Relationship between depression and mental health literacy or attitude towards mental illness among grassroots administrators

Autor: Gao Jucong, Zhang Jingxuan
Jazyk: čínština
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Sichuan jingshen weisheng, Vol 35, Iss 5, Pp 439-444 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1007-3256
DOI: 10.11886/scjsws20220518001
Popis: ObjectiveTo understand the relationship between depression and mental health literacy or the attitude towards mental illness among grassroots administrators, in order to provide a reference for further improving mental health services and building a psychosocial service system.MethodsIn October 2020, a total of 690 grassroots administrators from street offices in Licheng district of Ji'nan city were selected as the research subjects. Self-designed general situation questionnaire, mental health care knowledge questionnaire, mental illness related attitude questionnaire and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) were used to evaluate. Multi-factor linear stepwise regression analysis was used to explore the influencing factors of mental health literacy and attitude towards mental illness among the grassroots administrators.ResultsA total of 248 people (37.07%) were found to have depression. There were significant differences in the detection rate of depression among different ages (χ2=16.110), education level (χ2=18.949), marital status (χ2=8.611) and position (χ2=11.584) (P˂0.05 or 0.01). In such personnel, the score of mental health care knowledge questionnaire was (15.20±2.77), the awareness rate was 75.99%, and the score of mental illness related attitude questionnaire was 36(31~38). The severity of depression was negatively correlated with the score of mental health care knowledge questionnaire (r=-0.379, P˂0.01), and positively correlated with the scores of mental illness related attitude questionnaire (r=0.103, P=0.007). Regression analysis showed that the education level (β=0.141, P˂0.01) and the severity of depression (β=-0.305, P˂0.01) were the influencing factors of mental health literacy. And the severity of depression (β=0.083, P=0.034) was the influencing factor of the attitude towards mental illness.ConclusionGrassroots administrators has a high detection rate of depression. And the more depressed they are, the lower the mental health literacy, but the attitude of mental illness is more positive.
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