Background: Negative attitudes towards mental illness by Health Care Professionals (HCP) have been reported in many countries across the world. Stigmatizing attitudes by HCP can have adverse consequences on people with mental illness from delays in seeking help to decreased quality of care provided. Assessing such attitudes is an essential step in understanding such stigma and, if needed, developing and testing appropriate and culturally adapted interventions to reduce it. Aims: to assess physicians and nurses attitudes towards mental illness and to determine associated factors with different levels of stigma. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among Physicians and Nurses. The Mental Illness Clinician’s Attitudes (MICA) scale was used to assess attitudes toward mental illness. MICA scores range between 1 and 6 with higher values indicating higher stigmatizing attitudes. Demographic and work related information were also gathered. Descriptive statistics along with multiva
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1Department of Computer Science, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology Faculty, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
2Department of Computer Information System, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology Faculty, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
3School of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
4Department of Geography, School of Arts, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
5Psychosocial Program, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
6Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
7Human Research Protection Program Office, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
To reduce the spread of COVID-19, Jordan enforced 10 weeks of home quarantine in the spring of 2020. A cross-sectional study was designed to assess this extended quarantine s effect on smartphone addiction levels among undergraduates. A random sample of 6,157 undergraduates completed an online questionnaire (mean age 19.79 �