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Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the knowledge of schizophrenia and depression among caregivers of patients with mental disorder in China. METHOD: A convenience sample of 402 caregivers at the Department of Psychiatry of a general hospital in China was investigated (response rate 95.7%), using vignettes ba...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28274209 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1245-y |
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author | Chen, Shubao Wu, Qiuxia Qi, Chang Deng, Huiqiong Wang, Xuyi He, Haoyu Long, Jiang Xiong, Yifan Liu, Tieqiao |
author_facet | Chen, Shubao Wu, Qiuxia Qi, Chang Deng, Huiqiong Wang, Xuyi He, Haoyu Long, Jiang Xiong, Yifan Liu, Tieqiao |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To investigate the knowledge of schizophrenia and depression among caregivers of patients with mental disorder in China. METHOD: A convenience sample of 402 caregivers at the Department of Psychiatry of a general hospital in China was investigated (response rate 95.7%), using vignettes based investigation methodology. RESULTS: The number of caregivers using the term “depression” to describe the depression vignette was 43.6%, which was significantly higher than the number of caregivers using the term “schizophrenia” to describe the schizophrenia one (28.5%). A high percentage of caregivers believed that “psychiatrist”, “psychologist” and “close family members” would be helpful, and the top three most helpful interventions were “becoming more physically active”, “getting out and learning more” and “receiving psychotherapy”. The number of caregivers endorsed “antipsychotics” and “antidepressants” as helpful for the schizophrenia and the depression vignettes were 82.0 and 80.7%, respectively. Regarding the causes of mental illness, items related to psychosocial factors, including “daily problems” and “work or financial problems”, and “weakness of character” were highly rated, with half considered genetic or chemical imbalance causes. CONCLUSION: Caregivers expressed a high knowledge about treatments and interventions of mental disorders. But there are still some areas, particularly regarding the recognition and causes of mental disorders, that are in need of improvement. This is particularly the case for schizophrenia. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1245-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-53435382017-03-10 Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder Chen, Shubao Wu, Qiuxia Qi, Chang Deng, Huiqiong Wang, Xuyi He, Haoyu Long, Jiang Xiong, Yifan Liu, Tieqiao BMC Psychiatry Research Article OBJECTIVE: To investigate the knowledge of schizophrenia and depression among caregivers of patients with mental disorder in China. METHOD: A convenience sample of 402 caregivers at the Department of Psychiatry of a general hospital in China was investigated (response rate 95.7%), using vignettes based investigation methodology. RESULTS: The number of caregivers using the term “depression” to describe the depression vignette was 43.6%, which was significantly higher than the number of caregivers using the term “schizophrenia” to describe the schizophrenia one (28.5%). A high percentage of caregivers believed that “psychiatrist”, “psychologist” and “close family members” would be helpful, and the top three most helpful interventions were “becoming more physically active”, “getting out and learning more” and “receiving psychotherapy”. The number of caregivers endorsed “antipsychotics” and “antidepressants” as helpful for the schizophrenia and the depression vignettes were 82.0 and 80.7%, respectively. Regarding the causes of mental illness, items related to psychosocial factors, including “daily problems” and “work or financial problems”, and “weakness of character” were highly rated, with half considered genetic or chemical imbalance causes. CONCLUSION: Caregivers expressed a high knowledge about treatments and interventions of mental disorders. But there are still some areas, particularly regarding the recognition and causes of mental disorders, that are in need of improvement. This is particularly the case for schizophrenia. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1245-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5343538/ /pubmed/28274209 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1245-y Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chen, Shubao Wu, Qiuxia Qi, Chang Deng, Huiqiong Wang, Xuyi He, Haoyu Long, Jiang Xiong, Yifan Liu, Tieqiao Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
title | Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
title_full | Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
title_fullStr | Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
title_short | Mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among Chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
title_sort | mental health literacy about schizophrenia and depression: a survey among chinese caregivers of patients with mental disorder |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28274209 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1245-y |
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