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To The Question of Destigmatization of Psychiatry and Mentally III Persons In The Modern Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

S. Vladimirova*
Affiliation:
Mental health research institute, department of coordination of scientific research, Tomsk, Russia
V. Lebedeva
Affiliation:
Mental health research institute, clinics, Tomsk, Russia
E. Gutkevich
Affiliation:
Mental health research institute, endogenous disorders department, Tomsk, Russia
A. Semke
Affiliation:
Mental health research institute, endogenous disorders department, Tomsk, Russia
N. Bokhan
Affiliation:
Mental health research institute, addictive states department, Tomsk, Russia
N. Garganeeva
Affiliation:
Siberian state medical university, department of primary care therapy, Tomsk, Russia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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In recent decades, new medications have been developed that entailed possibility of rehabilitation and socialization of mentally ill persons.

Purpose

To consider a phenomenon of destigmatization of mentally ill persons on the example of the analysis of screening-questioning in mental health service.

Methods

Randomized screening-questioning of participants of Open Doors Day in the clinics of Mental Health Research Institute (Tomsk, Russia) in connection with World Mental Health Day in October, 2015.

Results

One hundred and forty-six residents of Tomsk and inhabitants of the Tomsk Region as well as other cities visited Mental Health Research Institute. 76,5% of them visited mental health service for the first time. More than a half of visitors (51%) was the most able-bodied age group – 20-50 years old; elderly people – 20%. According to many-year observation of authors of the work, there is a gradual destigmatization of people with mental health problems. Process of destigmatization will develop further, and mass media should also be engaged in it. One more moment should be emphasized – reduction of self-stigmatization. Though people do not still aim to seek for psychiatric help at the appropriate institutions (they prefer to visit the psychiatrist of the catchment area policlinic), they after all started recognizing presence of the problem, understanding the need of its overcoming, and possibility of its correction.

Conclusion

The attitude of society towards people with mental health problems and towards psychiatry reasonably changes, and this promotes further development in the field of help to patients and their relatives.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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