0000000000469475
AUTHOR
Mannino G.
Perceived public stigma towards schizophrenia among healthcare students: The relationship with diagnostic labelling and contact with people with schizophrenia
Objectives This study aimed at investigating the relationship between perceived public stigma towards people with schizophrenia (PWS) and their family members in a large sample of medical and psychology students. We hypothesised that: a) schizophrenia labelling would be related to greater perceived public stigma; b) contact with PWS would be related with lower perceived stigma; c) perceived public stigma would be similar between medical and psychology students and would be higher among students attending the clinical stage compared to their pre-clinical colleagues. Methods Participants were 592 students attending either the pre-clinical or clinical stage of coursework in Medicine and Psycho…
Views of Schizophrenia Among Future Healthcare Professionals: Differences in Relation to Diagnostic Labelling, Causal Explanations, and Type of Academic Degree Program.
Objective: Stereotyped beliefs about schizophrenia are well-established in the society and relatively common among healthcare professionals and students. The aim of this study was to investigate the opinions about the causes, treatment, and outcome of schizophrenia among healthcare students. Method: Undergraduate nursing and psychology students completed selected items of the Opinion on Mental Illness Questionnaire after reading a clinical vignette of undiagnosed schizophrenia. Results: Students who labelled the description as schizophrenia were more pessimistic regarding full recovery from the disorder. Those who acknowledged greater relevance to biogenetic risk factors were more convinced…
Crisi economica, crisi sociale
L’analisi del benessere in Italia durante l’ultimo decennio, in particolare attraverso i difficili anni di crisi economica, mostra un quadro di luci ed ombre, di tendenze positive di lungo periodo meno condizionate dalla congiuntura, come gli aspetti legati alla salute, all’istruzione o alle reti sociali, e di altre profondamente segnate dal ciclo negativo come il lavoro e la condizione economica delle famiglie. I primi anni del nuovo millennio presentano un quadro del benessere in Italia inevitabilmente molto articolato, ma tendenzialmente positivo. Seguendo una tendenza di lungo periodo, infatti, è possibile osservare che le condizioni di salute della popolazione migliorano, si va allunga…