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Abstract

Purpose: To describe the experience of mental health literacy of patient who achieved remission from major depressive disorder.

Design: The phenomenological research methodology was employed based on the concept of Husserl

Methods: The participants were patients who achieved remission from major depressive disorder in Bangkok. All the participants received the treatments at outpatient department, Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry, purposive sampling technique used to focus on particular characteristic of the participants, who met the inclusion criteria.  The Hamilton depression rating scale (HRSD-17) Thai version were used to preliminary screening only. The Chronbach’s Alpha coefficient realiability was 0.738. Data were collected by using interview guidelines with in-depth interview. Data were analyzed by using Colaizzi’s method and audio recording, until saturated data with the 10 informants.

Finding: The experience of mental health literacy of the patients who achieved remission from major depressive disorder were categorized into 4 main aspects: 1) Awareness in changing 2) Seeking knowledge for self-care 3) Self-care management 4) Encouragement

Conclusion:  Understanding the mental health literacy experience of patients who achieved remission from major depressive disorder, a health care team provider taken as basic information guidelines to improve and approach care appropriately. Then the patients can move to next step, recovery.