Clergy's Viewpoint Change Toward Mental Health and Stigma on Mental Illness: A Short Course Training
As stigma is one of the main barriers in promoting the mental health, the present study was designed with the purpose of reviewing clergy's viewpoint regarding the effect of mental health workshops on these barriers. For this study, by order of Iran's Health Ministry, a questionnaire was d...
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| Published in: | Frontiers in psychiatry Vol. 13; p. 864806 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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01-04-2022
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| Summary: | As stigma is one of the main barriers in promoting the mental health, the present study was designed with the purpose of reviewing clergy's viewpoint regarding the effect of mental health workshops on these barriers.
For this study, by order of Iran's Health Ministry, a questionnaire was designed to examine the clergy's viewpoint related to mental illnesses and the consequent stigma. Ten faculty members and psychiatrists confirmed the questionnaire's validity after some modifications. In this research, 30 members of the clergy from the main religious city in Iran's "Qom" Seminary attended the training workshops for 2 days. The data obtained from the clergy's responses were analyzed using the SPSS software (ver.16) and descriptive and analytical tests. Also, the significance level was considered
< 0.05 in all tests. The results exhibited that the mean and standard deviation (Mean ± SD) of the clergy's attitude domain and awareness before the workshop was 1.90 ± 26.30 and 8.31 ± 1.64, respectively. Also, average and standard deviation (Mean ± SD) of their attitude domain and awareness after the workshop was 1.95 ± 29.73 and 1.18 ± 10.70, respectively.
The present study, which was designed to examine the clergy's viewpoint toward mental illnesses and the consequent stigma in the most considerable religious base in the country, illustrated that one strategy for reducing mental illness stigma in religious communities can be by holding training sessions to promote the clergy's awareness of and attitude toward mental health.
There was a significant statistical difference between their awareness and attitude scores before and after the workshop (
< 0.01). In the present research, the awareness and attitude of clergy toward mental health and stigma due to mental illness was relatively good and significantly increased by holding the workshop. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 This article was submitted to Public Mental Health, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry Reviewed by: Jana Chihai, Nicolae Testemiţanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Moldova; Heyam Dalky, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Ali Yousefifard orcid.org/0000-0003-2834-3331 Ali Asadi orcid.org/0000-0001-8461-6352 ORCID: Arsia Taghva orcid.org/0000-0002-5325-0105 Mojgan Khademi orcid.org/0000-0003-1132-8944 Ahmad Hajebi orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-0398 Edited by: Renato de Filippis, University of Catanzaro, Italy Amir Mohsen Rahnejat orcid.org/0000-0002-2194-4698 Alireza Shahriari orcid.org/0000-0001-7535-9710 Jafar Mohsenifar orcid.org/0000-0002-8995-7954 Moussa Abolhassani orcid.org/0000-0003-4384-7669 Mahdi Nasr Esfahani orcid.org/0000-0002-4660-9108 Haleh Shahed-haghghadam orcid.org/0000-0001-9845-7989 Jafar Bolhari orcid.org/0000-0001-5360-7541 Ahmad Ali Noorbala orcid.org/0000-0002-7798-1682 |
| ISSN: | 1664-0640 1664-0640 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.864806 |