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- Title
Syndromes that causes the level of schizophrenia external stigma in students.
- Authors
Vasilchenko, K.; Ismagilova, V.; Shnitsar, N.
- Abstract
Introduction: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder still full of stereotypes. It is also still unknown what kind of syndromes causes people's s attitude to patients: positive or negative. Objectives: To determine the perception of performed negative and positive syndromes of schizophrenia on the level of the schizophrenia external stigma. Methods: The cross-sectional study was performed on September 2019 with a sample of 650 students from Universities of Omsk. Two types of patient histories were shown to students randomly before participants started to fill the questionnaire form: one consisted of history with positive syndromes, and the other with negative syndromes. The questionnaires were administered in a class environment. Results: Statistically significant difference was determined between the forms differed in positive (24 [18; 33] points) and negative (21 [16; 28,5] points) syndromes (p = 0,049). In addition, difference was found between students of two groups: who had a friend diagnosed with mental disorder (20 [15; 31] points) and the other (24 [19,31] points) who had not (p = 0,004). Conclusions: Thus, the stigma of schizophrenia in a population's mind is suggested to depend on the presented types of syndromes, positive or negative, and the presence of mentally ill persons among friends of responders, as well.
- Subjects
OMSK (Russia); PATIENTS' attitudes; SOCIAL stigma; ATTITUDES toward illness; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNDROMES; PEOPLE with mental illness
- Publication
European Psychiatry, 2020, Vol 63, pS395
- ISSN
0924-9338
- Publication type
Article