Conference paper

A QUESTIONNAIRE TO ASSESS SOCIAL STIGMA

Maurilio Giuseppe Maria Tavormina ; Mental Health Department of Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy
Romina Tavormina ; Social cooperative “Il Faro” of Ercolano, Naples, Italy
Eugenio Nemoianni ; Mental Health Department of Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy
Giuseppe Tavormina ; Psychiatric Studies Center" (Cen.Stu.Psi.), Provaglio d'Iseo (BS), Italy

Abstract

Psychiatric patients often suffer for two reasons: due to the illness and due to the social stigma of mental illness, that increases
the uneasiness and psychic pain of the person suffering from serious psychiatric disorder. This unwell person is often the object of
stigma because he is “different” from others, and he also can be margenalised by society. In this study we intend to assess whether
these margenalising attitudes might be also present among mental health professionals who have presented psychic problems in a
previous period of their life, against sick persons suffering of the same illness even if he is a mental health professional. Two
questionnaires have been developed, one for professionals and another for the patients, with the aim of identifying these
marginalising attitudes. We intend that this study shall be a multicenter, observational and international study, promoted by the
Mental Health Dept. of Naples (ASL Naples 3 South, Italy).

Keywords

social stigma; mental illness; questionnaire; psychiatric professionals

Hrčak ID:

264559

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/264559

Publication date:

8.9.2015.

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