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Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental
Print version ISSN 1647-2160
Abstract
FERREIRA, Marcela dos Santos and CARVALHO, Maria Cecília de Araújo. Education to face the stigma: An educational intervention with nursing students. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2020, n.23, pp.15-22. ISSN 1647-2160. https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0268.
BACKGROUND: Confronting stigma in health and in students is an important issue to improve the health of people with mental disorders. Investment in vocational education with anti-stigmatization is important with regard to the stigmatization of people with mental disorders. AIM: To evaluate the stigmatizing attitudes of studies on mental disorders and the results of mental health education in an anti-stigmatizing and fundamental perspective on the assessment of the situation. METHODS: It was an intervention in the discipline of mental health, constituted by a teaching practice, aimed at coping with the stigma associated with mental disorder. Available from the use of a Stigmatizing Attitudes Measurement Scale and Opinions on Mental Illness (ODM). The quantitative data were based on the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences 21 (SPSS), a research program with statistically significant benefits before and after a mental health education. RESULTS: There was a positive evolution of student attitudes, especially in relation to the stigmas of irrecoverability, dangerousness, stereotyped appearance and related to the etiology of the disorders. CONCLUSIONS: The results are indicative that the reduction of stigma among students is related to a discipline, with the inclusion of educational strategies that promote, in particular, direct and indirect contact between students with mental disorders and those who defend the attention model psychosocial.
Keywords : Social stigma; Mental disorders; Education; nursing.