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Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study
Despite their training, psychiatrists have been found to have negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, including the patients they treat. Similarly, studies focused on service users have identified psychiatrists as a source of stigma. Even though negative attitudes in psychiatrists hav...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34716830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-021-00907-5 |
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author | Lagunes-Cordoba, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Roberto Fresan-Orellana, Ana Gonzalez-Olvera, Jorge Jarrett, Manuela Thornicroft, Graham Henderson, Claire |
author_facet | Lagunes-Cordoba, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Roberto Fresan-Orellana, Ana Gonzalez-Olvera, Jorge Jarrett, Manuela Thornicroft, Graham Henderson, Claire |
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description | Despite their training, psychiatrists have been found to have negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, including the patients they treat. Similarly, studies focused on service users have identified psychiatrists as a source of stigma. Even though negative attitudes in psychiatrists have been identified in different countries and settings, in Mexico the attitudes of these professionals have never been assessed. Because of this, we invited psychiatric trainees from a hospital in Mexico to participate in individual interviews to describe their opinions regarding mental health-related stigma, to evaluate their attitudes towards people with mental illness and to identify factors that could be influencing their attitudes. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. A total of 29 trainees participated in the study. The results suggested that trainees recognised psychiatrists can have negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, such as poor empathy, judgement and labelling, and mainly towards patients considered difficult and with borderline personality disorder. Participants recognised these attitudes can influence their relationship with patients, and considered it is necessary to develop interventions to improve their own attitudes and reduce mental health stigma. From this study we concluded Mexican psychiatrists are not free from stigma towards people with mental illness. However, Mexican psychiatric trainees are interested in improving their attitudes and reactions towards their patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-91875382022-06-12 Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study Lagunes-Cordoba, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Roberto Fresan-Orellana, Ana Gonzalez-Olvera, Jorge Jarrett, Manuela Thornicroft, Graham Henderson, Claire Community Ment Health J Original Paper Despite their training, psychiatrists have been found to have negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, including the patients they treat. Similarly, studies focused on service users have identified psychiatrists as a source of stigma. Even though negative attitudes in psychiatrists have been identified in different countries and settings, in Mexico the attitudes of these professionals have never been assessed. Because of this, we invited psychiatric trainees from a hospital in Mexico to participate in individual interviews to describe their opinions regarding mental health-related stigma, to evaluate their attitudes towards people with mental illness and to identify factors that could be influencing their attitudes. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. A total of 29 trainees participated in the study. The results suggested that trainees recognised psychiatrists can have negative attitudes towards people with mental illness, such as poor empathy, judgement and labelling, and mainly towards patients considered difficult and with borderline personality disorder. Participants recognised these attitudes can influence their relationship with patients, and considered it is necessary to develop interventions to improve their own attitudes and reduce mental health stigma. From this study we concluded Mexican psychiatrists are not free from stigma towards people with mental illness. However, Mexican psychiatric trainees are interested in improving their attitudes and reactions towards their patients. Springer US 2021-10-30 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9187538/ /pubmed/34716830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-021-00907-5 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/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Lagunes-Cordoba, Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Roberto Fresan-Orellana, Ana Gonzalez-Olvera, Jorge Jarrett, Manuela Thornicroft, Graham Henderson, Claire Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study |
title | Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study |
title_full | Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study |
title_short | Mexican Psychiatric Trainees’ Attitudes Towards People with Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | mexican psychiatric trainees’ attitudes towards people with mental illness: a qualitative study |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34716830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-021-00907-5 |
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