Mobashery Mahan, Ta Thi Minh Tam, Cao Duc Tien, Böge Kerem, Eilinghoff Luisa, Nguyen Van Phi, Mavituna Selin, Fuchs Lukas, Weyn-Banningh Sebastian, Kemna Solveig, Bajbouj Malek, Hahn Eric
Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Department of Psychiatry, Buon Ma Thuot Medical University, Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak, Vietnam.
Front Psychiatry. 2024 Nov 26;15:1430272. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1430272. eCollection 2024.
Vietnam's mental health care system is undergoing significant changes since the government has initiated large-scale programs to reform and develop the mental health care infrastructure. Cultural belief systems on mental illnesses influence help-seeking behavior and compliance. This study investigates the belief systems about people with schizophrenia and depression among people living in the Hanoi area.
1077 Vietnamese participants answered two open-ended questions after reading an unlabeled vignette describing a character with the symptoms of schizophrenia or depression. The answers were analyzed using thematic analysis.
Of all participants, 88,4% associated the presented cases with a mental illness, with 91,5% in the case of schizophrenia and 85,1% in the case of depression, so both disorders were conceptualized as mental illnesses. 18,6% mentioned depression when presented with the depression vignette, while only 3,6% recognized schizophrenia in the schizophrenia condition.
Almost 9 out of 10 participants considered the presented cases as an example of mental illness, suggesting a high mental health awareness among our participants. The majority did not identify the presented cases as examples of schizophrenia or depression, reflecting little familiarity with Western mental health concepts. It could be interpreted as a sign of relatively low mental health literacy among the study participants.
自越南政府启动大规模项目以改革和发展精神卫生保健基础设施以来，该国的精神卫生保健系统正在经历重大变革。关于精神疾病的文化信仰体系会影响求助行为和依从性。本研究调查了河内地区居民对精神分裂症患者和抑郁症患者的信仰体系。
1077名越南参与者在阅读了一篇描述具有精神分裂症或抑郁症症状角色的无标签短文后，回答了两个开放式问题。使用主题分析法对答案进行分析。
在所有参与者中，88.4%将所呈现的病例与精神疾病联系起来，其中精神分裂症病例为91.5%，抑郁症病例为85.1%，因此这两种疾病都被概念化为精神疾病。在呈现抑郁症短文时，18.6%的人提到了抑郁症，而在精神分裂症情境中只有3.6%的人识别出精神分裂症。
几乎十分之九的参与者将所呈现的病例视为精神疾病的例子，这表明我们的参与者具有较高的心理健康意识。大多数人没有将所呈现的病例识别为精神分裂症或抑郁症的例子，这反映出对西方心理健康概念的了解较少。这可以被解释为研究参与者心理健康素养相对较低的一个迹象。
