Table 2 Attitudes towards mental health care facilities between male and female

Item No.

Items on the measurement of attitude towards mental health care facilities

Response category

Male N = 198

Female N = 197

χ2 (df)

p value

1

Treatment in a psychiatric hospital is out of question. On the contrary, one becomes really sick there.

Agree

104

118

3.74 (2)

0.154

Undecided

34

36

Disagree

60

43

2

Psychiatric hospitals are hospitals just like other hospitals, the difference being that mental illnesses and not physical illnesses are treated there

Agree

64

51

2.35 (2)

0.308

Undecided

43

44

Disagree

90

103

3

Psychiatric hospitals have more in common with prisons than with hospitals

Agree

100

135

6.81 (2)

0.015*

Undecided

43

35

Disagree

55

47

4

Psychiatric hospitals provide the necessary security to deal with a mental crisis

Agree

114

112

3.26 (2)

0.196

Undecided

54

43

Disagree

30

42

5

Once you are admitted to a psychiatric clinic, then it is very difficult to come out again, regardless of whether you are ill or not

Agree

91

122

7.13 (2)

< 0.01*

Undecided

23

31

Disagree

84

24

6

People are not treated in the psychiatric hospital but only sedated.

Agree

101

125

6.53 (2)

0.021*

Undecided

38

29

Disagree

59

43

7

Psychiatric hospitals are necessary to protect the society from the mentally ill patients

Agree

105

116

1.95 (2)

0.37

Undecided

57

45

Disagree

36

36