- Title
- Perceived stigmatisation of patients with mental illness and its psychosocial correlates: a prospective cohort study
- Creator
- Chien, W. T.; Chan, S. W. C.; Yeung, F. K. K.; Chiu, H. F. K.; Ng, B. F. L
- Relation
- Hong Kong Medical Journal Vol. 21, Issue S2, p. S27-S31
- Relation
- http://www.hkmj.org/abstracts/v21%20Suppl%202n/27.htm
- Publisher
- Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- People with mental illness have been stigmatised by the public as dangerous, violent, and unpredictable. Stigma is defined as social devaluation of people because of their personal attributes, leading to disgrace and social isolation. This biased attribution of misbehaviour and disgrace to people with mental illness is over-generalised. According to the attribution model and self-stigmatising hypothesis, the severity of the stigmatisation perceived by patients may lead to self-esteem decrement and at times predict illness relapse. Nonetheless, systematic assessment of the experiences of people with severe mental illness (SMI) and studies of stigma from the perspective of families and health professionals are limited. This study assessed patients’ perceived stigmatisation and its association with clinical, psychosocial, and psycho-pathological factors over 1 year.
- Subject
- severe mental illness; stigma; mental health care; illness relapse
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1320262
- Identifier
- uon:24110
- Identifier
- ISSN:1024-2708
- Language
- eng
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