Experience of stigma in private life of relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in the Republic of Belarus

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00127-016-1190-y" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00127-016-1190-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-016-1190-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00127-016-1190-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experience of stigma in private life of relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in the Republic of Belarus

Original language description

Family stigma constitutes a major problem in schizophrenia worldwide. Data on first-hand experience of stigma in families is necessary for planning and implementing interventions to reduce its burden. The aim of the study was to investigate the experience of stigma among relatives of persons with schizophrenia in Belarus. Qualitative research methods, such as the thematic analysis of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, were used. Experience of discrimination, strategies used to cope with it, and requests for interventions were investigated. The most salient themes in experience of stigma in the private domain of life elicited in the narratives included anticipated stigma and dissolution of families. The experience of stigma was associated with burdensome feelings of guilt, tiredness and loneliness, together with fear and anxiety due to uncertainty in the future and sorrow because of frustrated hopes in past. Analysis of the strategies used to overcome the difficulties revealed concealment and "life behind closed doors", avoidance of the rest of the family, taking full responsibility and sacrificing one's personal life. To reduce the burden of stigma in the private life of the family members of people living with schizophrenia in Belarus, important steps should be taken to promote the empowerment of families including: reforming mental health services; provision of better access to information; family support services, community care; development of family organisations; assistance in communication, re-socialisation and independent living for people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FL - Psychiatry, sexology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/ED2.1.00%2F03.0078" target="_blank" >ED2.1.00/03.0078: National institute of Mental Health</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

ISSN

0933-7954

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

757-765

UT code for WoS article

000374972200012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84957936301