Some aspects of mental illness in Jamaica: with emphasis on the utilization of the psychiatric treatment facilities at Bellevue Hospital during the periods 1965 - 1969 and 1970 - 1974; and also on attitudinal reactions to the problem in a specific community

ABSTRACT

From the questionnaires administered, it seems that people's attitude towards mental illness remains basically one of caution, of suspicion and of fear towards both the person who is acting strangely and also towards the diagnosed, treated and controlled or cured individual, relative, friend or stranger (AU)