Mental Health Literacy in South East Asia in a Cultural Context: A Systematic Review

Fairuziana, Marty Mawarpury, Andriyani E. Lay, Yeni Fitriani, Yanti Fitria

2018

Abstract

Mental health literacy and positive community attitude toward mental illness significantly predicted the simultaneous formal help seeking to professional treatment. The diverse setting of Southeast Asia population mental health literacy with consideration to cultural circumstances are still understudied. This includes the population’s traditional knowledge, belief, and local treatments of mental disorders symptoms. This study aims to systematically review available literature to learn the variety of mental health literacy studies and analyse whether the studies consider cultural circumstances such as local knowledge and informal help seeking. Studies that were conducted in South East Asian countries population were systematically reviewed according to relevant keywords in English and Bahasa Indonesia from selected major electronic sources. The selected studies focus on the general public, health care workers, and mental health professionals knowledge; (ii) written in English; Indonesia; (iii) study located the countries of Southeast Asia; and (iv) focusing on mental health literacy, attitudes, and beliefs about mental illness and mental, knowledge on mental health, and other related terms. The study result in a systematic review of 46 articles, which were published between the past 40 years in the period of 1978- 2018. The articles are presented under the themes of 1. ) Mental health literacy among lay people and healthcare professionals 2.) Attitudes and beliefs toward mental illness and 3.) Help-seeking approach to mental illness. The findings discovered that while common understanding of mental disorder is expected to identify the mental health literacy, embedding cultural context would accommodate the understanding of lay people.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fairuziana., Mawarpury M., Lay A., Fitriani Y. and Fitria Y. (2018). Mental Health Literacy in South East Asia in a Cultural Context: A Systematic Review.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 516-524. DOI: 10.5220/0008591505160524

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Fairuziana and Marty Mawarpury and Andriyani E. Lay and Yeni Fitriani and Yanti Fitria},
title={Mental Health Literacy in South East Asia in a Cultural Context: A Systematic Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={516-524},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008591505160524},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Mental Health Literacy in South East Asia in a Cultural Context: A Systematic Review
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Fairuziana.
AU - Mawarpury M.
AU - Lay A.
AU - Fitriani Y.
AU - Fitria Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 516
EP - 524
DO - 10.5220/0008591505160524