Clinicians', patients' and carers' perspectives on borderline personality disorder in Pakistan: A mixed methods study protocol.

ABSTRACT: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a condition characterised by significant social and occupational impairment and high rates of suicide. In high income countries, mental health professionals carry negative attitudes towards patients with BPD, find it difficult to work with patients with BPD, and even avoid seeing these patients. Negative attitudes and stigma can cause patients to fear mistreatment by health care providers and create additional barriers to care. Patients' self-stigma and illness understanding BPD also affects treatment engagement and outcomes; better knowledge about mental illness predicts intentions to seek care. The perspectives of mental health clinicians and patients on BPD have not been researched in the Pakistani setting and likely differ from other settings du

SUBMITTER: Hedemann TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10237402 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature