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Ojective: This survey sought to investigate the attitude of Palestinian Primary health care Professionals towards mental illness in Gaza Strip .
Method : A random sample of 166 General Practitioners and nurses were surveyed using Likert -type scale
( 29 items).
Results : Factor analysis revealed three main attitude dimensions : western cognitive and community approach, emotional tolerance and reaction , and traditional attiude. Overall, older health Professionals had significantly more traditional attitudes than the younger, whereas the younger showed a tendency toward more western attitudes. Older health professionals showed more emotional and tolerant attitudes towards mental illness than the younger.
Conclusion : Youngsters are usually the agents to introduce new contionts. Also, they are brought up with frame of traditional values and conceptions, that can easily cause emotional as intellectual turmoil.