Community attitude towards people with mental illness
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Lai, Tzen-Jiun
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the experience of neighborhood living with the chronic mentally ills, evaluating community attitudes to people with mental ills, and to find the possible effective way of mutual neighborhood care for chronic mentally ills.
The study design employed a questionnaire survey. All participants were asked to complete Neighborhood Experience Scale. Structure interview were conduct with the citizen of Taipei who has the experience of contact with mental illness patient was sampling to case group (n=102), and no contact experience citizen to control group (n=105).
Data analysis was using the software SPSS 10.0 for window to perform the descriptive statistics (include mean, standard deviation and percentage) and exploratory factor analysis. To use the software LISREL 8.52 to perform the confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, and structural equation model (SEM) for examining the relationship between attitude factor and understanding the affection of the demography and contact experience.
Result
1. The factor analysis show nine attitude factors: etiology of mental ills, treatment of mental ills, concept of mental ills, prevention of mental ills, ability evaluation, society right, acceptable attitude, exclude or isolation, and concerned desire.
2. The attitude of general public toward mental ills and patient was dividing into 3 parts: the attitude toward illness, the attitude toward patient, the public attitude. For illness view, the etiology of mental ills was favorably socio psychology cause. Most of participants had accurate knowledge about treatments and prevention of mental illness, but not enough with advance concept of mental ills. For patient view, the participant’s belief that patient still had some ability to take care himself, but asked more society restriction or isolation, and less acceptable attitude to them. For public view, almost all of the participants agreed that we should pay more concerned for the people with mental illness.
3. Etiology and ability evaluation of mental ills had direct and strong affected on the attitude of acceptable or isolation in the relationship between attitude factors.
4. The experience of contact had direct affected on factors concept of mental and society right. More contacted experience, less knowledge about advance concept of mental ills and society right.
5. The demography variables did different affect on attitude factors. Male, elder and higher education lever had more positive attitude toward people with mental illness. This study can’t adequate suggested that contact experience could increase the positive attitude.
The results of this study could understand the public attitude toward mental ills and patient, and explored the efficacious way to attitude factors. To provide related research in the future, develop local data and health administration reference of foundation.
Subjects
態度
精神疾病
接觸經驗
結構方程模式
attitude
mental illness
contact experience
SEM
SDGs
Type
other
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