Research Article

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

Table 4

Mental Illness Attitude Questionnaire (developed by Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital).

Items

Causes of mental illness
 Mental illness is caused by family problems
 Mental illness is caused by patients’ own mistakes
 Mental illness is caused by the brain diseases
 Mental illness is caused by social interpersonal tension
 Mental illness is caused by the problems of myth
Violence and aggression of Mental illness patients
 Mental illness patients often appear impulse, destroy behaviors
 Mental illness patients often threaten or harm the people around
 Mental illness patients often lose their temper with no reason
 Mental illness patients often appear unexpected impulsive behaviors
 Violence of Mental illness patients is as much as that of others
Hope for psychiatric treatments
 Mental illness can be cured
 Mental illness can be treated
 Symptoms of Mental illness patients can be controlled by drugs
 Treatments of psychiatric rehabilitation are very effective
 Difficult to treat mental illness
Social value of Mental illness patients
 Mental illness patients can contribute to society
 Mental illness patients often disturb public order
 Mental illness patients are burdens to families and society
 Mental illness patients violate social and moral rules as much as other people do
 Mental illness patients are useless to society
Problems of avoidance of Mental illness patients
 Those who regularly contact with Mental illness patients will suffer from mental problems
 Mental illness patients are not able to deal with the world
 Best not to marry the relatives of Mental illness patients
 Dealing with Mental illness patients make people being humiliated or disgraced
 Regular contacts with Mental illness patients do not have any harm
Restrictions on Mental illness patients
 Those who have history of mental illness should not get married
 Those who have history of mental illness should not give birth
 Discharged mental illness patients should be allowed to return to society
 Those who have history of mental illness should be allowed to access to universities
 Those who have history of mental illness should be allowed to access to work