Continuum beliefs and stigmatising beliefs about mental illness: results from an Asian community survey

Continuum beliefs and stigmatising beliefs about mental illness: results from an Asian community survey

OBJECTIVES To establish the prevalence and correlates of continuum beliefs for five mental illnesses in a multiethnic population and to explore its association with stigma. DESIGN A community-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING A national study in a multiethnic Asian country. PARTICIPANTS A comprehensive study of 3006 Singapore residents (Singapore citizens and permanent residents) aged...

Beliefs about Mental Illness among University Students in Egypt

Objective: To detect differences in attitudes towards psychiatric illness, regarding its nature, cause, different ways of therapy, possibility of cure and the effect on the society in two areas from different socioeconomic classes in Egypt. Method: A survey study using self administered questionnaire, to detect culture differences between students of Cairo and Beni Suef universities “Beni Suef ...

Zimbabwean diabetics' beliefs about health and illness: an interview study

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus (DM) is increasing globally, with the greatest increase in Africa and Asia. In Zimbabwe a threefold increase was shown in the 1990s. Health-related behaviour is important in maintaining health and is determined by individual beliefs about health and illness but has seen little study. The purpose of the study was to explore beliefs about health and illness that might...

The Singaporean public beliefs about the causes of mental illness: results from a multi-ethnic population-based study.

AIMS To identify the common causal beliefs of mental illness in a multi-ethnic Southeast Asian community and describe the sociodemographic associations to said beliefs. The factor structure to the causal beliefs scale is explored. The causal beliefs relating to five different mental illnesses (alcohol abuse, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), dementia and schizophrenia) and desire...

"beliefs about Beliefs" without Probabilities