A qualitative study on human rights and mentally ill people

Objective: To determine the level of Human rights violation among the Mentally Ill Patients. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive and Exploratory Quantitative study was conducted in a Mental Health Institute. Purposive sampling was adopted to select the respondents. The data was collected through participant observation and In-depth Interviews. Further field notes were used for data analysis. The method of presenting the data was case study and observations.
Results: The case studies revealed human rights violation of mentally Ill Persons within the family and community and in fact Human rights were taken good care in the Mental Health Institution. As the respondents have expressed human rights violations in the family and expressed good care from the mental health Institution
Conclusion: The low socio economic status and most living in rural areas with superstitious belief waste time and money violating the mental needs of a person. According to the observation and in-depth interviews it was revealed that there was no human rights violation taking place in the mental health institution. Government should come up with more easily accessible mental health care and all educational institutions must do more research and awareness programs to eradicate the stigma of this issue.