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Mental Illness Stigma, Devine Lewis
Mental Illness Stigma, Devine Lewis
WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing
Mental illness stigma is a national issue prevalent due to common misconceptions of mental illness presented in media and entertainment outlets. The stigmatization of mental illness causes the increase of mental patients refusing to seek treatment, it prohibits the advancement of psychological science, and causes discrimination and prejudice towards the mental health community. Solutions to this issue include prioritizing awareness and advocacy for this issue as well as educating the general public with relevant and correct information/representations relevant to the mental health community. The increase of social interaction with mental health patients decreases the stigmatization of mental illness as does …
A Letter To My Departed Niece, * Anonymous *
A Letter To My Departed Niece, * Anonymous *
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
The following piece was written in the weeks following the death of the author’s niece. It is an attempt to explore how we as a society handle health crises differently for medical versus mental health diagnoses.
A Systematic Review And Analysis Of Racial Differences In Treatment For Depression, Elli D. R. Parisi
A Systematic Review And Analysis Of Racial Differences In Treatment For Depression, Elli D. R. Parisi
DePaul Discoveries
Mental health affects a large proportion of the population across the world. Though many mental health studies exist, they are inconsistent in methodology, conceptualization of terms, and populations studied; as a result, many studies are incomparable with each other. Further, there is arguably too few studies that focus on marginalized or underrepresented populations. The current study aims to address some of this gap in knowledge. The differences in the way depression is diagnosed and treated in various racial and ethnic groups were identified, and the findings of previous studies were analyzed to help improve the way mental health, and specifically …
Validation And Reliability Study Of The Turkish Version Of The Neuroquality Of Life (Neuro-Qol)-Stigma Scale For Neurological Disorders, Si̇bel Karşidağ, Ni̇lgün Çinar, Şevki̇ Şahi̇n, Nurdan Kotevoğlu, Mi̇runa Florenti̇na Ateş
Validation And Reliability Study Of The Turkish Version Of The Neuroquality Of Life (Neuro-Qol)-Stigma Scale For Neurological Disorders, Si̇bel Karşidağ, Ni̇lgün Çinar, Şevki̇ Şahi̇n, Nurdan Kotevoğlu, Mi̇runa Florenti̇na Ateş
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
Background/aim: Stigma can be defined as a negative perception of chronically ill patients by their relatives or by society, or a similar self-perception by the patients themselves. We aimed to validate the Turkish version of the Neuroquality of Life (Neuro-QoL)-Stigma Scale for neurologic diseases. Materials and methods: Forms were filled out by a total of 152 randomized patients under regular follow-up in the outpatient clinic (29 polyneuropathy, 25 epilepsy, 23 stroke, 24 tension-type headache, 28 multiple sclerosis, 27 Parkinson disease). The forms consisted of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), WHOQOL-BREF quality of life scale, the Multidimensional …