Table 3.

Health professionals' opinions on the social restrictiveness construct of the CAMI instrument

Items on Social Restrictiveness (SR)	Strongly	Neutral	Strongly disagree/	Mean	SD
	agree/agree (%)	(%)	disagree (%)
1. The mentally ill should not be given any responsibility (strongly agree/agree)	57 (19.)	44 (14.7)	199 (66.3)	2.38	1.12
2. The mentally ill should be isolated from the rest of the community (strongly agree/agree)	35 (11.8)	30 (10.1)	132 (78.1)	2.00	1.06
3. A woman would be foolish to marry a man who has suffered from mental illness, even though he seems fully recovered (strongly agree/agree)	27 (9.0)	82 (27.2)	192 (63.8)	2.26	0.96
4. I would not want to live next door to someone who has been mentally ill (strongly agree/agree)	43 (14.2)	75 (24.8)	184 (60.9)	2.40	1.00
5. Anyone with a history of mental problems should be excluded from taking public office (strongly agree/agree)	58 (16.0)	44 (14.7)	208 (69.3)	2.30	1.06
6. The mentally ill should not be denied their individual rights (strongly disagree/disagree)	265 (89.5)	3 (1.0)	28 (9.5)	1.76	1.02
7. Mental patients should be encouraged to assume the responsibilities of normal life (strongly disagree/disagree)	263 (87.7)	15 (5.0)	22 (5.3)	1.87	0.88
8. No one has the right to exclude the mentally ill from their neighborhood (strongly disagree/disagree)	236 (78.7)	35 (11.7)	29 (9.6)	2.02	0.94
9. The mentally ill are far less a danger than most people suppose (strongly disagree/disagree)	168 (56.2)	79 (26.4)	52 (17.4)	2.50	1.04
10. Most women who were once patients in a mental hospital can be trusted as babysitters (strongly disagree/disagree)	39 (13.4)	103 (35.3)	160 (51.3)	3.53	0.96

Responses in parenthesis signify stigmatizing attitudes towards the mentally ill patient.

Items on the social restrictiveness scale were adopted from Taylor and Dear (13).

Overall construct mean (SD) score = 2.30 ± 0.42; Higher mean scores signify higher stigmatizing attitudes towards the mentally ill.