Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2021 Jan;42(1):79-86. doi: 10.1080/01612840.2020.1779881. Epub 2020 Sep 3.
Stigma is one of the common problems of patients with bipolar disorders, which impedes their recovery. This is a quasi-experimental study on 76 hospitalized patients with bipolar disorder (38 in each group) in Iran. The intervention group received six sessions of psychoeducation in a period of 2 weeks. Internalized stigma was measured by the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale. The education significantly reduced the scores of alienation, discrimination experience, stigma resistance and total score of stigma in the intervention group. Hence, this education can be used as an accessible technique in hospitals to reduce the internalized stigma.
污名是双相情感障碍患者的常见问题之一，它阻碍了他们的康复。这是在伊朗对 76 名住院的双相情感障碍患者（每组 38 名）进行的一项准实验研究。干预组在两周的时间内接受了六次心理教育。内化污名通过内化精神疾病耻辱感量表来衡量。教育显著降低了干预组的异化、歧视体验、抗污名和污名总分的得分。因此，这种教育可以作为医院中一种易于使用的技术，以减少内化污名。
