Table 3.
Attitude of the students towards utilization of mental health services.
| S/N | Statements | Responses (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA | A | D | SD | ||
| 1. | I feel I can get professional help if I was having a mental breakdown | 150 (33.3) | 178 (39.6) | 95 (21.1) | 27 (6.0) |
| 2. | When I am emotionally disturbed, I prefer solving it on my own | 152 (33.8) | 212 (47.1) | 73 (16.2) | 13 (2.9) |
| 3. | I feel comfortable talking about my personal problems | 52 (11.6) | 128 (28.4) | 200 (44.4) | 70 (15.6) |
| 4. | If I am mentally disturbed, I don't see it as my personal matter but also a threat to my friends and family | 82 (18.2) | 138 (30.7) | 180 (40.0) | 50 (11.1) |
| 5. | I do not use mental health services in school because of the belief that culture has on the mentally ill individuals | 112 (24.9) | 119 (26.4) | 179 (39.8) | 40 (8.9) |
| 6. | I feel the treatment young people receive at mental health clinics in my school make them talk gibberish | 85 (18.9) | 121 (26.9) | 205 (45.6) | 39 (8.7) |
| 7. | I think individuals diagnosed as mentally ill in mental clinics in my school suffer from its symptoms throughout their life | 80 (17.8) | 124 (27.6) | 198 (44.0) | 48 (10.7) |
| Positive Attitude | 395 (87.8) | ||||
| Negative Attitude | 55 (12.2) | ||||
Key: SA = Strong Agree-4; A = Agree-3; D = Disagree-2; SD = Strongly Disagree-1.