Attitude towards Mental Illness among Primary Healthcare Providers: A Community-Based Study in Rural China

Table 3

Correlation analysis of attitudes and abilities of the primary healthcare providers to mental illness.

Spearman correlation analysis	Recognition ability	Communication ability	Execution ability	Learning ability	Total score
(1) Mental illness is caused by biological factors	-0.086	-0.001	0.058	0.084	-0.011
(2) Mental illness patients’ behaviors are violent and aggressive	0.065	-0.008	0.006	0.010	0.077
(3) Mental illness is incurable	-0.026	-0.071	0.006	0.045	-0.025
(4) Mental illness patients cannot contribute to society	0.064	-0.144	-0.161	-0.201	-0.118
(5) People should avoid Mental illness patients and their family members	0.040	-0.094	-0.050	-0.057	-0.119
(6) Mental illness patients’ social activities should be limited	0.077	-0.161	-0.147	-0.129	-0.110

P<0.001,P<0.05