Opinions about Mental Illness

Todor, Ioana

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.247

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“…Regarding the different dimensions of the OMI scale, there is a discrepancy of values in the Authoritarianism and Benevolence dimensions. These two items emphasize, in the context of Authoritarianism, the archaic view that the mentally ill needs to be isolated from other patients, must remain locked, under surveillance, and within the framework of Benevolence it is translated to the view that the person with mental illness should be protected by means of protectionist, kind and patronizing resources (19) , interpreted as care and attention (7) , however, these attitudes are also understood as control and restriction of the community with these patients (8) .…”

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Opinions on mental illness from the perspective of primary care nurses in Portugal

Fernandes

Santos

Moreira

et al. 2019

Rev. Gaúcha Enferm.

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Objective: To identify the opinions of primary care nurses regarding mental illness and the care provided to this population. Methodology: Cross-sectional, quantitative study with the participation of 328 nurses of primary health care in Porto, Portugal. Data collected between April and August of 2018 through the scale "Opinions about Mental Illness" and socio demographic and labor questionnaire. Descriptive and correlational statistics were applied. Results: A total of 50% of the nurses presented positive opinions about the mental illness. Regarding the assistance provided in their unit of action, 53.4% considered inadequate and 50.3% recognized as adequate their knowledge about the role that primary health care has in assisting the person with mental illness. Conclusion: Positive opinions and recognition of the importance of primary care to people with mental illness are important indicators for qualified mental health care outside the field of specialty.

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Opinions on mental illness from the perspective of primary care nurses in Portugal

Fernandes

Santos

Moreira

et al. 2019

Rev. Gaúcha Enferm.

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“…Research on social distance and attitude towards people with mental illness by Todor (2013) indicated that students in tertiary institutions lack the willingness to communicate with persons who have mental illness and furthermore that not having past contact with people mentally illness has significant relationship with larger social distance. However, with lowered social distance, the attitude of medical students toward schizophrenia was improved through antistigma intervention programmes (Altindag, Yanik, Ucok, Alptekin, & Ozkan, 2006).…”

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“…Attitudes toward people with mental illness are important to study for a number of reasons. There is high prevalence of mental illness estimated at about twenty-five percent of the population in many countries (Todor, 2013) in general, while about 21 million Nigerians suffer from mental illness (Sotubo, 2015;Ifijeh, 2015). There is also high prevalence of negative attitudes among the general public toward people with mental illness.…”

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“…Attitude towards people with mental illness is studied in many regions of the world such as Chicago (Watson, Corrigan, & Ottati, 2004); China (Sun, Fan, Nie, Zhang, Huang, He, & Rosenheck, 2014); Hong Kong (China) (Todor, 2013); India (Poreddi, Thimmaiah, & Math, 2015); Israel (Kimhi, Barak, Gutman, Melamed, Zohar, & Barak, 1998); Saudi Arabia (Amira, 2016 (Igbinomwanhia, James, & Omoaregba, 2013).…”

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“…Mental illness is a mental pattern that causes significant impairment of personal functioning (Bolton, 2008) which could range from mild to severe disturbances in thought and/or behavior, resulting in an inability to cope with life's ordinary demands and routines. People with mental illness are viewed by the public as subject of pity living in their disconnected, bizarre worlds (Todor, 2013).…”

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Emotional Empathy, Social Distance and Attitude of Police Officers towards People with Mental Illness

Akinbobola¹,

Zugwai²

2019

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People with mental illness are generally stigmatized. This study therefore specifically investigated the relationship between emotional empathy, social distance and attitude towards mental illness by police officers who interface with people with mental illness in the course of duty. A total of 300 police officers comprising of 148 (49.3%) males and 152 (50.7%) females were selected from the Police Training College Ikeja, Lagos State. This study adopted a cross sectional survey using purposive sampling technique. The instruments for data collection were structured psychological scales which are the multi-dimensional emotional empathy scale, social distance scale and community attitude toward mental illness scale. Data collected were analysed using multiple regression and independent t test. The result indicated that emotional empathy and its dimensions (suffering, positive sharing, responsive crying, emotional attention, feel for others, emotional contagion) and social distance had significant joint influence on attitude towards people with mental illness [F (7,292) = 2.85, P < .01)]. However, emotional empathy (β = .58, t = 2.46, P < 0.01), positive sharing (β = −.52, t = −3.84, P < 0.01) and responsive crying (β = −.15, t = −2.06, P < 0.05) had significant independent influence on attitude towards people with mental illness. Also, male police officers exhibit more sympathetic attitude towards people with mental illness than female police officers {t (298) = −1.778, P < 0.05}. Recommendation is made for psychological intervention to police officers for zero stigmatisation tolerance, and training on emphatic altruism and concern.

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An Incipient Fuzzy Logic-Based Analysis of the Medical Specialty Influence on the Perception About Mental Patients

Lubiano

González-Gil

Sánchez-Pastor

et al. 2018

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

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Analyses of the stigma associated with mental patients have been exhaustively developed. Some of these analyses refer to the general population in different countries, some other compare conclusions from these countries, and some others discuss the attitutes of either current or future (psychiatric and non-psychiatric) health professionals with respect to mental illness. Most of these analyses are based on well-known questionnaires (usually on their country-adapted versions), each of them corresponding to a multi-item scale evaluated using either a 5-, 6-or 7-point Likert scale and focussing on different attitudinal factors or constructs. This paper introduces a quite preliminary study in this setting, aiming to examine the influence of the medical specialty on the perception about mental patients and involving a more expressive and flexible scale to rate attitudes: the fuzzy rating scale (allowing a free fuzzy set-valued response assessment to items).

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Opinions about Mental Illness

Cited by 19 publications

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Opinions on mental illness from the perspective of primary care nurses in Portugal

Opinions on mental illness from the perspective of primary care nurses in Portugal

Emotional Empathy, Social Distance and Attitude of Police Officers towards People with Mental Illness

An Incipient Fuzzy Logic-Based Analysis of the Medical Specialty Influence on the Perception About Mental Patients

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