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Assessment of Attitude of Parents toward Childrens Mental Disorder and its Relation with Parents Helps Seeking Behaviors

Ebrahimi H1, Movaghari RM2, Bazghaleh M3*, Abbasi A3 and Ohammadpourhodki RM3
1Center for Health-Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
3School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Iran
*Corresponding Author : Bazghaleh M M.Sc, Faculty Member, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran, Tel: +982332393811, Email: moussa.abolhassani@yahoo.com

Received Date: Aug 31, 2018 / Accepted Date: Feb 04, 2019 / Published Date: Feb 11, 2019

Abstract

Background: The purpose the study was to assess parent’s attitudes toward mental illness in children and is relationship with help seeking behaviours.

Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a pediatric psychiatric clinic of under affiliation of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2016-17. All children’s parents or guardians who referred for the first time to the clinics were the study population. Convenient Sampling was applied and 400 subjects were included by survey method. The data collection tool for this study included a form for demographic data, a questionnaire for assessing parents’ attitude toward the causes, behavioral demonstrations and treatment of mental disorders in children, and finally a checklist to determine help seeking behaviors. Descriptive and inferential statistics was applied with SPSS software version 16 for data analysis.

Results: 93.7% of parents had a good attitude toward mental illness in the three studied realms. 56.25% of parents referred to official sources of help. The results of this research showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of parents’ attitude (sum of the three areas) in terms of child’s gender, parents’ marital status, father’s job, father’s education, and mother’s education and there was a significant relationship between help seeking behavior of parents just with fathers’ education level (P<0.05).

Conclusion: The results showed that parents had a good attitude toward their children’s mental disorders However, it should not be overlooked that nearly half of parents were still referring to unofficial sources of assistance.

Keywords: Help seeking; Mental disorder; Attitude; Children

Citation: Ebrahimi H, Movaghari RM, Bazghaleh M, Abbasi A, Ohammadpourhodki RM (2019) Assessment of Attitude of Parents toward Children’s Mental Disorder and its Relation with Parents Helps Seeking Behaviors. J Comm Pub Health Nursing 5:225.

Copyright: © 2019 Ebrahimi H, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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