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The influence of Chinese translations for psychosis on stigma of schizophrenia from youth service providers' views

Objectives: The study investigates the effects of different Chinese translations for psychosis on perceptions of youth service providers. The hypothesis is youth service providers believe that to have better understanding and acceptance in name si-jue-shi-tiao rather than others.
Participants and methods: 100 youth service providers were recruited and interviewed with 34-item questionnaires. They were presented with a vignette describing a person with jing-shen-fen-lie-zheng/ si-jue-shi-tiao/ jing-shen-bin. Belief of cause, benevolence, separatism, stereotyping, restrictiveness, pessimistic prediction and stigmatization of different labeling were investigated.
Results: The study found that si-jue-shi-tiao group has less stigmatization effect compared with jing-shen-fen-lie-zheng group and Jing-shen-bin group but the psychiatric labeling has no statistically significant effect on benevolence, separatism, stereotyping, restrictiveness, pessimistic prediction. Conclusion: The study supported renaming psychosis has an improvement on stigmatization, but not obviously seen to have improvement in the other attitudinal dimensions. People who have religious belief, profession in occupation, having previous contact with people (e.g. friend and client) who have mental illness indeed affected to have positive effect on their views towards person with psychosis. / published_or_final_version / Psychological Medicine / Master / Master of Psychological Medicine

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:HKU/oai:hub.hku.hk:10722/192973
Date January 2013
Creators孫敏紅, Suen, Man-hung
PublisherThe University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong)
Source SetsHong Kong University Theses
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePG_Thesis
RightsThe author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works., Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License
RelationHKU Theses Online (HKUTO)

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