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Table 5 Stigma is still widespread but people know mental illness can be treated

From: Gender differences in managers’ attitudes towards employees with depression: a cross-sectional study in Sweden

 

People with mental health problems constitute a danger to others (2005)a

It is difficult to talk to someone with a significant mental health problem (2010)

People with mental health problems never recover (2006)

Severe

Moderate

None

Total

Severe

Moderate

None

Total

Severe

Moderate

None

Total

Austria

15.8

23.6

34.6

32.4

34.1

29.8

25.8

27.0

25.8

19.8

24.5

23.9

Belgium

35.3

26.7

30.9

30.9

37.0

29.5

21.7

23.8

24.0

28.1

18.1

19.1

Denmark

33.3

38.4

46.3

44.5

30.6

22.0

20.5

21.3

16.7

15.3

17.0

16.8

Netherlands

18.9

20.0

26.6

25.4

13.0

25.0

15.8

17.0

13.5

12.9

13.4

13.3

Sweden

55.3

51.0

56.7

55.9

18.9

18.8

13.1

14.4

18.8

18.4

13.7

14.7

United Kingdom

36.1

30.2

43.3

41.7

23.9

17.6

21.3

20.8

19.5

11.1

16.1

15.8

Average (21)

32.5

31.7

39.7

38.5

26.2

23.8

19.7

20.7

19.7

17.6

17.1

17.3

Standard deviation

14.2

11.4

11.1

11.1

9.3

5.2

4.5

4.5

4.6

6.1

4.0

3.8

  1. Proportion of people who totally agree or tend to agree to a number of attitudinal questions, according to the level of mental health of the respondent (severe/moderate/no mental disorder) amended from Ref. ([48] , p 33). The average refers to all 21 countries covered in the Eurobarometer. Source: OECD compilation based on Eurobarometer 2005 and 2010
  2. aThe figures for Sweden might have been influenced by the murder of the leading politician Anna Lind in 2003 by a person treated for psychiatric disease