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Stigmatizing attitudes toward patients with psychiatric disorders among medical...

Introduction: Stigma attached to mental health encompasses discrimination and exclusion of psychiatric patients and hinders their opportunities to have more productive and fulfilling lives. Moreover, stigma also exists among health professionals, and therefore, it hampers the provision of treatment and care and the promotion of mental well-being. This manuscript intends to assess and compare the levels of stigm...

Effectiveness of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) in Community ...

Social cognition is a promising treatment target in schizophrenia because of its close link to social functioning impairment. Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) has received support in efficacy trials, but its effectiveness in routine clinical care and in non-English speaking countries, including Portugal is not well established. The present study aimed to contribute to study the effectiveness of ...

Is it possible to “find space for mental health” in young people? effectiveness...

Lack of knowledge regarding, and the stigma associated with, mental disorders have been identified as major obstacles for the promotion of mental health and early intervention. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based intervention program focused on the promotion of mental health literacy (MHL) in young people (“Finding Space for Mental Health”). A sample of 543 students (22 class...

Mental health literacy in young adults: adaptation and psychometric properties ...

Mental health literacy (MHL) is considered a prerequisite for early recognition and intervention in mental disorders, and for this reason, it has become a focus of research over the past few decades. Assessing this construct is relevant for identifying knowledge gaps and erroneous beliefs concerning mental health issues, to inform the development of interventions aimed at promoting mental health literacy as wel...

Portuguese Adaptation and Input for the Validation of the Views on Inpatient Ca...

Introduction: Patient satisfaction is an important measure of health care quality. Patients’ views have seldom been considered in the construction of measures addressing satisfaction with inpatient facilities in psychiatry. The Views on Inpatient Care - VOICE - is a first service-user generated outcome measure relying solely on their perceptions of acute care, representing a valuable indicator of service users’...

Stigma in Midsize European Countries

Portuguese Adaptation and Input for the Validation of the Views on Inpatient Ca...

Introduction: Patient satisfaction is an important measure of health care quality. Patients’ views have seldom been considered in the construction of measures addressing satisfaction with inpatient facilities in psychiatry. The Views on Inpatient Care - VOICE - is a first service-user generated outcome measure relying solely on their perceptions of acute care, representing a valuable indicator of service users’...

Development and psychometric properties of a new questionnaire for assessing Me...

Objectives: Several instruments assess constructs related to mental health literacy and to the stigma associated with mental health problems. However, most of them have conceptualisations that may limit the assessment of the mental health literacy concept in a more up-to-date and comprehensive perspective. Furthermore, some of the instruments’ structure may limit their use in large scale samples, in a short per...

Perspectivas sobre a saúde mental em Portugal

The Portuguese National Mental Health Plan, approved for the period between 2007-2016 has created expectations for the improvement of the quality of care in the domains that have not been achieved. This article will briefly discuss three key aspects regarding the Portuguese situation in the mental health field: access to care; mental health services; stigma and literacy in mental health. In order to contextuali...

Reabilitação psicossocial na doença mental: boas práticas, constrangimentos e o...