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Background of the study: Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization being regarded as established pillar of society and culture. Human rights are those rights which are inherent to all human being. It is necessary that all the people in the community should know about the rights of the mentally ill people because we can see that now a days the mentally ill people are facing a lot of problems and they are being stigmatized in the society. In view of the above need the researcher strongly felt that the people in the community should be made aware regarding the rights of mentally ill people and it is necessary that they should develop a favourable a�itude towards the people with mental illness. So that their rights are protected. OBJECTIVES:1. To assess the a�itude of urban and rural population regarding rights of mentally ill. 2. To compare the a�itude score of urban and rural population regarding human rights of mentally ill.3. To develop and validate information pamphlet on human rights of mentally ill. 4. To find out the association between a�itude of urban and rural population regarding human rights of mentally ill and selected demographic variables Method: The data was collected from 200 people (100 from urban and 100 from rural).The wri�en consent was taken from those who were willing to participate in the study. A�itude scale was administered to each and data was collected. Information pamphlet was given to the selected people in urban and rural area. In order to obtain the validity of the data collection tool objectives, blueprint, criteria checklist and a structured a�itude questionnaire draft was prepared on human rights of mentally ill. The tool was validated by incorporating the suggestion and guidance given by subject expert. Result:The result obtained from the study was that the urban population has a favourable a�itude than the rural population regarding human rights of mentally ill. Conclusion:It can be concluded that the urban population had a favourable a�itude towards the rights of mentally ill and in rural population majority of the people 87% are having a neutral a�itude and about 7% of the people are having an unfavourable a�itude, 6% of the people are having a favourable a�itude towards rights of mentally ill and significant association were found in a�itude score and their selected demographic variables.

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