Browsing by Author "Deyessa, Negussie (PhD)"

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    Determinants of Stigmatization of Families of Psychiatric Patients: The Case of Butajira District
    (Addis Ababa University, 2008-07) Kebede, Dejene; Abegaz, Fentaw (PhD); Deyessa, Negussie (PhD)
    Considerable research has documented the stigmatization of people with mental illnesses and its negative consequences. Recently it has been shown that stigma may also seriously affect families and caregivers of psychiatric patients, but a few empirical researches have addressed this problem. In this study we examine the determinants of stigmatization of families of psychiatric patients 111 Butajira district. A total of 514 caregivers' of individuals who were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and major affective disorders in a community based survey were interviewed. The result reveals that 66.1 % of the fami lies of the psychiatric patients have reported that they are stigmatized due to the presence of psychiatric patient in the family. Statistical methods such as logistic regression, factor analysis and alternating logistic regression were applied and results fi'om logistic regression reveals that sex of patient, age of the informant, quality of subjects' cun'ent dwelling, economic position of patients' house-hold relative to catchments ' area, and type of disease are significant factors that determine the stigmatization of families, and results from factor analysis provides us the two major components of stigma (threat from extemal environment and self feeling) explaining 64.72% of total variance in all variables and finally alternating logistic regression was used that provide odds ratio as a measure of association between these two factors. Perceiving stigmatization with respect to self feeling are 4.338 times that of with respect to threat from external environment.
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    Developing an Enterprise Framework for Mental Health Information System in Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014) Dejene, Hilina; Abebe, Ermias (PhD); Deyessa, Negussie (PhD)
    Mental health information system is a system for collecting, processing, analyzing, disseminating and using information about a mental health service and mental health desires of the populatio. All types of mental health organizations should have a clearly defined set of quality information that is gathered and consolidated in to meaning full indicators for clinicians, managers and the executive. Objective: The general objective of this project was todevelop an enterprise framework for mental health information system in hospitals that provides mental health care in Addis Ababa. Methodology: For data collection interview, observation, document and literatures review was done. For the framework development the Zachman and the open group architectural frameworks were used. Iterative system development methodology was used for over all framework development. Discussion of Results: By using the perspectives of the Zachman framework and the open group architecture template different business, data and information architecture works were done. Taking the mental health organization mission, strategy and objectives in to consideration the investigator identified the architecture mission, business and information principles, information flow between different departments and different stakeholders that have impact on mental health information systems. Conclusion:Information is a critical component of mental health institutions for many purposes like patient care, decision making, and monitoring of outcomes. As a result of this proper and standardized way of information flow can improve communications among the business organizations and different stakeholders. This mental health information system architecture framework will serve as a base for developing more complete architecture framework of mental health institutions in the future.