The stigma of mental illness: Anticipation and attitudes among patients with epileptic, dissociative or somatoform pain disorder

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-129

  Freidl, M ^a   Spitzl, S Piralic ^a   Prause, W ^a   Zimprich, F ^a   Lehner Baumgartner, Eva ^a   Baumgartner, C ^a   Aigner, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Epileptic disorder; Mental illness; Psychiatry; Somatoform pain disorder; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EMPLOYER; EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTELLIGENCE; JOB FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STIGMA; TRUST;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF DISCLOSURE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SICK ROLE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 34247565055     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540260701278879     Document Type: Article

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