ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2016
Experience of stigma in private life of relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in the Republic of Belarus.
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- How Do Children of Parents With Mental Illness Experience Stigma? A Systematic Mixed Studies Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Dyadic Effects of Stigma and Self-Compassion on Resilience of Schizophrenic Patients and Caregivers During Recovery: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Article
- How to combat stigma surrounding mental health disorders: a scoping review of the experiences of different stakeholders.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Internalized stigma level, family self-stigma, and family burden of patients receiving community mental health center services: a comparative, longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review of Adult Inpatient Satisfaction with Mental Health Services.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The experience of stigma in family caregivers of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A meta-synthesis study.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Cross-sectional and prospective correlates of associative stigma among mental health service providers.Psychiatric rehabilitation journal · 2020Article
- "My bitterness is deeper than the ocean": understanding internalized stigma from the perspectives of persons with schizophrenia and their family caregivers.International journal of mental health systems · 2018Article
- Satisfaction with psychiatric in-patient care as rated by patients at discharge from hospitals in 11 countries.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Article
- Experience of stigma in the public life of relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in the Republic of Belarus.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeFamily stigma constitutes a major problem in schizophrenia worldwide. Data on first-hand experience of stigma in families is necessary for planning and implementing interventions to reduce its burden. The aim of the study was to investigate the experience of stigma among relatives of persons with schizophrenia in Belarus.
methodsQualitative research methods, such as the thematic analysis of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 relatives of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, were used. Experience of discrimination, strategies used to cope with it, and requests for interventions were investigated.
resultsThe most salient themes in experience of stigma in the private domain of life elicited in the narratives included anticipated stigma and dissolution of families. The experience of stigma was associated with burdensome feelings of guilt, tiredness and loneliness, together with fear and anxiety due to uncertainty in the future and sorrow because of frustrated hopes in past. Analysis of the strategies used to overcome the difficulties revealed concealment and "life behind closed doors", avoidance of the rest of the family, taking full responsibility and sacrificing one's personal life.
conclusionTo reduce the burden of stigma in the private life of the family members of people living with schizophrenia in Belarus, important steps should be taken to promote the empowerment of families including: reforming mental health services; provision of better access to information; family support services, community care; development of family organisations; assistance in communication, re-socialisation and independent living for people diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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