Does stigma concerning mental disorders differ through medical education?

Ay, Pınar; Save, Dilşad; Fidanoglu, Oya

doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0994-y

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“…Other studies have been done with medical, psychological and occupational therapy students [12][13][14] , and they also found positive intervention results. However, it should be borne in mind that this is a biased population in the sense that those interviewed are individuals who are interested in helping people.…”

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Intervention for reducing stigma: Assessing the influence of gender and knowledge

Martínez-Zambrano

García-Morales²,

Garcia-Franco³

et al. 2013

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AIM:To evaluate the effectiveness in reducing social stigma of an intervention and to assess the influence of gender and knowledge. METHODS:The program consisted in providing information and contact with users of mental health in order to reduce social stigma in the school environment. A total of 62 secondary school students (age 14-16 years) were evaluated with the Opinions on Mental Illness (OMI) questionnaire before and after the intervention. The subscales of the OMI were: authoritarianism, interpersonal etiology, benevolence, restrictiveness and negativism. The analysis was performed over the total sample, separating by gender and knowledge of someone with a mental disorder. t -test for repeated measures was used in the statistical analysis. RESULTS:All the OMI subscales showed a significant change after the intervention (P < 0.001), except for benevolence. Women presented significant changes in the subscales of authoritarianism and restrictiveness, while men presented changes in negativism and interpersonal etiology rather than restrictiveness (P < 0.001-0.003). Students that knew someone with a mental disorder presented significant changes in authoritarianism, interpersonal etiology, and negativism (P < 0.001-0.003) and students that do not know anyone with a mental disorder improved in restrictiveness and authoritarianism (P < 0.001-0.001). In all the subscales of the instrument the students improved their perception of mental disorders, reducing their levels of stigma. CONCLUSION:The intervention designed to reduce social stigma was effective, especially in the area of authoritarianism. The whole sample showed improved attitudes towards mental illness, although the areas were different depending on gender and knowledge.

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Intervention for reducing stigma: Assessing the influence of gender and knowledge

Martínez-Zambrano

García-Morales²,

Garcia-Franco³

et al. 2013

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“…Research also reveals that medical students tend to adhere to a biogenetic model of schizophrenia, particularly in the late stage of their medical training, and that the acquisition of psychiatric skills has limited effects on their attitudes towards PWS, including prognostic pessimism (as cited in Magliano et al 2012Magliano et al , 2013. A study of second-and sixth-year students from three Turkish faculties of Medicine (Ay et al 2006) found that final-year students were more likely to label a case-vignette 'schizophrenia' (86% vs. 12%) and had a higher confidence level in drug treatments for the illness. However, the percentage of students who believed that these persons were dangerous increased from 26% of the secondyear students to 39% of the sixth-year students, and the percentage of students that viewed schizophrenia as an incurable illness increased from 12% to 32%.…”

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The Influence of Causal Explanations and Diagnostic Labeling on Psychology Students’ Beliefs About Treatments, Prognosis, Dangerousness and Unpredictability in Schizophrenia

Magliano

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Rinaldi

et al. 2015

Community Ment Health J

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“…La adquisición de habilidades diagnósticas y terapéuticas se asocia con frecuencia a una mayor confianza en las terapias disponibles para el tratamiento de esta patología, pero no siempre a una reducción de los prejuicios de incurabilidad e imprevisibilidad de los «esquizofrénicos», a una mayor atención al contexto psicosocial de la vida de estas personas (Ay et al, 2006;Magliano et al, in press).…”

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Contrarrestar el estigma hacia las personas con esquizofrenia en el ámbito sanitario: una experiencia piloto en una muestra de estudiantes italianos de medicina

Magliano¹,

Read²,

Patalano³

et al. 2017

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Resumen: El artículo parte de la preocupación por los efectos negativos, constatados en múltiples publicaciones internacionales, que el estigma tiene sobre la calidad de la atención que reciben las personas con esquizofrenia en el ámbito de los servicios sanitarios y en relación con su salud física, frecuentemente deteriorada. Como consecuencia del desconocimiento sobre las causas y características de esta enfermedad y las ideas erróneas que muchos profesionales comparten con la población general sobre la peligrosidad e incurabilidad de las personas afectadas por este trastorno, son habitualmente objeto de falta de respeto y mala atención en los servicios sanitarios generales. Un momento importante para mejorar la información y corregir las ideas erróneas es el periodo de formación de los profesionales y a ese respecto se presentan los primeros resultados de una experiencia piloto, desarrollada entre estudiantes de Medicina de una Universidad italiana, consistente en la inclusión de un curso breve sobre el estigma y la esquizofrenia. Aunque los resultados deben ser confirmados por otros estudios, permiten constatar los evidentes cambios positivos que se producen en el conocimiento y las actitudes de los estudiantes con una breve intervención educativa, asociada a la participación de usuarios, confirmando también otros estudios internacionales. To counteract stigma towards people with schizophrenia in the health sector: a pilot experience in a sample of Italian students of medicine Abstract: The article is based of the concern about the negative effects, found in many international publications, that stigma has on the quality of care that people with schizophrenia receive in the field of health services, in connection with their physical health, often deteriorated. As a result of the lack of knowledge about the causes and characteristics of this disease and the misconceptions that many professionals share with the general population about the dangerousness and lack of recovery of the people affected by this disorder, they are usually subject of lack of respect and poor care into general health services.Very important to improve the information and correct erroneous attitudes is the period of training of professionals and in this regard are presented the first results of a pilot project, developed between students of Medicine of an Italian University, consisting in a brief course on stigma and schizophrenia. Although the results must be confirmed by other studies, they noted the evident positive changes occurring in the knowledge and attitudes of students with a brief educational intervention, associated with the participation of users, also confirming other international studies.

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Does stigma concerning mental disorders differ through medical education?

Cited by 109 publications

References 16 publications

Intervention for reducing stigma: Assessing the influence of gender and knowledge

Intervention for reducing stigma: Assessing the influence of gender and knowledge

The Influence of Causal Explanations and Diagnostic Labeling on Psychology Students’ Beliefs About Treatments, Prognosis, Dangerousness and Unpredictability in Schizophrenia

Contrarrestar el estigma hacia las personas con esquizofrenia en el ámbito sanitario: una experiencia piloto en una muestra de estudiantes italianos de medicina

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