Resilience and associative stigma among mental health professionals in a tertiary psychiatric hospital: a cross-sectional study in Singapore.

ABSTRACT: Objectives:The mental health profession exposes healthcare workers to unique stressors such as associative stigma (stigmatisation that is extended from the stigmatised patients to psychiatric professionals and is based on affiliation with an individual with mental illness). Enhancing resilience, or the ability to 'bounce back' from adversity, is found to be useful in reducing occupational stress and its negative effects. In view of the high burnout rates reported among mental health professionals, this study aimed to examine resilience in this group of professionals and to explore the association between resilience and associative stigma.

Design:Observational study-cross-sectional design.

Setting:Tertiary psychiatry hospital in Singapore.

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SUBMITTER: Chang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937006 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature