Attitudes of psychiatrists toward patients with schizophrenia
Open Access
- 17 December 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 58 (1) , 89-91
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2004.01198.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
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