Perceived social stigma, self-concept, and self-stigmatization of patient with schizophrenia

Abstract The advent of community-based mental health care in Greece emphasized clinicians' need to understand patients' attitudes and their experience of their illness. A 42-item self-administered questionnaire (Self-Stigmatization Questionnaire) with flexible format was designed and admin...

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Published in:Comprehensive psychiatry 2010, Vol.51 (1), p.19-30
Main Authors: Karidi, Maria Veroniki, Stefanis, Costas N, Theleritis, Christos, Tzedaki, Maria, Rabavilas, Andreas D, Stefanis, Nicholas C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Age of Onset
Biological and medical sciences
Chi-Square Distribution
Family - psychology
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Medical research
Medical sciences
Mental disorders
Middle Aged
Patient Selection
Personality Inventory
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychoses
Regression Analysis
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Psychology
Self Concept
Self esteem
Severity of Illness Index
Social Isolation - psychology
Social Perception
Social Support
Stereotyping
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vocational rehabilitation
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Summary:Abstract The advent of community-based mental health care in Greece emphasized clinicians' need to understand patients' attitudes and their experience of their illness. A 42-item self-administered questionnaire (Self-Stigmatization Questionnaire) with flexible format was designed and administered to 150 outpatients with schizophrenia who fulfilled the criteria for inclusion in the vocational rehabilitation program where the study took place. The patients participated voluntarily. Multivariate regression models were applied to each item to assess the degree of patients' self-stigmatization experience as well as the effect of potential factors such as age, sex, psychopathologic condition, hospitalization, and duration of illness. The options selected by the patients revealed stigmatized attitudes in most items. The odds of selecting these options were mainly influenced by the severity of the patients' psychopathologic condition and the duration of illness and less by sex, age, and hospitalization.
ISSN:0010-440X
1532-8384
DOI:10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.01.001