Ana Masedo1,2, Pamela Grandón2,3, Sandra Saldivia2,4, Alexis Vielma-Aguilera5, Elvis S Castro-Alzate5,6, Claudio Bustos4, Cristina Romero-López-Alberca7,8, J Miguel Pena-Andreu9, Miguel Xavier2,10, Berta Moreno-Küstner1,2,11. 1. Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain. 2. MARISTAN Network, Málaga, Spain. 3. Department of Psychology, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. 4. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. 5. Doctorate in Mental Health. Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. 6. Human Rehabilitation School, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. 7. Department of Psychology, Universidad de Cádiz, Campus Río San Pedro, 11519, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain. cristina.romero@uca.es. 8. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. cristina.romero@uca.es. 9. Department of Public Health and Psychiatry, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain. 10. Comprehensive Health Research Centre, NOVA Medical School, Lisboa, Portugal. 11. Biomedical Research Institute of Málaga (IBIMA), Málaga, Spain.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of negative attitudes among health professionals towards people with mental illness but there is also a knowledge gap on what training must be given to these health professionals during their education. The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of students of health sciences: nursing, medical, occupational therapy, and psychology. METHODS: A comparative and cross-sectional study in which 927 final-year students from health sciences university programmes were evaluated using the Mental Illness: Clinicians' Attitudes (both MICA-2 and MICA-4) scale. The sample was taken in six universities from Chile and Spain. RESULTS: We found consistent results indicating that stigma varies across university programmes. Medical and nursing students showed more negative attitudes than psychology and occupational therapy students in several stigma-related themes: recovery, dangerousness, uncomfortability, disclosure, and discriminatory behaviour. CONCLUSIONS: Our study presents a relevant description of the attitudes of each university programme for education against stigma in the formative years. Results show that the biomedical understanding of mental disorders can have negative effects on attitudes, and that education based on the psychosocial model allows a more holistic view of the person over the diagnosis.
BACKGROUND: There is evidence of negative attitudes among health professionals towards people with mental illness but there is also a knowledge gap on what training must be given to these health professionals during their education. The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of students of health sciences: nursing, medical, occupational therapy, and psychology. METHODS: A comparative and cross-sectional study in which 927 final-year students from health sciences university programmes were evaluated using the Mental Illness: Clinicians' Attitudes (both MICA-2 and MICA-4) scale. The sample was taken in six universities from Chile and Spain. RESULTS: We found consistent results indicating that stigma varies across university programmes. Medical and nursing students showed more negative attitudes than psychology and occupational therapy students in several stigma-related themes: recovery, dangerousness, uncomfortability, disclosure, and discriminatory behaviour. CONCLUSIONS: Our study presents a relevant description of the attitudes of each university programme for education against stigma in the formative years. Results show that the biomedical understanding of mental disorders can have negative effects on attitudes, and that education based on the psychosocial model allows a more holistic view of the person over the diagnosis.
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Attitudes; Health sciences; Mental health; Stigma; Undergraduate education
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