The Comparative Study On The Mental Health Literacy Of Medical Staff And Patients’ Family Members Of The State Hospitals In Dali

Objective Investigation psychiatric hospital and general hospital’s medical staff and family members of patients to konw their mental health knowledge level, attitudes towards mental illness, common mental disorders recognition rate, attribution, self-service waysand attitude, and analyze the influencing factors. Through the above research, find out the level of mental health literacy and its influencing factors.Methods According to preliminary meta-analysis results by Hu Min, select medical staff and family members of patients in Dali, from a psychiatric hospital as research subjects, and a genreal hospital were compared, using our group designed demographic questionnaire, mental health-related basic knowledge research questionnaire, belittle-discrimination scale(DDS), common mental disorders case Study questionnaire by simple random sampling to survey 432 respondents.Study their mental health knowledge level, attitudes towards mental illness, common mental disorders recognition rate. Surevy Exclusion criteria the medical staff working in the hospital and less than 1 year, or currently retired; families of patients were age under 18 years, and continue to take care of patient less than 3 months.Survey data entry using Epitada 3.0 software, using SPSS version 19.0 for data analysis.Results1. Mental health knowledgeSurvey scores range from 1 to 12 points, the average score of(7.07 ± 2.02), mental health knowledge rate was 59.5%; compared psychiatric hospital and general hospital medical staff, family members of patients mental health scores, the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05), while the medical personnel and the families of patients in psychiatric hospital scores higher than general hospitals’2. Attitude of mental illnessSurvey score range of 1.50 to 3.92 points, the average score of(2.62 ± 0.37), 89.9% of respondents attitude towards mental illness are neutral to positive; compared psychiatric hospital and general hospitals’ medical staff and family members of patients with mental illness attitude scores the difference was not statistically significant(P>0.05).3. Case study common mental disorders3.1 common mental disorders cases recognition study.In the common mental disorders recognition rate case study, all the five cases wrong respondents was 29 for 7.4% of all respondents, all correctly was 13 for 3.4%. 46.0% recognition rate of failed total number of 191 respondents; the recognition rate of 48.2% passing the 200 respondents of the total number. The highest recognition rate was OCD case(64.8%), the lowest rate rate was OCD case Schizophrenia with negative symptoms case(19.0%). Psychiatric hospital and general hospital medical staff scores compared, the difference was statistically significant(P <0.01), and the psychiatric hospital medical staff higher than general hospitals; Psychiatric hospital and general hospital family members of patients scores compared, the difference was statistically significant(P<0.01), and the psychiatric hospital lower than general hospitals.3.2 Common mental disorders attribute to Case study 37.8% of respondents believe that work pressure may cause the case happened, followed by a blow(about 33.4%).3.3 Common mental disorders and self-help case study of common mental disorders 49.6 percent believe that seeing a psychiatrist as the most effective way to help, followed by counseling(about 31.8%). With case, neighbors or colleagues have mentally ill, 49% of respondents think uncomfortable; to investigate the case whether the person has the ability to judge right and wrong, 39.8% of respondents thought they have the ability to judge right and wrong; there are 64.4% of respondents believe that after therapy can work; 14.5% of respondents think the same symptom will happen in their future life; 58.4% of respondents think that the opportunity of the respondents in the case harm to others will increase; 76.5% of respondents think that the people in the case will re-adapt to society.Conclusions1. Mental health knowledge rate was 59.5%, psychiatric hospital medical staff and family members of patients with mental health knowledge scores higher than general hospitals; influencing factors of mental health knowledge score are the hospital types, gender, ethnicity, education, income, whether received mental health advertising material.2. Respondents attitude towards mental illness are neutral to positive. Influencing factors of mental illness scores are ethnicity, age.3. Psychiatric hospital medical staff to identify common mental disorder scored higher than the general hospital, psychiatric hospitals family members of patients scored lower than general hospitals; factors that influence common mental disorders for the case identification score ever received mental health advertising material, education.4. Common mental disorders attribute to case study, respondents believe that the case lead to the most likely reason is that the work pressure, followed by a blow.