Open AccessAttitudes of psychiatry residents toward mental illness
Author(s) -
Milica Pejović-Milovančević,
Dušica Lečić-Toševski,
Lazar Tenjović,
Saveta Draganić-Gajić,
George Christodoulou,
Jelena Stepanović
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0708382p
Subject(s) - mental illness , mentally ill , psychiatry , medicine , personality , competence (human resources) , mental health , clinical psychology , psychology , social psychology
Attitudes of lay people and physicians towards mentally ill patients are frequently highly biased. The aim of this study was to investigate differences in attitudes of psychiatry and internal medicine residents toward mental illness and to establish the relationship between their attitudes and their personal characteristics.