Mental illness through the perspective of undergraduate medical students in Greece: a cross-sectional study at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Numerous studies reveal that mental health-related stigma, stereotypes, and prejudices negatively affect the patients, jeopardizing their health, prognosis, and social opportunities. Healthcare professionals, who are in the first line of combating mental disease, are expected to play a significant role in drastically changing discriminatory and stigmatizing attitudes toward psychiatric patients and in diminishing the existing healthcare and social disparities. In this study, we aimed to explore and highlight the views of Greek medical students-that is of the future physicians-toward mental illness and people suffering from it.

Materials and methods

It is a cross-sectional, observational study, in which 324 undergraduate students from the most populous Greek medi

SUBMITTER: Porfyri GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10646174 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature