Abstract Background Mental Health problems are one of the leading disabilities worldwide.
Individuals seeking help for their mental illness expect nurses to be cognisant of their needs …

Background Negative attitude and discriminatory behavior of health professionals constitute
a major obstacle in psychiatric care and have been pointed out as a key issue in working …

Objective. To assess nurses' knowledge and perceptions towards mental illness. Methods.
This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among 126 randomly selected …

Abstract Background: Around 30-40% of patients who are attending primary care setting
have emotional problems. The majority of these were often remaining unrecognized …

Background The emergence of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has
affected nurses' mental and psychological health. This study investigates the prevalence of …

Background: One of the foremost hindrances preventing appropriate mental health service
delivery in developing countries is the limited knowledge of the general population about …

Although recent advances in psychiatry have increased our understanding towards
psychiatric disorders, many people are unaware about mental illness and its treatment. The …

Aims: The aim of this study was to describe the attitude of nurses toward mentally-ill patients
in a general hospital. Methods: All the nurses in the hospital were administered a 40-item …

Introduction: Although recent advances in psychiatry have increased our understanding of
psychiatric disorders, many people may be unaware about mental illness and its treatment …

Abstract Background In South Africa, there are on-going calls to integrate mental health
services into existing primary health care (PHC) programmes such as Tuberculosis (TB) …