Reducing Medical Students’ Stigmatization of People With Chronic Mental Illness: A Field Intervention at the “Living Museum” State Hospital Art Studio

Cutler, Janis L.; Harding, Kelli J.; Hutner, Lucy; Cortland, Clarissa; Graham, Mark

doi:10.1176/appi.ap.10050081

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“…Brown derived four premises to elicit the most positive effects of contact: "social and institutional support, acquaintance potential, equal status, and co-operation (Brown, 1995)." These premises support results that indicate that short and temporary contact does not influence negative attitudes toward those with chronic mental disorder (Cutler et al, 2012). The type of contact that promotes positive social attitudes depends on the person with schizophrenia's position in relation to his/her family members.…”

Section: The Knowledge Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 79%

Dependence on Cultural Contexts of the Factors Influencing Social Acceptance toward Schizophrenia: Evidence from Comparative Study between Japan and Vietnam

Higuchi¹

2015

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This paper explores the factors influencing social acceptance toward persons with schizophrenia by examining the effects of perceived dangerousness, having knowledge, and social instability and investigates these conditions in a cross-cultural comparison of Japan and Vietnam. Social distance scales and random sample survey questionnaires based on vignettes were used to reconstruct social acceptance in Japan (n = 488) and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (n = 185). Structural equation modeling was applied to explore the relation between social acceptance, perceived dangerousness, beliefs in Western psychiatric treatments, contact with people with schizophrenia, and cohorts having grown up during the Vietnam War.In both countries, contact reduced the perceived dangerousness of persons with schizophrenia and increased their social acceptance. Beliefs in Western psychiatric treatments informed by education-based knowledge, however, intensified perceived dangerousness in Japan, but increased social acceptance in Vietnam. The effects of education-based knowledge emerge differently according to each society's mental health system history. The Vietnamese cohort born during the Vietnam War showed greater social acceptance than others, while no effects were observed in Japanese cohorts. Social instability seems to change social values and negative social attitudes related to schizophrenia.

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Section: The Knowledge Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 79%

Dependence on Cultural Contexts of the Factors Influencing Social Acceptance toward Schizophrenia: Evidence from Comparative Study between Japan and Vietnam

Higuchi¹

2015

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“…Within this grouping, a prominent teaching objective was to elicit compassion for a patient group that medical students might preconceive as difficult or unrewarding to work with. It was assumed and intended that the teaching intervention, by enlarging an otherwise limited perspective, would decrease stigma and ageism, challenge stereotypes, and ultimately influence students’ career choices …”

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confidence: 99%

Rethinking research in the medical humanities: a scoping review and narrative synthesis of quantitative outcome studies

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This review offers a nuanced framework of how different types of medical humanities work. The epistemological assumptions and discursive positioning of medical humanities teaching frame the forms of outcomes research that are considered relevant to curriculum decision making, and shed light on why dominant review methodologies make some functions of medical humanities teaching visible and render others invisible. We recommend the use of this framework to improve the rigor and relevance of future explorations of the efficacy and utility of medical humanities teaching.

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“…As discussed in Theme 2 of the results in this study, providers held prejudices that might negatively affect patients’ mental health care. Strategies for educating medical professionals and raising awareness about stigmatizing attitudes have become a recent focus of scientific investigations, with some evidence of success (Corrigan et al, 2014; Cutler, Harding, Hutner, Cortland, & Graham, 2012; Stubbs, 2014). One of the most effective ways to combat stigma and address the sources of stigma discussed herein is direct contact with persons with mental illness (“the contact hypothesis”; Allport, 1954; Corrigan & Shapiro, 2010).…”

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Stigma About Mental Illness Among Multidisciplinary Health Care Providers in the Dominican Republic

Caplan

Little

Garces-King

2016

International Perspectives in Psychology

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Few studies have examined the attitudes of multidisciplinary health care providers toward mental illness, particularly in Latin America. The present study explored the attitudes of health care providers in the Dominican Republic (DR) toward persons with mental illness. Five Spanish-language focus groups were conducted in different regions of the DR with a purposive sample of 37 multidisciplinary health care providers and administrators. We found that among Dominican health care professionals mental illness was primarily defined as schizophrenia. Stigma was pervasive, but differed based on level of experience with persons with mental illness. People with mental illness were perceived as out of control and unable to conform to societal norms, resulting in fear and a lack of empathy among care providers. General practitioners felt unprepared to manage mental illness and unsupported by families and communities that also held stigmatizing attitudes. Providers considered government investment in mental health services imperative to improve access to treatment. Currently there are few options for intervention or rehabilitation for persons with severe mental illness. Strategies to reduce stigma among nonmental health care providers include governmental prioritization of mental health care, as well as formal training and clinical exposure to persons with mental illness in recovery.

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Reducing Medical Students’ Stigmatization of People With Chronic Mental Illness: A Field Intervention at the “Living Museum” State Hospital Art Studio

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Dependence on Cultural Contexts of the Factors Influencing Social Acceptance toward Schizophrenia: Evidence from Comparative Study between Japan and Vietnam

Dependence on Cultural Contexts of the Factors Influencing Social Acceptance toward Schizophrenia: Evidence from Comparative Study between Japan and Vietnam

Rethinking research in the medical humanities: a scoping review and narrative synthesis of quantitative outcome studies

Stigma About Mental Illness Among Multidisciplinary Health Care Providers in the Dominican Republic

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