AlSalem Moayyad, Alamri Riyadh, Hejazi Sulafa
Department of Psychiatry, King Abdulaziz Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2020 Jan 30;16:341-348. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S236148. eCollection 2020.
Most patients exhibiting psychiatric manifestations often remain undetected, misdiagnosed, and inappropriately managed. This cross-sectional study aims to ascertain the level of knowledge of mental illnesses among nonpsychiatric healthcare workers and their attitudes toward patients with mental illness in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
A cross-sectional study was conducted in four public hospitals in Makkah from November 2017 to February 2018. A total of 407 participants were involved. A self-reported structured questionnaire was used, and data were collected electronically.
Of 407 respondents, 183 (45%) were females and 244 (55%) were males. The majority of respondents were physicians with medical specialties 116 (28.5%), followed by physicians with surgical specialties 99 (24.3%). More than half 229 (56.3%) of the respondents had work experience of >10 years. Although 128 (31.4%) of the participants lacked adequate knowledge of mental illnesses, only 104 (25.6%) had relevant knowledge.154 (37.8%) respondents displayed favorable (good) attitude, whereas 82 (44.7%) displayed an unfavorable (poor) attitude toward mentally ill patients.
The study revealed that nearly one-fourth of the participants appear to have adequate knowledge of mental disorders. However, 44.7% have an unfavorable attitude toward patients with mental illnesses. Hence, respondent professionals markedly correlated with both knowledge and attitude toward patients with mental illnesses, and the positive attitude strongly correlated with having adequate knowledge.
大多数有精神症状的患者往往未被发现、误诊且治疗不当。这项横断面研究旨在确定沙特阿拉伯麦加非精神科医护人员对精神疾病的了解程度及其对精神疾病患者的态度。
2017年11月至2018年2月在麦加的四家公立医院进行了一项横断面研究。共有407名参与者。使用了一份自我报告的结构化问卷，并通过电子方式收集数据。
在407名受访者中，183名（45%）为女性，244名（55%）为男性。大多数受访者是医学专科医生，有116名（28.5%），其次是外科专科医生，有99名（24.3%）。超过一半（229名，56.3%）的受访者有超过10年的工作经验。虽然128名（31.4%）参与者对精神疾病缺乏足够的了解，但只有104名（25.6%）有相关知识。154名（37.8%）受访者对精神疾病患者表现出积极（良好）的态度，而82名（44.7%）表现出消极（不佳）的态度。
研究表明，近四分之一的参与者似乎对精神障碍有足够的了解。然而，44.7%的人对精神疾病患者持消极态度。因此，受访者的专业与对精神疾病患者的知识和态度显著相关，积极态度与具备足够知识密切相关。
