 Stigmatising attitude and reflections towards mental illness at community setting, population-based approach, Baghdad City 2020Maha Sulaiman Younis, Arjan Hidayat Anwer and Hamid Yahay Hussain International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2021, vol. 67, issue 5, 461-466 Abstract: Background: Addressing the social stigma of mental illness is of importance in Iraq where mentally ill patients experience the compounded disadvantages of inadequate health services and illness stigma. Aims: To study the prevalence and magnitude of the social stigma towards mental illnesses. Method: A cross-sectional study has been carried out on 300 male and female participants at shopping malls and public cafes in Baghdad, Iraq. A self-administered questionnaire made data collection. Descriptive, and analytic statics procedure was operated as far as a convenience by using Excel 365 version as a data management tool. Results: About (80%) of the respondents revealed a moderate degree of stigmatising attitude towards mental illness with a Likert scale total equivalent score range of (2.34–3.669). About (20%) of respondents showed a low degree of stigmatising attitude towards mental illness, with a Likert scale total equivalent score range of (1–2.339). P -value was highly significant (=0.011798) Keywords: Stigmatising; mental illnesses; community setting; Baghdad (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:67:y:2021:i:5:p:461-466 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Social Psychiatry |
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