Table 2 Knowledge of the respondents towards mental health and mental health problems at Jimma Zone, Seka woreda South-west Ethiopia, March 2020
From: Knowledge of the community regarding mental health problems: a cross-sectional study
Variables | Characteristics | Response | Frequency | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Psychiatric disorders are a kind of medical disorders | Yes | 404 | 96.2 | |
Psychiatric disorders are contagious diseases | Yes | 75 | 17.9 | |
Recovered psychiatric patients are employed productively | Yes | 303 | 72.1 | |
Psychiatric disorders are treatable | Yes | 362 | 86.2 | |
People with severe mental health problems can fully recover | Yes | 88 | 20.9 | |
Leaving alone is the treatment for mental illness | Yes | 138 | 32.9 | |
Which are symptoms of mental illness | Irritability | Yes | 352 | 83.8 |
Talking/laughing alone | Yes | 407 | 96.9 | |
Wandering | Yes | 393 | 93.6 | |
Excessive and unusual happiness | Yes | 339 | 80.7 | |
Strange/unusual behavior | Yes | 403 | 96.0 | |
Excessive Feeling sad, tearful | Yes | 376 | 89.5 | |
Aggression/violence | Yes | 401 | 95.5 | |
Hearing and seeing things that are not there | Yes | 389 | 92.6 | |
Lack of sleep | Yes | 376 | 89.5 | |
Talkativeness | Yes | 394 | 93.8 | |
Trying to kill oneself | Yes | 386 | 91.9 | |
Isolating oneself | Yes | 401 | 95.5 | |
Older people may develop mental disorders | Yes | 371 | 88.3 | |
Children may develop mental disorders | Yes | 332 | 79.0 | |
Women may develop mental disorders as equal to male | Yes | 265 | 63.1 | |
Lower socioeconomic class increases the risk of having psychiatric disorders | Yes | 310 | 73.8 |