When mental health care is stigmatizing: A participative study in schizophrenia.

Objectives: Mental health care has been identified as a major source of mental illness stigmatization. Detailed information about these stigmatization experiences is thus needed to reduce stigma in mental health practices. The study aimed to (a) identify the most relevant stigmatizing situations in mental health care encountered by users with schizophrenia and their families; (b) characterize the relative importance of these situations in terms of frequency, experienced stigmatization, and associated suffering; and (c) identify contextual and individual factors associated with these experiences.

Part of the solution yet part of the problem: factors of schizophrenia stigma in mental health professionals.

Background: Stigma is highly prejudicial to persons with schizophrenia, their families, the society and the health care system. Mental health professionals (MHP) are considered to be one of the main sources of schizophrenia stigma.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to identify individual and contextual factors associated with stigma in MHP in its three dimensions (stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, Fiske, 1998).