Awareness of mental health in the world
We are doing the largest international study on the awareness of mental health and alcohol addiction. You can help us understand people’s response to mental health problems versus other health problems by filling this form and getting your friends to fill this form.
https://goo.gl/forms/ez77L7Al3HLbKohk1
So far, we have collected responses from more than 10,000 families spread out across various countries, like USA, Canada, India, UAE, UK, Nepal etc.We have designed this study to understand where people are seeking treatment if a family member contracts high fever, diarrhea, alcohol addiction and mental ailments. We are also trying to understand the perceived likelihoods of these diseases happening to one’s family member as compared with the actual prevalence of these diseases. Further, we are also understanding whether people feel they have adequate services to cure these diseases in their surroundings. The study has been designed to understand these patterns across various education groups and across different states and countries. Our study quantifies mental health awareness and the stigma related to alcohol addiction.
So far we have got some very interesting results in different parts various countries. Take for example India, where people of Karnataka to be more accepting towards to the possibility of a family member contracting a mental ailment as compared to other states of India. Or from India itself, surprisingly, the doctorates in West Bengal would rather seek treatment at home than going to the doctor if a family member was addicted to alcohol. A similar result was also observed for alcohol addiction Oman. These results show the effect of the stigma related to alcohol addiction in various parts of the world. Across several countries most people do not believe (or admit in a survey) in the likelihood of a family member contracting alcohol addiction or a mental ailment but most people also believe that de-addiction services and mental health facilities are not adequate in their surroundings — showing a glaring hypocrisy. This inconsistency outlines that people do understand the prevalence of these diseases but fail to accept that someone in their own family can have them. If you fill this form and spread the word, through citizen science, we can have a better understanding of mental health awareness.
The study is being conducted with the help of a large team. The main players are: Mr. Ishan Goel (I), Mr. Ashish Kumar Singh, Mr. Farooq Ali Khan, Mr. Raamesh Gowri Raghavan, and Dr. Sukant Khurana. I (Ishan Goel) am a data scientist and a computer scientist working as the Chief Scientific Officer of Data is not just data. I have been involved in developing some novel statistical tools and various data science projects to promote data driven solutions and policy making. Mr. Ashish Kumar Singh is a Doctoral Candidate at Higher School of Economics-The National Research University, Moscow, Russia. He holds two master degrees, one is International Social Welfare and Health Policy (from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway) and another in Social Entrepreneurship (from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India). He has worked with different organizations part-time, full-time and voluntarily in India and abroad focusing on the theme of Sustainable Human Development. He can be contacted at ashish.tiss@gmail.com & asingh@hse.ru. Mr. Farooq Ali Khan completed his masters from NIPER and has been extensively involved in health policy and drug-discovery. He was one of the coordinators of World Health Congress 2017. Mr. Raamesh Gowri Raghavan is leading one of the largest campaigns against depression and teenage suicide. He has been trained in behavioral biology and advertising, and he utilizes his experiences from the two worlds to take on the problem of depression disorders. Dr. Sukant Khurana is a neuroscientist who has put together this study and is playing a central role in managing this project. You can know more about him at his website www.brainnart.com.
Ishan Goel
