The Effects and Stigma of Mental Illness in Turkey

Overview

Journal Community Ment Health J

Specialty Health Services

Date 2015 Oct 20

PMID 26477739

Authors

Gamze Sarikoc

Fatma Oz

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Abstract

This study was planned to determine internalized stigma of patients who were monitored in the psychiatry clinics due to mental problems. It was determined that there was significant difference between the patients' mean internalized stigma total scores between subscale scores and their gender, job, the place that the patient was raised in, educational status, working status, income level, the period spent after the diagnosis, hospitalization status, the hospital monitoring the patient and the diagnosis. It is suggested that counseling services should be planned in order to identify negative impact of the factors that influence coping with internalized stigma.

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