Public perceptions, knowledge and stigma towards people with schizophrenia
| Autor: | Jairus M. Reddy, Jennifer Brooks, Edward Titus Asbury, Valerie Smith, Kenneth Foster |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Social distance Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Stigma (botany) Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Family member Perception Bogardus social distance scale medicine Psychology Psychiatry media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Mental Health. 10:45-56 |
| ISSN: | 1746-5729 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to obtain perceptions of educated non‐professionals towards people with schizophrenia.Design/methodology/approachA social distance scale and a schizophrenia knowledge and attitude survey were administered to 330 undergraduates. It was predicted that knowledge and personal family experience would predict tolerance attitudes and social distance comfort towards persons with schizophrenia.FindingsKnowledge about schizophrenia and personal family experience with mental illness had similar effects on tolerance scores. Specifically, those with higher knowledge and family members with schizophrenia reported higher levels of tolerance (i.e. less stigma). Conversely, participants with a family member diagnosed with a mental illness reported less social distance comfort to persons with schizophrenia as opposed to those without mental illness in the family. Finally, gender differences indicated that women held more tolerant attitudes towards schizophrenia compared with men.Originality/valueFew studies have focused on educated non‐professional perceptions and attitudes towards the mentally ill. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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