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Sri Lankan doctors and medical undergraduates attitudes towards mental illness
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 08/28/09

Fernando SM et al. – Sri Lankan doctors and undergraduates endorse stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illnesses and are especially prone to see patients as blameworthy. As such attitudes are likely to affect the engagement of patients in treatment and specific interventions that modify negative attitudes towards people with mental illnesses are needed. Ensuring that medical students have contact with recovered patients in community psychiatry settings may be one way of decreasing stigmatizing attitudes.

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