年收入与种姓）、随访状态、治疗史及采用印度残疾评估量表（India Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale）测定的精神残疾评分。本数据集主要源自GASVS（https://gasvs.org/）的健康信息系统，该系统的核心目标为维护患者记录，以高效开展精神卫生服务。因此，本数据集未设置对照组或阴性样本。该数据集曾被用于一项横断面研究（cross-sectional study），研究中对精神残疾、求助行为与资源可及性开展了统计学评估，旨在明确精神卫生服务供给中的核心影响因素。