Medical Education and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness in the Philippines.

A mixed-methods study assessed mental illness stigma within the Philippine medical community. A 43-item survey was completed by three groups: (1) medical students with no prior mental health training (N = 76, 31%), (2) medical students with psychiatric classroom and/or clerkship experience (N = 43, 18%), and (3) graduate physicians (N = 125, 51%). Exploratory factor analysis identified three de-stigmatized factors for comparisons between the three Filipino groups and with medical students from 5 other countries.