RT journal article
T1 Stigma toward people with severe mental disorder in university students before and after their practicum program in mental health
A1 Grandon, Pamela
A1 Masedo, Ana
A1 Saldivia, Sandra
A1 Romero López Alberca, Cristina
A1 Bustos, Claudio
A1 Vielma-Aguilera, Alexis
A1 Castro-Alzate, Elvis S.
A1 Hervías Ortega, Federico Rafael
A1 Moreno-Küstner, Berta
A2 Psicología
K1 mental illness
K1 attitudes
K1 students
K1 training
AB University education affects the attitudes of future professionals toward people with mental illness. Toevaluate and compare stigmatizing attitudes of university students from nursing, psychology, andoccupational therapy careers toward people with severe mental disorder (SMD), a multisite, nonrandomized,pre–post-test design was used with evaluations before and after a practicum program inmental health. Evaluation was done on a convenience sample of 520 students. The Mental Illness Clinicians’Attitudes (MIws1CA-4) scale was used to assess attitudes and a mixed linear model was used to compare thepre- and post-test data. Our results show that the practicum was slightly effective at reducing negativeattitudes toward people with mental illness. Students’ attitudes changed significantly after the training whenconsidering career and country, although the changes were small. Nursing and psychology, but not occupational therapy, showed decreased stigma. Although nursing decreases negative attitudes in the posttest,it achieves higher scores than other careers. Social science’s professionals are less stigmatizing thanhealth professionals such as nurses, a result that could be associated with the approach used in the training ofstudents. Although the practicum decreases stigma toward people diagnosed with SMD, its effect isreduced; it would be necessary to incorporate more specific actions in order to decrease the stigma further.The negative attitudes that decreased with professional training, particularly, were those related to behaviorsin the workplace.
PB American Psychological Association
SN 1939-1323
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/36255
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/36255
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026