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Investigation of Mental Health Literacy of Individuals Living In A City Center

Hilal Seki Öz

Research Article Volume 3 Issue 3 24 October 2021 Pages 660-675 10.47793/hp.993929
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Abstract

Mental health literacy can be defined as an individual's competence in understanding, recognizing, and managing mental illnesses. It is seen that there is not enough research in our country on this concept, which is important in protecting and improving community mental health. With this descriptive study, it was aimed to examine the mental health literacy level of individuals living in a city center. 388 individuals living in a city center in Central Anatolia were reached by random snowball method, and the research data were collected with an online form. Introductory Information Form and Mental Health Literacy Scale were used for the data. Descriptive statistics, Independent Samples t-Test, One-Way ANOVA and Tukey's test were used in data analysis. In the study, the Knowledge-oriented sub-scale mean score of the individuals was 7.20±2.39; the Belief-oriented sub-scale was 4.76±1.76, the Resource-oriented sub-scale was 2.80±1.25, and the total scale was 14.76±3.67, and gender, education level, working status, being interested in mental issues and knowing the individual with mental illness made a significant difference(p<0.05). In the study, it was found that age, marital status, economic status and having a chronic disease did not make a significant difference(p>0.05). When the items of the scale were examined, it was seen that the items related to schizophrenia, depression, disease occurrence, suicide, recovery, treatments, and service use had lower scores than the others. As a result of the research, it was determined that the participants had a high level of mental health literacy and were affected by sociodemographic variables, and advanced studies examining mental health literacy are recommended.

Keywords

mental health mental health literacy mental health literacy health literacy
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