Related Experiment Videos
A support group for mentally ill people
S L Lustig1, E Malomane, S Tollman
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA.
World Health Forum
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The Sizanani Club is an outpatient psychiatry support group in rural South Africa whose activities appear to have reduced the number and duration of hospitalizations of mentally ill patients. Against a background trend towards decentralization and home-based health care the findings suggest the desirability of expanding the role of such groups.