A Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Mental Illness among B.Ed Students in a Selected B.Ed Colleges of Mysore

Mental disorder is one of the major problems in the world. About 450 million people suffer from mental or behavioral disorders worldwide today, It was said that mental health problems are more common in developed world than in developing world. But this notion has long been disputed¹. However, 12% of the Ethiopian people have suffered from mental health problem and mental health problem accounts 12.45% of burden of diseases in Ethiopia^2,3. The study objectives are to assess the knowledge of B.Ed students regarding mental illness using structured knowledge questionnaire and also to determine the association of level of knowledge regarding mental illness with their selected personal variables. Research design is Descriptive design; the study was conducted among B.Ed students at selected B.Ed colleges at Mysore district. The Sample size was 100 B.Ed students of selected B.Ed College Mysore. Sampling technique was Non-probability convenient sampling technique was adopted for the present study Conclusion: Majority 87(87%) of the participants had moderate knowledge, followed by 8(8%) had poor knowledge and least i.e. 05(05%) had good knowledge regarding mental illness. The study revealed that the obtained Chi-square values were not significant at 0.05 level of significance, from the result findings it can be inferred that the knowledge of B.Ed regarding mental illness is not having any association with their selected personal variables.