Open AccessNurses' attitude towards patients with mental illness in a general hospital in Kuwait
Author(s) -
Adel Al-Awadhi,
Farid Atawneh,
M. Ziad Y Alalyan,
Altaf Ahmad Shahid,
Sulaiman AlKhadhari,
Muhammad Ajmal Zahid
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
saudi journal of medicine and medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1658-631X
pISSN - 2321-4856
DOI - 10.4103/1658-631x.194249
Subject(s) - mental illness , authoritarianism , mental health , mentally ill , psychiatry , sympathy , psychology , psychoeducation , medicine , clinical psychology , politics , political science , law , democracy , intervention (counseling)
Stigma and discrimination have been reported to cause unnecessary delay in mentally-ill patients seeking help, which adversely affects a patient's outcome. The attitude of health care professionals has been described as being, even more, negative than that of the general public, which worsens the prognosis for patients with a mental illness.