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Erschienen in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 3/2019

20.01.2018 | Original Paper

Mental health professionals’ attitudes towards mental illness: professional and cultural factors in the INTER NOS study

verfasst von: Francisco Del Olmo-Romero, María González-Blanco, Salvador Sarró, Jaime Grácio, Manuel Martín-Carrasco, Ana C. Martinez-Cabezón, Giampaolo Perna, Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Pedro Varandas, Javier Ballesteros-Rodríguez, Carlos Rebolleda-Gil, Giovanna Vanni, Eduardo González-Fraile, The INTER NOS group

Erschienen in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Ausgabe 3/2019

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Abstract

Background

Research shows that personnel working in mental health facilities may share some of the societal prejudices towards mental illness. This might result in stigmatizing behaviours towards people suffering from mental disorders, undermining the quality of their care.

Aims

To describe and compare attitudes towards mental illness across a sample of professionals working in a wide range of mental health facilities in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Method

We administered a survey to personnel including two questionnaires related to stigmatizing attitudes: The Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill (CAMI) and the Attribution Questionnaire (AQ-27). Data were compared according to professional category, work setting and country.

Results

34.06% (1525) professionals of the surveyed population responded adequately. Psychologists and social therapists had the most positive attitudes, and nursing assistants the most negative, on most factors of CAMI and AQ-27. Community staff had more positive attitudes than hospital-based professionals in most factors on CAMI and in discriminatory responses on AQ-27.

Conclusions

Globally, mental health professionals showed a positive attitude towards mental illness, but also a relative support to coercive treatments. There are differences in attitudes modulated by professional category and setting. Results can guide preventive strategies, particularly for the hospital-based and nursing staff.
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Metadaten
Titel
Mental health professionals’ attitudes towards mental illness: professional and cultural factors in the INTER NOS study
verfasst von
Francisco Del Olmo-Romero
María González-Blanco
Salvador Sarró
Jaime Grácio
Manuel Martín-Carrasco
Ana C. Martinez-Cabezón
Giampaolo Perna
Edith Pomarol-Clotet
Pedro Varandas
Javier Ballesteros-Rodríguez
Carlos Rebolleda-Gil
Giovanna Vanni
Eduardo González-Fraile
The INTER NOS group
Publikationsdatum
20.01.2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Ausgabe 3/2019
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0867-5

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