Publications by authors named "Maria O Bocharova"

Background: Psychiatric stigma has potentially controversial effects on patients health-related behaviors. It appears that both stigmatization and motivation in psychiatric patients are heterogeneous and multi-dimensional, and that the relationship between stigma and treatment motivation may be more complex than previously believed.

Aim: To determine psychiatric stigma subtypes as they relate to treatment motivation among inpatients with various mental disorders.

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In the present state of healthcare, usual medical care is generally given to the already diseased person, while the key link-personal health monitoring underlain by predictive, preventive, and personalised medicine (PPPM) techniques that are being intensively elaborated worldwide-is simply missing. It is this link, based on the recognition of subclinical conditions, prediction, and further preventive measures, that is capable of regulating morbidity and diminishing the rates of disability among able-bodied population, thus significantly cutting the traditionally high costs of treating the already diseased people. To achieve the above-mentioned goal-the elaboration of the PPPM concept and its practical implementation-it is necessary to create a fundamentally new strategy based upon the subclinical recognition of the signs-bioindicators of cryptic abnormalities long before the disease clinically manifests itself.

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