Abstract:

The study was aimed at examining the attitudes of adults towards mental illness/patients. In this study, designed in identificative and cutting-edge type, the data was collected between 15 March and 15 May 2016 by face-to-face interviewing the survey method of 312 adults who received health care from a family health center in a province center and participated in the work voluntarily. The data in this study was collected using the Identifying Characteristics Form and the Social Attitudes Measurement towards Persons with Spiritual Problems. The data was evaluated with the SPSS 20.0 program. Identifying statistics (number, percentage, average, standard deviation) and nonparametric tests (Kruskall-Wallis Test, Mann-Whitney U Test) were used. The average age of 51.3 percent of the participants was 39.32±11. It is 51. The social mental health ideology is the low scale score average of 29.0±4.0, the good intention low scale score average of 27.8±3.8, the fear/exception low scale score average of 6.1±1.7 and the total scale score average of 63.0±7.3. The average scale of women, goodwill, fear/exclusion and total scale; the average scale of college graduates, primary and high school graduates, the average scale of fear/exclusion in urban environments, the average scale of fear/exclusion in urban environments, the average scale of goodwill, fear/exclusion and total scale; the average scale of college graduates, the average scale of college graduates, the average scale of fear/exclusion in urban environments, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average scale of fear/exclusion, the average The researchers found that women were more accepted by mental illness than men, more afraid of mental illness than men, that urban adults were more negative to mental illness than rural adults, and that university and high school graduates were more accepted by mental illness. It is recommended that the community identify their opinions about mental illnesses and informative training is conducted to change their negative opinions.

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