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Community attitudes to mental illness

G Wolff¹, S Pathare, T Craig

¹MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London. gsw@scpu.mrc.ac.uk

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science

|February 1, 1996

Summary

Community attitudes toward mental illness are influenced by demographics. People with children and non-Caucasians showed more negative attitudes, suggesting targeted interventions are needed to improve mental health acceptance.

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Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Public Health

Background:

Presents baseline findings on community attitudes towards mental illness.
Examines the impact of a public education campaign on these attitudes.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess community attitudes towards mental illness before intervention.
To identify demographic factors influencing these attitudes.

Main Methods:

Conducted a census of attitudes using the Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) inventory.
Utilized factor analysis to identify key attitude components: Fear and Exclusion, Social Control, and Goodwill.

Main Results:

Demographic factors significantly influenced attitudes: having children correlated with Fear and Exclusion.

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Social class, ethnicity, age, personal mental illness history, and having children affected Social Control.

Educational level was the primary determinant of Goodwill.

Respondents with children and non-Caucasians exhibited greater objections to mentally ill individuals residing in their neighborhoods.

Conclusions:

Interventions to change community attitudes should specifically target individuals with children and non-Caucasian populations.
These targeted groups demonstrated a higher likelihood of objecting to the presence of mentally ill individuals in the community.