To the Editor: The stigma attached to patients with mental illness remains a major obstacle, which prevents individuals from seeking appropriate help and improving the quality of their lives (1). The added burden that stigma imposes on the struggle to recovery can alter behavior, generate anxiety, and ultimately cause isolation from the mainstream culture (2). Although stigmatization of mental illness among health care professionals has been studied less than it has in the wider population, existing evidence suggests that medical practitioners also hold a range of attitudes toward individuals with psychiatric diagnosis similar to those held by the general public. MINDs survey in 1996 (3) reported that individuals with mental illness had been discriminated against by medical services. Their mental distress often had been dismissed, and comorbid physical problems were taken less seriously, though this is partly because their mental illness masked their physical illness. This lack of adequate health care contributes to the high rate of morbidity and mortality in individuals with mental illness (4). A study was recently completed at Wayne State University School of Medicine on attitudes and perceptions toward depression and schizophrenia among residents in different medical specialties. All residents and interns in internal
Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Depression and Schizophrenia Among Residents in Different Medical Specialties
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To the Editor: The stigma attached to patients with mental illness remains a major obstacle, which prevents individuals from seeking appropriate help and improving the quality of their lives (1). The added burden that stigma imposes on the struggle to recovery can alter behavior, generate anxiety, and ultimately cause isolation from the mainstream culture (2). Although stigmatization of mental illness among health care professionals has been studied less than it has in the wider population, existing evidence suggests that medical practitioners also hold a range of attitudes toward individuals with psychiatric diagnosis similar to those held by the general public. MINDs survey in 1996 (3) reported that individuals with mental illness had been discriminated against by medical services. Their mental distress often had been dismissed, and comorbid physical problems were taken less seriously, though this is partly because their mental illness masked their physical illness. This lack of adequate health care contributes to the high rate of morbidity and mortality in individuals with mental illness (4). A study was recently completed at Wayne State University School of Medicine on attitudes and perceptions toward depression and schizophrenia among residents in different medical specialties. All residents and interns in internal
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Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Depression and Schizophrenia Among Residents in Different Medical Specialties
Chin, Steve H.; Balon, Richard
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, Volume 30 (3): 262
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Jun 1, 2006
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