Public Knowledge and Beliefs about Mental Disorders in Developing Countries: A Review

Tibebe, Alemayehu; Tesfay, Kenfe

doi:10.4172/2167-1044.s3-004

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“…Even though mental illnesses are highly prevalent and incapacitating to the society of this world [8], still no more help was demanded from the modern facility by society. Only 72.7% responded to seek help from healthcare workers as conditional with specification by 'if necessary' .…”

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Help-seeking intention and associated factors towards mental illness among residents of Mertule Mariam town, East Gojam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed-method study

2020

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Background: About 76% and 85% of people in low and middle-income countries with severe mental illness did not get management because of fear of expected discrimination. Studying the intention to seek help for mental illness will, therefore, help to know their intended plan for help that would have a vital role to access patients with mental illness. Despite this, literature is limited in the area and community-based studies are scarce in Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular concerning help-seeking intention towards mental illness and its associated factors. Therefore, we assessed the pattern of intention to seek help and associated factors for mental illness among residents of Mertule Mariam town that would fill the gap in evidence and serve as baseline information for public health intervention. Methods:A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted from May to June 2017 at Mertule Mariam town. General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (GHQ) was used to assess the intention of help sought. Focus group discussion had also been employed to obtain qualitative data. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to obtain a total sample of 964 participants. Data were fed into Epi Info 7 and analyzed using SPSS version 21. The binary logistic regression method was used and an odds ratio with its 95% confidence interval was computed. Variables in multi-variable logistic regression were considered as an independent predictor of help-seeking intention to mental illness if their P value was less than 0.05.Result: About 81.5% of respondents had the intent to seek help from healthcare workers. But 44.6% of participants had the intention to seek from traditional healers. Variables that had an association with help-seeking intention were having an idea that mental illness needs treatment (AOR = 3.42, 95% CI 1.1-10.55), age group of 25-34 years (AOR = 1.46, 95% CI 1.02-2.09), mild social support (AOR = 1.85, 95% CI 1.25-2.72), and perceived severity of mental illness.

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“…The society prefers habitual healers, as well as herbal treatments including holy water and community, took the patients with a mental health problem to modern medical centers when they lost hope and progress after trying exhaustively from informal traditional methods [8,10].…”

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Help-seeking intention and associated factors towards mental illness among residents of Mertule Mariam town, East Gojam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed-method study

2020

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“…A study that was conducted in Ethiopia reported that supernatural powers as cause of mental illness, traditional healing and healers as preferable treatment method. 16 Majority (85.1%) of the study participants responded that mental illness as a curable disease and 68.8% acknowledged that modern medical approach mainly at Hospital or Health Center as their best preferable site of treatment, whereas the remaining 31.2% replied that their best preference as to go for Traditional or Spiritual healers. This results may be due to increased awareness, level of education and geographic access to the capital and healthy facilities.…”

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Cross-sectional study on community knowledge and perception on mental illness among residents of sub-zoba serejaka (Embaderho and Geshinashim villages), Eritrea

Adgoy¹

2018

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“…However, there is limited information about the perception and the attitude of the public regarding mental health problems [ 6 ]. A study conducted in Borana, Ethiopia revealed drivers with respect to supernatural causes such as perceptions of being controlled by evil spirits, being cursed, bewitched, having ‘exposure to wind’, and subsequent attacks by evil spirits in postnatal women.…”

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Community Knowledge, Perceived Beliefs and Associated Factors of Mental Distress: A Case Study from Northern Ethiopia

Abbay

Mulatu²,

Azadi

2018

IJERPH

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Background: All of society is affected by mental health problems, not just a minor, isolated part. Mental health problems represent a major challenge to the global development of community health. This study examined the community health knowledge, perceived beliefs, and associated factors of mental distress (MD) in Mekelle city in Northern Ethiopia. Methods: The current study used a cross-sectional approach calculating a sample of 260 adults living in the two sub-cities of Mekelle city. To select the sample households in each sub-city, systematic random sampling was used. Self-reported questionnaire (SRQ-20 with a cutoff point of 7), and Mental Health Knowledge Schedule (MAKS) instruments were included within the structured questionnaire tool to clarify community occurrence and the level of health mental knowledge. Results: The likelihood of having MD was higher among the study participants who were female, employed, self-employed, and daily alcohol and khat users. The results also showed that the level of mental health knowledge among the participants was low. Conclusions: Factors such as being male, having a higher level of education, and having strong levels of social support were found to be the independent predictors of good mental health and community mental health knowledge.

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Public Knowledge and Beliefs about Mental Disorders in Developing Countries: A Review

Cited by 15 publications

References 15 publications

Help-seeking intention and associated factors towards mental illness among residents of Mertule Mariam town, East Gojam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed-method study

Help-seeking intention and associated factors towards mental illness among residents of Mertule Mariam town, East Gojam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia: a mixed-method study

Cross-sectional study on community knowledge and perception on mental illness among residents of sub-zoba serejaka (Embaderho and Geshinashim villages), Eritrea

Community Knowledge, Perceived Beliefs and Associated Factors of Mental Distress: A Case Study from Northern Ethiopia

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