Attitude and help-seeking behavior of the community towards mental health problems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community attitude towards mental health problems and help-seeking behavior plays a major role in designing effective community based mental health interventions. This study aimed to assess the attitude, help-seeking behavior, and associated factors of the Jimma zone community towards mental health and mental health problems.

Methods

A community-based cross-sectional study design was employed. A respondent from each of the 423 systematically selected households was interviewed using a pretested, structured, and interviewer-administered questionnaire. Accordingly, a community's attitude towards mental health problems was measured by the adapted version of the "Community Attitude towards Mentally Ill questionnaire (CAMI)" and help-seeking behavior was measured by a

SUBMITTER: Tesfaye Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7660493 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature