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

Winkler, Petr; Mladá, Karolína; Janoušková, Miroslava; Weissová, Aneta; Tušková, Eva; Csémy, Ladislav; Evans‐Lacko, Sara

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“…Various research studies have documented stigmatising attitudes of healthcare providers and of the general population towards those with mental illness in Singapore, 3 Czech Republic 16 and Australia. 17 Compared with the general population, medical doctors in Czech Republic demonstrated more favourable attitudes towards people with mental illness.…”

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“…Mental health professionals in Australia possess less stigmatising attitudes towards persons with mental illness than the general public. 16 17 The difference could be attributed to better knowledge of mental illness by the professionals and explained by the contact hypothesis which states that increased personal and professional contact with people with mental illness is associated with more positive attitudes and reduced stigmatisation towards them. 18–20 Other studies, however, found contradicting results where higher level of stigma was reported among healthcare providers than in the general population.…”

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Stigma towards mental illness among medical and nursing students in Singapore: a cross-sectional study

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ObjectivesTo assess stigma towards people with mental illness among Singapore medical and nursing students using the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC), and to examine the relationship of students’ stigmatising attitudes with sociodemographic and education factors.Design and settingCross-sectional study conducted in SingaporeParticipantsThe study was conducted among 1002 healthcare (502 medical and 500 nursing) students during April to September 2016. Students had to be Singapore citizens or permanent residents and enrolled in public educational institutions to be included in the study. The mean (SD) age of the participants was 21.3 (3.3) years, with the majority being females (71.1%). 75.2% of the participants were Chinese, 14.1% were Malays, and 10.7% were either Indians or of other ethnicity.MethodsFactor analysis was conducted to validate the OMS-HC scale in the study sample and to examine its factor structure. Descriptive statistics and multivariate linear regression were used to examine sociodemographic and education correlates.ResultsFactor analysis revealed a three-factor structure with 14 items. The factors were labelled as attitudes towards help-seeking and people with mental illness, social distance and disclosure. Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that medical students were found to be associated with lower total OMS-HC scores (P<0.05), less negative attitudes (P<0.001) and greater disclosure (P<0.05) than nursing students. Students who had a monthly household income of below S$4000 had more unfavourable attitudes than those with an income of SGD$10 000 and above (P<0.05). Having attended clinical placement was associated with more negative attitudes (P<0.05) among the students.ConclusionHealthcare students generally possessed positive attitudes towards help-seeking and persons with mental illness, though they preferred not to disclose their own mental health condition. Academic curriculum may need to enhance the component of mental health training, particularly on reducing stigma in certain groups of students.

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Stigma towards mental illness among medical and nursing students in Singapore: a cross-sectional study

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“…La discriminación interfirió con la recuperación. Winkler et al, 2016 1810 miembros de la población general y 120 médicos.…”

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Estigma en los profesionales de la Salud Mental: una revisión sistemática.

Gómez

Ramos

2019

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El efecto de la estigmatización en los profesionales de la salud ha sido un tópico que ha recibido relativamente poca atención. Dado el influyente papel de los profesionales en los procesos de recuperación, es de vital importancia conocer el estado de la cuestión en lo relativo a las creencias y actitudes de los mismos. El objetivo por tanto es conocer el impacto de los procesos estigmatizantes en los profesionales de la salud. Para ello, se plantea una revisión sistemática de los estudios disponibles en la literatura especializada. Los resultados apuntan hacia la existencia de ciertos niveles de estigma entre los profesionales de la salud. Las opiniones de los profesionales hacia los pacientes no difieren significativamente de las de la población general en distancia social. Las actitudes discriminatorias varían en función tanto de las condiciones, como de la patología de los pacientes, siendo la psicosis el trastorno más castigado por el estigma.

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“…Extensive research has been done using the CAMI scale in both European and non-European societies, particularly showing associations with sociodemographic factors such as gender, age and level of education. For example, Winkler et al [13] in their analysis of differences between medical doctors and general population in Czech Republic found that stigma was prevalent in both groups, even though medical doctors tended to have more favorable attitudes towards the mentally ill in general. Moreover, researchers in India have found high stigmatizing attitudes in rural populations, but these stances were not associated with gender or level of education, contrary to the previous findings [14] .…”

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Community attitudes towards the mentally ill in Serbia

Jerotić¹,

Paravina²,

Nikčević³

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

Abstract: Our findings demonstrate more favourable attitudes towards people with mental illness among Czech medical doctors when compared to the Czech general population. Stigma, however, is high among both these groups.

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Stigma towards mental illness among medical and nursing students in Singapore: a cross-sectional study

Stigma towards mental illness among medical and nursing students in Singapore: a cross-sectional study

Estigma en los profesionales de la Salud Mental: una revisión sistemática.

Community attitudes towards the mentally ill in Serbia

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