Stigma Resistance and Its Associated Factors among Patients with Mood Disorder at St. Paul’s Hospital and Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019
Table 4
Stigma resistance item response for each patient attending treatment.
Items of scale
Strongly agree (%)
Agree (%)
Disagree (%)
Strongly disagree (%)
I feel comfortable being seen in public with a mentally ill person
9 (3.8)
20 (8.5)
51 (21.7)
155 (66.0)
In general, I can live life the way I want to
35 (14.9)
91 (38.7)
69 (29.4)
40 (17.0)
I can have a good, fulfilling life, despite my mental illness
45 (19.1)
117 (49.8)
44 (18.7)
29 (12.3)
People with mental illness make important contributions to society
47 (20.0)
117 (49.8)
4418.7
27 (11.5)
Living with mental illness has made me a tough survivor