The Kingdom surpasses France and China in “psychological culture”
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion revealed that the average psychological culture score for Saudi society reached 99.2 out of 142 degrees, or an average of approximately 70%. This score is an expression of the high level of awareness and psychological culture, and is even higher than the average published in both France and China and is close to the results. In Australia and Slovenia.
The Kingdom is one of five countries – including Australia, France, China and Slovenia – that have measured and published scientific results about psychological culture among members of society. The Saudi study sample was the largest among them, using a rigorous methodology on which confirmatory studies were carried out to verify its quality.
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion had implemented a national survey to measure the level of psychological culture in society, which included all regions of the Kingdom with a research sample of 4,547 participants. The Center began by presenting a scientific definition of psychological culture, and that it is “knowledge and beliefs about psychological disorders, which help to identify them.” “And the ability to understand it, deal with it properly, and prevent it.”
The center relied on four axes measured by the index, and the survey showed that the axis of recognizing the presence of mental illness was the highest, with the average community score reaching 77%, followed by the axis of the ability to search and access information about mental health at 72%.
The national survey showed that when studying the demographic factors that may affect a high level of psychological culture, the study showed that a group of factors are statistically linked to a high level of psychological culture, including living with someone with a mental illness, or having friends diagnosed with a mental illness, a high level of education, and working in the health field. While other factors such as income level or age were not related to psychological culture.
The index confirmed what workers in the mental health sector sense of an increase in awareness and psychological culture in the Kingdom in general, and this reflects the Kingdom’s keenness to implement in the past few years dozens of awareness campaigns, conferences and public workshops directed to members of society, and it established volunteer initiatives and civil society organizations specialized in awareness-raising. Psychological health, with the university education sector participating with the National Center in activating mental health committees and units in universities. Many employers also took the initiative to adopt the initiatives of the National Center for Mental Health to support mental health in the workplace.
The importance of measuring psychological culture in society is that it provides a baseline for understanding the current mental health landscape, which is necessary for policy making and planning mental health services. It also helps to identify misconceptions about mental health, and thus helps in developing strategic programs to correct these misconceptions, which It contributes to enhancing opportunities to improve psychological culture in society, and its acceptance of the process of early detection and proper therapeutic intervention, which reduces the burden of mental health disorders on the nation and society.
2024-02-10 22:37:22
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