Table 2 Questionnaire
From: Impact of intensive training on mental health, the experience of Port Said, Egypt
Item | Desirable answer | Code answer |
|---|---|---|
1. Health is absence of illnesses | Disagree | 1 |
2. Depression is a form of disability | Agree | 1 |
3. Criteria of Schizophrenia include double or multi-personality | Disagree | 1 |
4. Psychiatric patients are usually aggressive and represent a danger for himself and for others | Disagree | 1 |
5. Psychiatric medication cause addiction | Disagree | 1 |
6. Delusion is the hallucination of schizophrenia patients | Disagree | 1 |
7. Headache, stomachache, fatigue, muscle pain are symptoms of depression | Agree | 1 |
8. Psychiatric nurses are always subject to verbal or physical aggression during care for psychiatric patient | Disagree | 1 |
9. To improve depressed patient status, advice to be more religious, to pray, and to appreciate positive sides of life | Disagree | 1 |
10. Stop working, lack of concentration, and insomnia, and being sarcastic towards other people, and non-flexibility on others’ opinion, are some of the criteria for maniac episodes | Agree | 1 |
11. Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) is not a safe treatment for mental ill patients | Disagree | 1 |
12. Before diagnosing a psychiatric patient we need to exclude the following: HIV, Hypothyroidism, DM, cerebral palsy | Agree | 1 |
13. No need to measure vital sign for psychiatric patient unless he is diagnoses with a physical disease | Disagree | 1 |
14. Reading Quran and prayer will cure psychiatric illness | Disagree | 1 |
15. Nurses could support and help depressive patient by reporting stories of other patients in worse conditions | Disagree | 1 |
16. Psychiatric nurse assessment includes physical appearance, social status, stuttering, and lab investigation | Agree | 1 |
17. Psychiatric hospital is the best place to treat psychiatric patients | Disagree | 1 |
18. Psychiatric patient needs special care that is not available in general hospital | Disagree | 1 |
19. Neglect answering question is the best way to deal with anxious patient | Disagree | 1 |
20. Most of psychiatric diseases are because of lack of faith and not being religious | Disagree | 1 |
21. Religious clergy are the best ones to treat obsessive compulsive patients (OCD) | Disagree | 1 |
22. Schizophrenia percentage increases in lower income society more than high income society | Disagree | 1 |
23. We should not ask depressed patient about suicidal thoughts so he will not commit it | Disagree | 1 |
24. Family and social support are very important to support psychiatric patients | Agree | 1 |
25. Psychiatric diseases are considered chronic diseases like DM and hypertension | Agree | 1 |