Table 2 Primary health care worker attitudes towards mental illness and mental health care (n = 151)
Attitude | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Agree N (%) | Neutral N (%) | Disagree N (%) | |
Mental illness is a problem for Ethiopia | 139 (92.1) | 3 (2.0) | 9 (6.0) |
Mental health care is important | 145 (96.0) | 4 (2.6) | 2 (1.3) |
Some health workers believe that health centres can’t play any role in intervening for mental illness? What about you? | 7 (4.6) | 11 (7.3) | 133 (88.1) |
Are you interested to have mental health services integrated into your health centre? | 138 (91.4) | 8 (5.3) | 5 (3.3) |
Are you personally interested in actually delivering mental health care in your own health centre? | 101 (66.9) | 21 (13.9) | 29 (19.2) |
Some health workers believe that delivering mental health services in the health centres will put other patient in danger? What about you? | 38 (25.2) | 17 (11.3) | 96 (63.6) |
Some health workers believe that mentally ill patient should not be treated in the same health centre with the general patient. What about you? | 4 (2.6) | 9 (6.0) | 138 (91.4) |
Some health workers believe that traditional healers are better in effectiveness than our medical care? What about you? | 7 (4.6) | 11 (7.3) | 133 (88.1) |
As mental illness is not curable, delivering mental health care is wasting resources. | 6 (4.0) | 5 (3.3) | 140 (92.7) |