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Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders
INTRODUCTION: The fear and embarrassment associated with stigmas discourage patients from help seeking behavior, which may explain why even the patients' loved ones advise them to discontinue treatment to avoid being labeled. In addition, stigmas can lead to personal and family issues, causing...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9773400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36568742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1027002 |
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author | Hajebi, Ahmad Hashemian, Seyed Sepehr Abolhassani, Moussa Hajebi, Amirali Alizadeh, Kamyab Rahnejat, Amir Mohsen Khademi, Mojgan Taghva, Arsia |
author_facet | Hajebi, Ahmad Hashemian, Seyed Sepehr Abolhassani, Moussa Hajebi, Amirali Alizadeh, Kamyab Rahnejat, Amir Mohsen Khademi, Mojgan Taghva, Arsia |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The fear and embarrassment associated with stigmas discourage patients from help seeking behavior, which may explain why even the patients' loved ones advise them to discontinue treatment to avoid being labeled. In addition, stigmas can lead to personal and family issues, causing patients to disregard their illness. As such, their disease may develop into a chronic condition. This being said, the present study aims to investigate the challenges, solutions, and successes associated with stigmatization in Iran from the perspective of mental health stakeholders. METHOD: A qualitative study was conducted in the summer of 2022. Purposive sampling was utilized to recruit participants. The primary data collection method involved a focus group interview that lasted 110 min. The project manager monitored the interviews, and all research team members attended the meetings, took notes, and made the necessary preparations. After explaining the study's purpose and ensuring the data's confidentiality, the interviewer led a focus group discussion. The interviews were recorded with the participants' consent. A focus group was used to conduct interviews with 13 individuals until data saturation was reached. FINDINGS: Ten psychologists, psychiatrists, and managers responsible for mental health, two patients, and one patient's family member participated in the current study as eligible participants. Repeated readings led to the emergence of three main classes under the headings of challenges, solutions, and successes of stigma management in Iran, each containing subclasses. CONCLUSION: The majority of the proposed solutions in this study centered on raising awareness and training diverse individuals and groups to lessen stigmas. The most crucial de-stigmatization measure is to offer training that will cause the current stereotypes to change. This must be taken by patients and their families as well as therapists, leaders, policymakers, the general public, and the media. Ideally, younger members of the target groups should be considered for these pieces of training, which must be based on research and derived from cultural and localized needs. |
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spelling | pubmed-97734002022-12-23 Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders Hajebi, Ahmad Hashemian, Seyed Sepehr Abolhassani, Moussa Hajebi, Amirali Alizadeh, Kamyab Rahnejat, Amir Mohsen Khademi, Mojgan Taghva, Arsia Front Public Health Public Health INTRODUCTION: The fear and embarrassment associated with stigmas discourage patients from help seeking behavior, which may explain why even the patients' loved ones advise them to discontinue treatment to avoid being labeled. In addition, stigmas can lead to personal and family issues, causing patients to disregard their illness. As such, their disease may develop into a chronic condition. This being said, the present study aims to investigate the challenges, solutions, and successes associated with stigmatization in Iran from the perspective of mental health stakeholders. METHOD: A qualitative study was conducted in the summer of 2022. Purposive sampling was utilized to recruit participants. The primary data collection method involved a focus group interview that lasted 110 min. The project manager monitored the interviews, and all research team members attended the meetings, took notes, and made the necessary preparations. After explaining the study's purpose and ensuring the data's confidentiality, the interviewer led a focus group discussion. The interviews were recorded with the participants' consent. A focus group was used to conduct interviews with 13 individuals until data saturation was reached. FINDINGS: Ten psychologists, psychiatrists, and managers responsible for mental health, two patients, and one patient's family member participated in the current study as eligible participants. Repeated readings led to the emergence of three main classes under the headings of challenges, solutions, and successes of stigma management in Iran, each containing subclasses. CONCLUSION: The majority of the proposed solutions in this study centered on raising awareness and training diverse individuals and groups to lessen stigmas. The most crucial de-stigmatization measure is to offer training that will cause the current stereotypes to change. This must be taken by patients and their families as well as therapists, leaders, policymakers, the general public, and the media. Ideally, younger members of the target groups should be considered for these pieces of training, which must be based on research and derived from cultural and localized needs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9773400/ /pubmed/36568742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1027002 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hajebi, Hashemian, Abolhassani, Hajebi, Alizadeh, Rahnejat, Khademi and Taghva. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Hajebi, Ahmad Hashemian, Seyed Sepehr Abolhassani, Moussa Hajebi, Amirali Alizadeh, Kamyab Rahnejat, Amir Mohsen Khademi, Mojgan Taghva, Arsia Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
title | Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
title_full | Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
title_fullStr | Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
title_short | Assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in Iran: A qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
title_sort | assessing the impact of stigma reduction interventions in iran: a qualitative study from the perspective of mental health stakeholders |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9773400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36568742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1027002 |
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