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ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS MENTAL ILLNESS AMONG COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS

2021; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.46344/jbino.2021.v010i01.34

2277-8330

Bahubali Jinnappa Geddugol, Yayathee Subbarayalu, R Sreevani,

Health and Well-being Studies

Background: Although the interest and knowledge of physical diseases among medical students are much higher than mental illness, it's prevalent that the knowledge about mental disorders has been comparatively neglected and ignored due to underestimation and poor attitude.There has been ignorance of the mental health aspect of overall health maintenance; which leads to an increase in the rate of illness and burden on the mentally ill individual, family and country as a whole.Objectives: To assess knowledge and attitude towards mental illness among Health and Medical Science Student studying in Dr. J. J Magdum Trust.Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted scheduled from February 25 th to March 7 th 2017 at Dr. J J Magdum trust's Homeopathy, Ayurvedic and Nursing College Jaysingpur, Maharashtra.The tool used was a structured questionnaire and administered to 483 participants.The samples were calculated and selected by multi-stage sampling procedure and simple random sampling technique.The questionnaires include the basic demographic information, opinions about potential knowledge and attitude among health and medical science student towards mental illness.The descriptive and inferential data were analyzed with the help of SPSS version 20 software program.Result: All of the respondents (100%) had general information about mental illness.And 30.4% of samples had information from media.About 27.3% From magazine, 5.4% got it from friends and relatives, 5.6% from others like religious institutions, As well as nearly half of the respondents, have a good attitude toward mental illnessConclusion: All of our respondents had good knowledge but nearly half of respondent have a poor attitude towards mental illness.