Table 4.
Attitude toward people with mental illness
| Agree | Somewhat agree |
Neutral | Somewhat disagree |
Disagree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive perceptions | |||||
| I could maintain friendship with someone with mental illness | 34.47 | 23.54 | 13.59 | 12.38 | 16.02 |
| I could marry someone with mental illness | 8.56 | 11.25 | 9.54 | 20.54 | 50.12 |
| Person with mental illness should have same rights | 50.36 | 12.9 | 9 | 13.63 | 14.11 |
| People generally caring and sympathetic towards people with Mental illness | 39.28 | 14.94 | 11.57 | 17.83 | 16.39 |
| Negative perceptions | |||||
| Mentally ill person should be prevented from having children | 25.97 | 26.7 | 5.34 | 14.32 | 27.67 |
| Mentally ill person should not get married | 19.37 | 28.81 | 8.96 | 19.13 | 23.73 |
| Mentally ill person should not be allowed to make decisions | 23.47 | 25.43 | 11.25 | 22.49 | 17.36 |
| One should avoid all contact with Mentally ill | 21.12 | 23.06 | 15.29 | 17.23 | 23.3 |
| I would be afraid to have conversation with Mentally Ill person | 33.74 | 22.33 | 11.65 | 16.75 | 15.53 |
| I would be upset and disturbed working on same job as mentally ill person | 29.41 | 21.32 | 10.78 | 11.76 | 26.72 |
| I would be ashamed if family member diagnosed with Mental illness | 32.69 | 22.28 | 6.05 | 9.93 | 29.06 |
| I would not want people to know if suffering from mental illness | 52.9 | 22.46 | 4.59 | 8.21 | 11.84 |