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KMID : 0897520110160020080
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2011 Volume.16 No. 2 p.80 ~ p.87
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Evaluation of Attitude toward the Mental Illness and Human Rights Sensitivity among Directors of Mental Health Facilities
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Lee Kyung-Min
Lee Jong-Gook
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study aims to investigate the attitudes and sensitivity of directors of mental health facilities, who participated the Human Rights Education Program in 2009, towards mental illness and their human rights. The findings will be used to figure out current situation of the mental health field in perspective of human right issue as well as a basis for future program development.
Methods : We investigated the questionnaire from the Human Rights Education Program which was going on from March to July in 2009 by applying two questionnaires for assessment of their attitudes and sensitivity toward human rights of mentally ill people. One questionnaire is the Assessment Tool for Human Rights Education which was developed to investigate the human rights sensitivity and contains questions specifying mental health issue. The other is Community Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) which was developed by S. Martin Taylor and Michael J. Dear.
Results : There showed no significant difference in CAMI and human rights sensitivity according to participants’ sex and education level. Female showed significant positive attitude at social restrictiveness and community mental health ideaology of CAMI. Participants over 60 showed more negative attitude than younger participants at CAMI questionnaire. In human rights sensitivity questionnaire, participants aged 40-49 years were less sensitive than those aged 20-39. Doctors and non-medical persons were found to be more negative at both CAMI and human rights sensitivity. Directors of community psychiatric rehabilitation centers had more positive attitude and better sensitivity than others. About questions for benevolence in CAMI and human rights sensitivity, there was no significant difference according to their duration of working. About questions for authoritarianism, social restrictiveness, and community mental health ideaology in CAMI, participants who had worked less than 5 years and more than 30 years showed more negative attitudes than others.
Conclusion : The findings of the investigation are diverse depending on the characteristic variables of the participants about their attitudes toward mental illness and human rights sensitivity. We could propose that development of more individualized and user-friendly approach according to characteristics of participants should be necessary to make the education program be more practical and effective.
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KEYWORD
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Human Rights Education Program, Sensitivity, Attitudes, CAMI
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