Publications by authors named "Elena Poplavskaya"
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- - The study explores how psychiatric diagnostic labels, specifically borderline personality disorder (BPD), can influence mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards a patient receiving treatment.
- - Researchers showed a video of a patient with panic disorder to 265 clinicians, assigning them to different groups based on the information they received about the patient.
- - Findings revealed that those informed about the BPD label reported significantly less optimism regarding the treatment outcome, suggesting that such labels may lead to negative biases and highlight the importance of reducing stigma in clinical practice.
Many patients with chronic pain also exhibit elevated levels of health anxiety. This study examined the effect of health anxiety on the use of safety-seeking behaviors (SSBs) in pain-provoking situations. Participants were 20 chronic back pain patients with high health anxiety (Group H), 20 with low health anxiety (Group L) and 20 pain-free controls (Group C).
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