1IVth year BSc Nursing students, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore
2Assistant professors, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore
*Correspondence author: Syed Imran, Assistant Professor, email: syed_vinu@yahoo.co.in, Ph no; 9880749477, Yenepoya Nursing College, Mangalore
Online published on 25 March, 2015.
Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization being regarded as established pillar of society and culture. Human rights are those rights which are inherent to all human being. It is necessary that all the people in the community should know about the rights of the mentally ill people because we can see that now a days the mentally ill people are facing a lot of problems and they are being stigmatized in the society. In view of the above need the researcher strongly felt that the people in the community should be made aware regarding the rights of mentally ill people and it is necessary that they should develop a favourable attitude towards the people with mental illness. So that their rights are protected.
To assess the attitude of urban and rural population regarding rights of mentally ill.
To compare the attitude score of urban and rural population regarding human rights of mentally ill.
To develop and validate information pamphlet on human rights of mentally ill.
To find out the association between attitude of urban and rural population regarding human rights of mentally ill and selected demographic variables
The data was collected from 200 people (100 from urban and 100 from rural). The written consent was taken from those who were willing to participate in the study. Attitude scale was administered to each and data was collected. Information pamphlet was given to the selected people in urban and rural area. In order to obtain the validity of the data collection tool objectives, blueprint, criteria checklist and a structured attitude questionnaire draft was prepared on human rights of mentally ill. The tool was validated by incorporating the suggestion and guidance given by subject expert.
The result obtained from the study was that the urban population has a favourable attitude than the rural population regarding human rights of mentally ill.
It can be concluded that the urban population had a favourable attitude towards the rights of mentally ill and in rural population majority of the people 87% are having a neutral attitude and about 7% of the people are having an unfavourable attitude, 6% of the people are having a favourable attitude towards rights of mentally ill and significant association were found in attitude score and their selected demographic variables.
Attitude scale, human rights, mentally ill.
