Patientsâ€™ Perspectives on Stigma of Mental Illness (an Egyptian Study in a Private Hospital)

Sidhom, Emad; Abdel-Fattah, Ahmed M. H.; Carter, Julie M; El‐Dosoky, Ahmed; El‐Islam, M. Fakhr

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00166

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“…Finding hope as reported by service users in this study has been found as an essential factor in promoting recovery from mental health issues in many studies [ 46 , 47 ]. The final theme reported by participants in the current study was clinical recovery; symptoms of mental health issues are disabling and there is high stigma in Egypt [ 48 , 49 ]. Therefore, supporting symptom remission should be supported if an individual express this as a treatment goal.…”

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Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study

Ibrahim

Selim

et al. 2022

BMC Psychiatry

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Background Delivery of recovery-oriented mental health practice is fundamental to personal recovery. Yet, there is lack of service users’ accounts on what constitutes mental health recovery in Egypt. Objectives The aim of this study was to explore mental health recovery meaning informed by people with personal experience of recovery. Methods A phenomenological research design was used. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 17 adult community-dwelling individuals who identified as recovered/recovering from mental health issues. An inductive thematic analysis approach was used to analyses participants’ responses. Results Participants predominately reported personal and functional definitions of mental health recovery. Posttraumatic growth was the strongest theme comprising: relation to others, spirituality, new possibilities, identity & strengths, and appreciation of life. Themes of acceptance and forgiveness, functional and clinical recovery, and finding hope were also identified. Conclusions This is the first study to explore mental health recovery meaning among a sample of people with lived experience of mental health issues in Egypt. Findings suggest that developing and implementing psychosocial interventions to support posttraumatic growth among people with mental health issues is a priority.

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Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study

Ibrahim

Selim

et al. 2022

BMC Psychiatry

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“…This study, therefore, aims to illuminate how these Nigerian victims of trafficking experience(d) stigma and sexual stigma during their trajectories, and how they perceive, interpret, and are impacted by those experiences of stigma. This study adds to the limited literature on the narratives of victims of stigma (Sidhom et al, 2014), sexual stigma (Dahal et al, 2015), and Nigerian victims of trafficking (Esposito et al, 2016; Tessitore & Margherita, 2022) who must deal with the lasting consequences of sexual violence while navigating the negative individual and societal perspectives, judgements, and labels (Adeyinka et al, 2023). The central intersectional approach which includes the participants’ identities as female and Black adds complex and integrated layers to their experiences with the understanding that “social positions intersect at the individual level (e.g., race and gender)” (Bauer et al, 2021, p. 2).…”

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“You are merely a Nigerian prostitute”: Sexual stigma and labeling of Nigerian victims of trafficking in Italy.

Adeyinka¹,

Lietaert²,

Derluyn³

2023

Stigma and Health

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Considering the high number of Nigerian women in prostitution in Italy, many of whom are forced into it as victims of trafficking, this population is often confronted with negative perceptions and stigmas, and constantly experiences “sexual stigma.” Owing to the stigmatization and racial profiling that they encounter while traveling to Italy via the central Mediterranean route, they become more vulnerable to exploitation and different forms of abuse. However, little is known about the extent of the stigma, in particular, sexual stigma that these women and girls are confronted with during their migration journeys, after escaping the trafficking networks, and how they attempt to cope with these experiences. Using an intersectional approach which includes the participants’ identity as women and girls/female and Black, we analyzed the narratives of young Nigerian women and girls in Italy, as part of a longitudinal, qualitative study. Our findings show that these women and girls were and still are confronted with frequent and overt expressions of stigma and labeling, in particular sexual stigma, relating to participants’ gender, nationality, Blackness, and (perceived) migratory status. Constantly being approached to do the forced prostitution work that they escaped, they either avoid and isolate themselves from the Italian society or try to accept stigma as part of their daily realities. Demonstrating the far-reaching prevalence of (sexual) stigma in the lives of these women and girls, this will hopefully inform practitioners and policymakers about the impact and ripple effects of stigma and labeling, and the urgent need for relevant interventions.

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“…72 Another study found that patients' experience of stigma is rarely related to the name of the diagnosis. 73 A study that examined changing the name of schizophrenia due to its stigma did not yield significant differences. 74 We could not find studies on the impact of changing the name of ECT.…”

Section: Effective Ways Of Managing Stigmamentioning

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The Nomenclature of Electroconvulsive Therapy

Sidhom

Omar

2020

J ECT

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an established but stigmatized psychiatric treatment. The term ECT reflects the treatment's modality and action. Several authors proposed different names for ECT to deal with stigma; however, available literature that promoted different names did not address the risk/benefit ratio or offer evidence-based approach to the efficacy of this approach. We aim to examine proposed names for their specificity, accuracy, understandability, and popularity. In addition, we aim to find evidence-based methods to combat the ECT-related stigma. We reviewed the literature relating to the proposed names using snowballing technique for literature search. Known ECT alternative names were used for search, and whenever another name appears, it was added to our search list. We conducted Medline, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, and PubMed search to check for popularity and cross examine whether proposed terms refer back to ECT. We searched for ECT and stigma, to find evidence for methods to tackle ECT-related stigma. Once, the search stopped yielding newer ideas, we stopped the search at a point of saturation, where no more ideas where generated. Our name search yielded 14 terms. Nine names avoided "electricity" and "convulsion," because of perceived associated stigma. Presence of different terminology can affect the clarity of patient-doctor communication, with no evidence of added benefit. Alternative names may affect doctor-doctor communication about this treatment. We concluded that it is safer to retain the term ECT for the sake of consistency and clarity of communication. Education and experience are evidence-based effective methods of tackling ECT-related stigma.

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Patientsâ€™ Perspectives on Stigma of Mental Illness (an Egyptian Study in a Private Hospital)

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study

Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study

“You are merely a Nigerian prostitute”: Sexual stigma and labeling of Nigerian victims of trafficking in Italy.

The Nomenclature of Electroconvulsive Therapy

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