Community Attitude and Associated Factors towards People with Mental Illness among Residents of Worabe Town, Silte Zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Bedaso, Asres ^a   Yeneabat, Tebikew ^b   Yohannis, Zegeye ^c   Bedasso, Kufa ^d   Feyera, Fetuma ^b  

^a HAWASSA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b DEBRE MARKOS UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c AMANUEL MENTAL SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL   (Ethiopia)

^d Department of Ophthalmology   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; AUTHORITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMANISM; IDEOLOGY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; ATTITUDE; BENEFICENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL PATIENT; OCCUPATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AUTHORITARIANISM; BENEFICENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; OCCUPATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL STIGMA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962213548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149429     Document Type: Article

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