[The German version of the Community-Attitudes-Toward-the-Mentally-Ill (CAMI) inventory].

Die deutsche Version des Community-Attitudes-toward-the-Mentally-Ill(CAMI)-Inventars.

Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag Country of Publication: Germany NLM ID: 0423204 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0303-4259 (Print) Linking ISSN: 03034259 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychiatr Prax Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Stuttgart : Georg Thieme Verlag
Original Publication: Stuttgart, Thieme.

Attitude* ; Community-Institutional Relations* ; Public Opinion*; Mental Disorders/*psychology ; Personality Inventory/*statistics & numerical data; Adolescent ; Adult ; Age Factors ; Aged ; Female ; Germany ; Health Surveys ; Humans ; Male ; Mental Disorders/rehabilitation ; Middle Aged ; Psychometrics ; Reproducibility of Results ; Sex Factors

Objective: The German version of the Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) inventory developed by Taylor and Dear (1981) is presented.
Method: The questionnaire was applied in a mail survey which was conducted in 3 small towns in Germany.
Results: At the item level surprisingly positive attitudes toward people with mental illness were found. The factor analysis with the 40 Likert-scaled items yielded 4 dimensions (exclusion, integration, benevolence, social control) which account for 46 % of the total variance. As in previous studies, age had a negative effect and the level of education a positive effect on public attitudes, while the gender of the respondents had only a small effect. Familiarity with mental illness did not have an effect as important as in previous studies.
Conclusion: There is a close correspondence between the German version and the original version of the CAMI-inventory.

Date Created: 20030528 Date Completed: 20040105 Latest Revision: 20061115

20240829

10.1055/s-2003-39493

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