A study on knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding mental health illnesses in Amdanga block, West Bengal
| Autor: | Soham Saha, Sourav Kundu, Rivu Basu, Pradip Kumar Ghoshal, Arkaprabha Sau, Souren Mondal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Adult
Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Attitude toward mental illness Cross-sectional study Population India Observation Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry education education.field_of_study Community Attitudes to Mentally Illness Descriptive statistics business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Mental Disorders structural equation model lcsh:RA1-1270 Cognition General Medicine Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health 030227 psychiatry Cross-Sectional Studies Family medicine Female Observational study business |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Public Health, Vol 61, Iss 3, Pp 169-173 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 0019-557X |
| Popis: | Background: The discourse of mental health is getting its due attention after all these years in India. A major threat to the mental health system is the demand side factors, namely, knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of the general population toward this. In spite of growing concern regarding mental health in India, this kind of study to assess the mental health status has been very few in India, more so in West Bengal. Objectives: With this background, this study was carried out with the objectives to validate the Community Attitude to Mental Illness (CAMI), to assess the different sociodemographic factors among the study population, to assess the KAP regarding mental illness among the study population. Methods: It was an observational, descriptive study with cross-sectional design done at Amdanga Community Development Block, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, in 2015-16. Questionnaire validation to assess the KAP was the primary objective with obtaining the descriptive data were the second one. CAMI questionnaire was used which was validated for the given area by validation methods such as Cronbach's alpha and structural equation modeling. The resultant questionnaire was used in the field on adult population after a single-stage survey design to collect 730 samples. Results: The test statistics showed that the questionnaire was reasonably valid after a few tweakings. SEM identified well-define domains in the attitude part. 94.9% says that they are willing to live with a people with mental illness. 14.9% has actually done so. Health-care seeking behavior shows that 19.2% will go to a GP in case of any mental illness. Furthermore, attitude toward mental illness showed mixed picture as also knowledge. This study correlated with various studies of developing countries and it was seen that these population showed markedly different attitudes for probability of the patients getting cured than many other countries. Furthermore, stigma was gradually decreasing, as evident from various other studies. Conclusion: This study will provide valuable insights into the cognitive and affective aspect of mental illness among these population and thus help in implementing better policies in this regard, as this is fast becoming the talk of the day. |
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