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Attitudes of psychiatrists toward patients with schizophrenia
Author(s) -
ÜÇOK ALP,
POLAT ASLIHAN,
SARTORIUS NORMAN,
ERKOÇ SAHAP,
ATAKLI CEM
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2004.01198.x
Subject(s) - pejorative , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , psychology , diagnosis of schizophrenia , meaning (existential) , clinical psychology , psychosis , psychotherapist , law , political science
A questionnaire was distributed to psychiatrists to investigate their attitudes toward patients with schizophrenia. A total of 42.7% of 60 respondents never informed patients of the diagnosis of schizophrenia and 40.7% informed on a case‐by‐case basis. The reason that psychiatrists gave for avoiding informing the patients/family members of the diagnosis was the idea that they would not understand the meaning (32.6%) and that they would drop‐out from treatment (28.3%). A total of 88.4% of respondents thought the term ‘schizophrenia’ was used in a pejorative manner in public. The findings revealed that stigmatizing attitudes of society are also shared by some psychiatrists.