Psychosocial Factors related to the Health Care Behavior of the Rural People under Rajshahi Division

Objectives	Tasks to achieve the objectives/indicators
1. To determine and explore the psychosocial and cultural norms, values, practices and beliefs prevailing in the rural population under Rajshahi Division that influences health care behavior of the rural contributing in their psychological getups/preparedness/ perception of disease.	-Traditional and religious beliefs, norms, cultures, general practices and values related to health care behavior of the sampled rural population under Rajshahi Division are unveiled by the study. -Their influences and impacts on health care behavior is explored.
2. To explore the disease trends with the diseases of psychological importance, home management and home caretakers of the disease, extents of faith on home management, source of information in the contexts, traditional remedies etc. among the rural population under Rajshahi Division	-Common disease trends in the sampled population of rural Rajshahi Division are observed. -Diseases of psychological importance are followed. -Extent of home management, associated confidence and skills, caretakers of the patients, source of the information/skills and traditional remedies are investigated and documented.
3. To determine whether the prevailing economic conditions, education, religion, profession, health status, distances from hospitals, gender, associated stigma and other factors of the different population groups in rural population under Rajshahi Division play facilitator’s role for exposing the rural population groups to the health care services whatever available there.	-Influences and impact of economic condition, education, religion, profession, health status, gender, distance from hospital or doctor’s chamber, associated social stigma and other factors on health care behavior of the rural people under Rajshahi division are explored. - Extents of the influence of the mentioned factors on their exposure to available health care facilities are explored.
4. To assess the knowledge, attitude, practice, perception and awareness levels of rural population under Rajshahi Division towards etiology, course, and traditional management of different common and important diseases and also about their preference and satisfactions towards different health care services facilities available in the locality. To investigate the environment, quality of care and other issues including the privacy context for the patients etc. in those service delivery facilities. Also to explore the role of different types of health service providers including Government and NGO for service delivery for the rural population in Rajshahi Division.	-Knowledge Attitude, Perception (KAP) and awareness levels of the sampled population towards the causes of the diseases, courses and traditional managements of the common and important diseases are explored and investigated. -Service seekers satisfaction level in disease management by the service providers (Doctors/traditional healers etc.) and their preference of treatment outlets have been investigated. -Quality of the health care service, environment of the hospitals/treatment centers with privacy issue has been investigated. -Health care seekers’ perceptions about different types of health service providers including Government and NGO health centers have been investigated for the sampled population.
5. To investigate and unveil the social cohesiveness and emotional/psychosocial climates that now prevailing between the service providers and the recipients. .	- Behavior, attitude, sincerity and commitments of the different health service providers and their emotional/social climates with service seekers have been investigated.
6. To assess the qualitative coverage of the existing health service facilities including the NGOs present in the rural Rajshahi Division in regards to the prevailing common diseases, its impacts on the population and needs for services.	-Coverage of the existing health service facilities including those of the Government and NGO have been explored and investigated. -Influences and impacts of that coverages have been investigated for the sampled population of the rural people under Rajshahi Division.