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Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study
BACKGROUND: Stigma related to mental illness is a reality among health care providers. This study is an attempt to understand the attitudes of doctors from different specialties toward mental illness and the stigma related to it. METHODS: We used a concurrent nested mixed-methods approach to underst...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34349308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0253717620932244 |
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author | Munisami, Thenral Namasivayam, Rajesh Kannan Annamalai, Arunkumar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Stigma related to mental illness is a reality among health care providers. This study is an attempt to understand the attitudes of doctors from different specialties toward mental illness and the stigma related to it. METHODS: We used a concurrent nested mixed-methods approach to understand and identify the various factors of mental-illness-related stigma in medical practitioners. Between November 2018 and March 2019, 100 medical practitioners from South India were administered a self-reporting OMS-HC (Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers), followed by in-depth interviews among 25 of the 100 participants selected using purposive sampling. Quantitative surveys were analyzed using SPSSv23. In-depth interviews were transcribed as extended notes, translated, and initially explored using focused coding and the constant comparative method. RESULTS: Though findings from quantitative analysis show low to moderate stigma (Mean = 53.52, SD = 7.61), the qualitative study revealed unintended and covert negative attitude toward mental illness. CONCLUSION: As stigma occurs at various levels—structural, institutional, interpersonal, and personal—anti-stigma measures also need to be systematically designed. Qualitative studies give more insight regarding the nature of stigma in medical practitioners toward mental illness |
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spelling | pubmed-82955822021-08-03 Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study Munisami, Thenral Namasivayam, Rajesh Kannan Annamalai, Arunkumar Indian J Psychol Med Original Articles BACKGROUND: Stigma related to mental illness is a reality among health care providers. This study is an attempt to understand the attitudes of doctors from different specialties toward mental illness and the stigma related to it. METHODS: We used a concurrent nested mixed-methods approach to understand and identify the various factors of mental-illness-related stigma in medical practitioners. Between November 2018 and March 2019, 100 medical practitioners from South India were administered a self-reporting OMS-HC (Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers), followed by in-depth interviews among 25 of the 100 participants selected using purposive sampling. Quantitative surveys were analyzed using SPSSv23. In-depth interviews were transcribed as extended notes, translated, and initially explored using focused coding and the constant comparative method. RESULTS: Though findings from quantitative analysis show low to moderate stigma (Mean = 53.52, SD = 7.61), the qualitative study revealed unintended and covert negative attitude toward mental illness. CONCLUSION: As stigma occurs at various levels—structural, institutional, interpersonal, and personal—anti-stigma measures also need to be systematically designed. Qualitative studies give more insight regarding the nature of stigma in medical practitioners toward mental illness SAGE Publications 2020-07-20 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8295582/ /pubmed/34349308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0253717620932244 Text en © 2021 Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zonal Branch https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-Commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Munisami, Thenral Namasivayam, Rajesh Kannan Annamalai, Arunkumar Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study |
title | Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_full | Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_fullStr | Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_short | Mental-Illness-Related Stigma in Health Care in South India: Mixed-Methods Study |
title_sort | mental-illness-related stigma in health care in south india: mixed-methods study |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34349308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0253717620932244 |
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