Public Attitudes Toward Mental Illness: A Review of the Literature

Rabkin, Judith G.

doi:10.1093/schbul/1.10.9

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“…Two general models of lay beliefs have been proposed. The 'medical' model (Rabkin, 1974), which suggests that mental disorders are like any other illness with symptoms caused by an underlying biological pathology and a treatment which addresses this. This has positive implications as it suggests that people with mental disorders should not be viewed differently than those with a physical illness.…”

Section: Lay Theories Of Mental Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Attitudes, Lay Theories and Mental Health Literacy: The Understanding of Mental Health

Furnham¹,

Telford²

2012

Mental Illnesses - Understanding, Prediction and Control

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Section: Lay Theories Of Mental Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Attitudes, Lay Theories and Mental Health Literacy: The Understanding of Mental Health

Furnham¹,

Telford²

2012

Mental Illnesses - Understanding, Prediction and Control

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“…Common attitudes include re garding psychiatric illnesses as frightening, shameful, imaginary, feigned and incurable; while psychiatric patients are characterised as dangerous, unpredictable, untrustworthy, un stable, lazy, weak, worthless and/or helpless (Rabkin, 1974: Bhugra, 1989: Fabrega, 1990. Stigma is typically attached to diseases for which people are considered culpable.…”

Section: Likely Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stigma is typically attached to diseases for which people are considered culpable. Psychiatric disorders are often attributed to a cognitive or moral failing and/or to heredity factors for which there is no treatment (Rabkin, 1974).…”

Section: Likely Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stigmatisation of psychiatric disorder

Lawrie

1999

Psychiatr. bull.

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“…Furthermore, in severe cases, the stigmatized persons are confined and hidden from their societies (Rabkin, 1974). This is because people with mental illness are viewed as dangerous, unpredictable and this in part "justifies" their discrimination by the society (Ku & Ha, 2015).The problem of stigmatization is of notable importance in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes, HIV/AIDs, obesity, infertility, mental illnesses, and in the reduction of health compromising lifestyles.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effectiveness of telemedicine on stigmatization and treatment burden in patients with health compromising lifestyles and chronic diseases: A critically appraised topic

Obisike¹

2018

OSJ

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Objectives: To conduct a critical appraisal of peer reviewed articles on the effectiveness of telemedicine on stigmatization and treatment burden in patients with health compromising lifestyles and chronic diseases.Methods: This study critically appraised peer-reviewed article on the effectiveness of telemedicine on stigmatization and treatment burden in patients with health compromising lifestyles and chronic diseases. Treatments included e-health interventions, information and communication technologies used in health care, internet-based interventions for diagnosis and treatments that encouraged collaborative care for patients with chronic diseases. This paper critically appraised the full text of each relevant peer-reviewed article adapting the Occupational Therapy Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) template while using the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine- Levels of Evidence (2011) model to assess for best evidence or quality. Results: Initial internet search using Psychinformation; PubMed; Medline; ProQuest; CINAHL; OT seeker and the Cochrane Library generated over 1450 titles/abstracts. Following abstract appraisal, 30 articles were selected for full text assessment. Five of the final articles selected for this critical appraisal alluded to the effectiveness of telemedicine in reducing the treatment burden of stigmatization on patients with chronic diseases. Majority of the appraised articles indicated the effectiveness of telemedicine in changing behaviours.Conclusions: All the appraised articles alluded to the effectiveness of telemedicine in curbing some of the treatment burdens of stigmatization for patients with health compromising lifestyles and chronic diseases. However, it is evident that the use of other intervention methods such as government policy, public education and patient empowerment in conjunction with telemedicine would better reduce the effect of stigmatization and facilitate the medical interventions for patients with chronic diseases.

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Public Attitudes Toward Mental Illness: A Review of the Literature

Cited by 249 publications

References 69 publications

Public Attitudes, Lay Theories and Mental Health Literacy: The Understanding of Mental Health

Public Attitudes, Lay Theories and Mental Health Literacy: The Understanding of Mental Health

Stigmatisation of psychiatric disorder

The effectiveness of telemedicine on stigmatization and treatment burden in patients with health compromising lifestyles and chronic diseases: A critically appraised topic

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