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Related Factors to Attitude and Conception of Community toward the Mental Illness

정신질환에 대한 지역사회 주민의 태도 및 인식 관련 요인 연구

  • Received : 2013.09.05
  • Accepted : 2014.01.09
  • Published : 2014.01.31
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Abstract

This study was conducted to examine attitudes and conception of community toward the mental illness. The data, which is used for this study was two questions, was extracted from National Health Behavior Examination survey. 1,051 were included for analysis, and frequency analysis, chi-square test, t-test, and logistic regression were used. As a result, man has more positive attitude than women. old age group(>=65) was more positive than other age group significantly(p<0.05). In the educational aspect, people who graduate college or higher educated has negative attitude or conception to the mental illness, and middle school graduate group showed significantly positive attitude(p<0.05). The result of this study will present the reason and basic information for planning of mental health program in community.

본 연구는 정신질환에 대한 인식과 태도에 관련된 요인을 파악하고자 실시되었으며, 2008년 10월 1일부터 10월 15일까지 시행된 지역사회 건강행태 조사 결과 중 정신질환에 대한 지역사회 주민의 태도 및 인식과 관련된 2개의 문항을 추출하여 연구에 이용하였다. 1,051개의 자료가 최종적으로 분석되었으며, 대상자의 일반적 특성 및 이와 정신질환 인식 태도와의 관계를 파악하기 위하여 빈도분석과 교차분석 및 로지스틱 회귀분석을 시행하였다. 연구 결과 지역사회 주민 정신 질환 및 태도는 남자가 여자보다 긍정적인 것으로 조사되었으며, 연령에 따른 태도 및 인식은 고연령층에서 정신질환에 대하여 더 긍정적인 결과를 보였고, 교육수준에 따른 정신 질환 태도 결과는 저학력일수록 긍정적인 결과를 보였다. 본 연구의 결과는향후 정신보건사업을 계획하고 시행하는 데 있어서 근거를 마련하고 체계적인 정신보건사업을 위한 기초자료로 제시될 수 있을 것이다.

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