НАГЛАСИТЕ В ЙЕМЕН СПРЯМО ПСИХИЧНИТЕ ЗАБОЛЯВАНИЯ
ADJUSTMENTS IN YEMEN TOWARDS MENTAL DISEASES

Summary/Abstract: The object of this study is to ascertain the adjustments in the Yemen society towards mental disorder and people who are affected with it. These adjustments are based on the knowledge of the illness's nature, causes and treatment. Another object of the study is also to reveal the society's attitude towards its relation with mentally deranged people. The method used in the study — elaborated by the World Health Organization to apply with different cultures, consists in showing pictures to people affected with widespread mental disorders and reading the basic symptoms of each of them — oligophrenia, epilepsy, chronic schizophrenia, depression and paranoid schizophrenia. The method has been applied to 100 persons divided into 2 groups, the first one consists of 50 relatives of mentally deranged, and the second one — 50 students (boys and girls) of the University of Yemen. The results of the study show that there is a relative similarity of the two groups1 adjustments toward the nature, causes and methods of treatment of mental diseases. The second group shows a better understanding of what causes epilepsy and oligophrenia which indicates a positive dependence between educational level and its influence over the adjustments. Both groups, as a whole, show negative attitude towards social communication with mentally deranged — teamwork, marriage, renting a house. On the contrary, the attitude is positive as far as treatment and recovery of mentally deranged is concerned. The study does not determine a statistical dependence in adjustments concerning mental diseases and factors such as age and sex. A conclusion can be reached, that there is insufficient and contradictory knowledge of mental diseases which compels us to pose the question — what factors contribute to form such adjustments in society and what reasons, respectively — programs, must be elaborated in order to achieve a change in attitude with a view to a better understanding of mental diseases.

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