Investigating stigma attitudes towards people with mental illness among residents and house officers: an Egyptian study

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 2 Comparison of the MICA-4 questions across resident’s specialties (only significant values are presented)

MICA-4 Questions			Internal medicines(no/frequency)	Surgeries (no/frequency)	Gynecology and obstetrics (no/frequency)	P value
Q2	Patient never recover to have good quality of life	Agree	31(44.9%)	42(63.6%)	10(71.4%)	0.04*
Q2	Patient never recover to have good quality of life	Disagree	38(55.1%)	24(36.4%)	4(28.6%)	0.04*
Q13	Attributing physical complaints to mental illness	Agree	8(11.6%)	19(28.8%)	3(20%)	0.04*
Q13	Attributing physical complaints to mental illness	Disagree	61(88.4%)	47(71.2%)	12(80%)	0.04*
Q15	Using terms of crazy, nutter, and mad to describe people of mental illness	Agree	9(14.5%)	11(22.9%)	9(22.5%)	0.04*
Q15		Disagree	53(85.5%)	37(77.1%)	31(77.5%)	0.04*
MICA score			50.1 ± 8.2	51.7 ± 9.1	52.05 ± 8.7	0.4