Perceptions about mental illness among general practitioners

Perceptions of mental illness among Muslim general practitioners in South Africa.

BACKGROUND Mental health literacy on the part of medical practitioners is an important component of mental healthcare. General practitioners (GPs) are typically the first doctors consulted by a person who is ill. Exploration of their perceptions regarding mental illness, aetiological issues and treatment is important. OBJECTIVE To investigate perceptions of mental illness in a sample of ten S...

Exploring the Impact of Mental Health Education on Adolescents’ Perceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness

Perceptions of discrimination among persons with serious mental illness.

OBJECTIVES The authors sought to gain further perspective on discrimination experienced by persons with mental illness by comparing self-reports of discrimination due to mental illness to self-reports of discrimination due to other group characteristics, such as race, gender, and sexual orientation. METHODS A total of 1,824 persons with serious mental illness who participated in a baseline in...

Mental health, job satisfaction, and job stress among general practitioners.

OBJECTIVE To identify sources of job stress associated with high levels of job dissatisfaction and negative mental wellbeing among general practitioners in England. DESIGN Multivariate analysis of large database of general practitioners compiled from results of confidential questionnaire survey. Data obtained on independent variables of job stress, demographic factors, and personality. Depend...

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 ...