A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF SELECTED PURSUITS ON IMPROVEMENT IN ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION AMONG THE SELECTED MENTALLY ILL CLIENTS IN SELECTED PSYCHIATRIC UNITS OF URBAN AREAS.

Conducted an quasi experimental study on 60 selected mentally ill clients of selected psychiatric units of urban areas used non probability purposive sampling. The aim of the study to evaluate the effect of selected pursuits on improvement in attention and concentration among the selected mentally ill clients. The study was conducted on 30 samples of experimental group and 30 samples control group with pre-test and post -test. The data was collected through attention and concentration assessment scale. The posttest average score of experimental group was 6.56 with standard deviation of 1.45. The posttest average score of control group was 3.63 with standard deviation of 2.12. The test statistics value of the unpaired t test was 7.21 with p value 0.00. Result shows that, selected pursuits on improvement in attention and concentration among selected mentally ill clients in selected psychiatric units of urban areas was effective