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2. The role of psychological distress, stigma and coping strategies on help-seeking intentions in a sample of Italian college students.

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Dagani, Jessica, Buizza, Chiara, Ferrari, Clarissa, and Ghilardi, Alberto

Subjects
HELP-seeking behavior, MENTAL health services, PSYCHOLOGICAL distress, PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation, SOCIAL stigma, COLLEGE students
Abstract

Background: Mental health issues are common among university students, but the latter are unlikely to seek professional help even when mental health services are available. Coping strategies, stigma and psychological distress are often considered as factors that can affect help-seeking intentions in university students. Methods: This study aimed to determine the role of coping strategies, stigma and psychological distress on the intentions to seek professional help for psychological problems. All students (N = 13,886) from an Italian medium-sized university were asked to participate in a multidimensional online survey and 3754 (27.1%) agreed to participate. A Structural Equation Modelling approach was applied to explore the simultaneous direct and indirect effects of distress, stigma and coping strategies on professional help-seeking intentions. Results: Results showed that students were not very likely to seek professional help and, through the Structural Equation Model, psychological distress was found to be positively correlated with coping strategies, which in turn was negatively associated with the stigma of seeking help. The latter was negatively associated with professional help-seeking intentions. These effects suggest that students with significant psychological distress use coping strategies to face the stigma of seeking help: the lower the stigma of seeking help, the higher the chance of developing intentions to seek professional help. Conclusions: This study suggests the importance of implementing programs to encourage college students to seek help, including measures that foster a stigma-free environment, reduce psychological distress and promote the use of adaptive coping strategies. Interventions should be focused firstly on self-stigma and secondly on perceived stigma, taking into consideration the level of psychological distress and social stereotypes associated with mental disorders and help seeking behaviours. Programs about coping are also essential and should focus on promoting emotion-focused strategies and problem-focused strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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3. The stigma of schizophrenia from patients' and relatives' view: a pilot study in an Italian rehabilitation residential care unit

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Buizza, Chiara, Schulze, Beate, Bertocchi, Elena, Rossi, Giuseppe, Ghilardi, Alberto, Pioli, Rosaria, Buizza, Chiara, Schulze, Beate, Bertocchi, Elena, Rossi, Giuseppe, Ghilardi, Alberto, and Pioli, Rosaria

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OBJECTIVE: To identify the constituent elements of the stigma from the perspective of those having first-hand experiences of it. METHODS: Subjective experiences of stigma were explored in six focus groups: three with people suffering from schizophrenia and three with patients' relatives. Focus group sessions were tape-recorded, transcribed and analyzed by means of an inductive method, forming categories from the texts, as a basis for coding. Analysis aimed at establishing a typology of stigmatization experiences from the spoken words of the focus group participants. RESULTS: Four dimensions of stigma were identified: access to social roles; internalization of stigma; quality of mental health services, public image of mental illness. CONCLUSION: The most frequently found topics concerned experiences of marginalization and discrimination that people with schizophrenia experience in their daily life. These results mirror the findings of similar studies obtained in other cultural contexts.

Published
2007

4. The stigma of schizophrenia from patients' and relatives' view: A pilot study in an Italian rehabilitation residential care unit

Author

Giuseppe Rossi, Chiara Buizza, Beate Schulze, Rosaria Pioli, Elena Bertocchi, Alberto Ghilardi, University of Zurich, and Buizza, Chiara

Subjects
Typology, medicine.medical_specialty, Rehabilitation, Epidemiology, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Research, Alternative medicine, 610 Medicine & health, 10056 Clinic for Clinical and Social Psychiatry Zurich West (former), Mental illness, medicine.disease, Focus group, Mental health, Stigma (anatomy), Psychiatry and Mental health, 2738 Psychiatry and Mental Health, medicine, Psychiatry, business, 2713 Epidemiology
Abstract

Objective: To identify the constituent elements of the stigma from the perspective of those having first-hand experiences of it. Methods: Subjective experiences of stigma were explored in six focus groups: three with people suffering from schizophrenia and three with patients' relatives. Focus group sessions were taperecorded, transcribed and analyzed by means of an inductive method, forming categories from the texts, as a basis for coding. Analysis aimed at establishing a typology of stigmatization experiences from the spoken words of the focus group participants. Results: Four dimensions of stigma were identified: access to social roles; internalization of stigma; quality of mental health services, public image of mental illness. Conclusion: The most frequently found topics concerned experiences of marginalization and discrimination that people with schizophrenia experience in their daily life. These results mirror the findings of similar studies obtained in other cultural contexts.

Published
2007

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