The objective of this study is to determine the level of knowledge about mental retardation and attitudes of parents towards their mentally retarded child enrolled for especially education in Sta. Ana Elementary School. The parents who responded to this survey were mostly mothers belonging to the 41-65 age group, married, unemployed, high school graduates earning less than Php 5,000.00 a month, and Roman Catholic. Majority of the respondents had low or poor level of knowledge regarding mental retardation.
Human ; Female ; Aged ; Middle Aged ; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS ; ATTITUDE

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to document the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among chronically ill medical patients in selected hospitals in the Philippines. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of the chronically medically ill patients seen in selected Primary are Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD), 774 patients were screened for mental disorders. The prevalence of each of the psychiatric disorders were calculated using the formula for estimation of a proportion for stratified random sampling. The differences in the sample size from each of the study sites were taken into consideration in the estimation of the sitespecific prevalence of mental disorders. The 95 percent confidence intervals of the prevalence rates were computed. RESULTS: Almost half of the patients (47.8 percent) were diagnosed with at least one of the psychiatric disorders elicited from the PRIME-MD. Thirty two percent had depressive disorder, followed by anxiety disorder, somatoform disorders, alcohol-related disorder and eating disorder. According to hospital site, the overall prevalence rate of psychiatric disorder was noted to be highest at the Davao Medical Center. CONCLUSION: The overall prevalence of psychiatric disorder noted in this study was higher than that described in foreign literature, the most common of which was depression.
Human ; Male ; Female ; MENTAL DISORDERS ; CHRONIC DISEASE ;