Information systems for mental health in six low and middle income countries: cross country situation analysis

Table 4 Mental health indicators in HMIS

Themes	Ethiopia	India	Nepal	Nigeria	South Africa	Uganda
Mental health indicators in national HMIS	Yes	No^a	Yes	No^b	Yes	Yes
Mental health out-patient department (OPD) attendances included	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Mental health referrals recorded	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Psychiatric in-patient bed occupancy rate	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Mental health training data reflected	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Average length of stay at the hospital	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

^aHowever, State level mental health programme have guidelines for reporting data on MH in states like madhya Pradesh. Data on admission in tertiary level mental hospital and days spent in mental hospital are recorded
^bHowever, data on mental health outpatient visit, patients treated at day care facilities, psychiatric bed of general hospitals and mental hospital are collected

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