Clinical decisions and stigmatizing attitudes towards mental health problems in primary care physicians from Latin American countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this paper is to investigate how doctors working in primary health care in Latin American address patients with common mental disorders and to investigate how stigma can affect their clinical decisions.

Methods

Using a cross-sectional design, we applied an online self-administered questionnaire to a sample of 550 Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) from Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba and Chile. The questionnaire collected information about sociodemographic variables, training and experience with mental health care. Clinicians' stigmatizing attitudes towards mental health were measured using the Mental Illness Clinicians' Attitudes Scale (MICA v4). The clinical decisions of PCPs were assessed through three clinical vignettes representing typical cases of depression, an

SUBMITTER: Vistorte AOR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6237310 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature