Ward features and stigma experiences of mental health service users in Belgium and England: A replication study

Justine Schneider, Chris Beeley, Kezia Scales, Simon Bailey, Mieke Verhaeghe and Piet Bracke

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2013, vol. 59, issue 6, 602-608

Abstract: Background: Stigmatizing attitudes can impair the quality of life of people with mental health problems. Psychiatric hospitalization can generate stigma. Are some approaches to care less stigmatizing than others? Aims: This study was designed to replicate findings from Flanders, Belgium in an English context, investigating how ward size and treatment approach affected service users’ expectations and experiences of stigma. Methods: The translated Belgian questionnaire was administered to 70 service users in 15 inpatient adult mental health settings in central England. Adjustments were made to the multivariate analysis in light of the smaller sample size, in order to replicate the original equation as closely as possible. Results: Neither ward size nor individualized care proved significant in the smaller English sample, which was subject to the risk of type II error. Across two models, self-rejection correlated with age (negatively), social rejection and stigma expectations. Conclusions: This analysis shows that attempts to translate evidence about psychiatric inpatient services must take into account differences between the settings, populations and models of care. Expectations as well as outcomes of stigma may be relevant when assessing the impact of psychiatric hospital treatment on individual patients.

Keywords: Self-rejection; stigma; Belgium; England; replication; psychiatric inpatient care; severe mental illness; treatment context (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0020764012447884 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:59:y:2013:i:6:p:602-608

DOI: 10.1177/0020764012447884

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().