Ebrahimi Hossein, Movaghari Mohammad Reza, Bazghaleh Milad, Shirmohammadi Nasim, Mohammadpourhodki Reza
Center for Health Related social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.
Department of Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Complement Integr Med. 2019 Aug 21;16(4):/j/jcim.2019.16.issue-4/jcim-2018-0244/jcim-2018-0244.xml. doi: 10.1515/jcim-2018-0244.
Background The purpose of the study was to assess parent's attitudes toward mental illness in children and its relationship with help seeking behaviors. Method This cross-sectional study was conducted in a pediatric psychiatric clinic of under affiliation of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2016-2017. All children's parents or guardians who referred for the first time to the clinics were the study population. Convenient sampling was applied and 400 subjects were included by survey method. The data collection tool for this study included a form for demographic data, a questionnaire for assessing parents' attitude toward the causes, behavioral demonstrations and treatment of mental disorders in children, and finally a checklist to determine help seeking behaviors. Descriptive and inferential statistics was applied with SPSS software version 16 for data analysis. Results Of the parents, 93.7% had a good attitude toward mental illness in the three studied realms. Of the parents, 56.25% referred to official sources of help. The results of this research showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of parents' attitude (sum of the three areas) in terms of child's gender, parents' marital status, father's job, father's education, and mother's education and there was a significant relationship between help seeking behavior of parents just with fathers' education level (p<0.05). Conclusions The results showed that parents had a good attitude toward their children's mental disorders. However, it should not be overlooked that nearly half of the parents were still referring to unofficial sources of assistance.
本研究旨在评估家长对儿童精神疾病的态度及其与寻求帮助行为的关系。
本横断面研究于2016 - 2017年在德黑兰医科大学附属的一家儿科精神病诊所进行。所有首次到诊所就诊的儿童家长或监护人作为研究对象。采用便利抽样法，通过调查法纳入400名受试者。本研究的数据收集工具包括一份人口统计学数据表格、一份评估家长对儿童精神障碍病因、行为表现及治疗态度的问卷，以及最后一份用于确定寻求帮助行为的清单。使用SPSS 16版软件进行描述性和推断性统计分析数据。
在三个研究领域中，93.7%的家长对精神疾病持良好态度。56.25%的家长求助于官方渠道。本研究结果表明，家长态度的平均得分（三个领域得分总和）在孩子性别、家长婚姻状况、父亲职业、父亲教育程度和母亲教育程度方面存在显著差异，且家长的寻求帮助行为仅与父亲的教育水平存在显著关系（p<0.05）。
结果表明家长对孩子的精神障碍持良好态度。然而，不应忽视的是，近一半的家长仍求助于非官方援助渠道。
