Neumann Eva, Obliers Rainer, Albus Christian
Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2012 Feb;62(2):66-72. doi: 10.1055/s-0031-1301360. Epub 2012 Feb 14.
Stigmatization of mental illness is a widespread phenomenon even among health professionals. To explore the origins of this inappropriate attitude, medical students at the beginning and in the end of their studies were examined with self-report measures of social distance towards mentally ill persons, beliefs about etiology of mental disorders, valuation of psychotherapy and the personality features empathy and narcissism. While the students' attitudes turn out to be unrelated to the personality features, significant differences between the two groups were found indicating that distance towards mentally ill patients in the medical role and ambivalence about the etiological factors of mental disorders are stronger pronounced in the end of the studies compared to the beginning. These findings underline the need to prepare medical students better for contacts with mentally ill patients.
精神疾病的污名化是一种普遍现象，即使在卫生专业人员中也是如此。为了探究这种不当态度的根源，对医学专业学生在学习开始时和结束时进行了调查，采用自我报告的方式衡量他们对精神疾病患者的社会距离、对精神障碍病因的看法、对心理治疗的评价以及共情和自恋等人格特征。结果发现，学生的态度与人格特征无关，但两组之间存在显著差异，表明与学习开始时相比，在学习结束时，医学生在医疗角色中对精神疾病患者的距离以及对精神障碍病因的矛盾态度更为明显。这些发现强调了有必要让医学生更好地为接触精神疾病患者做好准备。
