Abstract

TOSTES, Joanna Gonçalves de Andrade; BANDEIRA, Marina  and  OLIVEIRA, Marcos Santos de. Neighbors attitudes toward psychiatric patients and residential services. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp.261-281. ISSN 1808-4281.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of people who live in the neighborhood of Therapeutic Residential Services (SRTs) toward psychiatric patients and mental health services, in the city of Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brasil. A stratified random sample of 110 neighbors was evaluated using the Community Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill scale (CAMI-BR) and a questionnaire assessing sociodemographic and mental health informations. The result from the global score of CAMI-BR showed that, in general, neighbors attitudes ranged from neutral to positive. Subscales scores were significantly different from each other, with more positive attitudes in Benevolence subscale and more negative in the Authoritarianism one. The ambivalence observed in neighbors attitudes points to the need of providing more information about mental illness and community mental health services, in order to fight stigmatizing attitudes and to enable a better patient's social reinsertion in the community.

Keywords : attitudes; patients; stigma; mental health.

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