Swedish attitudes towards persons with mental illness

Abstract

The New CAMI-S came out as a useful tool to screen Swedish attitudes towards persons with mental illness. Most Swedes were prepared to live next to the mentally ill.

Attitudes towards the people with mental illness: comparison between Czech medical doctors and general population

“…In our sample, women demonstrated less stigmatizing attitudes than men, which is consistent with the findings of studies from West European countries [38][39][40][41][42]. Additionally, individuals aged between 16 and 34 years had less favourable attitudes than their older fellow citizens.…”

“…Additionally, individuals aged between 16 and 34 years had less favourable attitudes than their older fellow citizens. Similar results were found by Högberg et al [39], who found people between 31 and 50 years to be less stigmatizing. In other studies, however, stigmatizing attitudes were found to be increasing with age [41,43] or having no significant influence [8,38,40].…”

“…This is not to say that a social desirability bias was eliminated completely, vice versa, its role should be carefully considered when interpreting the findings of our study as medical doctors could be more compelled to respond in line with perceived societal expectations than members of the general population. Third, other possible variables of interest, such as knowing someone or having personal experience with mental illness have been found to be a significant predictor of stigma in other studies [28,38,39,53]; but, we were not able to control for them in our study and this might be a confounder associated with being a medical doctor.…”

Dimensions of Attitudes towards the Mentally Ill in the General Population Stability and Change over Time at Urban and Rural Sites

“…A Japanese study [40] used different items but found one factor, fear of the mentally ill, resembling one of the factors of Brockington. A recent Swedish study [41] added behavioral items like the present study and revealed a related pattern, that is, four factors, intention to interact, fearful and avoidant, open-minded and prointegration, and community mental health ideology. Together, the referred studies, as well as the present study, have given strong indications of common attitude factors across different cultures.…”

Stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs about bulimia nervosa: Gender, age, education and income variability in a community sample

“…Stigmatizing attitudes toward people with mental illnesses are prevalent and widespread . However, research has shown that women are less likely than men to endorse personal responsibility for the illness, and less likely to desire social distance from individuals with mental illnesses . Findings in relation to age differences in stigmatizing beliefs about mental illness are conflicting.…”