Determinants of Stigmatization of Families of Psychiatric Patients: The Case of Butajira District
| dc.contributor.advisor | Abegaz, Fentaw (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Deyessa, Negussie (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kebede, Dejene | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-30T08:44:25Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T14:29:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-30T08:44:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T14:29:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Considerable research has documented the stigmatization of people with mental illnesses and its negative consequences. Recently it has been shown that stigma may also seriously affect families and caregivers of psychiatric patients, but a few empirical researches have addressed this problem. In this study we examine the determinants of stigmatization of families of psychiatric patients 111 Butajira district. A total of 514 caregivers' of individuals who were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and major affective disorders in a community based survey were interviewed. The result reveals that 66.1 % of the fami lies of the psychiatric patients have reported that they are stigmatized due to the presence of psychiatric patient in the family. Statistical methods such as logistic regression, factor analysis and alternating logistic regression were applied and results fi'om logistic regression reveals that sex of patient, age of the informant, quality of subjects' cun'ent dwelling, economic position of patients' house-hold relative to catchments ' area, and type of disease are significant factors that determine the stigmatization of families, and results from factor analysis provides us the two major components of stigma (threat from extemal environment and self feeling) explaining 64.72% of total variance in all variables and finally alternating logistic regression was used that provide odds ratio as a measure of association between these two factors. Perceiving stigmatization with respect to self feeling are 4.338 times that of with respect to threat from external environment. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/31006 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Determinants of Stigmatization of Families | en_US |
| dc.title | Determinants of Stigmatization of Families of Psychiatric Patients: The Case of Butajira District | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |