Mental health literacy and stigmatization towards depression and early schizophrenia among medical student in UPM 2013

Mu'minin, Siti Nurfarhana and See, Yeo Kim (2013) Mental health literacy and stigmatization towards depression and early schizophrenia among medical student in UPM 2013. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Mental disorder constitutes a huge and growing worldwide problem. In Malaysia, mental disorders are common as the second leading disease in female and fourth leading disease in male in 2004. While there is now a wide range of possibilities to identify and treat the mental disorders, the public still lack of professional help. One of the main factors that can affect this unmet need for support is lack of mental health literacy and stigmatization towards the mental disorders. Objective: To explore mental health literacy and stigmatization among medical students in University Putra Malaysia Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted among 204 respondents who were selected through stratified random sampling. It is carried out by distributing self-administered questionnaire to investigate the mental health literacy and stigmatization towards depression and early schizophrenia among the first, second and fourth medical students in UPM Results: Findings showed 50.3% respondents recognized depression and 39% respondents recognized schizophrenia. Most of the students believed that depression (63.6%) and schizophrenia (55.1%) is due to psychological and mental health professional as being more helpful in depression (59.9) and schizophrenia (64.2). Negative attitude was found that most of the respondents have stigmatization toward depression (69%) and schizophrenia (95.2%). There is a significant association between religion (p=O.OII) and ethnic (0.029) with the stigmatization towards depression There is no significant association between mental health literacy and the stigmatization in both vignettes (p>O.O.5). Conclusion: Recognition is really low in UPM medical students as well as other population. Socio-demographic factors play a big role in mental health literacy and stigmatization towards depression and schizophrenia while mental health literacy has no association with stigmatization towards depression and schizophrenia. Keywords: depression, schizophrenia. mental health literacy, stigmatization, vignette

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms. Adni Syuhaida Zon
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2022 08:21
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2023 03:04
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/299

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