Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Work, Department of Social Work, Trnava University in Trnava, Trnava, Slovakia.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2017 May;63(3):255-260. doi: 10.1177/0020764017696334. Epub 2017 Mar 9.
Our survey has been aimed at identifying the society attitude towards people with mental illness in Slovakia.
Selected group comprised 1,624 adult respondents with 18 years of age as the bottom limit. We applied reduced 26-item Community Attitudes Toward Mentally Ill Scale (CAMI) to the survey of the society attitude towards people with mental illness.
Average score reached by the respondents reached 94.0800 points, indicating lower stigmatization rate than presumed. Further investigation revealed prejudice and stigmatizing attitudes at significant part of the population. The survey confirmed statistically significant differences at the attitudes in the terms of gender ( t = -6.559, p = .000), age within the categories (χ = 20.358, p = .000), education ( F = 9.137, p = .000), socio-economic status (χ = 50.487, p = .000) and occupation (χ = 47.989, p = .000). We also confirmed statistically significant relation between the attitude and age (-.085**, p = .001).
The survey confirmed rather neutral up to slightly positive attitude of the Slovak population towards people with mental illness. Existence of attitudes burdened with fear was revealed in some cases, indicating the need for continuous education of the society in this subject matter.
我们的调查旨在确定斯洛伐克社会对精神病患者的态度。
选择了年龄在 18 岁及以上的 1624 名成年受访者作为研究对象。我们应用简化的 26 项社区对精神病患者态度量表（CAMI）对社会对精神病患者的态度进行了调查。
受访者的平均得分为 94.0800 分，表明歧视率低于预期。进一步的调查显示，相当一部分人口存在偏见和歧视态度。该调查还证实了在性别（t=-6.559，p=.000）、年龄类别（χ=20.358，p=.000）、教育程度（F=9.137，p=.000）、社会经济地位（χ=50.487，p=.000）和职业（χ=47.989，p=.000）方面，态度存在显著差异。我们还证实了态度与年龄之间存在显著的负相关关系（-.085**，p=.001）。
该调查证实了斯洛伐克人口对精神病患者的态度相对中立，甚至略带积极。在某些情况下，存在着带有恐惧的态度，这表明需要在这个主题上对社会进行持续的教育。
