Abstract: Background: People's beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness set the stage of how they interact with, provide for and how they help and support persons suffering from mental illness. The study was aimed to describe the attitudes of first and fourth year psychology students at Midlands State University (MSU) in Gweru towards mental illness and to see if education had any influence on their attitudes. Materials and Methods: A descriptive design was adopted for this study. Participants comprised of 87 first year students and 40 fourth year students who responded to an adapted version of the CAMI scale to rate their attitudes towards mental illness. Gathered data was analysed using SPSS version 23 to analyse relationships and test dependency......
Keywords: Attitudes, Mental Illness, Students, Stigma, Discrimination
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