Shift's 'Attitudes to Mental Illness 2009' research report published
Key points from the report:
- The general public are broadly sympathetic to people with mental health problems and community care.
- However, some attitudes towards people with mental health problems are worse compared to when the Department of Health first commissioned the poll in 1994, including two relating to fears of patients.
- On the other hand, several attitudes that had worsened over the period up until 1997 have since improved.
- Only two attitudes have changed significantly since last year, both an improvement - more think people with mental illness have been subject to ridicule for too long and less think it is easy to tell them from ‘normal people'.
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