Name Change for Schizophrenia

Sartorius, Norman; Chiu, Helen F. K.; Heok, Kua Ee; Lee, Min Soo; Ouyang, Wen; Sato, Mitsumoto; Yang, Yen Kuang; Yu, Xin

doi:10.1093/schbul/sbt231

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“…The new term, "attunement disorder" will help promote early detection and treatment and will diminish social stigma and prejudice. Sartorius et al (2014) China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Singapore…”

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Should the label "schizophrenia" be abandoned?

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Section: Sato (2006) Japan Editorialmentioning

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“…14,15 The name change has been reported to reduce stigma toward schizophrenia in an increasing number of individuals who were informed that they suffer from schizophrenia. The change has also led to an increase in the number of patients and family members who accepted the disease name.…”

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“…The change has also led to an increase in the number of patients and family members who accepted the disease name. [14][15][16] In terms of long-term effect, we previously reported that, through a survey performed 12 years after the name change, the new name given to schizophrenia in Japan resulted in significantly less stigma than the old name, but still greater than depressive disorder and diabetes mellitus (DM). 17 Although more than half of young people recognized the old and new names of schizophrenia as different conditions, which partly contributes to reducing the stigma toward schizophrenia, 17 the effect of the name change could disappear if mass media continue to broadcast more negative contents related to the new name.…”

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Effect of Name Change of Schizophrenia on Mass Media Between 1985 and 2013 in Japan: A Text Data Mining Analysis

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“…Also, this was the first attempt in the world to reduce stigma by renaming schizophrenia (Desapriya and Iwase, 2002;Kim, 2002;Sato, 2006). Following Japan's example, similar approaches were adopted in South Korea in 2012 (Lee et al, 2013) and Taiwan in 2014 (Sartorius et al, 2014). In the present study, we aimed to examine whether social attitude toward individuals with schizophrenia changed over 20-year period, the decades before and after renaming by quantitatively investigating newspaper coverage about schizophrenia in Japan.…”

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Change in newspaper coverage of schizophrenia in Japan over 20-year period

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oIn Japan, schizophrenia was renamed in 2002 to reduce the stigma that people with schizophrenia are dangerous. However there has been little research on the potential anti-stigma effect of renaming. The present study aimed to examine whether portrayals of schizophrenia in newspapers as dangerous have been varied across renaming of the disease. To achieve this goal, newspaper articles containing the previous and new Japanese names for schizophrenia, published in the decades before and after the renaming, were identified through the database of the three largest Japanese national broadsheets. Identified articles were divided into two categories: a negative category, including a subcategory "danger"; and a positive category. Articles containing bipolar disorder were adopted as a control. The ratio of the number of articles on schizophrenia and danger to that of bipolar disorder was analysed as a variable of interest. The trend of this ratio was investigated to examine whether portrayals of schizophrenia changed after renaming. The search identified 4677 articles on schizophrenia, 53.0% of which were categorised as negative and 38.9% as danger. The search identified 525 articles on bipolar disorder, 24.6% of which were categorised as negative and 11.2% as danger. There was an increase of the ratio before schizophrenia was renamed (r = 0.54, p = 0.104), and a significant decrease after renaming (r = − 0.69, p = 0.028). Fisher's r-to-z transformation demonstrated a significant change in the trend of the ratio across renaming (Z = 2.72, p = 0.007). Renaming schizophrenia might be associated with mitigation in potentially stigmatised depiction of schizophrenia associated with violence in newspaper reports.

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Name Change for Schizophrenia

Cited by 105 publications

References 8 publications

Should the label "schizophrenia" be abandoned?

Should the label "schizophrenia" be abandoned?

Effect of Name Change of Schizophrenia on Mass Media Between 1985 and 2013 in Japan: A Text Data Mining Analysis

Change in newspaper coverage of schizophrenia in Japan over 20-year period

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