Exploring the use of films / dramas in giving awareness towards mental illness in society
This study is exploring the use of films/dramas in giving awareness towards mental illness among society. Objective of this study is to explore the use of films in giving awareness on mental illness to the community. Then the research question is the films giving awareness on mental illness to t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en |
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2021
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35351/1/Full%20Artikel%20IJPHS-digabungkan.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/35351/ |
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| Summary: | This study is exploring the use of films/dramas in giving awareness
towards mental illness among society. Objective of this study is to
explore the use of films in giving awareness on mental illness to the
community. Then the research question is the films giving awareness
on mental illness to the community? There are eleven (11) participants
of this study which consisted of three (3) stages of human development
(adolescent, early and late adulthood). They also come from varies
background such as different work setting, age, occupation as well as
level of education. The varies background among participants were
provided different answers of questions. The method of data collection
is an interview with semi-structured questions. Analysis of data using
Thematic Analysis. Findings showed few themes have been found
from the interview such as personality of participants that lead them to
watch this type of films/dramas, effect after they watched this type of
films/dramas, perception of participants towards mental illness
films/dramas, learning process and suggestion to improve this type of
films/dramas in Malaysia. The implication of this study, participants
gaining more awareness on mental illness after watching type of
films/dramas. They also found this genre of films/dramas enable to
educate them to be open with people who suffer from mental illness.
In conclusion, future researcher can explore the effect of watching
mental illness genre films/dramas towards self-development among
society. |
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