Correlations Between Opinions About Mental Illness and Attitudes Towards Psychological Help Seeking for a Mental Illness Among College Students in Kenya

Nyavanga Eunice Jemalel; Mourice Barasa Wafula; Chebet Ivy Mmbone

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Correlations Between Opinions About Mental Illness and Attitudes Towards Psychological Help Seeking for a Mental Illness Among College Students in Kenya

Nyavanga Eunice Jemalel, Mourice Barasa Wafula, Chebet Ivy Mmbone

Published in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 4)

Received: 9 June 2017 Accepted: 21 June 2017 Published: 20 July 2017

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Abstract

Primary school teacher trainees in Kenya have been identified to have both negative opinions about mental illness and attitudes towards professional psychological help seeking for a mental health problem. This study aims at determining the relationship between opinions about mental illness and attitudes towards professional psychological help seeking for mental illness among college students in Kenya. This study used a self-administered demographic questionnaire, opinions about mental illness and attitudes towards professional psychological help seeking to collect data, among 2777 primary teacher trainees in Kenya. SPSS version 19 was used to analyses data. It was found that there is a positive correlation that was significant at p=0.000 between opinions about mental illness and attitudes towards professional psychological help seeking in this population; this is in line with other studies globally. This study recommended an intervention through psychoeducation of mental illness to improve both opinions about mental illness leading to attitudes towards professional psychological help for a mental illness.

Published in	Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.pbs.20170604.12
Page(s)	54-58
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Correlation, Mental Illness, Opinions, Attitudes, College Students

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Nyavanga Eunice Jemalel

Department of Social and Human Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology, The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
Mourice Barasa Wafula

International Planned Parenthood Federation, Africa Region, Nairobi, Kenya
Chebet Ivy Mmbone

Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

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