Public attitude towards restrictions on persons with mental illness in greater Hanoi area, Vietnam
Autor: | Lara Kim Martensen, Carolin Laqua, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Tat Dinh Nguyen, Albert Diefenbacher, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Kerem Böge, Georg Schomerus, Anita von Poser, Michael Dettling, Joerg-Christian Lanca, Eric Hahn, Tien Duc Cao |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adolescent Population Public debate Public opinion Southeast asian Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Mentally Ill Persons Surveys and Questionnaires Environmental health medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Demography education.field_of_study business.industry Middle Aged Social Participation Social engagement Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Logistic Models Vietnam Public Opinion Marital status Female business Psychology |
Zdroj: | BASE-Bielefeld Academic Search Engine |
Popis: | Background and Aims: In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the need to protect human rights in psychiatry. Within the last years, considerable effort has been made to reduce restrictive measures in mental health settings. Reducing restrictive measures within mental health care has also moved increasingly into the focus of public debate. This study aims, for the first time in a Southeast Asian sample, to explore whether socio-demographic factors affect public attitudes toward restrictions on mentally ill people in Hanoi, Vietnam. Methods: A general population-based survey (self-report questionnaire) was carried out in 2013 in the greater Hanoi area. The survey sample ( N = 813) was recruited according to the latest published census (2009) and micro-census (2013) in Vietnam and Hanoi with regard to the socio-demographic factors gender, age, urbanity, household size and marital status. Multinomial logistic regressions for odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals were calculated to examine the influence of epidemiological variables, like gender and age, on the public attitude toward restrictions imposed on mentally ill people in Vietnam. Results: This study found, for the first time in a large Vietnamese sample, that gender and age were associated with public attitudes toward restrictions on mentally ill people. In detail, significantly fewer men endorsed compulsory admission to a hospital and abortion than Vietnamese women. In addition, endorsement of abortion was significantly higher in older people. Conclusion: The results offer some insight into roles of women in the Vietnamese society and might reflect the traditional gender expectations in Vietnamese families. Moreover, the results emphasize the need for supporting female psychiatric patients and their families within their communities and in the Vietnamese society. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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