Stigma toward schizophrenia: Do all psychiatrists behave the same? Latent profile analysis of a national sample of psychiatrists in Brazil

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Loch, Alexandre Andrade ^a   Guarniero, Francisco Bevilacqua ^a   Lawson, Fabio Lorea ^a   Hengartner, Michael Pascal ^b   Rössler, Wulf ^b,c   Gattaz, Wagner Farid ^a   Wang, Yuan Pang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mental health professionals; Prejudice; Psychosis; Social distance; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHIATRIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPY; STIGMA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84875208598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-92     Document Type: Article

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