Attitude of the university students and teachers towards mentally ill, in Lahore, Pakistan
Javed, Zahid, Naeem, Farooq, Kingdon, David, Irfan, Muhammad, Izhar, Nasir and Ayub, Muhammad (2006) Attitude of the university students and teachers towards mentally ill, in Lahore, Pakistan. Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad: JAMC, 18, (3), 55-58.
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Description/Abstract
Background: Although, much is known about the attitudes and beliefs people hold towards
mental illness in the west, no such work has been done in the developing countries. It is difficult to
measure the attitudes of the general public in developing countries due to differences in
terminology and concepts of the illness. However, majority of educated people in the developing
countries can recognise common psychiatric disorders by their western names. We therefore,
decided to measure attitudes of university students and teachers in Lahore, Pakistan. This study
was carried out to assess the attitude of university students and teachers in Lahore, Pakistan.
Methods: A survey form was circulated among the university students and the teachers in Lahore,
Pakistan. Of the 300 survey forms 194 were returned.
Results: Majority of the respondents held
negative attitudes towards people with schizophrenia, depression and drug and alcohol disorders.
Conclusions: The views held by the university teachers and students reveal negative attitudes
towards mentally ill. Attitudes of those who knew someone with mental illness were similar to
those who did not.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1025-9589 (print) |
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| Keywords: | pakistan |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Clinical Neurosciences University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Community Clinical Sciences |
| Item ID: | 62428 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 11:51 |
| Contributors: | Javed, Zahid (Author) Naeem, Farooq (Author) Kingdon, David (Author) Irfan, Muhammad (Author) Izhar, Nasir (Author) Ayub, Muhammad (Author) |
| Date: | March 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/62428 |
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