D'Angelo Martina, Steardo Luca
Psychiatry Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro Magna Graecia, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
J Clin Med. 2024 Jul 9;13(14):4000. doi: 10.3390/jcm13144000.
: The experience of stigma can exert a profound impact on the mental health and well-being of individuals with bipolar disorder (BD). Our study explores which factors of internalized stigma are associated with suicidal ideation and how they differ between the two sexes in a clinical sample of BD patients. : The study follows a cross-sectional study design, employing the Clinical Global Impression for Bipolar Patients (CGI-BP) to evaluate the overall severity of illness and the alteration in patients affected by bipolar disorder, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) assessing self-stigma among individuals experiencing mental disorders, and the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) identifying and assessing individuals vulnerable to suicide. Descriptive analyses, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and logistic regression analysis were conducted, and 344 BD subjects were recruited. : Our ANOVA results revealed a significant association between sex and suicide across ISMI sub-items ( = 0.000). Logistic regression analysis comprised three phases: Discrimination was consistently significant across all phases ( < 0.001), while Alienation and Stereotype emerged as additional predictors of suicide in later phases of the analysis ( < 0.001). : Our study contributes to the growing body of literature on internalized stigma, sex, and suicidality among individuals with bipolar disorder. Early intervention programs and prevention strategies are needed.
污名化经历会对双相情感障碍(BD)患者的心理健康和幸福产生深远影响。我们的研究探讨了内化污名的哪些因素与自杀意念相关,以及在双相情感障碍患者的临床样本中,这些因素在两性之间有何差异。
该研究采用横断面研究设计,使用双相情感障碍患者临床总体印象量表(CGI-BP)评估疾病的总体严重程度以及双相情感障碍患者的病情变化,使用精神疾病内化污名量表(ISMI)评估精神障碍患者的自我污名,使用哥伦比亚自杀严重程度评定量表(C-SSRS)识别和评估易自杀个体。进行了描述性分析、方差分析(ANOVA)和逻辑回归分析,共招募了344名双相情感障碍受试者。
我们的方差分析结果显示,在精神疾病内化污名量表各子项目中,性别与自杀之间存在显著关联(P = 0.000)。逻辑回归分析包括三个阶段:在所有阶段,区分度均具有显著性(P < 0.001),而疏离感和刻板印象在分析的后期阶段成为自杀的额外预测因素(P < 0.001)。
我们的研究为关于双相情感障碍患者内化污名、性别和自杀倾向的文献不断增多做出了贡献。需要早期干预项目和预防策略。