PREVALENCE OF SOCIAL STIGMATIZATION IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS AND ITS CORRELATION WITH MOTIVATION FOR TREATMENT


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The phenomenon of social stigmatization of psychiatric patients was evaluated in 108 people: 49 psychiatric inpatients and 59 healthy individuals. Correlation between stigma and motivation for treatment was also assessed. Patients and volunteers perceive social discrimination of people with psychiatric disorders in different ways. Level of stigmatization in psychiatric patients is connected with their motivation for treatment and changes in motivation structure. Predominance of external motivation for treatment causes the opinion: “psychiatric patients are losers” and “people with personal failure”. High levels of motivation with good insight on disease and active role of patient in treatment lead to decrease of external stigmatization.

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Mikhail Y Sorokin

V.M. Bekhterev Psychoneurological Research Institute

Email: m.sorokin@list.ru
Department of Integrative Pharmaco-psychotherapy of Patients with Mental Disorders 192019, St.Petersburg, Bekhterev str., 3

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