Table 1.
Demographic characteristics in mental health workers, patients, patients’ guardians, and the university students
| Mental health workers |
Patients and patients’ guardians |
University students | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatrist | Resident | Nurse | Social worker | Clinical psychologist | p-value* | Patients | Patients’ guardians | p-value* | ||
| Age (years), mean±SD | ||||||||||
| 40.9±9.2 | 30.5±2.9 | 32.2±9.1 | 33.5±5.6 | 30.1±4.9 | <0.001 | 46.7±11.4 | 51.0±14.4 | 0.002 | 22.0±3.3 | |
| Sex, N (%) | ||||||||||
| Male | 43 (61.4) | 77 (60.2) | 7 (6.0) | 2 (3.6) | 8 (12.7) | <0.001 | 95 (44.6) | 59 (37.8) | 0.192 | 62 (44.3) |
| Female | 27 (38.6) | 51 (39.8) | 109 (94.0) | 54 (96.4) | 55 (87.3) | 118 (55.4) | 97 (62.2) | 78 (55.7) | ||
| Length of career (years), N (%) | ||||||||||
| <5 | 34 (48.6) | 128 (100) | 71 (60.2) | 29 (51.8) | 39 (61.9) | <0.001 | ||||
| 5–10 | 6 (8.6) | 0 (0.0) | 24 (20.3) | 16 (28.6) | 16 (25.4) | |||||
| 10–20 | 16 (22.9) | 0 (0.0) | 10 (8.5) | 11 (19.6) | 6 (9.5) | |||||
| 20–30 | 11 (15.7) | 0 (0.0) | 12 (10.2) | 6 (9.5) | 2 (3.2) | |||||
| 30≤ | 3 (4.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |||||
| Length of treatment (years), mean±SD | 15.5±10.5 | 11.7±10.4 | 0.010 | |||||||
| Experience of visiting a mental health-related institutions | ||||||||||
| Yes, N (%) | 20 (14.3) | |||||||||
| No, N (%) | 119 (85.0) | |||||||||
*
the chi-square test or an ANOVA was used, as appropriate.
SD: standard deviation