Knowledge, attitude and behaviours toward people with mental illness among Tunisian nursing students and nonhealth care students: A cross-sectional study

ObjectivesTo assess stigma towards people with mental illness among Singapore medical and nursing students using the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC), and to examine the relationship of students’ stigmatising attitudes with sociodemographic and education factors.Design and settingCross-sectional study conducted in SingaporeParticipantsThe study was conducted among 1002 healthcare (502 medical and 500 nursing) students during April to September 2016. Students had to be Singapore citizens or permanent residents and enrolled in public educational institutions to be included in the study. The mean (SD) age of the participants was 21.3 (3.3) years, with the majority being females (71.1%). 75.2% of the participants were Chinese, 14.1% were Malays, and 10.7% were either Indians or of other ethnicity.MethodsFactor analysis was conducted to validate the OMS-HC scale in the study sample and to examine its factor structure. Descriptive statistics and multivariate linear regression were used to examine sociodemographic and education correlates.ResultsFactor analysis revealed a three-factor structure with 14 items. The factors were labelled as attitudes towards help-seeking and people with mental illness, social distance and disclosure. Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that medical students were found to be associated with lower total OMS-HC scores (P<0.05), less negative attitudes (P<0.001) and greater disclosure (P<0.05) than nursing students. Students who had a monthly household income of below S$4000 had more unfavourable attitudes than those with an income of SGD$10 000 and above (P<0.05). Having attended clinical placement was associated with more negative attitudes (P<0.05) among the students.ConclusionHealthcare students generally possessed positive attitudes towards help-seeking and persons with mental illness, though they preferred not to disclose their own mental health condition. Academic curriculum may need to enhance the component of mental health training, particularly on reducing stigma in certain groups of students.

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Undergraduate nursing students’ attitude towards mental illness: a cross sectional study

International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences ◽

10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20175733 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 275 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ravi C. Sharma ◽

Dinesh D. Sharma ◽

Neeraj Kanwar ◽

Pankaj Kanwar ◽

Santosh Manta

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Mental Illnesses ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽

Undergraduate Nursing ◽

People With Mental Illness

Background: People suffering from mental illness commonly face stigma, bias, and discrimination by general public. Health care professionals are not immune to social biases and share the public's attitude meted out to people with mental illness. Nursing students are future health manpower. There are only few studies conducted on medical students’ attitude towards people with mental illnesses in India. We have planned this study to examine the undergraduate nursing students’ attitude towards people suffering from mental illnesses.Methods: It was a cross-sectional study. A total of 220 undergraduate nursing students were selected randomly with their consent to complete the Attitude Scale for Mental Illness (ASMI).Results: The nursing students were found to have a significant positive attitude towards mental illness in five of the six attitudes factors: Restrictiveness (8.42), benevolence (28.6) and stigmatization (7.3), separatism (15.6) and stereotype (9.4) However, these students had negative attitude in pessimistic predictions (12.5) domain as they rated this domain slightly on the higher side.Conclusions: Academic education in this field must be conceptualized and planned in order to favor the change of the attitudes that includes greater utilization of those teaching strategies that challenge beliefs and assumptions and promote a commitment to provide holistic care to people with mental illness.

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Burden among caregivers of people with mental illness at Jimma University Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Annals of General Psychiatry ◽

10.1186/s12991-019-0233-7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Mohammed Ayalew ◽

Abdulhalik Workicho ◽

Elias Tesfaye ◽

Hailemariam Hailesilasie ◽

Mubarek Abera

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Medical Center ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Southwest Ethiopia ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

Jimma University

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Tobacco dependence among people with mental illness: a facility-based cross sectional study from Southwest Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes ◽

10.1186/s13104-017-2608-7 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zemenay Molla ◽

Lamesa Dube ◽

Wolfgang Krahl ◽

Matiwos Soboka

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Tobacco Dependence ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Southwest Ethiopia ◽

People With Mental Illness

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Individual-level socioeconomic status and contact or familiarity with people with mental illness: a cross-sectional study in Wuhou District, Chengdu, Southwest China

BMC Family Practice ◽

10.1186/s12875-021-01422-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mengmeng Wang ◽

Ya Wang ◽

Jiajun Xu ◽

Na Meng ◽

Xiaolin Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Social Distance ◽

Southwest China ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Education Level ◽

Public Stigma ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Individual Level ◽

People With Mental Illness

Abstract Background People with mental illness (PWMI) often suffer from public stigma, which can make them unwilling to seek help and reduce access to early treatment. The aims of this study were to determine attitudes towards PWMI among the general public in a Chinese sample and to explore the relationships with sociodemographic characteristics. Methods A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted from March to June 2019. The participants’ attitudes towards PWMI were evaluated by the Chinese version of the Social Distance Scale (SDSC). An independent-sample T-test and one-way ANOVA were used to determine the association of categorical variables with the outcome variable. Multiple linear regression and Spearman correlations were computed to explore the correlation between SDSC scores and individual-level socioeconomic status (SES). Results A total of 1437 participants were recruited, and their total SDSC score was 12.53 (SD: 3.11). Univariate analysis results showed that age, education level, educational attainment, and individual-level SES as well as whether they were caregivers/family members of PWMI were correlated with SDSC scores. The results of regression analysis showed a significant effect caused by contact or familiarity with PWMI (B = -1.134, β = -.190, P < 0.001), as well as for individual-level SES (B = -.339, β = -.110, P < 0.001). Spearman correlation results showed that SDSC scores were negatively correlated with individual-level SES (r = -.078, p < 0.01) and contact or familiarity with PWMI (r = -.168, p < 0.001). Conclusion This study reveals that public stigma towards PWMI is common in Southwest China. Individuals who are not a family member or a caregiver of PWMI or have low education level or low individual-level SES need to be provided more anti-stigma interventions. Contacting with PWMI is also a potentially beneficial measure to reduce social distance.

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