Abstract:
Severe mental patients are defined as a mental, behavioural, or emotional problem that
causes significant functional impairment and significantly limits one or more important
life activities. The research study was conducted in the three selected offices:
Ambagiorgis health centre, health office, and children, women, and youth issues offices
in central Gondar zone, Ambagiorgis town. The study's overall goal was to look into the
function of health institutions in mitigating the problems of women with severe mental
illness in Ambagiorgis. This study employed descriptive research design, qualitative
research. In this qualitative research, two focus group discussions, and 10 professional
employees for in-depth interviews were used to gather data. According to focus group
discussions, the main causes of severe mental illnesses among women were: marriage
complexity, livelihood inflation/economy, disease, sexual abuse, and losing beloved
families, etc. Similarly, according to individual respondents, the major causes of severe
mental illness in women were poverty (40%), early marriage (30%), lack of awareness
about disease itself (25%), and others (5%). The results revealed that the roles of
institutions in the study areas were simple service, medical treatment with emergency and
house-to-house survey in order to register. However, no powerful supports were given in
the study areas to prevent mental illness before occurrence rather a little after occurrence
of problems. At the same time, 80% of the respondents said that the prevalence of mental
illness has increased subsequently. The Reasons for women's mental illness increments
were marital problems, the economy, in-justice, and lack of government attention, with
values of 40%, 30%, 20%, and 10%, respectively. The results obtained from the
respondents indicated that there were no (100%) institutional studies about women's
mental illness in Ambagiorgis. These conclude that women's mental illness has been
given low governmental attention in the surrounding. There should be done close care
approaches to the patients, recording histories, back to their own parents and follow-up to
come up severe mental illness of problems in the study areas.
