Table 2.
Primary health care worker attitudes towards mental illness and mental health care (n = 151)
| |
Attitude |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Agree N (%) | Neutral N (%) | Disagree N (%) | |
| Mental illness is a problem for Ethiopia |
139 (92.1) |
3 (2.0) |
9 (6.0) |
| Mental health care is important |
145 (96.0) |
4 (2.6) |
2 (1.3) |
| Some health workers believe that health centres can’t play any role in intervening for mental illness? What about you? |
7 (4.6) |
11 (7.3) |
133 (88.1) |
| Are you interested to have mental health services integrated into your health centre? |
138 (91.4) |
8 (5.3) |
5 (3.3) |
| Are you personally interested in actually delivering mental health care in your own health centre? |
101 (66.9) |
21 (13.9) |
29 (19.2) |
| Some health workers believe that delivering mental health services in the health centres will put other patient in danger? What about you? |
38 (25.2) |
17 (11.3) |
96 (63.6) |
| Some health workers believe that mentally ill patient should not be treated in the same health centre with the general patient. What about you? |
4 (2.6) |
9 (6.0) |
138 (91.4) |
| Some health workers believe that traditional healers are better in effectiveness than our medical care? What about you? |
7 (4.6) |
11 (7.3) |
133 (88.1) |
| As mental illness is not curable, delivering mental health care is wasting resources. | 6 (4.0) | 5 (3.3) | 140 (92.7) |