Studying Attitudes towards Patients with Mental Illness among Residents and House Officers, Egyptian Study
Alaa Adel Al-Madani;
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tigma is deeply discrediting so that stigmatized persons are regarded as being less valued. Stigma is not a static concept but a social construction that is linked to values placed on social identities which may change with time and from one culture to another.
Stigma is a basic component of the negative discrimination that people with mental illness experience every day. It blocks access to facilities and options that have been created to help people impaired with mental illness.
The attitudes held by clinical staff towards people with mental illness are likely to influence their clinical practice and hence the experience and outcomes of patients.
Finally, avocates of all stripes agree that stigma of mental illnesses is egregious in effect and must be challenged to broaden life opportunities of adults and children with psychiatric disorders for whom these prospects are deserving.
Based on that, our study was aiming to study the attitude of Egyptian residents and house officers towards patients with mental illness and compare between both groups.
The study contained a convenient sample of one hundred and fifty residents and two hundreds house officers in Ain Shams university hospitals studied in a cross sectional, comparative design using the Mental illness clinician attitude scale version 4 (MICA-4)
All data gathered were recorded, tabulated and transferred on Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), using personal computer and the suitable statistical parameters were used. The analysis was done using SPSS v19.0 IBM statistical package for social sciences & Microsoft Office 2010.
The study included 30 variables as following: 4 demographics, 16 variables for the MICA questionnaire & 10 variables related to stigma sheet.
The main finding of our study revealed that the scores of MICA questionnaire were lower than the cut point for negative attitude in both residents and house officers which means that the attitude of both physicians groups was positive (i.e.: no stigma) towards patients with mental illness.
There was no statistically significant difference between resident & house officers regarding most of the MICA questions except that, House officers (56.5%) were more disagreeing than resident (44.3%) concerning that people with severe mental illness can never recover enough to have good quality of life and there was statistically significant correlation between both groups. There was also
tigma is deeply discrediting so that stigmatized persons are regarded as being less valued. Stigma is not a static concept but a social construction that is linked to values placed on social identities which may change with time and from one culture to another.
Stigma is a basic component of the negative discrimination that people with mental illness experience every day. It blocks access to facilities and options that have been created to help people impaired with mental illness.
The attitudes held by clinical staff towards people with mental illness are likely to influence their clinical practice and hence the experience and outcomes of patients.
Finally, avocates of all stripes agree that stigma of mental illnesses is egregious in effect and must be challenged to broaden life opportunities of adults and children with psychiatric disorders for whom these prospects are deserving.
Based on that, our study was aiming to study the attitude of Egyptian residents and house officers towards patients with mental illness and compare between both groups.
The study contained a convenient sample of one hundred and fifty residents and two hundreds house officers in Ain Shams university hospitals studied in a cross sectional, comparative design using the Mental illness clinician attitude scale version 4 (MICA-4)
All data gathered were recorded, tabulated and transferred on Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), using personal computer and the suitable statistical parameters were used. The analysis was done using SPSS v19.0 IBM statistical package for social sciences & Microsoft Office 2010.
The study included 30 variables as following: 4 demographics, 16 variables for the MICA questionnaire & 10 variables related to stigma sheet.
The main finding of our study revealed that the scores of MICA questionnaire were lower than the cut point for negative attitude in both residents and house officers which means that the attitude of both physicians groups was positive (i.e.: no stigma) towards patients with mental illness.
There was no statistically significant difference between resident & house officers regarding most of the MICA questions except that, House officers (56.5%) were more disagreeing than resident (44.3%) concerning that people with severe mental illness can never recover enough to have good quality of life and there was statistically significant correlation between both groups. There was also
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| Title | Studying Attitudes towards Patients with Mental Illness among Residents and House Officers, Egyptian Study | Other Titles | دراسة الاتجاه بين الاطباء النواب و اطباء الامتياز نحو المرضى المصابون بامراض عقلية دراسة مصرية | Authors | Alaa Adel Al-Madani | Issue Date | 2014 |
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