NATIONAL SURVEY INTO ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENTAL ILLNESS PUBLISHED
12/05/2008
Shift's national survey into attitudes towards mental illness has been published. The full report can be downloaded from the Department of Health website at the following address:
http://snipurl.com/attitudes08 [www_dh_gov_uk] Key points from the report are:
* The general public are broadly sympathetic to people with mental health problems and community care.
* However, some attitudes towards people with mental health problems are worse compared to when the Department of Health first commissioned the poll in 1994, including two relating to fears of patients.
* On the other hand, several attitudes that had worsened over the period up until 1997 have since improved.
* Only two attitudes have changed significantly since last year, both an improvement – more think people with mental illness have been subject to ridicule for too long and less think it is easy to tell them from ‘normal people’.
For more information, visit http://shift.org.uk, call 0845 223 5447 or email shift@csip.org.uk
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