Attitudes towards the people with mental illness: comparison between Czech medical doctors and general population

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-016-1263-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00127-016-1263-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Attitudes towards the people with mental illness: comparison between Czech medical doctors and general population

Original language description

Purpose: Stigma among health care professionals is detrimental to the life of those with mental health problems. In the region of post-communist Europe, the level of stigma among health care providers remains understudied. We aimed to compare attitudes towards people with mental illness between Czech medical doctors and the general population. Methods: The Community Attitudes towards Mentally Ill (CAMI) scale was used to measure stigmatizing attitudes among a nationally representative sample of (1) adults residing in the Czech Republic (n = 1810) and (2) Czech medical doctors (n = 1200). Descriptive statistics and multivariable linear regression were used to assess differences between both samples. Results: Compared to the general adult population in the Czech Republic, Czech medical doctors demonstrated less stigmatizing attitudes toward people with mental illness in 26 of the 27 CAMI items as well as in the total CAMI score. Medical doctors, however, were more likely to consider mental hospitals as an up-to-date method of treating people with mental illness. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate more favourable attitudes towards people with mental illness among Czech medical doctors when compared to the Czech general population. Stigma, however, is high among both these groups.

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

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

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

9

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1265-1273

UT code for WoS article

000383710700006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84976388716