Syrian Private University, Syria.
Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2022 Aug;68(5):1054-1062. doi: 10.1177/00207640211015701. Epub 2021 May 9.
Teachers have an important role in promoting the mental wellbeing of their students, hence their knowledge and attitudes toward mental health disorders should be assessed. A very few studies regarding this topic were conducted in Syria, but due to the recent events which have had occurred the country, it is essential to deal with students who suffer from mental illnesses professionally especially that such disorders may be stigmatized by the society.
This paper aims to investigate knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward mental disorders in a sample of Syrian schoolteachers.
A cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaire was conducted in Damascus and Refdimashq, involving 400 teachers from 16 schools.
The results showed that the prevalence of stigmatizing positions toward psychiatric illnesses was low among teachers. The contributors did not state a correlation between spiritual beliefs and psychological disorders. It was also found that teachers were neutral in their knowledge about mental illnesses and psychiatric treatment or interventions along with their mental health resources. However, 42.5% of the participants use the internet for such purposes.
In general, teachers of Damascus and its Refdimashq had a reasonable degree of awareness about mental disorders and treatments. Furthermore, neither stigma nor the relation between religious thoughts and mental disorders had been ascertained.
教师在促进学生的心理健康方面起着重要作用，因此应该评估他们对心理健康障碍的知识和态度。在叙利亚进行的关于这个主题的研究很少，但由于该国最近发生的事件，必须专业地处理患有精神疾病的学生，特别是这种障碍可能会受到社会的污名化。
本文旨在调查叙利亚学校教师样本中对精神障碍的知识、信念和态度。
在大马士革和德拉米什克进行了一项横断面研究，使用自我管理问卷，涉及 16 所学校的 400 名教师。
结果表明，教师对精神疾病的歧视立场的流行率较低。研究人员没有表明精神信仰与心理障碍之间存在相关性。研究还发现，教师在精神疾病和精神治疗或干预以及他们的精神卫生资源方面的知识是中立的。然而，42.5%的参与者为此目的使用互联网。
总的来说，大马士革及其德拉米什克的教师对精神障碍和治疗有一定程度的认识。此外，既没有确定污名化，也没有确定宗教思想与精神障碍之间的关系。
