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Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: The stigma about mental diseases is common in the population and also in medical students, where it may condition their future practice and the way they deal with these patients. AIM: To evaluate and characterize the stigma on mental diseases in Portuguese sixth-year medical students, ba...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8108321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33971862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02714-8 |
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author | Moreira, Ana-Raquel Oura, Maria-Joao Santos, Paulo |
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description | BACKGROUND: The stigma about mental diseases is common in the population and also in medical students, where it may condition their future practice and the way they deal with these patients. AIM: To evaluate and characterize the stigma on mental diseases in Portuguese sixth-year medical students, based on a clinical scenario of a classmate suffering from a mental disorder. METHODS: Observational cross-sectional study, involving sixth-year students of all Portuguese medical schools. We applied an online self-response questionnaire, using the Portuguese version of the Attribution Questionnaire AQ-9, and a vignette of a classmate colleague, presenting mental illness symptoms. Stigma scores were calculated. We used logistic regression to estimate the effect of social determinants on stigma pattern, and we analysed the correlation between 9 variables evaluated by the AQ-9 and total stigma. RESULTS: A total of 501 participants were included for analysis (69.5% females, median age of 24 years old). Medical students were available to help in the proposed clinical scenario (6.93/9.00; 95%CI:6.77–7.10), if necessary using coercion for treatment (3.85; 95%CI:3.63–4.07), because they felt pity (6.86; 95%CI:6.67–7.06) and they perceived some kind of dangerousness (4.06; 95%CI:3.84–4.28). Stigma was lower in students having a personal history of mental illness (OR:0.498; 95%CI:0.324–0.767; p = 0.002) and in those with positive familial history (OR: 0.691; 95%CI:0.485–0.986; p = 0.041). CONCLUSION: Our results show the importance of implementing anti-stigma education, to improve medical students’ attitudes towards peers living with mental diseases. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-02714-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-81083212021-05-11 Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study Moreira, Ana-Raquel Oura, Maria-Joao Santos, Paulo BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: The stigma about mental diseases is common in the population and also in medical students, where it may condition their future practice and the way they deal with these patients. AIM: To evaluate and characterize the stigma on mental diseases in Portuguese sixth-year medical students, based on a clinical scenario of a classmate suffering from a mental disorder. METHODS: Observational cross-sectional study, involving sixth-year students of all Portuguese medical schools. We applied an online self-response questionnaire, using the Portuguese version of the Attribution Questionnaire AQ-9, and a vignette of a classmate colleague, presenting mental illness symptoms. Stigma scores were calculated. We used logistic regression to estimate the effect of social determinants on stigma pattern, and we analysed the correlation between 9 variables evaluated by the AQ-9 and total stigma. RESULTS: A total of 501 participants were included for analysis (69.5% females, median age of 24 years old). Medical students were available to help in the proposed clinical scenario (6.93/9.00; 95%CI:6.77–7.10), if necessary using coercion for treatment (3.85; 95%CI:3.63–4.07), because they felt pity (6.86; 95%CI:6.67–7.06) and they perceived some kind of dangerousness (4.06; 95%CI:3.84–4.28). Stigma was lower in students having a personal history of mental illness (OR:0.498; 95%CI:0.324–0.767; p = 0.002) and in those with positive familial history (OR: 0.691; 95%CI:0.485–0.986; p = 0.041). CONCLUSION: Our results show the importance of implementing anti-stigma education, to improve medical students’ attitudes towards peers living with mental diseases. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-02714-8. BioMed Central 2021-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8108321/ /pubmed/33971862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02714-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Moreira, Ana-Raquel Oura, Maria-Joao Santos, Paulo Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
title | Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Stigma about mental disease in Portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | stigma about mental disease in portuguese medical students: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8108321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33971862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02714-8 |
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