[The attitudes of primary care professionals on mental patients and psychiatric care].
OBJECTIVE
To describe the views of different primary care professionals regarding mental illness, psychiatric patients and mental health care.


METHODS
Crossover survey. SITE. Primary care centres in a health zone.


METHODS
All the primary care centre professionals and social service base teams. Out of 66 possible subjects, 61 answered the questionnaire.


RESULTS
A questionnaire composed by ourselves about peoples' opinions was given. The chi 2 test was then used to analyse the questionnaire, both item by item and by means of the distribution of frequencies and comparisons. On some items differences between Health Professionals and social service staff occurred. But there were no differences between doctors and nursing staff, nor between men and women (level of importance: 0.50). For 91% of those surveyed, mental health is an illness like any other. 87% believe psychiatry is a science; and 77% that psychiatry is related to the rest of medicine. 48% believe that the majority of mental disturbances are untreatable. 80% affirm that psychiatric admissions should be into special hospitals.


CONCLUSIONS
The authors highlight the need to overcome the discrepancy between positive attitudes on the theoretical side and a reluctance to integrate those attitudes into practice.
Vicente
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V
Unidad de Salud Mental, Centro de Salud de Borriana, Castellón.
Bedia
C
C
Aragón
T
T
Palmer
R
R
Munarriz
M
M
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012737:Sex Factors; D012947:Social Work / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Opiniones de los profesionales de atención primaria sobre los enfermos mentales y la asistencia psiquiátrica.