title: Family participation in mental health care - the vellore experiment.
abstract: This paper describes the experiment of family participation practised in Mental Health Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore. An attitude study was conducted on a group of 94 relatives of patients .All the subjects showed a marked degree of change in their knowledge and attitudes on various aspects of mental health and illness.
authors.affiliation: Professor of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore.
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authors.lastname: Verghese