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Title: Factors influencing mental illness stigma in Iran: Qualitative study


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Factors influencing mental illness stigma in
Iran Qualitative study
  • Alireza Momeni, Soroor Parvizy, Nargess
    Shafaroodi
  • Iran University of Medical Sciences

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To people with a diagnosis of mental illness as
a part of society
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Structure
  • Aim
  • to investigate the factors influencing mental
    illness stigma in Iran.
  • METHOD
  • A content analysis with a qualitative approach
  • Semi-structured interviews
  • 12 participants(5femal, 7male) aged 22 61years
    including people with a diagnosis of mental
    illness, mental health professionals and lawyer.
  • purposive sampling from three psychiatric centers
    in Tehran

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  • The main Factors

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Lack of public knowledge relating mental illness
  • According a psychiatrist, most of the people
    consider all the mental patients to two or three
    certain mental disorders, which is due to lack of
    knowledge.

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Negative attitudes
  • A social worker
  • " Stigma is not a disease, my viewpoint
    regarding to such patient generates stigma the
    viewpoints of me and of others cause stigma which
    make both the patient and his family suffer from
    it"

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Negative attitudes
  • A lawyer
  • Unfortunately, the public attitude towards the
    mental patients is not a positive one in fact
    social stigma and the negative opinion which is
    not limited only to those who have no high
    education. There are also some highly- educated
    people who has not studies about the mental
    patients, they don't know them, and may have the
    same attitude of an illiterate person toward the
    mental patients, I have seen by my own eyes,
    there were even some people who had a PhD but
    not in the field of health, and their attitude in
    this regard was even worse than the others "

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" some physicians have such stigmatizing view
toward the People with a mental illness "
  • A psychiatrist

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Stereotypes
  • Stereotypes and a series of traditional thoughts
    about the mental disorders results in emotional
    and behavioral reactions of the individuals in
    relating and interacting with the people with a
    diagnosis of mental illness.

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people with a diagnosis of mental illness are
violent and dangerous.They are uncontrolled.
  • They may not be cured.
  • They are disabled person and a permanent
    dependent.

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"a mental patient is worse than leprosy, we
shake hand with that patient, sit with him, but
families abandon mental patients"
  • An individual with a diagnosis of mental illness

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"they dont pay attention to us or our works, I
mean they say he is sick until the last day of
his life so we shouldn't give him money, he
shouldn't have any facilities, so we get sicker
and sicker day by day"
  • An individual with a diagnosis of mental illness

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Insufficient treatment process
  • Defective treatment and rehabilitation process of
    the mental patients is also the basis for
    generating of stigma for the mental patients in
    the public.

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A Psychiatrist
  • ", in prevention level when we do not give a
    proper knowledge or a wrong knowledge is given,
    then there is stigma, also when rehabilitation is
    not made correctly in the third level, then it
    means the mental patients may not be cured and
    that they will always remain like that"

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if the process of assessment, treatment, and
caring is not done properly, that will be quite
effective "
  • A nurse

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Weakness of the law relating mental illness
  • is one of the issues which plays a role in
    establishment of stigma in the mental patients.

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A social workers talks about the lack of a
separate rule in the field mental health and says
  • " why we should not have a separate mental
    health rule, well, which rule shall be comply to,
    and which rule can the patient use"

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Negative influence of media
  • The Stigmatization Role of TV
  • " watch the advertisement we have seen about the
    mental patient, they show a patient who has an
    untidy appearance, well, In fact, all the mental
    patients are not like that"
  • An individual with a diagnosis of mental illness

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Neglecting the mental disease by the media
  • " TV, media, newspapers, etc. they all may have
    positive effects on the public trust toward the
    mental patients, but unfortunately their role in
    this regard is not clear, and those who practice
    in this field are also refuse to enter the
    discussion of the mental patients"
  • A lawyer says

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The findings showed although stigma is identified
as a major concern to most people with a
diagnosis of mental illness in different
societies, but it largely depends on social,
cultural and ideological context.
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CONCLUSION
  • Understanding of the Socio-cultural factors
    contributing to stigma is considerably important
    to develop anti-stigma programs.

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Suggestions
  • educational programs
  • changing public attitudes towards mental illness
  • alterations in media depictions
  • adopting Proper legislation
  • enhancing effective treatments

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