跳至主要内容

Health Care Students’ Attitudes towards People with Schizophrenia

Discrimination and stigmatization of people with mental illness are a global and complex phenomenon linked to problems of knowledge, attitudes and behavior. Negative attitudes, stereotypes and discrimination are still highly prevalent in the population, including health care staff and health care students. Stigma and discrimination in many ways affect people with a mental illness causing a lowered self-esteem and quality of life, and affecting possibilities of adequate housing, work and financial situation in a negative way.

In this paper, the authors asked students, whose future occupation would be in the social and health care fields, about how they perceived people suffering from schizophrenia, being as they are part of one of the most exposed subgroups of people with mental illness. And attitudes towards people with schizophrenia among 1101 students in eight different university programs providing training for work in the health care and social sectors were explored, using a cross-sectional design.

The results revealed that attitudes among students in different education programs showed that irrespective of program a great majority of the student’s perceived people with schizophrenia as unusual. In five of eight education programs a majority of the students perceived people with schizophrenia as a danger to others, and with regard to prospects of recovery more than a third of the students in seven of eight education programs were pessimistic about the possibilities to recover from schizophrenia. In several aspects police students were found to hold more negative attitudes than students from other programs. Students with previous experiences of work in mental health services and students knowing a person with schizophrenia showed more positive attitudes. And a larger proportion of students living alone perceived persons with schizophrenia as more unpredictable than students who were married or cohabiting.

In summary, attitudes among students towards people with schizophrenia are in several instances comparable with attitudes as presented by the general population. In order to decrease negative attitudes and prejudices towards people with schizophrenia among students, it is essential that the training includes personal contact with people with experiences of being mentally ill.


Article by Bengt Svensson, et al, from Sweden.

Full access: http://suo.im/4wRIGG

评论

发表评论

此博客中的热门博文

Identifying Sustainable Practices for Tapping and Sap Collection from Birch Trees

Tapping and collecting sap from birch trees ( Betula , sp.) for the production of beverages and syrup is gaining increased levels of interest. Although the practice of tapping birch trees and collecting sap has been ongoing for millennia across the world, there remain some critical data needed in order to make science-based decisions about the production practices required to optimize yields and ensure sustainable outcomes are achieved in the long-term. In this study, experiments were conducted to determine two pieces of information essential to identify practices necessary to ensure tapping trees for birch sap collection were both sustainable and profitable—the selection of the time to initiate tapping birch trees to obtain maximum yields, and the volume of nonconductive wood (NCW) associated with taphole wounds in birch trees. The yields obtained from various timing treatments varied between sapflow seasons, but indicated that using test tapholes to choose the appropriate ti
发表评论
阅读全文

Incorporation of High-Altitude Balloon Experiment in High School Science Classrooms

High-altitude balloon is a balloon, filled usually with helium or hydrogen that ascends into an area called “near space” or stratosphere. The most common type of high-altitude balloons are weather balloons. Other purposes include use as a platform for experiments in the upper atmosphere. Modern balloons generally contain electronic equipment such as radio transmitters, cameras, or satellite navigation systems, such as GPS receivers. The mission of the High-Altitude Balloon Experiment (HABE) is to acquire supporting data, validate enabling technologies, and resolve critical acquisition, tracking, and pointing (ATP) and fire control issues in support of future space-based precision pointing experiments. The use of high-altitude balloons offers a relatively low-cost, low-vibration test platform, a recoverable and reusable payload, worldwide launch capability, and a 'near- space' emulation of the future space systems operational scenarios. More recently, several university
1 条评论
阅读全文

Esophageal Carcinogenesis

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50380#.VDy9v1fHRK0 Author(s)   Naoki Watanabe 1 , Masahito Shimizu 2 , Takahiro Kochi 2 , Yohei Shirakami 2 , Takuji Tanaka 1,3* Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Diagnostic Pathology (DDP) & Research Center of Diagnostic Pathology (RC-DiP), Gifu Municipal Hospital, Gifu, Japan . 2 Department of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan . 3 Department of Tumor Pathology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan . ABSTRACT Esophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer death and remains one of the least survivable cancers. Esophageal cancers show wide variations in incidence in different pop
发表评论
阅读全文