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What attitudes do psychiatrists hold towards people with mental illness?
- Source :
- Psychiatric Bulletin. 28:401-406
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2004.
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Abstract
- Aims and MethodTo investigate the attitudes that psychiatrists hold towards people with mental illness. Each member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK was sent a questionnaire based on previous research in this area, supplemented with relevant questions on management.Results2813 of 6524 questionnaires were returned (43%). Psychiatrists' attitudes compared favourably with those of the general population. Among other findings, they believed that the risk of dangerousness was overemphasised, that misdiagnosis of schizophrenia in Black people is common, and that polypharmacy and the use of antipsychotic medication above British National Formulary levels occurs too often.Clinical ImplicationsPsychiatrists' attitudes are substantially more favourable towards people with mental illness than those of the general population with individual, but important, exceptions. Some aspects of psychiatric management, especially of antipsychotic medication, may undermine this, however. Comparison with other groups, e.g. general practitioners, nurses and social workers, would be useful in planning how to reduce the stigmatisation of people with mental illness.
- Subjects :
- Polypharmacy
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study
Social work
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Population
Mental illness
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
0302 clinical medicine
Schizophrenia
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Formulary
Antipsychotic
business
Psychiatry
education
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14721473 and 09556036
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychiatric Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ab31333d15b18fc2f0ff00bd5a9de06a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.28.11.401