Variable | Categories | Frequency | Percent | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge of mental illness | Good | 502 | 53.0 | |
Poor | 445 | 47.0 | ||
Perceived severity of MI | Mild | 24 | 2.5 | |
Moderate | 66 | 7.0 | ||
Severe | 307 | 32.4 | ||
Very severe | 550 | 58.1 | ||
Cause of MI | Psychosocial factor | 677 | 71.5 | |
Nerve damage | 13 | 1.4 | ||
Poverty | 22 | 2.3 | ||
Substance use | 102 | 10.8 | ||
Evil spirit possession | 59 | 6.2 | ||
God’s punishment | 71 | 7.5 | ||
MI needs treatment | Yes | 773 | 81.6 | |
No | 174 | 18.4 | ||
Place of treatment | Hospital | 614 | 64.7 | |
Holy water | 207 | 21.9 | ||
Holy water and hospital | 101 | 10.7 | ||
Sorcerer | 24 | 2.5 | ||
Attitude towards MI | Authoritarianism | Less | 447 | 47.2 |
More | 500 | 52.8 | ||
Benevolence | Less | 495 | 52.3 | |
More | 452 | 47.7 | ||
Social restrictiveness | Less | 580 | 61.2 | |
More | 367 | 38.8 | ||
Community MI Ideology | Less | 386 | 40.8 | |
More | 561 | 59.2 |