2. The average age of people who took my
questionnaire was 16 and under and 17-19
this could mainly be because this is the
audience which mostly would have seen my
questionnaire so my audience wasn’t as wide
as it would have been if I was to share it to a
wider variety. I think this might have
impacted on the results I got in general as
young people may not have experienced any
type of mental illness, even though young
people can still have these problems a big
chunk of mental illnesses come from
depression and anxiety, through my research I
found out that these illnesses were common
with adults mostly of 30+.
Age groups
3. The majority of my respondents were
males, looking through the responses
from men all of them said they had never
had any sort of mental illness. I think this
could be taken in two different ways, the
respondents have never or they didn’t
want to say yes which would be linked to
exactly why I was doing my research to
see if men shy away from talking about
their problems and mental health. There
were less females to take my
questionnaire but out of the 11 which
took it 5 are currently or previously
suffering from a mental illness, this would
be a huge difference on a much larger
scale of people. I also think this shows
that women are more likely to say if there
is anything wrong as appose to men.
Gender
4. I considered sexual orientation for my
campaign but from the results I got I
don’t think it really applied to my
research therefore this will have no
impact on my campaign for now.
Sexual Orientation
5. Awareness of help
From this piece from the questionnaire I
found out that 6 people out of the 24 didn’t
know where to go if they were concerned.
This shows that it definitely needs more
publicity on where people can find the right
help for themselves because if my
questionnaire was on a bigger scale then
the numbers would show its a lot more
than 6 people that have no idea. When I
looked into the individual responses more it
showed that 4 of these were in fact male,
again drawing it back to the fact men are
unaware or don’t like to talk to people
about their problems.
6. People who have gone for help
I think the key thing with this for my campaign
is that 5 people have only ever thought of
going for help, this gives me chance to really
push for people to get help and speak to the
right people in my campaign as people don’t
feel confident about going for help. As
expected from the amount of females that
said they have experienced a mental health
problem all the people that said yes to going
for help was female again addressing the
need for men to be targeted for my campaign.
7. Do you suffer from a mental illness?
My research shows that 8 people feel they
have experienced some sort of mental
illness out of the 24 people that took my
questionnaire all of these 8 came from
females, I think this is showing more and
more through my research that there isn't
a lot of men that like to talk about this
case. This is showing that women want
help but I think for a campaign to
specifically reach out to men would be a
good cause to get men feeling more
confident about this sensitive matter. My
research did show men had the higher
suicide rates than women by almost double
showing that something needs to happen
about the way male mental health is treat.
8. Mental health within family
Asking this question really helped with my
research I think as I didn’t get much of a
variety of ages taking my surveys but 12
people said that someone else In their
family is affected and another 4 were
unsure so I think this backs up that mental
health is a issue for other age groups.
Mental health being in their families didn’t
seem to affect these people though as
only a small amount were both affected. I
think this gave me a different response to
what I was expecting but it helped me in
finding out that my campaign should be
targeted at a very wide age range.
9. How do you think people
perceive mental health?
People had very different opinions on this matter I think there is still stigma surrounding
this case as people mentioned how some people think of it as like a scapegoat in life,
when really it a serious matter if you suffer from it. When I looked into the responses
males were very blunt about the matter creating the stigma around it.
10. How does the media perceive
mental health?
I think that a lot of people see how the media sometimes perceives it but others aren't
aware of the stigma which the media creates against and mental health issue. I think the
government will pay more attention to other issues than others as they don’t see it as
serious as so many people self diagnose themselves with these conditions in-correctly.
I think the 3 response on here sums it up quite well that they also create this stigma of some
illnesses make people bad people.
